THURMAN the Son if I mistake not of Edw. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex who had been thrown out of his living by the Committee of Religion for a scandalous and malignant Priest an 1643 was educated in Westminster School and thence elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and keeping pace with the Presbyterian discipline became a Preacher some years before his Majesties restauration but when he saw how matters were like to be carried upon his return he became very vehement in his preachings and discourses against the Presbyterians and Independents So that gaining the name of one of the Royal party had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex He hath written A defence of humane learning in the Ministry Or a treatise proving that it is necessary a Minister or Preacher should be skill'd in humane learning Oxon. 1660. oct Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich Canon of Ch. Ch. with a flattering Epistle before it for which he was then rewarded but not altogether to his mind This book being published in Mich. term 1659 was look'd upon as a seasonable piece of service because the Universities and Ministry did then lay at stake and had certainly gone to the pot had not Monk come opportunely out of Scotland for their relief This Mr. Thurman died about sixteen hundred and seventy in Sussex as one or two of his contemporaries in Ch. Ch have informed me but where buried they could not further add CORBET OWEN son of Will. Owen of Pontsbury in Shropshire Minister was born at Hinton in that County an 1646 educated in the first rudiments of Grammar in a private School in Shrewsbury under one Scofield a loyal Parson emulated by the Town Free-school under the government of the Saints where he profited very much and more might he have done had not his friends sent him into France and thence into Flanders to be touched by the then exil'd King for the cure of the Kings Evil of which he was once so lame that he went upon crutches In the month of May 1658 he made his first entry into Westminster School and in the year following he was elected one of the Kings Scholars there where 't was usual with him to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses ex tempore in little more than half an hour In 1664 he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and in short time was well vers'd in the most crabbed subtilities of Philosophy After he was Bach. of Arts he applied himself to the study of Physick in which he made so wonderful a progress that had he lived he would have gone beyond all of his time in that faculty In 1670 he proceeded M. of A. and had there been an Act celebrated that year which was put off because of the death of the Duchess of Orleance he would have performed the exercise belonging to the Senior of that solemnity and thereby would as 't is probable have shew'd himself as excellent for Oratory as he had the year before done for his poetry He was the most forward person of his age in the University for his polite learning He was enriched with a great and happy memory a most accurate judgment and with a clear and quick wit He hath written Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in solennibus magnifici operis Encaeniis Oxon. 1669 in 4. sh in qu. Divers poems MS. with translations of Poetry particularly the Otho of Monsieur de Corneille often acted on the French stage which he rendred into English vers He died to the great reluctancy of all those who were well acquainted with the wonderful pregnancy of his parts about the 18. day of January in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church at Cundore in Shropshire Soon after was a large epitaph made for by one that intirely loved him but whether it was put over his grave I know not The beginning is this Siste viator irrita naturae virtutisque molimina vel risu vel lachrymis prosequere c. JOHN MENNES the third Son of Andr. Mennes Esq by Jane his second Wife Daughter of John Blechendon Esq Son of Matthew Mennes was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Sandwich in Kent on the eleventh of May 1598 and was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there In the 17th year of his age or thereabouts he became a Com. of Corp. Ch. Coll. where continuing for some years did advance himself much in several sortâ— of learning especially in Humanity and Poetry and somthing in History Afterwards he became a great Traveller a most noted Sea-man and as well skil'd in marine affairs in building of Ships and all belonging thereunto as any man of his time In the raign of K. Jam. 1 he had a place in the Navy-Office and in the raign of K. Ch. 1. he was made Controller of it In 1636 I find him a Militia-Captain and in 1639 he was Captain of a Troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots In 1641 I find him a Vice-Admiral and by that title did he receive the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty at Dover in the month of Feb. the same year Afterwards upon the breaking out of the rebellion he closely adhered to the cause of his Majesty and in 1642 I find him Captain of a Ship called the Rainbow for his Maj. service while Robert Earl of Warwick was Vice-Admiral but how long he continued in that employment I cannot tell sure I am that when his Majesties cause declined he left the nation and for a time adheered to Pr. Rupert while he roved on the Seas against the Usurpers in England who being successless he retired to K. Ch. 2 in Exile took his fortune as other Royalists did yet always in a gay cheerful and merry condition After the return of his Majesty from his Exile he had the place of chief Controller of the Navy conferred on him which he kept to his dying day being accounted by all that knew him to be an honest and stout man generous and religious and well skill'd in Physick and Chimistry This Person who was always poetically given and therefore his company was delightful to all ingenious and witty men was author of the greater part of a book intit Musarum dilitiae or the Muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656. oct 2d edit James Smith whom I have mentioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in that book that he is esteemed the author almost of half of it Sir John Mennes hath also written Epsom Wells a poem Printed in qu. and divers other poems scattered in other mens works He hath also extant a mock poem on Sir Will. D'avenant and his Gondibert and did assist as I have been credibly informed Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his Poetry on whom and his Fine Troop of Horse that ran away when they were to engage with the enemy
been admitted Bach. of Arts an 1638 was actually created Bach. of the Civil Law by vertue of the Chancellours letters directed formerly to the Convocation This person who should have been mention'd among the Writers could I have obtained full information of him was a Ministers Son of or near to the City of Glocester and nearly related to Dr. Miles Smith sometimes Bishop of that City was at his first coming to Magd. Coll. a Servitour as his contemporaries have informed me was now a sufferer for his Majesties cause and after his restauration a retainer and secretary to the Archb. of Canterbury He hath published The Psalmes of K. David paraphrased into English Meeter Lond. 1668. oct and perhaps other things He had a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll who dying in the Parish of S. Peter in the East 17. Oct. 1682 aged 18 his body was conveyed thence to Lambeth near London I think and there buried The said Dr. Smith Bishop of Glocester had a Son called Miles as I have elsewhere told you which is all I know of him Mast of Arts. June 17. James Aston of S. Johns Coll a Captain in the Kings Army Afterwards he was a suffererer for his Majesties cause but after his restauration he became well beneficed and in Ap. 1682 Canon of Wells July 1. Nathaniel Reading of Mert. Coll. 20. Giles Oldisworth Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was then actually created Master by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf and read in a Convocation held on the 21. of Feb. going before This loyal Divine who was the son of Robert Oldisworth Esq by Miriel his Wife Daughter of Nich. Overbury and Sister to Sir Thomas who was poyson'd in the Tower of London was born at Coln-Rogers in Glocestershire an 1619 educated in the College School at Westminster elected Scholar of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1639 forced thence for his allegiance to the King retired to Oxon and was there created Master as before I have told you he being then Rector of the Church of Bourton on the Hill near to Morton in the Marsh cammonly called Morton Henmarsh in Glocestershire He hath written and published 1 The stone roll'd away and life more abundant viz. The holy Royallist or secret discontents of Church and Kingdom reduced unto self-denial moderation and thankfulness Lond. 1663. 64. qu. Before it is his Majesties picture as being dedicated to him from whom he had received as it seems some kind of preferment after his restauration Into the body of this discourse p. 370 is haled in 2 A Sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Dorothie Rutter Wife of Mich. Rutter Esq who died in Child-bearing 'T is without a text and dedicated to Sir Joh. Hales of Warwick Bt Nephew to the said Dorothy In this volume the author inserts many trivial impertinent and weak passages yet seems to shew some considerable reading in the Fathers and other old authors to have been honest loyal and a zealous stickler to his capacity for the establishment of the Church of England in its whole constitution 3 The race set before us shewing the necessity laid upon Gospel believers to run with diligence thorow all Gospel duties Sermon preached at Mercers Chap. in Lond. on the 11 of May 1665 on 1. Cor. 9.24 Oxon. 1666. qu. He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen viz. 4 Visitation Sermon preached at Camden in Glocestershire on 2. Cor. 7.1 printed as it seems in 1662. qu. 5 The Father of the faithful tempted c. a funeral Sermon c. Oxon 1677. 6 Sir Tho. Overburies Wife unvail'd c. printed in tw 'T is a Poem and call'd by some The illustrious Wife c. This author Giles Oldisworth died 24. Nov. 1678 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bourton on the Hill before mention'd Aug. 5. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch. lately in service for his Majesty in remote parts was then created by vertue of his Majesties Letters formerly sent to the University He was a Dorsetshire man born and afterwards a sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 17. Thom. Willis formerly of S. Johns Coll. in this University had then the degree of Master confer'd on him by vertue of the Letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax General of the Parliament Army which partly say that Of his approved ability and integrity for learning and life he had been sufficiently informed c. He was presented to his degree by Mr. Joh. Goad of the same Coll. See more of him among the created Doct. of Div. an 1670. Mar. 11. Rich. Mansell of Ball. Coll. who had been adm Bach. of Arts in 1643 was then created Master of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the said Sir Tho. Fairfax wherein 't is said that he was then a Parliamentarian Officer He was one of the Guard belonging to the said Fairfax as a senior Fellow of Ball. Coll. hath informed me Bach. of Div. June 6. In a Convocation then held the Vicechancellour signified to the members thereof that several Preachers of this and the University of Cambridge had preached several laudable Sermons before the King Court and Parliament at Oxon For which their pains the Delegates appointed by the University could think of no other way to requite them but by conferring on them Degrees which matter being at length decreed by them and approved by the Chancellours Letters their names then were publickly read with liberty given to the said persons to be created when they pleased Among those that were created this year are these following Jun. 17. Rich. Sherlock Chapl. of New Coll. Jun. 17. James Masters of S. Alb. Hall Jun. 17. Joh. Castilion of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Will. Towers of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Tho. Joyce of Hart Hall Jun. 27. Rowland Nicolls of Magd. Coll. Jun. 27. Thom. Norgate of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last became Chancellour of the Diocess of lile in the room of one Hen. Marshall M. A an 1667 and the other was now Chaplain to Sir Thom. Glemham Governour of the Garrison of Oxon. June 22. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall 23 Pet. Gunning Chaplain of New Coll. 23 George Ashwell of Wadh. Coll. 23 Will. Creed of S. Johns Coll. 23 Geor. Gisbie of S. Johns Coll. The last being afterwards ejected was restored to his Coll. in 1660 and dying 13. May 1664 was buried in the Chappel of S. Johns Coll. 'T is said that on the same day Isaac Barrow Chaplain of New Coll. afterwards B. of Man and S. Asaph was actually created also Bach. of Div yet he occurs not registred July 1. Joshua Mynne of Ch. Ch lately of Peter House in Cambridge 10. Josias How of Trin. Coll. This person who was now in good esteem for his ingenuity hath published A sermon before the King at Ch. Ch on Psal 4.7 Printed as 't is said in red letters an 1644 or thereabouts in qu but this I have not yet seen He hath also
hands of Dr. G. Kendall to perfect and afterwards to publish it but never done 2 Answer to a book intit A Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion Written by Sir Ken. Digby 3 Answer to the respective books concerning the Sabbath written by Dr. Fr. White Dr. Gilb. Ironside and Mr. E. Breerword He hath also either answer'd or animadverted upon certain matters of Nich. Fuller Jos Mede the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker Dr. Christ Potter Dr. Tho. Godwin Dr. Tho. Jachson and Mr. Joh. Goodwin the Titles of which I shall now pass by for brevity sake At length after he had lived 71 years departed this mortal life in Holborn in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried on the 24 of July the same year near to the upper end of the poor folks Table next the Vestry in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster On the 14 of Sept. 1661 his body â—ith those of Thom. May the Poet Will. Strong Steph. Marshall Ministers c. which were buried in the said Church of S. Peter were taken up and buried in one large pit in the Ch. yard of S. Margaret just before the back door of the Lodgings belonging to one of the Prebendaries of Westminster having been unwarrantably buried there during the times of Rebellion and Usurpation THOMAS HAYNE Son of Rob. Hayne was born in a Town commonly but corruptly called Thurciston near to and in the County of Leicester At the last of which places having received his juvenile learning was sent to the University and matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Coll. in Mich. Term 1599 and in that of his age 17 where being put under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor obtained great knowledge in Philosophy and the more for this reason that he was taken off from various Recreations and Rambles by a lameness in his Legs from his Cradle After he had taken a degree in Arts 1604 he became one of the Ushers of the School in the Parish of S. Laurence Pountney in London erected by the Merchant Taylors and afterward being M. of Arts Usher of the School belonging to the City of London in Ch. Church Hospital He was a noted Critick an excellent Linguist and a solid Divine beloved of learned Men and particularly respected by Selden He hath written Grammatices Latinae Compendium an 1637 c. Lond. 1640. in oct To which are added two appendices Linguarum cognatio seu de linguis in genere de variarum linguarum harmoniâ dissertatio Lond. 1639. oct It was also printed if I mistake not in 1634. Pax in terrâ seu tractatus de pace ecclesiasticâ c. Lond. 1639. oct The equal ways of God in rectifying the unequal ways of man Lond. 1639 c. in oct General view of the holy Scriptures or the times places and persons of holy Scripture c. Lond. 1640 fol. sec Edit Life and death of Dr. Mart. Luther Lond. 1641. qu. He gave way to fate on the 27. of July in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Parish Church of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the City of London Soon after was put a monument over his grave about the middle of the Church on the North side and a large inscription thereon which about 20 years after was consumed and defaced with the Church it self when the great fire hapned in London In the said inscription he is stiled Antiquitatis acerrimus investigator antiquitatem praematuravit suam Publicis privatisque studiis sese totum communi bono coelebem devovit Pacis Ecclesiae Irenicus pacificus jure censendus c. In the Library at Leicester is another inscription put up to his memory which being perfect you may take instead of the other See Hist et Antiq Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b. By his will which I have seen he gave to the said Library all his Study of books except some few which he gave to the Library at Westminster He gave also 400 l. to be bestowed in buying Lands or Houses in or near Leycester of the yearly Rent of 24 l. for ever for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster in Thurciston alias Thrushington or some Town near thereunto to teach ten poor Children c. and for the maintenance of two poor Scholars in Linc. Coll. to come from the Free-School at Leycester or in defect of that from the School at Milton c. The Schoolmaster to have 12 l. yearly and the two Scholars six pounds yearly c. In the said Will are other acts of Charity mentioned which for brevity sake I now pass by EDWARD LITTLETON Son and Heir of Sir Edw. Littleton of Henley in Shropshire Knight was born in that County an 1589. became a Gentleman Commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of the year 1606 where by the care of an eminent Tutor he became a proficient in Academical learning took a degree in Arts an 1609 and from Ch. Ch. removed to the Inner Temple where he made such admirable progress in the Municipal Laws and was of such eminence in his Profession in a short time that the City of London took early notice of and chose him their Recorder being also about that time Counsellor to University of Oxon. In the 8. of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of his Society and in the 10. of the said King Oct. 17. he was made Sollicitor-General After which upon the 6. of June next ensuing he received the honor of Knighthood at Whitehall at which time and some years before he was a Member of the Commons House of no small reputation On the 27. of Jan. 15. Car. 1. he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and on the 23. of Jan. the next year his Majesty confer'd upon him the utmost honor belonging to his Profession by giving the Great Seal into his custody In less than a month after upon the 18. of Feb. he made him a Peer of England by the name of the Lord Littleton Baron of Mounslow in his Native Country being then in great esteem for integrity and eminence in his Profession Shortly after the troubles in this Realm taking their rise partly from the insurrection of the Scots and their entrance into this Realm which hapned in Aug. next ensuing an 1640 and partly from the predominancy of certain Members in the Long Parliament then called by reason of that invasion he retired to the King at York in June 1642 having first conveyed the Seal thither From which time to his death which hapned in Oxon where in 1642 he was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law he constantly attended his Majesty with great fidelity He was Author of Several Speeches as 1 Speech at a conference with the Lords in Parliament concerning the Liberty of the Subject and propriety in their Goods 3. Apr. 1628. See in Jo. Rushworths Collections Vol. 1. p. 528. an 1628. This with other Conferences were published by themselves
The capacious title of these collections is The History of Great Britaine being the life and raign of K. James the first relating to what passed from his first access to the crown till his death Lond. 1653. fol. In which History which some call an infamous Pasquil you 'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies and to underprize such as were more in the Kings favour than he The reason is because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber and had received an annual pension from him several years After his death he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick and by him made his Steward of whose Father named Robert also he maketh honourable mention in the said History in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian veine that constantly goes throughout the whole work And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them Further also our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James and his Son after him were enclined to popery and to bring that Religion into England hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations He gave way to fate at Felsted near to Little Lighes the seat of the Earl of Warwick in the County of Essex about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor had some alterations made therein as 't is said by him who shaped it according to his desire In the year before the said Hist was published came out a most desperate and libellous book full of lyes mistakes nonsense c. entit The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts or a short History of the rise raigne and ruin thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. are discovered c. Lond. 1652. oct written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe c. being highly resented by the Royalists the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baseness and ingratitude His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time and therefore he being out of my road I have no more to say of him but this that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury that after he had left the University he setled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire in which County I suppose he was born that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted wrot a sharp Pamphlet against the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament as he calls them by endeavouring to seize upon and imprison five of the members thereof 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers At length having lived to see the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657. JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire was born there educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age an 1617 took a degree in Arts and being Masters standing was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624 at which time shewing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy Latine and Greek Learning was the first of five that was elected Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Master of Arts he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a senior Fellow of that House who finding him a compleat Master and gentile withal was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury At length in the year 1633 his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him The voyage he performed not without great danger and having satisfied himself with many curiosities return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which especially that of Astronomy his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on the impetuous Visitors mostly Presbyterians who did not or at least would not discern between Dunces and Scholars threw him out of his Lecture and right to his Fellowship which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr Lecture and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted Among them I find these 1 That he betrayed the College in discovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treasury which thereupon was taken away for the Kings use 2 That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods without the consent of the company and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses 3 That he feasted the Queens confessors and sent divers presents to them among which was an holy thorne and that he was more familiar with them than any true Protestants use to be 4 That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place 5 That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button puritannical fellows were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College because they abode in the Parliaments quarters c. 6 That he gave leave to Father Philips the Queens confessor and Wyatt one of her
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
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
from the late conspiracy against all three that is for the discovery of the design of Nath. Tomkyns Rich. Chaloner c. to reduce London to the obedience of the K. on Psal 95.1 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Davids reserve and rescue Serm. before the H. of C. 5. Nov. 1644 on 2. Sam. 21.16.17 Lond. 1645. 46. qu. 4 Sermon before the H. of Com. on 1. Kings 22.22 Lond. 1644. qu. This I have not yet seen and therefore I know not yet to the contrary but that it may be a Thanksg Serm. 18. July 1644 for the victory over Pr. Rupert at Marston Moore near York 5 Abrahams Offering Serm. before the L. Mayor and Aldermen of London on Gen. 22.2 Lond. 1644. This also I have not yet seen nor another on 2. Sam. 22.22 printed there the same year in qu. nor a Thanksgiving Sermon before the House of C. preached 12. May 1646 for the taking of several Towns in the West by the Parl. Forces as also a Fast Sermon before the H. of Lords 24. June the same year Microcosmography in Essays and Characters printed 1628. in oct or tw Contemplations and Devotions on all the passages of our Saviours passion Lond. 1631. in oct or tw An answer to Dr. Fern. Lond. 1642. The same I suppose which is intit An answer to misled Dr. Hen. Fearne according to his own method of his book c. printed the same year in 6. sheets in qu. The independency on Scriptures of the independency of Churches wherein the question of Independency of Ch. Government is temperately first stated secondly argued c. Lond. 1643. in 6. sh and half in qu. This book was answer'd by Sam. Rutherford D. D. of the New Coll. in S Andrews in Scotland who died 1661 replyed upon by Rich. Mather Minister of Dorchester in New England Worldly policy and moral prudence the vanity and folly of the one the solidity and usefulness of the other in a moral discourse Lond. 1654. oct This came out again in the year following in oct with this title Wisdomes Tripos concerning worldly policy moral prudence and Christian wisdome What other things are published under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died at Winwick in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried on the 29 day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by the Letters of Dr. Richard Sherlock his next successor in the Rectory of Winwick saving one GRIFFIN HIGGS second Son of Griff. Higgs by Sarah Paine his Wife Dau. of Rob. Paine of Caversham in Oxfordshire Son of Nich. Higgs descended of a wealthy and honest Family living in Glocestershire was born at Stoke Abbat commonly called South Stoke near Henley in Oxfordshire and was baptized there on the day of S. Sim. and Jude in the year 1589. After he had been trained up in Grammar learning at Reading he was sent to S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1606 where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Rich. Tillesley his Tutour he was worthily esteemed the flower of the undergraduats of that house whether for Oratory or Disputations After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he wrot in Lat. verse Nativitas vita mors D. Thomae White Militis Alderm Civitatis Lond. Fundatoris Coll. S. Johannis Bapt. Oxon. This is a MS. in the custody of the President of that house and hath this beginning Inclyto Whitaeae primordia condere gentis Also in prose A true and faithful relation of the rising and fall of Thom. Tooker Prince of Alba Fortunata Lord of S. Johns with the occurrents which hapned throughout his whole dominion This is also a Ms bound with the former and hath this beginning It hapned in the year of our Lord 1607 the 31. of Oct. being All saints Eve c. This Book which is in fol. contains verses speeches playes c. as also the description of the Christmas Prince of S. Joh. Coll. whom the Juniors have annually for the most part elected from the first foundation of the College And in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths Reign John Case afterwards Doctor of Phys and a noted Philosopher did with great credit undergo that Office When the said Tooker was elected Prince he assumed these titles viz. The most magnificent and renowned Thomas by the favour of fortune Prince of Alba Fortunata Lord of S. Johns High Regent of the Hall Duke of S. Giles Marquess of Magdalens Landgrave of the Grove Count Palatine of the Cloysters Chief Baylive of Beaumont High Ruler of Rome Master of the Mannour of Walton Governour of Glocester Green sole Commander of all titles turnaments and triumphs Superintendent in all solemnities whatsoever The said Tooker who was Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was afterwards Bach. of Divinity Prebendary of Bristow c. and the custom was not only observed in that Coll. but in several other Houses particularly in Mert. Coll where from the first foundation the Fellows annually elected about S. Edmunds day in November a Christmas Lord or Lord of misrule stiled in their registers Rex Fabarum and Rex regni fabarum Which custome continued till the reformation of Religion and then that producing Puritanisme and Puritanisme Presbytery the professors of it looked upon such laudable and ingenious customes as Popish Diabolical and Antichristian Our Author Higgs was about the same time that he wrot and collected the said Folio Book elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. an 1611 and taking the degree of Master had Holy Orders confer'd on him and two small cures successively in that College gift In 1622 he did undergo with great courage tho of little stature the procuratorial office of the University and being afterwards Bach. of Div. was in the year 1627 sent to the Hague by his Majesty to be Chaplain to his Sister Elizabeth Qu. of Bohemia in which employment he continued at least 12 years In the year 1629 30 he performed his exercise at Leyden for the degree of Doctor of Divinity and was forthwith created Doctor of that fac by the famous Andrew Rivet At length being called home from his service by his Majesty he was by the endeavours of Dr. Laud made Rector of the rich Church of Clive or Cliff near to Dover in Kent Chauntor of S. Davids and upon the removal of Dr. Sam. Fell to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was made Dean of Lichfield in 1638 the Cathedral of which he adorned to his great charge and Chapl. in ord to his Majesty At length the Civil Wars breaking forth he sufferâ—d for his Majesties cause was plundred sequestred lost his spiritualities c. So that retiring to the place of his nativity spent there the remainder of his days in great retiredness study and devotion He hath written besides those things beforementioned Problemata Thologica Lugd. Bat. 1630. qu. Miscellaneae Theses
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
before he took a degree entred into holy Orders and taking to wife the daughter of Sir John Lamb of Rothwell in Northamptonshire Chancellour of Peterborough and afterwards Dean of the Arches was put into the Commission of Peace being then Rector of Water-Stratford in Bucks by the gift of Sir Arth. Throcmorton of Paulerspury About that time shewing himself a fierce Persecutor of the Puritans living near him was thro the means of his Father-in-law made Vicar of Brackley in Northamptonshire and by the endeavours of Dr. Piers Vicechanc. of this University Doctor of Divinity an 1624 being then a Member of Linc. Coll. tho he before had not been honoured with any degree in this or as I presume in any other University He with Rog. Manwaring were stiff assertors of the Kings Cause and Prerogative and great promoters for the raising a Loan of money without the knowledge and assistance of his Parliament an 1626. For which service both had preferment Manwaring being afterwards made Rector of Stanford Rivers in Essex c. and Sibthorpe Chaplain in ord to his Maj. Prebendary of Peterborough and Rector of Burton Latimers in Northamptonshire from which two last he was violently ejected in the beginning of the Civil Wars He was a person of little learning and of few parts only made it his endeavours by his forwardness and flatteries to gain preferment If you 'll believe one that was no great friend to the Church of England he 'll tell you that Sibthorpe and Manwaring were exceeding pragmatical so intollerably ambitious and so desperately proud that scarce any Gentleman might come near the tail of their Mules c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A counterplea to an Apostates pardon on Jerem. 5.7 Lond. 1618. qu. 2 Apostolical obedience an Assize Serm. at Northampton on Rom. 13.7 Lond. 1627. qu. The whole scope of which is to justifie the lawfulness of the general loan then set on foot by the Kings ill Counsellors as one saith to keep off Parliaments and of the Kings imposing publick taxes by his own regal Power without consent in Parliament and to prove that the People in point of conscience and religion ought chearfully to submit to such loanes and taxes without any opposition For which matters he was called into question and censured by the Parliament He hath other things extant as I have been informed but such I have not yet seen and therefore can only say that in the time of the Rebellion he suffered very great calamities for his Majesties cause but upon the return of K. Ch. 2. in 1660 he was restored to his Prebendship Rectory of Burton Latimers and other Ecclesiastical Benefices if he had any besides them and that dying in a good old age was buried on the 25 of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two in the Chancel of the Church of Burton Latimers One Robert Sibthorpe Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Northcadbury in Somersetshire became a Student of Ball. Coll. in 1613 aged 18 years which is all I know of him being not to be understood to be the same with the former And another Rob. Sibthorpe I find to have been M. of A. of Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland See more in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1619. PETER HEYLYN Son of Henry Heylyn descended from an antient Family of his name living at Pentrie-Heylyn in Mountgomeryshire was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire on the 29 of Nov. 1599 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there under Mr. Thom. North first and after under Mr. Edw. Davys where profiting in Trivials to a miracle especially in Poetry in which he gave several ingenious Specimens as occasion offer'd was in the year 1613 plac'd by his Father in Hart Hall under the tuition successively of two Tutors viz. Mr. Joseph Hill and Mr. Walt. Newbury a zealous Puritan The next year he stood to be Demie of Magd. Coll but being then put by was the year following elected by which time he had made a considerable progress in Academical Literature After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts which was in Oct. 1617 he read every Long vacation till he was Master Cosmography Lectures in the common refectory of the said College of which the first being performed in the latter end of July 1618 it was so well approved that for that and his other learning he was chose Probationer and the year following perpetual Fellow of the said house On the 22 of Feb. 1619 he began the composing of his Geography according to the hint which he had taken the year before in his Cosmography Lectures and finished it on the 29 of Apr. following In Nov. the same year it was printed and being dedicated to Prince Charles he presented him being then at Theobalds with a copy of it which was very graciously received In 1623 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxon in S. Aldates Church and the year after having augmented and corrected his Geography 't was printed again and presented to the Prince the Author being then introduced by Henry Lord Danvers who then spake very affectionately in his commendations About that time Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester presenting a Copy of it to the King he approved of it well but unfortunately falling on a passage therein whereby the Author gave precedency to France before England he became so much offended that he gave order to the Lord Keeper to call in the Book whereupon the Author then at Oxon being advised to repair to the Court and make use of the Prince to salve that sore he gave such satisfaction concerning it in writing sent to the said Dean that the King perusing it rested very well contented with the matter In 1625 he went into France where spending about six weeks in several placâ—â— wrot the particulars of the said journey in a Book the original of which he presented to the said Lord Danvers but a copy of it he kept by him which at length 30 years after or thereabouts he publish'd to correct a false copy that had crept abroad On the 24 April 1627 he answer'd pro forma on these questions 1 An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis 2 An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined negatively contrary to the mind and judgment of Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity in his lecture De Visibilitate Ecclesiae who thereupon fell foul upon him calling him Bellarminian Pontifician and I know not what and did his best to beat him from his grounds but he held his own This raised great clamour for the present which Prideaux increased the munday after when Heylyn opposed Mr. Will. Haies of Magd. Hall at which time he was once again proclaimed a Papist by him in the publick School of Divinity which might have done him more mischief among his friends but that as he saith God stood with him On the
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
his imprisonment He departed this mortal life on the 12 day of Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Church at Morton-Pinkney in Northamptonshire as I have been informed by his son Hen. Bagshaw D. D. sometimes a Student of Christ Church in Oxon who having published several things ought hereafter to be remembred in the Append. to these Athenae I shall make mention of another Edw. Bagshaw son of the aforesaid Edward under the year 1671. WILLIAM COLE Son of Joh. Cole of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bach. of Div. and sometimes Fellow of New College was born and educated in Grammar learning there entred a Student in the University in 1642 and soon after was made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters of Merton Coll. by his Mothers brother Joh. French one of the senior Fellows of that house and publick Registrary of the University When he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he was made a publick Notary to the end that he might supply the said place of Registrary when Mr. French was either absent or indisposed In the latter end of 1650 he took one degree in Arts his Uncle being then dead left the University retired to London and lived several years at Putney near that City where he became the most famous Simpler or Herbarist of his time At length upon the Kings Restoration in 1660 he was made Secretary to Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winchester in whose service he died His works are these The Art of Simpling or an introduction to the knowledge of gathering of Plants wherein the definitions divisions places descriptions c. are compendiously discoursed of c. Lond. 1656. oct Perspicillum microcosmologicum or a prospective for the discovery of the lesser world wherein Man is a Compendium c. Printed with the former Adam in Eden or Natures Paradise The History of Plants Herbs Flowers with their several original names c. Lond. 1657. fol. Into this book if I am not mistaken is remitted The Art of Simpl. As for the book intit The Garden of Eden or an accurate description of all flowers c. which was printed in 1653 't was written by that learned and great Observer Sir Hugh Plat Knight Our Author Will. Cole died either at Winchester or at Farnham in Surrey in sixteen hundred sixty and two aged 36 or thereabouts but where buried I know not I find another Will. Cole who published a book in t A Rod for the Lawyers who are hereby declared to be the grand Robbers and Deceivers of the Nation c. Lond. 1659. qu. But of what University he was if of any at all I know not THOMAS WEAVER Son of Tho. Weav was born in the City of Worcester applied his poetical genie to Academical Learning in Ch. Ch. an 1633 aged 17 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1640 about which time he was made one of the Chaplains or petty-Canons of the Cathedral from which place being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he shifted from place to place and lived upon his wits a Specimen of which he published to the world intit Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery Printed 1654. in oct In which book is a Ballad intit Zeal over-heated or a relation of a lamentable fire which hapned in Oxon in a religious brothers Shop c. to the tune of Chivey Chase The said religious brother was Tho. Williams a Milliner living sometimes against Allsaints Church where holy Cornish teached that is Hen. Cornish a Presbyterian Minister Canon of Ch. Ch. by Authority of Parliament an 1648. But the said Songs and Poems being looked upon by the godly men of those times as seditious and libellous against the Government he was imprison'd and afterwards tried for his life Whereupon his book being produced in open Court after it had been proved that he was the Author of it the Judge read some pages and then spake to this effect Gentlemen the person that we have here before us is a Scholar and a man of wit Our Forefathers had Learning so much in honor that they enacted that those that could but as much as read should never be hanged unless for some great crime and shall we respect it so little as to put to death a man of parts I must tell you I should be very unwilling to be the person that should condemn him and yet I must be forced to it if the Jury bring him in guilty c. So that upon this harangue too large to be all here set down the Jury brought him in not guilty Whereupon being set at liberty he was ever after highly valued by the boon and generous Royalist He hath also certain Epigrams extant which I have not yet seen and wrot the copy of verses called The Archbishop of York's revolt printed in the Poems of Joh. Cleaveland besides divers pieces of Poetry printed in several books published in his time After his Majesties return in 1660 he was made Excise-man for Leiverpole in Lancashire and was commonly called Captain Weaver but prosecuting too much the crimes of Poets brought him to his grave in the Church there in the prime and strength of his years on the third day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two About the beginning of the year 1656 was a book published entit Choice Drollery with Songs and Sonnets Which giving great offence to the Saints of that time who esteem'd it a lewd and scandalous thing it was order'd by the Protectors Council to be burnt on the 8. of May the same year But who the Author of that book was I cannot yet tell ROBERT SANDERSON a younger Son of Rob. Sanderson was born at Rotheram in Yorkshire on the 19 of Sept. 1587 29 Elizab. educated in the Grammar School there sent by his Relations to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1601 afterwards matriculated a member of the University as a Ministers Son took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Lent term 1604 elected Fellow of the said Coll. 3. May 1606 having then a Metaphysical brain and matchless memory In Mich. term 1607 he was admitted Master of Arts and in July following he compleated that degree by standing in the Act. In 1611 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. King B. of London in 1614 he stood to be Proctor of the University but missed it and the year after he published his Logick Lectures that he had before read in the publick Refectory of Linc. Coll. So that his name being then famous he was elected Proctor with great ease and willingness an 1616. The next year he was admitted Bach. of Div. and the year after that became Rector of Wibberton near to Boston in Lincolnshire but surrendred it up as he did his Fellowship in 1619 because it was a bad air The same year he became Rector of Bothby-paynel in the said County was made Chaplain to Dr. George
pag. 467. SAMUEL SMITH a Ministers Son was born in Worcestershire entred a Batler of S. Maries Hall in the beginning of 1603 1 Jac. 1. aged 15 left the University without a degree became beneficed at Prettlewell in Essex and afterwards about the beginning of K. Ch. 1. in his own Country where continuing till the Rebellion began in 1642 did then or the year following retire to London for shelter sided with the Presbyterians and became a frequent Preacher among them Afterwards he returned to his Cure had another confer'd on him in Shropshire was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters lived after his Majesties Restoration and soon after was as I have been informed silenced His works which are mostly Sermons are these Davids blessed man or a short Exposition upon the first Psalme c. Lond. in oct Printed the tenth time in 1638. and the fifteenth time in 1686. in tw Davids repentance or a plain and familiar Exposition of the 51 Psalme c. Lond. 1618. 19. in tw c. Several Sermons as 1 Joseph and his Mistris c. in 5 Sermons on Gen. 39.7.8.9 c. Lond. 1619. octavo 2 Noahs dove or tydings of peace to the godly fun sermon on Psal 37. ver 37. Lond. 1619. oct 3 Christs preparation to his own death in three sermons on Luke 22.39.40.41 Lond. 1620. oct 4 Christs last Supper or the doctrine of the Sacrament c. in 5 sermons on 1 Cor. 11.28.29 Lond. 1620. oct 5 A christian taske sermon at the Funeral of Mr. John Lawson Gent. at Prettlewell in Essex 28 Dec. 1619 on Psal 90.12 Lond. 1620. oct 6 The great Assize or the day of Jubilee in which we must make a general accompt of all our actions before Almighty in four sermons on the 20 Chapter of the Revel c. Printed at Lond. one and thirty times the last impression of which was an 1684. octavo At the end are Prayers to be said privately by single persons 7 A fold for Christs sheep in two sermons upon the first Chapt. of the Canticles ver 7.8 Printed two and thirty times the last impression of which was at Lond. 1684. oct 8 The Ethiopian Eunuchs Conversion the sum of 30 sermons upon part of the 8 Chapter of the Acts. Lond. 1632. oct The Christians guide with rules and directions for leading an holy life As meditations and prayers suitable to all occasions Printed several times in tw The chief Sheppard or an exposition on the 23 Psal Lond. 1625. oct The admirable Convert or the miraculous conversion of the Thief on the Cross c. Lond. 1632. oct Moses his prayer or an exposition of the 19 Psal c. Lond. 1656. oct Looking-glass for Saints and Sinners or an exposition on the 2 Epist of S. John Lond. 1663. oct He hath written other things which I have not yet seen and was living an aged man near Dudley in Worcestershire in sixteen hundred sixty and three I have made mention of another Sam. Smith under the year 1620 who was first of Magd. Hall and afterwards of Magd. Coll. and shall of a third sometimes of S. Johns Coll. now living when his turn comes EDWARD REYNELL a Cadet of the antient and gentile family of his name living at West Ogwell near to Newton Busshel in Devonshire was admitted to the Fellows Table of Exeter Coll. 30 May 1629 aged 17 years or thereabouts where continuing under the tuition of a noted Tutor till July 1632 went as it seems to one of the Temples at London and was at length made Barrister But his genie being inclin'd more towards Divinity he published these matters following in prose Eugenia's tears for Gr. Britaines glory or Observations reflecting on these sad times Lond. 1642. Advice concerning Libertinism shewing the great danger thereof and exhorting all to zeal of the truth Lond. 1659. in tw Celestial amities or Soul sighing for the love of her Saviour Lond. 1660. oct The benefit of Afflictions Printed with Celest amities c. Whether he hath written other things I know not nor any thing else only that he was a reserved and precise person and dying at West-Ogwell after his Majesties Return about 1663. was buried there I have sent once or more to his Nephew at West-Ogwell and I have spoken several times to his Kinsman Dr. George Reynell lately Fellow of C. C. Coll. to have farther information of the said Edw. Reynell but they like nice and capricious people desire that his name may be forgotten and what he hath done may sink in the pit of oblivion Such like Answers I have received from poor-spirited persons upon my enquiry after other Writers ISAAC AMBROSE a Ministers Son descended from those of his name living at Lowick and they from the Ambroses antiently living at Ambrose Hall in Lancashire was born in that County became a Batler of Bras Coll. in the beginning of the year 1621 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts holy Orders had some little Cure in his own Country confer'd on him and afterwards relief from William Earl of Bedford whereby he and his family were refreshed who caused him also if I mistake not to be put into the list of his Majesties Preachers appointed for the County of Lancaster Afterwards upon the change of the times in 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians then dominant took the Covenant became a Preacher of the Gospel at Garstang and afterwards at Preston in Amounderness in his own Country a zealous man for carrying on the beloved cause and active against the orthodox Clergy when he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom they then 1654. 2 Oliv. Protect called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written Prima media ultima or the first middle and last things wherein is set forth 1. The Doctrine of Regeneration or the new birth 2. The practice of Sanctification in the means duties ordinances both private and publick for continuance and increase of a godly life 3. Certain Meditations of mans misery in his life death judgment and execution as also of Gods mercy in our redemption and salvation The Prima and Ultima were printed at Lond. in 1640. qu. sometimes bound in two vol. sometimes in one The Media is chiefly taken out of the most eminently pious and learned Writings of our native practical Divines with additions added to them of Ambrose's Composition It was first printed at Lond. with his Prima and Ultima 1650. qu. The Authors whom he doth abridge in the said Media are mostly Separatists and 't is licensed by Mr. Charles Herle and recommended to the world by John Angier Thom. Johnson and Joh. Waite B. D. in their respective Epistles before it At length all three were printed at London in a large fol. 1674. with the Authors picture before them aged 59 years an 1663 reprinted 1682. and 89. fol.
Preacher against Bishops Ceremonies c. and being a frequent and constant holder forth was followed by those of the vicinity especially such who were of his perswasion In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for the ejecting of all such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters and was not wanting in any thing whereby he might express his zeal for the aforesaid cause His works are these The light of faith and way of holiness shewing how and what to believe in all estates and conditions Lond. 1630. oct Doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated or a confutation of a Treatise of the Sabbath written by Mr. Edw. Brerewood against Mr. Nich. Byfield Lond. 1632. qu. The Power of the Christ of God or a Treatise of the power as it is originally in God the Father and by him given to Christ his Son c. Lond. 1641. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Zions answer to the Nations Embassadors c. Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons 25 June 1645 on Isay 14.32 Lond. 1645. qu. 2 Sermon on 1. Cor. 3.17 Lond. 1653. qu. c. The Gospels Glory without prejudice to the Law shining forth in the Glory of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost for the Salvation of sinners who through grace do believe according to the draught of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 3.34 Lond. 1659. Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ Lond. 1660 in tw Whether any other matters were by him published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after he had been ejected from Long Ditton for Nonconformity he retired to Mortclack in Surrey where dying in December in sixteen hundred sixty and four was buried in the Church there leaving this character behind him among the Godly and such that frequented his Conventicles that he was a pious good and harmless man He had another Brother called Adoniram Byfield who became first to be known for the love he bore to the righteous cause by being Chaplain to Colonel Cholmondiley's Regiment in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex the Generalissimo for the Parliament in 1642 and soon after for his being one of the scribes to the Assemb of Divines and a most zealous Covenantier He was afterwards Minister of one of the Collingborns in Wilts was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters He died about the time of his Majesties restauration as it seems for on the 12 of Feb. 1660 Catherine his Relict had letters of administration granted to her to administer the goods debts c. of him the said Ad. Byfield of the Parish of S. Martins in the Fields in Middlesex lately deceased JEREMY STEPHENS Son of Walt. Stephens sometimes Rector of Bishops Castle in Shropshire was born there 1592 entred a Student in Brasn Coll. 29 March 1609 where by continual lucubration he diligently ran through all the forms of Logick and Philosophy and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615. In Decemb. the same year he was made Deacon and about that time Chaplain of All 's Coll. In 1616 May 26 he received the Orders of Priesthood and in 1621 was made Rector of Quinton in Northamptonshire Five years after that he had confer'd upon him the Rectory of Wotton within a Mile of Quinton which with Quinton were bestowed on him by K. Ch. 1. In 1628 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1641 was made Prebendary of Biggleswade in the Church of Lincolne by the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury as a reward of his Labours with Sir Hen. Spelman in the Edition of the first tome or volume of the Councils In 1644 he was sequestred from all his Ecclesiastical preferments by a Committee sitting at Northampton plunder'd imprison'd barbarously used and silenced After the Kings returâ— in 1660 he was restored to them and for a requital of his sufferings had the Prebendship of Ilâ—racomb in the Church of Salisbury confer'd upon him upon the resignation of Edw. Davenant He hath written and published these things following Notae in D. Cyprian de unitate Ecclesiae Lond. 1632. oct Notae in D. Cypr. de bono patientiae Lond. 1633. oct Both which were collated with antient Mss by the care of certain Oxonian Theologists Apologie for the antient right and power of the Bishops to sit and vote in Parliaments Lond. 1660 the question then of restitution being under debate In the year 1663 he began to print the History of Sacriledge designed and began by Sir Hen. Spelman and left to Stephens to perfect and publish but that work sticking long in the Press both the copy and sheets printed off perished in the grand conflagration of London 1666. Besides these he finished and fitted for the Press divers other pieces whereof the argument of some were superseded by the Kings happy restauration such as A comparison between the Belgick Gallick Bohemian and Scotch with the English Covenant Account of the principles and practices of the Presbyterians The Sequestration of the Clergy by Joh. Pym and Joh. White Other things which he finished but prevented their publication by death are these Treatise of the Laws of England The design of the Cormorants upon the Church Lands defeated in the time of K. Hen. 5 effected in the days of K. Hen. 8. and other things He also published B. Gregorii magni Episcopi Romani de curâ pastorali liber verè aureus accuratè emendatus restitutus è Vet. Mss cum Romanâ Editione collatis Lond. 1629. oct This was the Book that the most renown'd K. Alfred translated into the Saxon Language and recommended to all the Diocesses of his Kingdom in that great dearth of learning when scarce a Priest on the North of Humber was found able to translate the Lords Prayer or to understand the Latine Service This I say he published being collated with antient Mss by the care of several Oxford Doctors and Bach. of Divinity In the year also 1633 he was joyned with Sir Hen. Spelman to assist in compiling and publishing the first Tome of the English Councils a work that cost them seven years labour And tho the Book bare the name of Spelman yet is the assistance of our Author Stephens acknowledged by Spelman in the Preface to the Reader in these words Quo autem auspicio in lucem prodibunt me jam sane propemodum exhausto secundus tertius viz. Tomus haud ausim polliceri Nisi illos vir dilectus bono natus publico Jeremias Stephens typis curaverit mandandos cujus operâ primuâ— hic Tomus me adhuc tantum non invito in lucem prodiit After this viz. in 1641 Spelman died and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the door of S. Nicholas Chappel 24. oct and then some years after our Author Stephens published Spelmans larger
come within the compass of a remedy in a short time and likewise the Tooth-ach infallibly Discourse concerning the Vegitation of Plants Lond. 1661. oct and 69. qu. Spoken on the 23 of Jan. 1660 in a large meeting of the Royal Society in Gresham Coll. Printed in Lat. at Amsterd 1663. and 69. in tw under this title Dissert de plantarum vegitatione Choice and experimental Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery Cordial and distilled Waters and Spirits Perfumes and other Curiosities These two last things were translated out of several Languages for so they were collected and written by George Hartman sometimes Steward to Sir Kenelme the Collector and by him published at Lond. 1668. oct The first was printed afterwards under this title Medicina experimentalis Franc. 1677. oct His Closet opened whereby is discovered several ways of making Metheglin Sider Cherry-wine c. Lond. 1669. 77. oct Excellent directions for Cookery c. Lond. 1669. 77. octavo Choice collection of rare chymical Secrets and Experiments in Philosophy As also rare and unheard of medicines Menstruums and Alkahests with the true secret of volatizing the fixt salt of Tartar c. Lond. 1682. oct c. Published by Hartman before mention'd who had operated for Sir Kenelme for many years These are all the things which he hath written that I yet know of except as some are pleased to say which I scarce believe the Letter to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and the Revenues thereof Lond. 1646. 47 which he published at the request of the Earl of Dorset See more in Rich. Steuart under the year 1651. He also translated into English A Treatise of adheering to God Lond. 1654. oct Written by Albert the great Bishop of Ratisbon To conclude he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Covent Garden on the eleventh day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in a Vault built at his own charge under the east end of the south Isle or Alley joyning the Choire of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London by the body of Venetia his sometimes wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Edw. Stanley of Tongue-Castle in Shropshire to whose memory he had some years before his death erected over the said Vault a stately altar monument of black marble and thereon had caused her bust made of Copper gilt to be fastned with four inscriptions of Copper gilt to be affixed to the said monument Which being done he caused the draught or picture of the said monument with the several inscriptions to be entred in a large folio book of Vellam containing the history of the family of Digby which our Author caused to be made of all matters relating thereunto that could be found from record either remaining in the custody of his family or in the Tower or any office in London together with the pictures of their monuments that could be found in any Church whatsoever in which they had been buried Which book as his son John hath said did cost his father about 1000 l. The next year after our Author Sir Kenelme was buried the said monument with bust was spoiled and defaced when the Church it self was burnt in the dismal conflagration that then hapned in London His study of books being a most admirable collection which he had conveyed into France in the time of the Rebellion fell after his death for want of his being naturalized into the French Kings hands of whom being beg'd by a certain Gentleman it was sold as the report then went for ten thousand Crowns Sir Everard Digby father to Sir Kenelme was a most goodly Gentleman and the handsomest man of his time but much pitied for that it was his ill fate to suffer for the Powder-plot in 1605 aged 24 at which time when the Executioner pluck'd out his heart when his body was to be quartered and according to the manner held it up saying Here is the heart of a Traytor Sir Everard made answer Thou liest This a most famous Author mentions but tells us not his name in his Historia vitae mortis The said Sir Everard was son of Everard Digby of Dry stoke before mention'd sometimes Master of Arts and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge an 1579 a Publisher then and after of several books as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you among which is A Dissuasive from taking away the Goods and Livings of the Churchy c. Printed at Lond. in qu. This Everard the Writer died at Dry-stoke in 1592. or thereabouts Sir Ken. Digby had a younger brother called Sir Joh. Digby who very readily serv'd his Majesty K. Ch. 1. when his Parliament took up Arms against him was a Colonel and afterwards a Major Gen. in the western parts of England while Mr. Joh. Digby a younger son of John Earl of Bristow was a Gen. there for his Maj. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN LEWGAR was born of gentile parents in London admitted Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 and in that of his age 14 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and in 1632 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time beneficed in Essex After Will. Chillingwrrth returned from beyond the seas he had several Conferences with him about matters of Religion wherein Chillingworth shewing himself a person of great dexterity Lewgar was at length meerly by the force of his Arguments induced to believe that the Roman Church was a true Church and that the Protestants were all in the wrong as he used often to tell his friends and withall to add that Chillingworth was of no meek and winning spirit but high and conceited and so consequently unfit for a Religion that required Humility and Obedience c. Afterwards our Author Lewgar left his Benefice and Religion and upon the invitation of Cecil Lord Calvert called Lord Baltimore who had been his intimate acquaintance while he was a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. travelled into Maryland belonging to the said Lord where after he had spent several years and had buried his wife he returned into England some years before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. with Father Andrew White a Jesuit who had been sent thither to gain the Barbarians to his Religion After which time he lived in Wild-street near Lond. in the house of the said Lord Baltimore where he wrot Erastus junior a solid Demonstration by Principles forms of Ordination Common Laws Acts of Parliament that no Bishop Minister nor Presbyter hath any Authority to preach c. from Christ but from the Parliament Lond. 1659. 60. Erastus senior scholastically demonstrating this conclusion that admitting Lambeth Records to be true those called Bishops here in England are no Bishops either in Order or Jurisdiction or so much as legal c. Lond. 1662. oct He died of the Plague in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London in sixteen hundred sixty and five by too much exposing
in his own Country to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year but his election being voted void he sided notwithstanding with the faction was seemingly a Presbyterian and afterwards all things to all men So that being esteemed very capable of carrying on the beloved cause he was first made a Committee man of his County and afterwards was called into the House of Commons by the Independents upon their excluding the active Presbyterians purposely to carry on their designs against the King Afterwards he being very ready to keep pace with them he not only subscribed his vote for the trial of his Majesty Ch. 1. but personally sate in judgment when sentence was past for his decollation About that time he being observed by some of the H. of Commons to be a Person of strange principles in Religion an Arrian Socinian and I know not what and also to be a Person of no good Morals he was publickly complained of in the house by Colonel Joh. Downes one of the Regicides and afterwards a member of the Council of State Whereupon Fry published The Accuser ashamed or a pair of Bellows to blow off the dust cast upon John Fry a member of Parliament by Col. Jo. Downes who charged the said John Fry of blasphemy and errour Printed at Lond. in Febr. 1648. in oct To which he added 1 A word to the Priests Lawyers Royalists Self-seekers and rigid Presbyterians 2 A brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion of three Persons or substances in the Godhead Afterwards he being exasperated by the Presbyterian Ministers and some Independents he wrot and published The Clergy in their colours or a brief character of them c. Lond. 1650 in 4. sh in oct Which the next year was answered by J. D. Nephew as 't was said to Mr. John Davy of Taunton Magdalen in Somersetshire Soon after the publication of the said Clergy in their colours the Parliament took so much cognizance of the matter that they sate on Saturday 22. Feb. 1650 from morning to night in debate of certain passages published in the said books as 1 In debate of that added to the Accuser ashamed in the title running thus that chaffie and absurd opinion of three persons or substances in the Godhead 2 In that in p. 22. running thus that gross and carnal opinion of three distinct Persons or subsistences in the Godhead Persons and subsistences are subsistences or accidents As for the word Person I do not understand that it can be properly attributed but to man It is out of doubt with me that if you ask the most part of men what they mean by a Person they will either tell you 't is a man or else they are not able to give you any answer at all As for the word Accident I suppose none will attribute that to God for according to my poor skill that word imputes no more but the figure or colour c. of a thing and certainly no man ever saw the likeness of God as the Scriptures abundantly testifie c. These things being discussed it was resolved by the members of Parliament that they were erroneous prophane and highly scandalous Afterwards they proceeded to the book called The Clergy in their colours wherein p. 34 is this said by the Author I cannot let pass one observation and that is the strange posture those men put themselves into when they begin their prayers before their Sermons whether the fools and knaves in stage plays took their pattern from these men or these men from them I cannot determine c. what wry mouths squint eyes they make c. how like a company of conjurers do they mumble out the beginnings of their prayers that the People may not hear them c. These passages being debated the Parliament resolved that they were scandalous Again also p. 42. thus I must confess I have heard much of believing things above reason and the time was when I swallowed that still but I may say with S. Paul c. When I was a child c. Every man that knoweth any thing knoweth this that it is reason that distinguishes a man from a beast If you take away his reason you deny his very Essence therefore if any man will consent to give up his reason I would as soon converse with a beast as with that man c. These matters being debated it was resolved by Parliament that they were erroneous Afterwards they resolved that the said book called The Accuser ashamed and the other called The Clergy in their colours be burnt and that the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to cause all the printed copies of both the said books and every of them wheresoever they should be found to be burnt some in the New-Pallace-yard at Westm and some at the Old Exchange Not a word in the order was there of the Hang-man for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them then in pomp and great splendor At the same time it was resolved that the said Joh. Fry be disinabled to sit as a member of Parliament so that being solemnly cashier'd he had more liberty to keep company with John Biddle which he did as with others of that opinion This Person who had ran through most if not all religious even to Rantisme died soon after and thereby saved the Hang-man his labour JOHN ELLIS received his first breath in the Parish of Llanderkuin near to Harlech in Merionithshire entred a Student in Hart Hall in the year 1617 and in that of his age 18. or thereabouts where going through with infinite industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy became M. of A. in 1625 and three years after was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. being then in holy orders In 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and soon after going into Scotland upon what account I know not was made and admitted Doctor of his faculty in the University of S. Andrew on the day before the Cal. of August 1634 and in Oct. following was incorporated in this University Before that time having taken to Wife Rebecka Daugh. of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach near to Thame in Oxfordshire Esq became Rector of Whitfield near that place which Benefice he keeping till about 1647 was made Rector of S. Maries Church in a Market town called Dolgelhy or Dolgethle in his own county where he continued till the time of his death siding with all parties and taking all Oathes His works are these Clavis fidei seu brevia quaedam dictata in symbolum Apostolorum Oxon. 1642. 43. oct Translated into English by Will. Fowler a composer in the Art of Printing Camb. 1669. oct Comment in Obadium Proph. Lond. 1641. oct Defensio fidei seu responsio succincta ad argumenta quibus impugnari solet confessio Anglicana una cum nova articulorum versione Lond. 1660. He concluded his last day at Dolgethle before
beneficial employment he wrot books to his last He had a singular command of his pen whether in verse or prose and was well read in modern Histories especially in those of the Countries wherein he had travelled had a parabolical and allusive fancy according to his motto Senesco non Segnesco But the reader is to know that his writings having been only to gain a livelyhood and by their dedications to flatter great and noble persons are very trite and empty stoln from other authors without acknowledgment and fitted only to please the humours of Novices His works are these Dodena's Grove or the vocal Forest Lond. 1640. 44. qu. Much cried up and taken into the hands of curious People at its first publication The second part of it was printed at Lond. in 1650 oct and tho not so much admired as the first which was translated into French and printed several times yet there was a translation made of it into the new refined French by one of the prime wits in the Academy of Breux Esprits of Paris Par. 1652. qu. Ou le Parler des Arbres Par. 1648. qu. The English copy I have not yet seen this being different from the Vocal Forest which bears another title in the French edit The vote or a Poem-Royal presented to his Majesty for a New-years gift by way of discourse 'twixt the Poet and his Muse cal Jan. 1641. Lond. 1642 in two sh in qu. Instructions for forreign travel Lond. 1642 in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles There again with additions 1650 in tw Casual discourses and interlocutions between Patricius and Peregrin touching the distractions of the times with the causes of them Written by the author in the prison call'd the Fleet presently after Edghill battle being the first book that came forth for the vindication of his Majesty Mercurius Hibernicus or a discourse of that horrid insurrection and massacre which hapned lately in Ireland Written in the Fleet 1643. Parables reflecting upon the times Lond. 1644. in 2 sh in qu. at the latter end of the second edit oâ— Dodena's Grove Englands tears for the present wars c. Lond. 1644. in two sh and half in qu. There again in 1650 in tw Put into lat under this title Angliae suspiria lacrymae c. Lond. 1646. in tw Preheminence and pedegree of Parliaments in two sections Lond. 1644 in tw There again in 1677 in 3 sheets in qu. Vindication of some passages reflecting upon him in a book called The Popish Royal Favorite pen'd by Mr. Prynne Lond. 1644 in tw Printed with the very next pamphlet before mentioned A clearing of some occurrences in Spain at his Majesties being there cited by the said Mr. Prynne out of the Vocal Forest This is also printed with the former Epistolae Ho-Elianae Familiar letters domestic and forreign divided into sundry sections partly historical political and philosophical Lond. 1645. 47. qu. Lond. 1650. oct There again 1655 and 73 in oct All which impressions contained two vol. and had to the last added a third and fourth volume Many of the said letters were never written before the Author of them was in the Fleet as he pretends they were only feigned no time being kept with their dates and purposely published to gain money to relieve his necessities A nocturnal progress or a perambulation of most Countries in Christendome performed in one night by strength of imagination Written in the Fleet 1645. Lustra Ludovici or the life of Lewis 13 K. of France and of his Cardinal de Richelieu Lond. 1646. fol. Divided into 7 lusters and dedicated to Pr. Charles at his Court in the Isle of Jersey An account of the deplorable and desperate condition that England stands in an 1647. in a letter to Francis Cardinal Barberini Written from the Fleet 1647. Letter to the Earl of Pembr concerning the times and the sad condition both of Prince and People Printed 1647 in two sh in qu. Bella Scot-Anglica A brief of all the Battels and martial encounters which have hapned 'twixt England and Scotland from all times to this present Printed 1648. Corollary declaring the causes whereby the Scot is come of late years to be so hightned in his spirits These two last are in 3 sh in qu. The instruments of a King or a short discourse of Sword Scepter and Crown Lond. 1648. in 2 sh in qu. Winter dream Written in prose and printed 1649 in 3 sh in qu. A trance or news from hell brought first to town by Merc. Acheronticus Lond. 1649 in 2 sh and half in qu. Written in prose Inquisition after blood to the parliament in statu quo nunc and the Army regnant c. Printed 1649 in two sh in qu. Vision or dialogue between the soul and the body Lond. 1651. oct c. Survay of the signorie of Venice of her admired policy and method of government Lond. 1651. thin fol. Discourse of the Interests of the Reipublick of Venice with the rest of the states of Italy Printed with the Survay Some sober inspections made into the carriage and consults of the late Long Parliament c. Lond. 1653. oct Dedicated to Oliver Lord Protector whom he compares to Charles Martel and complements him in smooth language The fourth edition of this book came out in 1660 with several additions containing reflections upon government in general with some prophetick paragraphs and a supplement of divers signal passages which the other three additions had not Hist of the Wars of Jerusalem Epitomiz'd Printed in oct Ah Ha Tumulus Thalamus Two counter poems the first an Elegy upon Edward late Earl of Dorset The second an Epithalamium to the L. Marquess of Dorchester with an Hymeneum or Bridal-sonet of 4 stanzas according to a choice Aire set thereunto by Mr. Will. Webb Lond. 1653 in two sh in qu. A Dialogue Published and couched under the name of Polyander Written about the time that Oliver began to be Protector In this Dialogue he gives his opinion for a single Person against all other governments The German diet or the ballance of Europe wherein the power and weakness glory and reproach virtues and vices c. of all the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are impartially poysed Lond. 1653 fol. The authors picture from head to foot is set before the title leaning under a British oak Parthonopoeia or the history of the most renowned Kingdom of Naples with a list of their Kings c. Lond. 1654 fol. The first part of it was written by Scipio Mazzella englished from Ital. by Samson Lennard Herald of Arms. The second part was compiled by our Authors Jam. Howell who besides some supplements to the first part draws the thread of the story to these present times Collected and translated from several modern Ital. authors Londinopolis An historical discourse or perlustration of the City of London and Westminster with the Courts of Justice Antiquities and new buildings Lond. 1657. fol. 'T is a short discourse mostly taken from
Jo. Stow's Survey of London and his continuators Discourse of the Empire and of the election of the King of the Romans c. Lond. 1658. oct Lexicon tetraglotton An English-French-Italian-Spanish-Dictionary Lond. 1659. 60. fol. A particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English Italian French and Spanish of the proper terms belonging to several Arts and Sciences to common professions and callings both liberal and mechanick c. in 52 Sections Lond. 1659. Printed with the former book Proverbs or old sayed sawes and adages in English or the Saxon tongue Italian French and Spanish Whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added This is also printed with Lex tetragl A cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Answer'd as soon as it peep'd abroad by Rog. L'estrange in a book entit A caveat for the Cavaliers which having given offence to divers Persons he published a second edition of it with his name and a preface to it Soon after our author Howell set forth a vindication of his Cordial under this title Some sober inspections made into those ingredients that went to the composition of a late Cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Upon which L'estrange briefly reflects in the close of a piece of his intit A modest plea both for the Caveat and Author of it A French Grammar and a dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes with additions of the most useful and significant proverbs c. Printed at London twice the last time was in 1673 fol. He also added to A French and English Dictionary composed by Randle Cotgrave Sundry animadversions with supplements of many hundreds of words never before printed with accurate castigations throughout the whole work The parley of Beasts or Morphandra Qu. of the enchanted Island c. Tom. 1. Lond. 1660 fol. The second part of casual discourses and interlocutions between Patritius and Peregrin c. Lond. 1661. oct Printed in a book intit Divers historical discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britaine and Ireland Apology for Fables mythologiz'd Printed in the said book also Twelve treatises of the late revolutions Lond. 1661. octav New English Grammar for Forreigners to learn English with a Grammar for the Spanish or Castilian tongue with special remarques on the Portugues dialect for the service of her Majesty Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning the precedency of Kings Lond. 1663. fol. Translated into Latine by B. Harris L. P. Lond. 1664. oct Poems on several choice and various subjects occasionally composed Lond. 1663. oct Collected and published by one who calls himself Serjeant Major Payne Fisher somtimes Poet laureat to Oliver Treatise concerning Embassadors Translated into Lat. by John Harmer of Magd. Coll. Lond. 1664. oct Concerning the surrender of Dunkirk that it was done upon good grounds Lond. 1664. oct He also translated from Italian into English 1 S. Pauls late progress upon earth about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome by reason of her dissoluteness and excesses c. Lond. 1644. oct The Author of it whose name I cannot yet learn made it publick about the year 1642 and being forced to fly from Rome for so doing in the company and under the conduct of one that pretended friendship to him was betrayed at Avignion and there first hanged and then burned 2 A Venetian looking-glass or a letter written very lately from Lond. to Card. Barbarini at Rome by a Venetian Clarissimo touching the present distempers in England Printed 1648. in 3 sh in qu. 3 An exact history of the late Revolutions in Naples and of their monstrous successes not to be parallel'd by any antient or modern History Lond. 1650. oct Published in Ital. by Lord Alex. Giraffi The second part of this History came out soon after by the same hand who also translated it from Ital. In both which it appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles which exciting the Mobile headed by Tomaso Anello commonly called Masaniello a Fisherman all things in Naples were for some time turn'd topsie turvy 4 A letter of Advice sent from the prime Statesmen of Florence how England may come to her self again Dated at Flor. 12. Mar. 1659 Printed at the end of The second part of casual discourses c. before mention'd He also Ja. Howell translated from French into English The nuptials of Peleus and Thetis consisting of a Mask and Comedy or the great royal Ball acted lately in Paris six times c. Lond. 1654. qu. and from Spanish into Engglish The process and pleadings in the Court of Spain upon the death of Anthony Ascham Resident for the Parliament of England and of Joh. Baptista Riva his Interpreter c. Lond. 1651. fol. The said A. Ascham who was born of a gentile family was educated in Eaton School and thence elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1633 Afterwards taking the degree of M. of Arts closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion took the Covenant sided with the Independents became a great creature of the Long Parliament by whose authority he was made Tutor to James Duke of York and an active Person against his Soveraign At length being looked upon as sufficiently Antimonarchical was by the Rump Parliament sent their Agent or Resident to the Court of Spain in the latter end of the year 1649. In the beginning of June following he arrived at Madrid and had an appartment appointed him in the Court but certain English Royallists then in that City taking it in great disdain that such a notorious Rebel one of the destroyers of their Nation as they call'd him should come there from the murtherers of his sacred Majesty of England six of them named Joh. Guillim Will. Spark Valentine Progers Jo. Halsal Will. Arnet and Hen. Progers repaired to his lodging Two of them stood at the bottom of the stairs two at the top and two entred his Chamber of whom Spark being the first drew up to the table where Ascham and another were sitting and pulling off his hat said Gentlemen I kiss your hands pray which is the Resident Whereupon the Resident rising up Guillim took him by the hair of the head and with a naked dagger gave him a thrust that overthrew him Then came in Spark and gave him another and because they would make sure of their work they gave him five stabs of which he instantly dyed Whereupon Jo. Bap. Riva his Interpreter thinking to retire to his Chamber four others that were without the Chamber gave him four wounds whereof he presently expired Afterwards five of the Englishmen took sanctuary but were haled thence imprison'd and Spark suffered The sixth Person named Hen. Progers fled to the Venetian Embassadors house and so escaped The said Anth. Ascham who was slain 6. June 1650 hath written A discourse wherein is examined what is particularly lawful during the confusions and revolutions of government c. Lond. 1648. oct and other things as 't is probable
and near Oxon. Afterwards he was Lecturer of Allhallows Church in Breadstreet within the City of London took the degree of Bach. of Div. in the year 1633 and about that time became Vicar of S. Andrews Church in the then factious town of Plymouth in Devon where continuing in great liking among the godly party did for benefit and interest sake side with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the most wicked rebellion raised by them was a zealous and forward man against the King his Party and Bishops took all oaths that followed was an enemy to the Orthodox Clergy and in 1654 was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon to eject such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters In 1662 when the Act of conformity took place he left his cure in Plymouth lived there and exercising his function in private that is in Conventicles among the Brethren contrary to the Act was with Tho. Martin the late Lecturer of that Church a Conventicler also conveyed into S. Nicholas Island near Plymouth an 1665 where they remained about 9 Months In which time our author Hughes wrot an answer to Joh. Serjeants book entit Sure-footing At length his health being much impaired as the Brethren reported and his legs black and swoln he was offer'd his liberty upon condition of giving security of a 1000 l not to live within 20 miles of Plymouth Which being accordingly effected by the Brethren without his knowledge he retired to Kingsbridge in Devonsh found entertainment in the house of one Daniel Elley a Brother and was much frequented to the last by the fanatical party He was the most noted Presbyterian if not Independent of his time in Devonshire and a most eager defender of his against the prelatical party and ceremonies of the Church of England His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Fun Sermon on 2. Kings 13.14 Printed 1632. qu. 3 Fun. Sermon on Psal 16.10 Pr. 1642. qu. 4 Drie rod blossoming printed 1644. qu. 5 Vae-eugae-tuba or the Wo-joy-trumpet c. Fast serm before the H. of Commons 26. May 1647. on Rev. 11.15 Lond. 1647. qu. c. Exposition on the small prophets Lond. 1657. fol. Sure footing in Christianity examined Lond. 1668. oct Exposition on the book of Job Lond. 1669. fol. Aphorismes or select propositions of the Scripture truly determining the doctrine of the Sabbath Printed 1670. 71. oct Exposition on Genesis and on 23 Chapters of Exodus Amsterd 1672. fol. and other things which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature in the house of D. Elley of Kingsbridge before mention'd in the beginning of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Church there near to the Pulpit Over his grave is this inscription fastned to a pillar just opposite to the Pulpit In memoriam suaveolentem aeternùm colendam viri desideratissimi Georgii Hughes SS Th. B. Plymudensium nuper pastoris vigilantissimi sacrae sensus paginae penitiores eruere homines concione flectere precibus Deum mirè edocti Qui solis aemulum ab oriente auspicatus cursum ortu Londinâs occidentale dehinc sidus diu claruit lucem in vitâ spargens undique moriens luctum Vitaeque verè vitalis curriculo in an lxiv perducto optima perfunctus perpessus mala requiem tandem invenit animo quidem in caelis corpori verò in subjacente tumulo ipsis Julii nonis an salutis MDCLXVII Symmistae longè charissimi Georgii Geofridi A. M. cujus exuviae ante ter-novem annos ibidem sitae nunc primum in cineres solvuntur novis miscendos Nacta sacros cineres servata fideliter urna Haec uterum satio tibi foecundabit inertem O faelix tumuli matrix de morte renatos Olim tam claros hosce enixura Gemellos Posuit honoris amoris ergô Thomas Crispinus Exoniensis The said Tho. Crispin a rich Fuller of Exeter and founder of a Free-school in Kingsbridge about the year 1670. was at the charge of setting up the said marble monument and Mr. Joh. Howe who married Hughes his daughter drew up the inscription as I have been informed by a neighbouring Minister of that place RICHARD HEYRICK a younger Son of Sir Will. Heyrick of Beaumannour in Leycestershire Kt who fined for Alderman of London and died about 1653 was born in London educated in Merchant Taylors School became Commoner of S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617 aged 17 took the degrees in Arts was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1624 and about that time entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was beneficed in Norfolk made Warden of Christs Coll. in Manchester in Lancashire sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the rebellion took the Covenant was made one of the Ass of Divines carried on the cause with great zeal was in the plot for which Christop Love suffered and afterwards became an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lancashire for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Upon the approach of his Majesties restauration he seemed to be zealous for it and turning about as many of his party did kept his Wardenship to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Three sermons preached in the collegiat Church of Manchester the first on Psal 122.6 the second 2. Thes 2.15 and the third on Gen. 49.5.6.7 Lond. 1641. in oct 2 Qu. Esthers resolve or a Christian pattern for heaven born resolution Fast Sermon before the House of Com. on Esther 4.16 Lond. 1646. qu. Besides others which I have not yet seen among which is A Sermon on 2. of Kings 11. ver 12. Lond. 1661. qu. He departed this mortal life on the sixth day of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 67 and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Manchester Soon after was a comely monument put over his grave at the charge of Anna-Maria his Relict with a large inscription thereon made by his antient and entire friend Mr. Tho. Case a London Minister who had been intimately acquainted with him while he was a student in the University of Oxon part of it runs thus Siste viator morae pretium est sub eodem cippo cum venerabili Huntingdono primo hujus collegii Custode jacet decimus quartus ab eo successor Ricardus Heyrick Gulielmi Heyrick equitis Aurati filius Collegii Om. Animarum apud Oxonienses socius olim studiosissimus ecclesiae de North-Reps in agro Norfolciensi deinde pastor fidissimus hujusce denique collegii per triginta duos annos multa alia ultro sibi oblata Beneficia aversatus hâc solâ dignitate contentus Custos sive Guardianus vigilantissimus Qui judicium solidum cum ingenio acutissimo singularem zelum cum prudentia eximia gravitatem summam cum egregia morum suavitate generis nobilitatem nominis celebritatem quaecunque minores animas inflare solent cum humilitate
speech in vindication of himself and the rest of the Bishops from any design to bring in Popery or innovating in the Government and forms of Worship here by Law established On the 30 of the said month the Lords censure was put in execution in the Pallace-yard at Westminster at which time suffer'd also by clipping of ears John Bastwick Dr. of Physick not of this but of another University and Hen. Burton Bac. of Div. Minister of S. Mathews Church in Friday-street in London On the 27 of July following our Author Prynne was removed from the Tower to the Fleet and the same day being guarded he began his journey towards Caernarvan Castle in Wales from which time till the 5 of Aug. when then he arrived at Caernarvan he was met saluted bless'd and exhibited to by the godly party in all chief Towns that he passed thro But such a haunt there was to the said Castle when he was there that for the prevention of all intelligence and correspondence to be held between him and Burton in Lancaster Castle or with the said Party the State found it necessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey So that by vertue of a warrant dated 27 Aug. Prynne was conveyed thither not without great danger in January following where being well used tho closely shut up he exercised his pen in writing divine and profitable Meditations In 1640 Nov. 7. an order issued out from the blessed House of Commons as by the said godly party it was called for his releasment from his prison as also for the releasment of Bastwick who was then in S. Maries Castle in the Isle of Scilly and for Burton in Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey So that our Author Prynne and Burton who were Prisoners at no great distance met together at Guernsey and travelled in each others company to London In whose passage thither divers of the godly party met them at Dartmouth Exeter Lime Dorchester Salisbury Andover Basing and elsewhere visited them blest them and accompanied them on horse-back some part of their way On the 28 of the same month they triumphantly entred London being then accompanied by thousands on foot and horse-back and in coaches with rosemary and bays in their hats crying Welcome home welcome home God bless you God be thanked for your return c. to the great defiance and contempt of Authority and Justice On the 30 of the said month they were both presented by their Keepers who came with them to the Commons House where they had liberty granted to frame new Petitions in their own names according to their own liking and to present them to the house as soon as they could prepare them The 3 of Dec. following Prynne presented a large Petition fully shewing his sufferings and the grand tyranny as he call'd it of the Archbishop c. for which afterwards he had a large requital Not long after upon the leaving of the House of Commons by divers Members purposely to adhere to his Majesty he was elected a Recruiter for a Borough in Cornwall to serve in that most unhappy Parliament So that being setled in the House he became the most busie and pragmatical person of the Herd and so inveterate and implacable against the Bishops but more in an especial manner against Laud in private action and speech with him while he was Prisoner in the Tower in publick speeches against him in the Parliament-house and in writing and publishing books and Pamphlets of and against him that he could scarce take quiet rest till he had fetch'd off his head in requital of his ears that he as Prynne pretended had taken off before But of these matters when it was too late and that he had fully seen to what great woe misery and confusion the godly party had brought the King and the Nation he did heartily repent and wished that when they had cut off his ears they had cut off his head During the sitting of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous Covenantier in ordering and setling Presbytery but when the Independents began to overtop the Brethren he shew'd himself a bitter enemy to them and advanced much the Kings Cause especially in his declension In 1647 he was appointed one of the Visitors for the Univ. of Oxon by the said Parliament and how busily he behaved himself theâ—e in Apr. 1648 I have told you elsewhere See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1648. On the 6 of Dec. 1648 he with other members of the H. of Com. were turn'd out from the House by the Army and imprison'd for that they were zealous for peace and in bringing the King to his Parliament Whereupon he became a bitter enemy to the said Army and Oliver their Leader doing them also much mischief by publishing divers Pamphlets against them and their tyranny Soon after he conveyed his Estate away to one or more of his Relations and thereupon denied the paying of taxes and stood in open defiance to Oliver for which he was imprison'd in Dunster Castle in Somersetshire and brought into trouble He then stood much upon Magna Charta the liberty of the Subject for which he was beloved by several Cavaliers and I know not what But all that he did being to little purpose he bent his mind and pen for some time against the Papists Jews Quakers c. and in writing books of Divinity which being not answer'd or seem'd to be regarded he grew as 't were weary of himself began to look up at last and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses On the 21 of Feb. 1659 he as a secluded Member of the Commons house being restored to sit again became instrumental for the Kings Restauration and so forward and bold that he openly spoke in the house when it was not then seasonable for such expressions that if the King must come in it was safest for them that he should come in by the Votes who had made the War against his father c. Which I say being then unseasonably spoken he was sent for by General Monk and his privy Counsellors and admonished to be quiet and then it was the business of Mr. Will. Morice to keep the then expiring Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling in the change of Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who passionately longed for their dissolution In Apr. 1660 he the said Prynne was chose a Burgess for the City of Bathe to sit in the Healing Parliament that began at Westm 25 of the said month and after his Maj. Restauration he instead of being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer which as 't is said he sought after was made chief Keeper of his Maj. Records in the Tower of London with 500 l. per an salary but afterwards much lessened purposely to employ his head from scribling against the State and Bishops But so it
should have known whether he was the same who was afterwards the famed Author of Hudibras After Sam. Butler had continued in Cambridge about 6 or 7 years but in what Coll. or Hall his brother knows not he was taken into the service of Elizabeth Countess of Kent in whose family living several years he did for a diversion exercise his parts in Painting and Musick and at length became so noted for the first that he was entirely beloved of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of his age Great Selden who was much conversant in the family of that Countess had an esteem for and would often employ him to write letters beyond sea and translate for him At riper years he studied the Common Law but did not practise it only lived on the jounture of a widow that he had married After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Secretary to Richard Earl of Carbury L. President of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches thereof who as 't is said made S. Butler Steward of Ludlow Castle when the Court there was revived Afterwards he became Secretary to George Duke of Buckingham when he was made Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and had promises of places and employments of greater value and credit from Edward Earl of Clarendon when he was L. Chanc. of England especially for this cause that his Majesty had a respect for him and the more for his poem called Hudibras the first part of which came out in 8o. an 1663 and was not only taken into his Majesties hands and read by him with great delight but also by all Courtiers loyal Scholars and Gentlemen to the great profit of the Author and Bookseller Afterwards came out a second part and both printed together with several additions and annotations And at length a third and last part but without annotations as by the copy printed 1678 appears In 1682 was published in 8o. Butlers Ghost or Hudibras The fourth part with reflections on these times But whether he was the Author of I know not for I have not yet seen it This Sam. Butler who was a boon and witty companion especially among the company he knew well died of a Consumption 25 of Sept. 1680 and was according to his desire buried six foot deep in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster viz. at the west end of the said yard on the north side and under the wall of the Church and under that wall which parts the yard from the common high way As for our voluminous Author Will. Prynne he died in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 24 of Oct. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Walk under the Chappel there which stands upon Pillars Over whose grave tho there is no Epitaph only his name and Obit which are now worn out yet I shall venture to give you this Epitaph that was then made upon him Here lies the corps of William Prynne A Bencher late of Lincolns Inn Who restless ran through thick and thin This grand scripturient paper-spiller This endless needless margin-filler Was strangly tost from post to pillar His brains career were never stopping But pen with rheume of gall still dropping Till hand o're head brought ears to cropping Nor would he yet surcease such theams But prostitute new virgin-reams To types of his fanatick dreams But whilst he this hot humour hugs And for more length of tedder tugs Death fang'd the remnant of his lugs NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to Will. Fiennes Vicount Say and Sele of whom I have made mention before was born at Broughton in Oxfordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. at his first entry therein because he was a Founders kinsman an 1624 aged 16 years where continuing about 5 years departed without a degree and went to the Inns of Court or to travel or both In 1640 he was elected Burgess for Banbury to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm in Apr. the same year and again for the same place to sit in that that commenc'd the 3 of Nov. following wherein shewing himself very busie and zealous for the Cause had a Commission given to him to be Captain of a Troop and afterwards to be Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under Robert Earl of Essex the Capt. Gen. of the Parliament Forces raised to fight against the King Afterwards shewing himself a zealot for the Covenant and professing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced Parliamenteer was made Governour of the Garrison of Bristow when first taken in for the use of the Parliament Where being no sooner setled but he used many insolencies and barbarities too many here to be named among which was 1 His causing the Kings Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Marriners and all Officers of his Navy to take employment under Robert Earl of Warwick lately made Admiral of the Kings royal Navy by the Parliament to be burnt in the publick market-place there 4 March 1642 by the hands of one of the City Sargeants being then the chief market-day notwithstanding he connived at the publishing it the day before 2 In causing to be murdered under the notion of Plotters against the Parliament two eminent Citizens of Bristow Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher notwithstanding his Maj. sent letters in their behalf to have their lives spared to the extream horror and amazement of all honest men and the great grief of his Majesty who could not choose but look upon it as the most barbarous act which the impudence and cruelty of the said Rebellion had produced against him 3 In his and his murtherous Crews contempt and profanation of Gods holy Worship and Service and permitting the rending of Surplices tearing the book of Common-Prayer breaking down Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of the Congregations c. 4 His discountenancing and driving away the orthothodox Ministers and substituting in their places the most infamous and notorious Schismaticks that he could pick out of Bristow and other places as Joh. Tombes of Lemster Edm Cradock .... Bacon .... Walter .... Simonds and one Mathew Hazard whom tho I name last yet deserves to have precedency of all the rest as being a main Incendiary in the Rebellion violently egged on by his wife whose disciple the silly man was But at length the said City of Bristow being by Col. Fiennes surrendred to Pr. Rupert for the use of his Majesty 27 July 1643 he was thereupon called into question and articles were drawn up against him by the restless proceedings of Will. Prynne and Clem. Walker So that he being tryed for his life for the same before a Council of War sitting at S. Alban in Dec. the same year notwithstanding he had made a large defence for what he had done in open Parliament on the 5 of Aug. going before he was sentenced to lose his head for
his place actually created M. of A made Fellow of the said Coll. in 1662 and afterwards Bach. of Div. and Preb. of Lincoln He hath written on a subject which he much delighted in and wherein he had spent a considerable part of his time but was not printed till after his death The title of which is A short and sure guide in the practice of raising and ordering Fruit-trees Oxon. 1672. oct A large and laudable account of which you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 86. p. 5049 c. He died on the 26. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried near to the grave of his Father in the Chancel of the Church of Comnore beforemention'd SAMUEL MATHER the eldest Son of Rich. Mather mention'd before under the year 1669. nu 289. was born at Much-Woolton in Lanc 13. May 1626 transported with his Father and Family to New England 1635 educated in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge there took the degrees in Arts returned into England in 1650 became one of the Chaplains of Madg. Coll. by the favour of Mr. Tho. Goodwin then President and was as t is said incorporated in the degree of M. of A. tho no such thing occurs in the publick register Afterwards being known be a man of parts and gifts he received a call to go to Leith in Scotland to be there a publick Preacher In 1655 he removed to Dublin in Ireland where he became a Senior Fellow of Trin. Coll. and preached as a Lecturer in S. Nicolas Church there and also before the L. Deputy and Council in his turn At which time tho he was a congregational man and in his Principles respecting Ch. Government a high Nonconformist yet he was observed by some to be civil to those of the Episcopal persuasion when it was in his power to do them a displeasure And when the L. Deputy Hen. Cromwell gave a Commission to him and others in order to the displacing of Episcopal Ministers in the Province of Mounster he declined it as he did afterwards to do the like matter in Dublin alledging that he was called into that County to preach the Gospel and not to hinder others from doing it He was a religious man in the way he professed and was valued by some who differed from him as to opinion in lesser and circumstantial points in religion After his Majesties restauration he was suspended from preaching till his Majesties pleasure should be known for two Sermons which were judged seditious and being afterwards ejected and silenced for Nonconformity preached to the brethren in privat so long as he lived He hath written Wholsome Caveat for a time of liberty Printed 1652. in oct A defence of the protestant religion in answer to Fiat Lux. Dubl 1671. qu. An Irenicum or an Essay for union among Reformers Lond. in qu. The figures or types of the old Testament explained and improved Dubl 1683. qu. He died on the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church of S. Nicolas within the City of Dublin where he used formerly to preach a morning Lecture OWEN PRICE a Mountgomeryshire man born was put in Scholar of Jesus Coll. by the Parl. Visitors 12. Oct. 1648 whence after he had continued 4 years therein he was called to the charge of a public School in Wales where he advanced his Scholars much in Presbyterian principles In the year 1655. making a return to the University he was entred into Ch. Ch of which if I mistake not he was made Student and in the year following did by the favour of the deligated power of the Chancellour accumulate the degrees in Arts. Soon after he became Master of the Free-School near Madg. Coll where by his industry and good way of teaching he drew many youths of the City whose Parents were fanatically given to be his Scholars But upon the Kings restauration being ejected for Nonconformity taught School in which he much delighted in several places as in Devonshire Besills-Lee near Abendon c became useful among the brethren and a noted Professor in the Art of Pedagogy He hath written and published The Vocal Organ or a new art of teaching Orthography by observing the instruments of pronunciation and the difference between words of like sound whereby any outlandish or meer Englishman woman or child may speedily attain to the exact spelling reading writing or pronouncing of any word in the English tongue without the advantage of its fountains the Greek and Latine Oxon. 1665. oct English Orthography teaching 1. The Letters of every sort of print 2. All Syllables made of Letters 3. Short Rules by way of question and answer for spelling reading pronouncing using the great letters and their points 4. Examples of all words of like sound c. Oxon. 1670. oct He died in his House near to Madg. Coll. 25. Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was two days after buried in the Church of S. Peter in the east near to the door leading into the belfry within the City of Oxon. JOHN WHITE was a Wiltsh man born became a Servitor of S. Albans Hall in Mich. terme an 1600 whence after he had continued for some time went to Mert. Coll. and there was entertain'd in the condition of a Servitour to Mr. afterwards Sir Isaac Wake but whether he made a longer stay in Merton Coll. or in S. Alb. Hall I know not we will not contend for and therefore let the Albanians take him After he had left the University without a degree confer'd on him he took holy orders and had a Cure bestowed on him in his own Country at Monkton-Deverel and at length became Vicar of Chertâ—n near to the Devises From which place being ejected in the time of the Rebellion he practiced Physick at Conock Afterwards being restored in 1660 he set himself to the writing of poetry in his old age the effects of which are contained in three volumes full of fooleries and impertinencies entit Miscellanea Variegata Anagrammata Epigrammata Distica c. The first vol. contains Anagrams Epigrams c. on the Kings and Nobility of England Printed at Lond. 1663 in a large thin oct in the 79 year of the authors age The 2d Vol. is on the Bishops and Clergie Lond. 1664 in thin oct in the 80 year of the authors age The third is on the Gentry and other persons Lond 1665. in a thin oct in the 81. year of the authors age In all which books are also several copies of English verses He yeilded to nature at Cherton beforementioned on the 6 of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the north side of Communion Table near the wall Soon after was this inscription set up on the said wall John White Vicar of Cherton was buried neare this place the 8 th day of December An. Dom. 1671. EDWARD BAGSHAW son of Edw. Bagsh
his Rambles by Drinking and Whoring died there in the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and two whereupon he was buried by the Name of Dr. Higham on the south side of the body of the Church there under the seats on the 23 day of the same month One Joh. Higham hath published a book called A Looking-glass for Loyalty printed 1675. oct but he is not to be taken for the same with the former nor for another Joh. Higham a R. C. Bookseller of S. Omers living in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 who translated from Spanish into English Meditations upon the Mysteries of our holy faith S. Omers 1619. in two or more tomes in qu. HENRY WHISTLER an Oxfordshire man born was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. 1601 aged 16 years and four years after was made Fellow thereof So that taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders became Rector of Little Whitnam in Berks Bach. of Div. 1615 and about that time Rector of Whitchurch in the south part of Oxfordshire near to which place he was born He hath written and published a rapsodical piece intit Aim at an Upshot for Infant baptism by the good will of Christ as Priest Prophet and King c. Lond. 1653. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Over his grave is this Inscription Here lieth the body of Henry Whistler Bachelaur of Divinity who departed this life the 24 day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1672 in the 86 year of his age having been Rector of this Parish 56 years PHILIPP NYE was born of a gentile Family in Sussex entred a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 21. July 1615. aged 19 years or thereabouts but making no long stay there he removed to Madg. Hall where being put under the tuition of a puritanical Tutor continued till he had taken the degrees in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and had some cure bestowed on him but where unless in S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lond. where I find him in 1630 I cannot justly tell But so it was that he being Schismatically enclined did with others of his perswasion leave his Cure purposely to avoid the censures of Episcopal Consistories and went beyond the Seas into Holland about 1633 where continuing for the most part at Arnheim in Gelderland till about the latter end of 1640 at which time the Members of the Parl. afterward called the Long Parl. were very dominant and prevailing he returned and became soon after by the favour of Edward Lord Kimbolton about that time Earl of Manchester Minister of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire And tho he then and before shew'd himself a severe censurer of Bishops and those of the Episcopal Clergy for medling in civil affairs as excentrick to their calling yet he with Hugh Peters Steph. Marshall c. did go beyond any of them in that matter more than for 7 years together In 1643 he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines became a great Champion for the Presbyterian cause and a zealous assertor of the solemn League and Covenant In July the same year he with Steph. Marshall whose Daughter he had taken to Wife were sent by the Parliament into Scotland to expedite their Covenant where in set speeches he told the People that they were to enter into such a Covenant and League as would never be forgotten by them and their posterity and both have occasion to remember it with joy Also that such an oath it is as for matter persons and other circumstances that the like hath not been in any age sufficiently warranted by both humane and divine story for as God did swear for the salvation of men and kingdoms so kingdoms must now swear for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms to establish a Saviour Jesus Christ in England c. After his return both houses of Parl. took the Covenant 25. of Sept. the same year at which time Nye made some observations from the Pulpit touching the said Covenant shewing the warrant of it from Scripture and was about the same time partly rewarded for his good service with the Rectory of Acton near London in the place of Dr. Dan. Featley ejected But soon after disliking the proceedings of the said Ass of Divines he dissented from them for a time as others did being incited thereunto by certain Politicians with promises of reward especially if they would oppose them and their intended discipline to be setled So that then closing with the rising party the Independents especially with the Grandees of the Army he did by their favour hold rich Offices and his counsel in political affairs was often used by them In Dec. 1647 he with Steph. Marshall were sent by them to the King at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight with the Commissioners then appointed to carry the four bills the four dethroning votes and had for their pains 500 l. apiece given to them About that time also he was employed by the said Grandees to get subscriptions from the Apprentices in London and factious people against a personal treaty with the King while the Citizens of that place were petitioning for one See more in Jos Caryl In Apr. also the next year he with the said Marshall and Jos Caryl were employed by the Independents to invite the secured and secluded members to sit in the House again but they effected nothing In 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors for the approbation of publick Preachers in which office he acted the Politician so much that he did not only get his Son to be Clerk to them but also enriched himself with bribes underhand-dealing and with a Living of 400 l. per an by the help of the said Marshall one of that number In 1654 he with Dr. Laz. Seamon Sam. Clark Rich. Vines Ob. Sedgwick Jos Caryl c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parl. to eject such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters in the City of London where he especially and they acted with no little rigor to the utter undoing of many loyal Persons In 1660 after his Majesties restauration it was debated by the Healing Parliament for several hours together whether he and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouth'd Independent should be excepted for life because they had acted so highly none more except Hugh Peters against the King and had been instrumental in bringing all things into confusion At length it came to this result that if Philip Nye Clerk should after the first of Sept. in the same year accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted from life In Nov. 1662 he was vehemently suspected to be in that plot for which George Philips Thâ—m Tongue c. were executed but how he
other uses belonging to different Glands as well for conservation of the individual as propagation of the species Amongst other things we ought particularly to take notice of his being the first who discovered the Ductus in the Glandulae Maxillares by which the Saliva is conveyed into the mouth He hath also given an admirable account of morbid Glands and their differences and particularly of Strumae and Scrophulae how new Glands are often generated as likewise of the several diseases of the Glands of the Mesentery Pancreas c. Which opinions of his he often illustrates by Anatomical observations What else he hath written I find not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying in his house in Aldersgate-street in the month of October in sixteen hundred seventy and three was as I suppose buried in the Church of S. Bottolph situat and being without Aldersgate in London GEORGE SWINNOCK was born in the antient Borough of Maidstone in Kent an 1627 brought up religiously when a Child in the family of Rob. Swinnock a most zealous Puritan of that Town educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon to get preferment in the latter end of 1647 at which time he entred himself a Communer of Magd. Hall Soon after he became one of the Chaplains of New Coll and on the sixth day of Octob. following 1648 he was made Fellow of Ball. Coll by the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament In 1650 he became Vicar of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire and thereupon resigning his Fellowship on the 24 of Nov. the same year took the degree of Master of Arts six days after In 1660 or thereabouts he was made Vicar of Great Kimbel in Bucks and in Aug. 1662 being ejected tor nonconformity he was received into the family of Rich. Hamden of Great Hamden in the said County of Bucks Esquire and continued with him for some time in the quality of a Chaplain At length upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience in the latter end of the year 1671 he retired to his native place where he continued in preaching and praying among the Godly till the time of his death His works are these The dore of Salvation opened by the key of regeneration or a Treatise containing the nature necessity marks and means of regeneration Lond. 1660. c. in oct and in qu. commended to the Readers by the Epistles of Edw. Reynolds D. D Tho. Watson of S. Stephens Walbroke in Lond. and Mr. Rich. Baxter written in Jan. 1659. This book was printed the third time at Lond. 1671. oct The Christian mans calling or a treatise of making Religion ones business wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered c. Lond. 1661. c. qu. The second part of this book which directeth Parents Children Husbands Wives Masters Servants in prosperity and adversity to do their duties was printed at Lond. 1663 c. qu. and the third part there in 1665 c. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The Pastors farewell and wish of welfare to his people or a valedictory Serm. on Acts 20.32 Lond. 1662. qu. It was preached as it seems at Gr. Kimbell before mention'd 2 The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith or one cast for eternity c. Funeral sermon on Mr. Caleb Swinnock of Maidstone on Psal 73.26 Lond. 1662. qu. To which is added by the said Author The gracious persons incomparable portion 3 Men are Gods Gods are Men two Assize sermons These I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you the Texts Heaven and Hell epitomized the true Christian characterized as also an exhortation with motives to be speedy about the work of Conversion Lond. 1663. qu. The beauty of Magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psal wherein is set forth the necessity utility dignity duty and morality of Magistrates Lond. 1660. c. qu. Assisted therein by Tho. Hall of whom I have spoken under the year 1665. p. 235. Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being attributes works and word opened and applied Lond. 1672. oct The Sinners last sentence to eternal punishment for sins of omission wherein is discovered the nature causes and cure of those sins Lond. 1675 and 79. oct What other things this Mr. Swinnock who was accounted an eminent Preacher among those of his perswasion hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the tenth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried in the Church at Maidstone before mention'd In that most virulent and diabolical Pamphlet called Mirabilis annus secundus is a story of one Mr. Swinnock a Minister in S. Martins lane near Canon street in London sometimes Chaplain to one of the Sheriffs of that City who for his Conformity to the Ch. of England and for wearing a Surplice which he began to do on the 21 of Sept. 1662 after he had often said among the brethren he would rather burn than conform c. as the Author of the said Mirab. an saith it pleased the Lord as he further adds to strike him with sickness which proved a violent burning feaver whereof within a few days after before another Lords day came about he died c. Who this Mr. Swinnock was I cannot tell neither doth the Author set down his Christian Name otherwise we might have said something more of him and something to the disproof of that most vile Author THOMAS BROWNE was born in the County of Middlesex elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1620 aged sixteen years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1627 made Proctor of the University in 1636 and the year after domestick Chaplain to Archbishop Laud and Bach. of Divinity Soon after he became Rector of S. Mary the Great called Aldermary in London Canon of Windsore in 1639 and Rector of Oddington in Oxfordshire But upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he being forced from his Church in London by the impetuous Presbyterians he retired to his Majesty to whom he was Chaplain at Oxford By virtue of whose letters he was actually created Doct. of Div. in Feb. 1642 having then only the profits of Oddington coming in to maintain him Afterwards he lost all for his Loyalty lived partly beyond the Seas in the condition of Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange at which time he became acquainted with divers learned men in Holland and suffered equally as other generous Royalists did After the return of his Majesty he was restored to what he had lost kept some of his Spiritualities especially Windsore to the time of his death without any other promotion in the Church He hath written and published A copy of the Sermon preached before the University at S. Maries in Oxon. 24 Dec. 1633 on Psal 130.4 Oxon. 1634. qu. I have seen a Serm. of his on Joh. 11.4 preached before his Parishiones
Rebellion lived poorly and therefore for that his Loyalty he was not only restored to what he had lost upon the King's restauration but also was actually created Doct. of Div. He was accounted a witty man and a good Poet in his younger years and in his elder a good Preacher and sober Divine He hath published The souls conflict c. portrayed in eight several sermons six whereof were preached before the King at Oxon. Lond. 1657. c. oct and other sermons which I have not yet seen He died 29 May in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried under the Communion-table at the east end of the Chancel of the Church of Swerford before mention'd Tho. Pope E. of Downe who was his Patron died in S. Maries Parish in Oxon 28 Dec. 1660 aged 38 years leaving behind him one only daughter named Elizab. begotten on the body of Elizab. his wife dau and one of the heirs of Will. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq Which said Elizab. his daughter was first married to Henry Francis Lea of Dichley in Oxfordshire and afterwards to Robert Earl of Lindsey The Earldom of Downe went after the death of the said Thomas to Thom. Pope Esq his Uncle whose male issue also dying the Estate went away among three daughters the eldest of which was married to Sir Francis North afterwards L. North of Guilford Both the said Earls were buried at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordsh among the graves of their Ancestors HENRY WILKINSON Senior commonly called Long Harry son of Hen. Wilk mentioned before under the year 1647 was born at Waddesdon in Bucks became a Com. of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622. aged 13. years where making great proficiency in his studies took the degrees in Arts became a noted Tutor Master of the Schools and Divinity Reader in his House In the year 1638 he was admitted Bach. of Div preached frequently in and near Oxon yet not without girds against the actions and certain men of the times On the 6. of Sept. 1640. he preached in his turn in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon on Rev. 3.16 So then because thou art luke-warm c. Which Sermon being very bitter against some ceremonies of the Church very base also and factious and intended meerly to make a party for the Scots was summon'd the same day to make his recantation in a form then prescrib'd for him But he obstinatly refusing to do it was suspended from all execution of his Priestly Function within the University and Precincts thereof according to the Statute till he should make his Palinody Soon after when that unhappy Parliament called the Long Parl began he complained to the Members about the latter end of Nov. of the usage he had received from the Vicechancellour Whereupon according to the command of the Committee of Religion in the H. of Com. the Vicehanc sent up a copy of his sermon with his exceptions against it which being received from the hands of Dr. Rich. Baylie Dec. 9. was by them perused but they finding nothing as they said that might make him guilty of punishment they released him from his suspension and gave order that his sermon should be printed which accordingly was done Upon this our author Wilkinson grew very bold preach'd and discours'd what he pleas'd setled afterwards in London to carry on the Cause was made Minister of S. Faith under Paules one of the Ass of Divines became a frequent Preacher before the Members of Parliament and Rector of S. Dunstans in the West about 1645. At which time being esteemed a grand zealot for promoting the designs then on foot he was constituted by the said Members one of the six Ministers to go to Oxon in 1646 after the surrender of the Garrison there to draw off by their preaching the Scholars from their Orthodox Principles to the Presbyterian persuasion and soon after one of the Visitors to break open turn out and take possession For which service he was not only rewarded with a senior Fellowship of Madg. Coll. which he kept till he took to wife a holy woman call'd the Lady Carr but also with a Canonry of Ch. Church a Doctorship of Divinity and after Cheynells departure with the Margaret professorship of the University After his Majesty was restored he was ejected and thereupon went to London continued a Non-conformist lived and had his meetings at Clapham in Surrey near London especially when the Kings toleration was published in the latter end of 1671 whereby he gained from the Brethren a considerable maintenance He was a good Scholar always a close Student an excellent Preacher tho his voice was shrill and whining yet his Sermons were commonly full of dire and confusion especially while the rebellion continued Under his name were these things following published viz. Several Sermons as 1 Sermon against Lukewarmness in religion on Rev. 3.16 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Babylons ruin Jerusalem's rising Fast serm before the House of Com. 25 Oct. 1643. on Zech. 1.18.19.20.21 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 The gainfull cost Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 27. Nov. 1644. on 1. Chron. 21.24 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Miranda Stupenda Or the wonderful and astonishing mercies which the Lord hath wrought for England in subduing and captivating the pride power and policy of his Enemies Thanks-giving Serm. before the H. of Com. for the surrender of Oxon preached 21. Jul. 1646 on Numb 23.23 Lond. 1646. qu. In his Epist ded to the H. of Com. he doth seriously exhort them to think of a sudden reformation of that University and perhaps he had thoughts then of being a Visitor and to get what might be obtained while the Sun shined 5 Serm. on Luk. 17.27.28 Published in The morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1661. qu. 6 Serm. on 2. Thes 2. from ver 3. to 10. Published in The morning exercise against popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 7 How we must do all in the name of Christ on Col. 3.17 Publ. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. What other things are published under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Clapham before mention'd in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five his body was thereupon conveyed to Drapers Hall in Lond and thence conducted with solemnity by hundreds of the Brethren to the Church of S. Dunstan in Fleetstreet before mention'd where it was inâ—eâ—'d I shall make mention of another Henry Wilkinson under the year 1690 who for distinction sake was commonly called Deane Harry THOMAS HOLYOAKE or Holyoke son of Francis Hol. mention'd under the year 1653 was born at Stony Thorp near to Southam in Warwickshire educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. White at Coventry became a student in Queens Coll. in Michaelm term 1632. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts made Chaplain of the said Coll. and in the beginning of the Civil War when Oxford became the Seat of
born there or at least in that County entred a Student in Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 entred into the sacred function and had some little cure bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Sure I am that he being always puritanically affected closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars went to London took the Covenant and became Minister of S. Augustins there in the place of a noted Loyalist ejected In 1649 Feb. 12 he was presented to the rectory of Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial Patron Arthur Lord Capell Son of the most loyal and generous Arthur Lord Cap. then lately beheaded which rectory was then void by the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook In this rectory our author Roberts shewing himself a zealous man of those times was among several Ministers of his County of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph Farmer another constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejectment of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties return he rather than loose his living and so consequently the comforts of this world did turn about took the Oathes again whereby he denied all those that he had taken in the interval and conform'd himself without hesitation to the ceremonies of the Church of England and was nominated the first Chaplain by his Patron to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex 13. Car. 2. What preferments he had afterwards confer'd upon him I know not only that the degree of Doctor of Div. was confer'd on him by the University I think of Dublin at what time his Patron a favourer of such people was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of John Lord Roberts an 1670. Under the said Dr. Robert's name were these things following published Several sermons as 1 A broken spirit Godâ—â— sacrifice Fast sermon before the House of Lords 9. Dec. 1646. on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1647. qu. Preached for the removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the Kingdom 2 Checquer of Gods providences made up of black and white fun Serm. on Psal 68.13 Lond. 1657. qu. and others which I have not yet seen Believers evidences for eternal life collected out of the first epistle of S. John which is Catholick c. Lond. 1649. 55. oct Clavis Bibliorum The Key of the Bible unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures Whereby 1. The Order 2. Names 3. Times 4. Penmen 5. Occasion 6. Scope and 7. Principal parts containing the subject matter of the books of the Old and New Test are familiarly and briefly opened c. Edinburg and Lond. 1649. oct with the authors picture before it aged 40. Afterwards it was printed in qu. and fol. and the fourth Edit was published 1675. The communicant instructed or practical directions for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Lond. 1651. oct with the authors picture before it This was afterwards reprinted at least three times Mysterium Medulla Bibliorum The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible viz. Gods Covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall and in the last Adam Jesus Christ after the fall from the beginning to the end of the world unfolded and illustrated in positive aphorismes and their explanations c. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. The true way to the tree of Life or the natural man directed unto Christ Lond. 1673. oct What other things he hath written unless A Synopsis of Theology or Div. which is mentioned by the author of the Cat. of books in the Libr. at Sion Coll. Lond. I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Wrington before mention'd in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five was as I presume buried in the Church there On the 28. of Jan. the same year his immediate successor Mr. Joh. Powell was instituted to the rectory of Wrington then void by the late death of Dr. Fr. Roberts THOMAS TULLY son of George Tully was born in S. Maries parish in the City of Carlile in Cumberland 22. Jul. 1620 educated partly in the Free-school there under Mr. John Winter and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmorland entred in Queens Coll. in Mich. term an 1634 where by the benefit of a good Tutor Ger. Langbaine and a severe discipline he became a noted Disputant and at length through several advances Fellow of the said College In 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts and soon after Oxford being garrison'd he became Master of the Grammar School at Tetbury in Glocestershire After the surrender of the Garrison he returned to his College and became a noted Tutor and Preacher and in 1657 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity Soon after he was made Principal of S. Edm. Hall so that whereas from the surrender of the said Garrison and before there were very few or no Students in that House only some of Queens Coll. that lodged there he by his diligence and severe government made it flourish equal with if not beyond any Hall in Oxon. After his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he obtained a Doctorship of Divinity by creation a Chaplainship to his Majesty by a friend the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malmsbury in Wilts by a quondam Pupil and at length in the month of Apr. 1675 the Deanery of Rippon in Yorksh from his Maj. by the death of Dr. John Neile who had that Deanery confer'd upon him in the month of May an 1674. by the death of the preceeding Incumbent This Dr. Tully was a pious man and many ways very learned chiefly read in the more antient Writers yet not so wholly addicted to the perusal of them but that at some time he took delight to converse with later authors Those that knew him and his constitution accounted it his great misfortune that he did betake himself to write controversie when as throughout the whole managery of it he laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities which first by lingring decays did sensibly impair and at last wholly shatter his weaker frame and constitution He was a Person of severe morals puritanically inclin'd and a strict Calvinist which as may be reasonably presum'd was some stop to him in his way to preferment the want of which he did in some degree resent seeing so many of his juniors in the University and all the Kings Chaplains twice told over during the time he served him not more deserving than himself advanced before him He hath written Logica Apodictica sive tractatus brevis dilucidus de Demonstratione cum dissertatiunculâ Gassendi eodem pertinente Oxon. 1662 in 2 sh in oct Which tract is commonly bound up at the end of Manuductio ad Logicam written by Philip de Trieu sometimes chief professor of Philosophy in the Jesuits Coll. at Doway
his employments and grew thereupon discontented In 1662 or thereabouts he had an impulse or a strange perswasion in his mind of which he was not able to give any rational account to another which did very frequently suggest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift of curing the Kings Evil which for the extraordinariness of he thought fit to conceal it for some time but at length he communicated it to his wife and told her that he did verily believe that God had given him the blessing of curing the said Evil for whether he were in private or publick sleeping or waking still he had the same impulse but her reply was to him that she conceived this was a strange imagination yet to prove the contrary a few days after there was one Will. Maker of Salterbridge in the Parish of Lismore that brought his son Will. Maker to his house desiring his wife to cure him who was a person ready to afford her charity to her neighbours according to her small skill in Chirurgery On which his wife told him there was one that had the Kings Evil very grievously in the eyes cheek and throat whereupon he told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy or imagination as she thought it or the dictates of Gods Spirit on his heart and thereupon he laid his hands on the places affected and prayed to God for Jesus sake to heal him and then he bid the Parent two or three days after to bring the child to him again which he accordingly did and then he saw the eye was almost quite whole and the node which was almost as big as a Pullets egg was suppurated and the throat strangely amended and in a month discharged it self quite and was perfectly healed Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane of Ballinecly in the Parish of Lismore who had had the Evil seven years and upwards far worse than the former whom he cured to the wonder of all and soon after his fame increasing he cured the same disease in very many other people for three years following not medling with any other distempers till about the end of those three years he cured some that were troubled with Agues all done by stroaking with his hands Afterwards he had the like Impulse on him discovering that he had given him the gift of Healing which the morning following he told to his wife and brother but neither of them could be prevailed with to believe it tho for his own part he had a full assurance thereof within him This Impulse he had on the Sunday after Easter-day 2 Apr. 1665 early in the morning and on Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans house at Lismore where there came into the house to him a poor man that with a pain in his loins and flank went almost double and had a most grievous ulcerous leg very black wherein were five ulcers who desired him for Gods sake that he would lay his hands on him and do him what good he could Whereupon he put his hands on his loins and flank and immediately run the pains out of him so that he was released and could stand upright without the least trouble Then he put his hand on his ulcerous leg which forthwith changed colour and became red and three of the five ulcers closed up and the rest within few hours afterwards so that he went out well that could hardly by the help of his staff craul in and in two days after he fell to his labour being a Mason by trade After this he cured many diseases of all sorts by stroaking and his name was wonderfully cried up But the Clergy being jealous of these matters he was cited to the Bishops court and by their authority was prohibited to proceed any farther in his course In Jan. 1665 he went into England and by the invitation of Edward Lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in Warwickshire to cure by stroaking his Lady who for many years had laboured under a most violent Head-ach but with all his endeavours he could not cure her yet continuing there three weeks he cured innumerable people in those parts which caused therefore our Author Hen. Stubbe who then practised Physick at Stratford on Avon in that County and was dayly at â—agley with the Lord and an eye-witness of the cures to write the said book called The miraculous Conformist c. Afterwards Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by command from his Majesty and performing several cures there and in London but more mistakes as 't is said caused Dav. Lloyd a Reader or Chaplain of the Charter house thereupon to write Wonders no miracles or Mr. Val. Greatrakes gift of healing examined c. Lond. 1666. qu. Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking March 7. an 1665 at one Mr. J. Cressets house in Charter house yard In which book the Author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his reputation making him but little better than a Cheat that person therefore came out with his vindication intit A brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of his strange cures by him lately performed Lond. 1666. qu. Written by himself in a letter to the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq and thereunto did annex the Testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related From this digression let 's now proceed to go on with our Author Stubbe who had a marvellous dexterity in writing books on all occasions Philosophical observations made in his sailing from England to the Caribe-Islands and in Jamaica c. Remitted into the Philosoph Transact num 27 an 1667 and num 36. an 1668. Legends no Histories or a specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Which History was written by Mr. Tho. Sprat Animadversions upon The History of making Saltpeter pen'd by Mr. Tho. Henshaw Printed and bound with Legends no Histories c. Animad upon The Hist of making of Gunpowder written also by the said Mr. Henshaw Pr. and bound with Legends c. also and to it is added An additional review written by Hen. Stubbe The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus Or a specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Jos Glanvill c. with divers enquiries made about several matters Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Written under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a passage in the Plus ultra which seemed to assert that the antient Physitians could not cure a cut-finger which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed or thought Censure on certain passages contained in The History of the Royal Society c. Oxon. 1670 in about seven sh in qu. Dedicated to Dr. Joh. Fell and soon after answered by two Anonymi in the same year pr. in qu. The former of which was written by way of letter to Mr Stubbe Campanella revived or an enquiry into The Hist of the Roy.
c. and somewhat of Dr. Is Barrow on the same subject Several tracts as 1 A discourse of religion on three heads first the ends and uses of it secondly the life of religion and superadditions to it and thirdly the superstructions upon it and animosities about it 2 A treatise touching provision for the poor before mentioned 3 A letter to his Children advising them how to behave themselves in their speech 4 A letter to one of his Sons after his recovery from the small-pox Lond. 1684. in oct Discourse of the knowledge of God and of our selves first by the light of nature secondly by the sacred Scriptures Lond. 1688. oct Brief abstract of the Christian religion Considerations seasonable at all times for the cleansing of the heart and life These two last were printed with Discourse of the knowledge of God c. He hath also translated into English The life of Pomponius Atticus written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornel. Nepos c. Lond. 1677. oct To which are added by our author Hale Observations political and moral thereupon He also wrot the preface to and published the Abridgment of many cases and resolutions c. made by Judge Henry Rolle as I shall tell you when I come to him and under his Hale's name ought to be put The perjur'd Fanatick or the malicious conspiracy of Sir John Croke of Chilton Henry Larimore and other Fanaticks against the life of Rob. Hawkins Clerk and late Minister of Chilton occasion'd by his suit for tithes Discovered in a trial at Ailesbury before Sir Matth. Hale Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Lond. 1685. in 10. sh in fol. Which Rob. Hawkins was afterwards Vicar but a poor one if not scandalous of Beckley in Oxfordshire These I think are all that are published under the name of Judge Hale The rest that he hath written and not yet extant are many among which are 1 Concerning the Secondary origination of mankind folio 2 Concerning religion fol. in 5. vol. 3 Of Policy in matters of religion fol. 4 De anima fol. written to Mr. Rich. Baxter 5 De anima fol. Transactions between him and the said Mr. Baxter c. and many others as you may see elsewhere And left behind him as a Legacy to Linc. inn Library several volumes of collections made by him mostly from records in the Tower and divers matters relating to Glocestershire all which may be of great use to Lawyers and Antiquaries At length after this most learned and religious person had lived to the age of 67 he gave way to fate on Christmas day 25. Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and six whereupon his body was buried on the 4. of Jan. following in the yard belonging to the Church of Alderley among the graves of his Mothers Ancestors At which time Evan Griffith the pious Minister of that place preached his funeral sermon on Isay 57.1 which was afterwards as I have been informed made extant by him the said Griffith sometimes of Oriel Coll. in Oxon as it seems who dying in the beginning of June 1681 after he had been one of the Wednesdays Lecturers at Wotton Under-edge in Com. Gloc. several years was buried at Alderley before mention'd To conclude all that I shall farther say of this worthy person Sir Matth. Hale whom we have now brought to his grave shall be the very same words which conclude his life written by a Native of Edenburgh called Gilbert Burnet D. D. sometimes Professor of Div. in the Univ. of Glascow but then 1682 Preacher at the Rolls in Chancery-lane running thus He was one of the greatest patterns that this age hath afforded whether in his private deportment as a Christian or in his publick employments either at the bar or on the bench Which character being without doubt true as most things of him in the said life are yet I must take leave to tell the reader that most knowing and observing men had a better esteem of Judg Hale before the said life was published than after as also in some respects before the publication of Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matth. Hale The author of which Mr. R. Baxter the learned and most eminent Nonconformist takes often occasion to reflect in them on the Church of Englands and its Orthodox Sons THOMAS FORD was born of a Plebeian Family in Devons entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in Easter term an 1619 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts entred into Orders and became a very faithful Tutor in his House for several years But being puritanically educated as all in his time of the said House were and not able to endure certain passages acted in the University preached a very factious sermon at S. Maries on 2. Thes 2.10 for which he was banished thence an 1631 as I have at large elsewhere told you So that retiring into his own Country to get preferment he was kept back from it by the endeavours of Archb. Laud till such time that he should make his peace and recantation for what he had done At length the small cure of Oundle in Northamptonshire being bestowed upon him he continued there as I conceive till the grand rebellion began At which time finding no opposition he retired to the City of Exeter and became much resorted to for a time by those of the Presbyterian perswasion But leaving that place when garrison'd for his Majesty he retired to London or near it became one of the Ass of Divines in the room of Mr. Bolls deceased an 1644 and frequently preached up the cause there Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings interest he went to Exeter again was made Minister of S. Laurence Church there became the prime leader of the faction took the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant and was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties restauration he continued in his cure till silenced for Nonconformity an 1662 so that preaching in private among the brethren he obtained a livelyhood from them to the time of his death A certain Doct. of Divinity of his time and perswasion that knew him well hath several times told me that this our author was a man of very great parts and of unbyassed principles one and the same in all times and changes He hath written A treatise tending to prove the lawfulness of singing Psalmes Lond. 1657 in oct or tw 'T is grounded on Ephes 5.19 One John Foord hath written Expositio libri Psalmorum Lond. 1646. qu. Published by Thom. Paget but whether he was ever of Oxford I cannot tell The Sinner condemned of himself Being a plea for God against all the ungodly proving them alone guilty of their own destruction c. Lond. 1668 in oct containing 256. pages He preached once before the Lords of the Long Parliament at a Fast held 29.
lived in died full of years on the 28. of January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven At which time he left a considerable legacy of books to the Church of S. Giles before mention'd in the chancel whereof he was buried on the 31. of the said month He had two Sons that were Ministers one named John who was Vicar of the said Church and the other Samuel who lived and died Rector of Eastling in Kent CHRISTOPHER FOWLER son of Joh. Fowl of Marlborough in Wilts was born there became a Servitour of Magd. Coll. in 1627 aged 16 or thereabouts where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts he retired to S. Edm. Hall took the degree of Master of that faculty as a member thereof entred into holy Orders and preached for some time in and near Oxon and afterwards at West Woodhey near Dunnington Castle in Berks. At length upon the turn of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been puritanically affected took the Covenant and became a very conceited and fantastical preacher among them For by his very many odd gestures and antick behaviour unbeseeming the serious gravity to be used in the pulpit he drew constantly to his congregation a numerous crowd of silly Women and young People who seemed to be hugely taken and enamour'd with his obstreporousness and undecent cants He was then as I conceive Minister of S. Margarets Church in Lothbury London to which City he retired for safety under pretence of being disturbed by the Malignants as he called them at Dunnington and soon after being a zealous Brother for the cause he became Vicar of S. Maries Church in Reading an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks for the ejection of such that were then called by the Godly party scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and at length Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore notwithstanding he had refused the Engagement After his Majesties restauration he lost his Fellowship of Eaton and being deprived of his cure at Reading for nonconformity retired to London and afterwards to Kennington near Newington S Mary in Surrey and carried on the trade of conventicling to his last His works are these Daemonium meridianum Satan at noon or antichristian blasphemies anti-scriptural divilismes c. evidenced in the light of truth and punished by the hand of justice Being a sincere relation of the proceedings of the Commissioners of the County of Berks against John Pordage late Rector of Bradfield in Berks. Lond. 1655. qu. Notes and animadversions upon a book of Jo. Pordage entit Innocency appearing c. Printed at the end of Daem merid This John Pordage who was the Son of Sam. Pordage Citizen and Grocer of the Parish of S. Dionise Backchurch in London who died in the latter end of the year 1626 was called Doctor by a charientismus and had been preacher at S. Laurence Church in London before he came to Bradfield From which last being ejected by the said Commissioners as having been conversant with evil spirits as they said and for blasphemy ignorance scandalous behaviour divilisme uncleanness and I know not what he therefore wrot the said book of Innocency appearing c. in his own vindication But that book availing nothing he continued notwithstanding ejected and as the Commissioners said he took part with the great blasphemer Abiezer Coppe and appeared in his behalf before when he was accrimated by them of various foul matters Daemon merid the second part discovering the slanders and calumnies cast upon some corporations with forged and false articles upon the author in a Pamphlet entit The case of Reading rightly stated c. by the Adherents and Abettors of the said Joh. Pordage Lond. 1656. qu. A word to Infant-baptisme and a glaunce to Mr. Pendarves his Arrows against Babylon c. Answer to the Mayor Aldermen and Assistants of Reading in Berks. to a scandalous pamphlet entit The case of the Town of Reading stated These two last are printed with the second part of Daemon Merid. Sober answer to an angry Epistle directed to all publick teachers in this nation and prefix'd to a book called by Antiphrasis Christs innocency pleaded against the cry of the chief priests written in hast by Tho. Speed Quaker and Merchant of Bristow c. Lond. 1656. qu. Sim. Ford a Minister in Reading assisted our author Fowler in the composition of the said book which was soon after animadverted upon by that noted Quaker called George Fox in his book entit The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded c. Several Sermons as 1 How Christians may get such a faith as may be not only saving at last but comfortable and joyful at present on 2. Pet. 1.8 This is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Scriptures to be read by the common people on 1. Thes 5.27 in The morning exercise against popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Sermon on S. John 19.42 Printed 1666. qu. This or any others besides that he hath published I have not yet seen At length this our author Ch. Fowler who was esteemed a little better than crazed or distracted for some time before his death departed this mortal life in Southwark in the latter end of January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried within the precincts of S. John Baptists Church near Dowgate in the Ch. yard I think in London As for John Pordage before mention'd commonly called Dr. Pordage whom I have heard Mr. Ashmole commend for his knowledge in or at least his great affection to Astronomy was restored to Bradfield after his Majesties return lived there several years leaving behind him a Son named Samuel of Linc. inn author of Herod and Mariamne Trag. and of The Siege of Babylon Trag. Com also of Eliana a Romance and of a Translation of Troades Which Samuel was Steward to Philipp the second Earl of Pembroke and not to Old Philipp or Philipp the first as I have told you among the Writers in the first Volume pag. 336. NATHANIEL STEPHENS son of Rich. Steph. Minister of Staunton Barnwood in Wilts was born in that County became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1622 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became a puritannical Preacher in his own Country At length upon the change of the times he closed with the Presbyterians took the Covenant preached frequently against the Kings Followers and Prelacy and was not wanting on all turns to carry on the blessed cause At length having the Rectory of Fenny Drayton or Draiston in the Clay in Leycestershire confer'd on him wrot and published A precept for the baptisme of Infants out of the New Test c. partly against the Cavills of Mr. Everard in his late treatise intit Baby-baptisme routed c. Lond. 1651. qu. Animadverted upon by Joh. Tombes in his first part of Antipedobaptisme Plain and easie calculation of the name
Daughter named Bethiah and a Brother called Nehemiah Holmes of Machin in Hertfordshire Clerk GILES COLLIER son of Giles Collier of Pershore in Worcestershire was born there or at least in that County became either a Batler or Servitour of New inn in Lent term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts and departed for a time closing then with the Presbyterians In 1648 when the Parliamentarian Visitors were in Oxon he proceeded in Arts took the Covenant and afterwards became Vicar of Blockley near Evesham and Shipson in Worcestershire and a busie man when he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such whom the Godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654 and after At his Majesties restauration he continued in Blockley and when the Act of uniformity was published he conformed not without the regret of some Loyallists in the neighbourhood whom he had much displeased in the interval He hath written Vindiciae thesium de sabbato or a vindication of certain passages in a sermon of the morality of the Sabbath from the exceptions of which they are subjected by Edw. Fisher Esq in his book called A Christian Caveat c. Lond. 1653. 56. qu. Appendix wherein is briefly examined this bold assertion of Edw. Fisher viz. There is an equal authority and equal antiquity for the observation of the 25 of Dec. as for the Lords day Answer to 15 questions lately published by Edw. Fisher Esq and the suggestions therein delivered against suspending ignorant and scandalous persons from the Lords Supper These two last things were printed with the Vindiciae thesium Fun. Sermon on Isaiah 57.1 Printed 1661. qu. He died at Blockley in the latter end of July in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 30. day of the same month in the Church there In the said Vicaridge succeeded Sam. Scattergood of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge as I shall elsewhere tell you BENJAMIN PARRY younger Brother to Joh. Parry before mention'd was born as I conceive in Dublin admitted in Arts in Trin. Coll. there on the 5. of Decemb. 1648 came with his Brother to Jesus Coll. in this University took the degrees in Arts and after his Majesties restauration he was by the favour of his Commissioners appointed to visit this University made Greek Reader and so consequently Fellow of C. C. Coll. In 1663 Feb. 26 he was installed Preb. of Knaresbergh in the Church of York he being then Bach. of Div. upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Mossom which Dignity he resigning upon his going into his own Country was succeeded therein by Dr. Will. Asshton in Feb. 1673. On the first of May 1674 he was made Dean of Kilkenny and thence was translated to the Deanery of S. Patrick at Dublin on the 24 of March following On the 27. of Jan. 1677 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in the place of his Brother deceased which he kept to his dying day that shortly after followed He hath written Chymia Caelestis Drops from heaven or pious meditations on several places of Scripture Lond. 1659 73 in tw And also made fit for the press and published Holy rules and helps to devotion c. Lond. 1674. in tw Written by Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winton This Dr. Parry who I suppose hath published no other things died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight having a little before been married but not to his content and was buried near to the graves of his Brother and Father in S. Audoens Church in Dublin In the See of Ossory succeeded Dr. Mich. Ward Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin and soon after he was translated to London-Derry PETER LEYCESTER son of Pet. Leycest Esq was born at Nether Tabley in Cheshire 3. March 1613 became a Gent. Com. of Brasn Coll. 13. Oct. 1629 but leaving that house without a degree he went I presume to the Inns of Court Afterwards he retired to his patrimony where besides the pleasures of a Country life he exercised himself much in the study of History and Antiquities After the restauration of his Majesty an 1660 for whose cause he before had suffer'd he was created a Baronet and probably had he sought he might have had beneficial places confer'd on him but such was the love he had to his native Country that postponing all matters of profit he studied and laboured to revive its antiquities that had almost been buried in oblivion which he afterwards published with this title Historical antiquities in two books The first treating in general of Great Britaine and Ireland the other containing particular remarks of Cheshire and chiefly of Bucklow hundred Lond. 1673 fol. But therein having made Amicia Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester a Bastard was as to that matter answer'd in a book intit A defence of Amicia c. by Sir Tho. Manwaring of Peover in Cheshire Bt who with this our author Pet. Leyc were descended from her Whereupon Sir Peter came out with An answer to Sir Tho. Manwarings book entit A defence of Amicia c. Lond. 1673. oct Addenda or some things to be added to the former answer to Sir Thomas Manwarings book to be placed immediatly after pag. 90. Lond. 1673. oct He also wrot A reply to Sir Tho. Manwarings answer to Sir Pet. Leycesters Addenda Lond. 1674. oct and Sir Tho. Manwarings Law cases mistaken and the antient Law misunderstood and the new law misapplied c. Lond. 1674. oct There was a waggish and merry Ballad that went from hand to hand in Ms concerning these petite controversies between the two Baronets and great sport there was made among idle and vain Gentlemen concerning the punctilio's and minute things they insisted on but at length at an Assize held at Chester 1675 their controversies were decided by the Justices Itinerant who as I have heard adjudged the right of the matter to Manwaring As for our author Sir Peter he dyed at Nether-Tabley on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried by his Ancestors in our Ladies Chappel on the north side of the Church at Great Budworth in Cheshire Over his grave was soon after set up a comly monument for him and his Lady who died 26. of Jan. following aged 59 years the inscription whereof being large I shall now for brevity sake omit THOMAS VINCENT second son of John Vincent sometimes a Gent of Lincolns Inn and afterwards a Minister was born in the antient Borough of Hertford in the month of May 1634 educated partly in Grammar learning in Westminster school and partly in that at Felsted in Essex and in 1648 became a Student of Ch. Ch. by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors then and there sitting In 1654 he proceeded in Arts at which time the Governour of his house had so great opinion of him that he chose him Catechist which usually belongs
and artificial Sines Tangents and Secants and table of Logarithms and the use of the said Canon in the resolution of all Triangles plain or spherical c. in two books Lond. 1658. fol. one composed by our author Newton the other translated from the lat copy of Hen. Gellibrand Chiliades centum logarithmorum Printed with the former Geometrical Trigonometrie c. Lond 1659. Mathematical Elements in three parts Lond. 166â— 63. qu. A perpetual Diary or Almanack Engraven on copper and printed on one side of a sheet of paper 1662. Description of the use of the Carpenters Rule Lond. 1667. Ephemerides or Diary shewing the interest and rebate of money at six per cent c. Lond. 1667. Chiliades decem logarithâ—oâ—um Lond. 1667. Tabula partium proportionalium Lond. 1667. The scale of interest or the use of decimal fractions c. part 2. Lond. 1668. oct School pastime for young Children or an easie and delightful method for the teaching of Children to read English directly Lond. 1669. oct Art of practical gauging of casks and Brewers tuns c. Lond. 1669. Introduction to the Art of Logick Lond. 1670. 78. in tw Introd to the Art of Rhetorick Lond. 1671. in tw which as to its form and method is the same with that of Ch. Butler and for invention and disposition with that of the first part of Mich. Radau's Orator extemporaneus But these two Introductions I presume are or at least most part of them involved in The English Academy that follows The Art of natural Arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions vulgar and decimal c. Lond. 1672. oct The English Academy or a brief Introduction to the seven liberal Arts Grammar Arithmetick Geometry Musick c Lond. 1677. oct Most of which Arts having before been published singly by themselves are in this book epitomized and chiefly intended for the instruction of young Scholars who are acquainted with no other than their native language Cosmographie or a view of the terrestial and celestial Globes in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid Geometrie c. Lond. 1679 oct Introduction to Astronomie in two parts Introd to Geography These two are printed with the Cosmography This learned but capricious and humerous person Dr. Newton died at Rosse before mentioned on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under the south wall as I have been informed by a Gentleman of the neighbourhood in those parts He had an elder brother named Humph. Newton Bach. of the Civ Law and sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. who dying on the 6 of Sept. 1659 was buried in the Chappel of that College Besides the said Joh. Newton I find another M. of Arts sometimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambr. and afterwards Vicar of S. Martins Ch. in Leycester author of a Sermon intit The penitent recognition of Josephs Brethren c. Lond. 1684. quart ANTHONY PALMER son of Anth. Palm was born at Great Comberton in Worcestershire became a Student in Balliol Coll. an 1634 aged 16 years admitted Fellow thereof after he had taken one degree 29 Nov. 1640 and in the year after being then Master of Arts he entred into holy Orders But all things at that time being in a very sad confusion in the Nation he sided with the Presbyterians then dominant took the Covenant had some employment among them and was all things to all men such was the mutability and vanity of the person At length the rich Rectory of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire being made void he got into it resign'd his Fellowship in Octob. 1649 took the Engagement and was afterwards an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejecting of such whom the Brethren called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is loyal and orthodox Clergymen being about that time 1654 Anabaptistically inclin'd and a great favourer of those of that perswasion and their Tenets About the time of his Majesties Restauration he was by the force of some of the Royallists of his Town driven from his charge as having been a most pernitious person as to his doctrine and a great enemy to the Loyal party whereupon he withdrew and put in a Curate but he being disturb'd they got one to read the Common-Prayer In the year following there was published in that Villanous imposture called Annus Mirabilis or the year of prodigies and wonders c. Printed 1661. a story concerning this matter and an account of a strange judgment that befel two of his Disturbers viz. one who was soon after suddenly striken with death and another who was smitten in a very strange manner c. After our author Palmer had been forced to leave that comfortable harbour he retired to London where we find him to have had a hand in or at least consenting to that stupendious Tragedy which was intended to be acted by the Satanical Saints in Nov 1662 for which George Phillipps Tho Tonge Franc. Stubbs c. suffered 22. Dec. the same year Afterwards he carried on the trade of conventicling to his last and thereby obtained a comfortable subsistance from the brethren His works are these A Scripture raile to the Lords table against Mr. Jo. Humphrey's treatise of Free admission to the Sacrament Lond. 1654. oct or tw Memorials of Godliness and Christianity with the way of making religion ones business c. Lond in tw The Christians Freedome by Christ or Gods deed of Gift to the Saints Lond. in tw The Gospel new Creature wherein the work of the Spirit is opened in awakening the soul to the gaining pardon of sin and an interest in Jesus Christ is plainly opened c. Lond 1658 1674. oct The Tempestious soul Calmed by Jesus Christ These two last are grounded upon certain texts of Scripture He hath written other things which I have not seen and therefore I shall only tell you that he taking his last farewel of this world on the 26. of January in sixteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the phanatical burial place joyning to Old Bedlam near to Morefields by London where some years since I saw an altar monument of stone over his grave Several of the Sirname of Palmer have been writers and one Thom. Palmer who was Minister of S. Laurence Pountney in London did zealously assert the former rebellion as well with his Sword as Pen. Upon his Maj restauration being ejected he retired into Derbyshire where we find him at Aston carrying on the cause by preaching but being thence ejected he became an Itinerant preacher and a gatherer of Churches here and there and in the month of July or thereabouts an 1663 he was secured in Nottingham for preaching in Conventicles But soon after getting loose we find him engaged in that fanatical hellish plot in the north parts of England which was discovered in the beginning of Oct.
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in â—â— a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street Coventâ—Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of Eastâ—Lavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hyghâ—Wycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on thâ— ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years choâ—e probationerâ—fellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
home to the house of his Patron the Earl of Devon he published two books one De Corpore and another De Homine The first was oppugned by two Theologists who were afterwards ashamed as 't is said of what they had done the other rested untouched Soon after he published others the titles of which I shall give you anon and only now say that tho he hath an ill name from some and good from others yet he was a person endowed with an excellent Philosophical soul was a contemner of riches mony envy the world c. He was charitable and beneficial to his Relations and others He was a severe lover of Justice and endowed with great Morals Among those that he lived with and was conversant he was cheerful open and free of his discourse yet without offence to any which he endeavoured always to avoid Many writers do speak honorably of him in their respective works and Dr. Sam. Sorbiere his great acquaintance doth mention him with venerable respect in the Relation of his voyage into England and tells us also that his picture which was drawn by the hand of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of the age he lived in hangs in his Majesties Closet at Whitehall His Picture also hath been in great esteem in France insomuch that the Vertuosi thereof have come as 't were in Pilgrimage to the house of Sorbiere to see it Outlandish Gentlemen also when they came to London during the life time of the author did make it one of their employes to visit him and Cosmo Prince since the Great Duke of Tuscany went to him more than once in the month of May 1669 and discoursed and was pleasant with him He also expressed so great veneration for him that he and some of his Genltemen carried with them all his published works His Majesty also K. Ch. 2. delighted in his company when he learned Mathematicks of him and express'd his esteem so much of him after his restauration that he allowed him a pension of an 100 l. per an out of his Exchecquer He was most excellently well skill'd in the Lat. and Gr. tongues was a great Critick and Poet and above all a Philosopher and Mathematician yet in his last dayes after he had been exasperated by certain Academians especially of Oxon he express'd himself in his writings an enemy to the Universities Scholastical Divinity Metaphysicks Aristotle Duns Scotus c. To conclude A man he was of excellent parts as a noted author tells us of great wit some reading and somewhat more thinking One who had spent many years in foreign parts and observation understood the learned as well as the modern languages had long the reputation of a great Philosopher and Mathematician and in his age had conversation with very many worthy and extraordinary men to which it may be if he had been more indulgent in the more vigorous part of his life it might have had an influence upon the temper of his mind whereas age seldom submits to those questions enquiries and contradictions which the laws and liberties of conversation require And it hath been always a lamentation amongst Mr. Hobbes his friends that he spent too much time in thinking and too little in exercising those thoughts in the company of other men of the same or of as good faculties for want whereof his natural constitution with age contracted such a morosity that doubting and contradicting men were never grateful to him In a word besides his eminent parts of learning and knowledg he was always looked upon as a man of probity and a life free from scandal c. The books and other things that he hath written are these De Mirabilibus Pecci This is a lat poem and was printed at Lond about 1636 and the second time there in 1666 in qu. Translated into English by a person of quality and printed with the Latin at Lond. 1678. oct It treates of the wonders of the Devills arse in peak near Chatsworth in Derbyshire Such a book also entit The wonders of the peake was written by Charles Cotton Esq Lond. 1681. qu. a poem Elementa Philosophica de Cive Par. 1642. c. Answer to Sir Will. D'avenants Epist or pref to Gondibert Par. 1650. in tw afterwards printed with Gondibert in qu. Humane nature or the fundamentall Elements of policie being a discoverie of the faculties acts and passions of the soul of man Lond. 1650 in tw c. De Corpore Politico or of the Elements of the Law Lond. 1650 in tw c. Leviathan or the matter forme and power of a Commonwealth Lond. 1651 fol. Reprinted there again with its old date an 1680 fol. Turned into lat by another hand and printed at Amsterd 1668. qu. c. Review of the Leviathan Print only with the English editions and in the place of that in those of the Lat. is an Appendix consisting barely of three chapters As for the Review and the writing thereof an eminent author will give you a better account than I can therefore I pray go to him It is said by one who was no friend to K. Ch. 2. or Monarchy that the author Mr. Hobbes being at Paris when his book was published he sent one of them as a present to the King of Scots which he accepted in regard he had been his Tutor in the Mathematicks but being afterwards informed by some of his Priests that that book did not only contain many Principles of Atheism and gross impiety for so they call every thing that squares not with the Clergy interest but also such that were prejudicial to the Church and reflected dangerously upon the Majesty of Soveraign Princes therefore when Mr. Hobbes came to make a tender of his service to him in person he was rejected and word brought him by the Marquess of Ormonde that the King would not admit him and withal told him the reason By which means Mr. Hobbes declines in credit with his friends there of the Royal Stamp c. Many have been the authors that have written against this Leviathan as may be seen in Auctarium Vitae Hobbianae and partly in the body of this work But more by far have been the censures of it and those severe too as having no true Divinity or true Philosophy or true policy in it The author several times saith that the law of nature is the law of God and yet all wickedness is lawful by the law of nature That no Homicide or Selfcide or Fratricide or Patricide is against the law of nature If so 't is a wise law that forbids nothing Also that there must be a law of God winking at most unnatural impieties That which forbids nothing is no law As for policy he lays the foundation of the government in the populace which overthrows all government and that might is right But if he had consulted the Scripture the word of God would have shewed that the foundation of government was not laid in
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
the holy Feast of Easter c. Written 1665. Apotelesma or the nativity of the World and revolution thereof Short discourse of yeares months and dayes of yeares Somthing touching the nature of Ecclipses and also of their effects Of the Crises in diseases c. Of the mutations inclinations and eversions of Empires Kingdomes c. Discourse of the names Genus Species c. of all Comets Tract teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus c. Secret multiplication of the effects of the Starrs from Cardan Sundry rules shewing by what Laws the weather is governed and how to discover the various alterations of the same He also translated from Latin into English The art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the hand of man c. Written by John Rothman M. D. Lond. 1652. oct This is sometimes called Whartons Chiromancy Most of which foregoing treatises were collected together and publishd an 1683 in oct by John Gadbury born at Wheatley near to and in the County of Oxon 31. Dec. 1627 Son of Will. Gadb of that place farmer by his stoln Wife the Daughter of Sir John Curson of Water-perry Knight bound an Apprentice to Tho. Nicholls a Taylor living in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie in Oxon left him after the great fire hapned in that City 1644 and having a natural genius to the making of Almanacks improved it at London under Will. Lilly then called the English Merlin and afterwards set up the trade of Almanack-making and Fortune-telling for himself in which he became eminent Our author Wharton hath also written Select and choice poems Composed during the Civil War which I have before mention'd At length dying in his house at Enfield in Middlesex on the tenth day of Aug. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried on the 25 day of the same month in the Chappel of S. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London leaving then behind him the character of a most loyal and generous Chevalier JOHN TROUGHTON son of Nathan Trought a Clothier was born in the City of Coventry educated in the Free-School there under Sam. Frankland became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1655 afterwards Fellow and Bach. of Arts but upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 being ejected to make room for one who had been expel'd by the Visitors in 1648 he retired to a mercate town in Oxfordshire commonly called Bister where living a moderate Nonconformist read Academical learning to young men and somtimes preached in private whereby he got a comfortable subsistence Upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for the toleration of religion dat 15. Mar. 1671 this Mr. Troughton was one of those four Dr. Hen. Langley and Tho. Gilbert and Hen. Cornish Bachelaurs of Div. being the other three who were appointed by the principal heads of the Brethren to carry on the work of preaching within the City of Oxon. The place where they held their meetings was in Thamestreet without the north gate in an house which had been built a little before the Civil War began by Tom. Pun alias Tho. Aires where each person endeavouring to shew his parts this our author Troughton was by the auditory of Scholars who came among them meerly out of novelty held â—he best and was by them most applauded The truth is tho the man had been blind occasion'd by the small pox ever since he was four years old yet he was a good School Divine and Metaphysitian and was much commended while he was in the University for his disputations He was not of so busie turbulent and furious a spirit as those of his persuasion commonly are but very moderate And altho he often preached as occasions offer'd themselves in prohibited Assemblies yet he did not make it his business by employing all the little tricks and artifices too frequently practiced by other hot-headed zealots of his fraternity viz. by vilifying and railing at the established ordinances of the Church libelling the conformable ministry by keeping their meetings at the very time when the services and administrations of the Church are regularly performing c. He did not I say by these and such like most unwarrantable contrivances endeavour to withdraw weaker persons from the sacred bosome of the Church in order to fix and herd them in associated defying Conventicles He was respected by and maintain'd an amicable correspondence with some of the conformable Clergy because of his great knowledg and moderation He hath written and published Lutherus redivivus or the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith only vindicated And the plausible opinion of justification by faith and obedience proved to be Arminian Popish and to lead unavoidably to Socinianisme part 1. Lond. 1677. oct This is reflected on by Tho. Hotchkis in his preface to the second part of A discourse concerning imputed righteousness c. Lond. 1678. oct Luther Rediv. or the Protest doctr of justif by Christs righteousness imputed to believers explained and vindicated part 2. Lond. 1678. oct Letter to a Friend touching Gods providence about sinful actions in answer to a Letter intit The reconcilableness of Gods prescience c. and to a postcript of that Letter Lod. 1678. oct Popery the grand Apostasie Being the substance of certain Sermons preached on 2. Thess 2. from ver 1. to 12 on occasion of the desperate plot of the Papists against the K Kingdome and Protestant religion To which is added a Sermon on Rev. 18.4 preached 5. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1680. oct An Apologie for the Nonconformists shewing their reasons both for their not conforming and for their preaching publickly tho forbidden by Law Lond. 1681. quart An Answer to Dr. Stillingfleets sermon and his defence of it so much as concerneth the Nonconformists preaching Printed with the Apologie This learned and religious person Mr. Jo. Troughton died in an house of one of the Brethren situat and being in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon. on the 20 of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 44 years whereupon his body was carried to Bister before mentioned alias Burchester and buried in the Church there At which time Abrah James a blind man Master of the Free-school at Woodstock sometimes of Magd. Hall preaching his funeral sermon did take occasion not only to be lavish in the commendations of the Defunct but to make several glances on the government established by law So that an Auditor there named Sam. Blackwell M. A. and Vicar of Bister a zealous man for the Church of England complaining to the Diocesan of him James was glad to retract what he had said before him to prevent an ejection from his School which otherwise would inevitably have come to pass Now I am got fnto the name of Troughton I cannot without the guilt of concealment but let the Reader know this story of one of that name which is this While his Majesty K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was a
Prisoner at Carisbrook in the Isle of Wight an 1648 he was his own Chaplain as not thinking it fit to accept of any of the Presbyterian Ministers upon that account albeit as occasion offered he thanked and was civil to them when they applied themselves to him for that purpose Among others one Troughton who was Chaplain to Col. Rob. Hammond Governour of the Isle of Wight and Preacher to the Soldiers of the Garrison of Carisbrook would many times be in the Presence Chamber when his Majesty was at dinner And tho he was a young man yet he was a scholar had good education and would argue notably in defence of some Tenents he held in opposition to certain ceremonies and discipline in the Episcopacy The King usually after meals would walk for near an hour and take many turns in the Presence-Chamber and when he found the Chaplain there he would pleasurably enter into disputation with him and the Chaplain would be very earnest in defence of his opinion The K. never check'd him for his confidence but allowed him his liberty and would be very pleasant and merry with him The K. being a good Logician and well read in History and matters of Controversie gained ground of his Opponent and would please himself with one passage which hapned and that was this During their discourse the Chaplain then standing at the end of the Presence-Chamber between a Lieutenant of the Garrison who had a Sword in his hand and was earnestly listning to what the K. said in the Debate and a Gentleman who was not known there the King in the heat of his discourse suddenly disarmed the Lieutenant by taking the Sword out of his hand which made him look strangely and the more when his Majesty drew it for that put the Chaplain into a fright also he not imagining the reason until the stranger better understanding the Kings meaning fell upon his knees and the K. laying the naked Sword upon his shoulder confer'd upon him the honour of Knighthood telling him withal it was to perform a promise to his Relations This strangers name was John Duncomb of Battlesdon in Bedfordshire Esq who was afterwards a servant to K. Ch. 2 sworn a member of his Privy Council 22. May 1667 being then or about that time one of the Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury and at length upon the resignation of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer about the 20. of Novemb. 1672. As for the Chaplain Troughton tho Tho. Herbert then one of the Grooms of his Maj. Bedchamber from whom I had this story could not tell me his Christian name yet I take it to be William and him to be the same Will. Troughton who afterwards was beneficed in Salisbury in the time of Oliver silenc'd for Nonconformity after his Majesties restauration lived there several years after keeping his Conventicles as he did afterwards at Bristow and now if living in or near London where we shall leave him for the present till an opportunity may be had to make farther mention of him CHARLES GIBBES the sixth son of Sir Ralph Gibbes was born at Hunnington in Warwickshire near to a Market Town called Shipson in Worcestershire on the 4. of Nov. 1604 admitted a student in this Univ. in the beginning of 1620 and taking the degree of Bach of Arts in the latter end of 1622 was chosen Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. two years after where going thro the severe exercise then used since especially after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 much decayed he became a noted Disputant Orator and quaint Preacher In Apr. 1638 he was presented by the Warden and Fellows of his Coll. to the Rectory of Gamlinghay in Cambridgshire and thereupon leaving the house he setled there without hopes of being translated to another place At length being involv'd in great troubles for his Loyalty he resign'd that Rectory in 1647 to prevent Sequestration retired to Canterbury and taught a private School there with good success After the blessed time of his Majesties restauration he was made Parson of Stanford-Rivers in Essex which he enjoyed 21. years Prebendary of Westminster which he kept 19 years and Doctor of Div. by creation of this University He hath written and published Thirtie and one Sermons preached to his parishioners of Stanford Rivers in Essex upon several subjects and occasions Lond. 1677. qu. He also took a great deal of pains in collecting and fitting for the Press several Sermons and discourses of Dr. Walt. Raleigh who married the Sister of this our author Gibbes but before they were finished he paid his last debt to nature which hapning at Stanford Rivers on the 16 of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there leaving then behind him the Character of a Loyal and Religious person and of a charitable and a good neighbour RICHARD ALLEIN son of Rich. All. Rector of Dicheat or Dichet in Somersetshire was born there entred a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term 1627 aged 16 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts went to New Inn being puritanically affected and not only compleated that degree by Determination as a member thereof but continued there in the study of the supreme faculty till after he was Master of Arts. At length taking holy orders he assisted his father and became a frequent preacher in his own Country In the middle of March 1641 at which time he shew'd himself a zealous person for the blessed cause then driving on he became Rector of Batcomb in the same County in the place of Rich. Bernard deceased who had held that Rectory from Novemb. 1613 to that time where being setled he became a preacher up of sedition a zealous Covenanter and therefore several times disturb'd by the Cavaliers in those parts and one of the number that subscribed The testimony of the Ministers of Sommersetshire to the truth of Jesus Christ and to the solemn League and Covenant Printed at Lond. 1648. qu. In 1654 he with his father were constituted Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parliament for the ejection of such whom they and their brethren called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in the same County in which office they shew'd themselves severe enough But upon his Majesties restauration our author Allein putting a curb to his activity was soon after ejected for Nonconformity So that removing from place to place for a time setled at length at Frome-Selwood where he remained not without preaching somtimes in private to his dying day He hath written and published Vindiciae Pietatis or a vindication of Godliness in the greatest strictness and spirituality of it from the imputations of folly and fancy on Ephes 5.15 and on Joh. 1.47 Lond. 1664. and 69. oct Several directions for the attaining and maintaining of a godly life Lond. 1669 Pr. with Vindiciae Pietatis The Godly mans portion and sanctuary being a second part of Vindiciae Pietatis
on Psal 4.9 Lond. in oct Heaven opened or a brief and plain discovery of the riches of Gods Covenant of Grace Being the third part of Vindiciae Pietatis Lond. in oct The World Conquered or a believers victory over the World laid open in several Sermons on 1. Joh. 5.4 Being the fourth part of Vind. Pietat Lond. 1668. oct All which pieces were printed together at London 1671 in oct and were entit The Works of Mr. Rich. Allein in four parts Dedicated to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Batcombe Godly feare or the nature and necessity of feare and and its usefulness both to the driving sinners to Christ and to the provoking Christians on in a godly life through the several parts and duties of it till they come to blessedness Lond. 1674. oct This book consists of Sermons preached on several texts A rebuke to Back-Sliders and a spur for Loiterers in several Sermons lately preached to a private Congregation Lond. 1677 c. oct A Companion for Prayer or directions for improvement in grace and practical godliness in times of extraordinarie danger Lond. 1680. in tw Instructions about Heart-work What is to be done on Gods part and ours for the cure and keeping of the Heart that we may live in the exercise and growth of Grace here and have a comfortable assurance of glory to eternity Lond. 1682 oct with a preface of Dr. Sam. Annesley alias Aneley to it To the second edit of this which came out in 1684 was added our author Alleins book entit A Companion for prayer c. He also had a hand in writing The life of Joseph Alleine his kinsman and digested fitted for the Press and published his Remaines c. See more in the said J. Alleine among these writers page 300.301 At length this our zealous author concluding his last day at Frome Selwood before mention'd in the house of one Rob. Smith wherein he had lived several years and had kept Conventicles on the 22. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there in or about the midst of the middle alley At which time Rich. Jenkins M. of A. somtimes of Gloc. Hall a Luke-warm Conformist and Vicar of that place the same who married Tho. Thynne of Longleat Esq to Elizabeth Countess of Ogle heir to the illustrious Family of Percy preached his funeral Sermon containing many pathetical Encomiums of him having several times before also visited him in his sickness THOMAS HERBERT son of Christop Herbert son of Thomas Herbert somtimes Alderman of the City of York descended being a younger brother from Sir Rich. Herbert of Colebroke in Monmouthshire Knight was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive within the City of York admitted Commoner of Jesus Coll. in 1621. under the tuition of Mr. Jenkyn Lloyd his kinsman but before he took a degree his Uncle called Dr. Ambr. Aikroyd fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. brother to his mother Jane dau of Jo. Aikroyd of Folkerthorpe in Yorkshire invited him to that house where his continuance being short he went thence to London to wait upon that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke who owning him for his kinsman and intending his advancement he sent him to travel in 1626 with allowance to defray his charges So that spending some years in travelling into Africa and Asia the great he did at his return wait on the said noble Count who inviting him to dinner the next day at Baynards Castle in London died suddenly that night whereby his expectation of preferment from him being frustrated he left England a second time and visited several parts of Europe After his return he married and setling in his native Country delighted himself more with the converse of the Muses than in the rude and brutish pleasures which most Gentlemen follow In the time of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of the Parliament and by the endeavours of Philip Earl of Pembroke he became not only of the Commissioners of Parliament to reside in the Army of Sir Thomas Fairfax but also a Commiss to treat with those on the Kings side for the surrender of Oxford Garrison Afterwards he attended the said Count especially at that time in Jan. 1646 when he with other Commissioners were sent from the Parliament to the King at Newcastle to treat about peace and bring him nearer to London When his Majesty came thence and was setled at Holdenby in Northamptonshire jealousies increased which begat fears against which there was then no fence The Commissioners persuant to instructions addressed themselves altogether on a certain time unto the King and acquainted him therewith and humbly prayed his Majesty to dismiss such of his servants as were there and had waited upon him at Oxon. This their application was in no wise pleasing to the King he having had long experience of the loyalty and good affection of those his servants as it appeared by his countenance and the pause he made ere he gave the Commissioners any answer Howbeit after some expostulation and deliberation he condescended to what they proposed they not opposing the continuance of Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patr. Maule their attendance upon his royal person as Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber in which place they had several years served the King Next day his Majesties servants came as at other times into the presence Chamber where all dinner time they waited but after his Majesty rose from dinner he acquainted them with what had passed 'twixt him and the Commissioners and thereupon they all knelt and kissed his Majesties hand and with great expressions of grief for their dismiss they poured fourth their prayers for his Majesties freedom and preservation and so left Holdenby All that afternoon the King withdrew himself into his Bedchamber having given order that none should interrupt him in his privacy Soon after this his Majesty purposing to send a message to the Parliament he after dinner called Philip Earl of Pembroke to him and told him that he would have Mr. Herbert come into his Chamber which the Earl acquainting the Commissioners with Mr. Tho. Herbert our author was brought into the Bedchamber by Mr. Maxwell and upon his knees desired to know the Kings pleasure He told him he would send a message to the Parliament and having none there that he usually employed and unwilling it should go under his own hand called him in for that purpose Mr. Herbert having writ as his Majesty dictated was enjoyn'd secrecy and not to communicate it to any until made publick by both Houses if by them held meet which he carefully observed This errand was as I conceive His Majesties message for Peace dated from Holdenby 12. May 1647. About a week after the King was pleased to tell the Commissioners that seeing that Mr. Jam. Levingston Hen. Moray John Ashburnham and Will. Legge were for the present dismist he had taken notice of Mr. Jam. Harrington and Mr. Tho. Herbert who had
night and perceiving him to be disturb'd in his sleep called again and bid him rise for said his Maj. I will get up having a great work to do this day and then asking Herbert what troubled him he told his Majesty he was dreaming I would know your dream said the King which being told his Majesty said it was remarkable Jan. 30. Tuesday Herbert saith the K. this is my second marriage day I will be as trim to day as may be for before night I hope to be espoused to my blessed Jesus He then appointed what cloaths he would wear Let me have a shirt more than ordinary said the K. by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake which some observers will imagine proceeds from fear I would have no such imputation I fear not death death is not terrible to me I bless God I am prepared Death indeed only sets men free from the misery of this world and breaks asunder the chains of bondage c. These or words to the same effect his Maj. spake to Mr. Herbert as he was making ready Soon after came Dr. Juxon B. of London precisely at the time his Maj. the night before had appointed him Mr. Herbert then falling upon his knees he humbly beg'd his Majesties pardon if he had at any time been negligent in his duty while he had the honour to serve him The King then gave him his hand to kiss having the day before been graciously pleased under his royal hand to give him a certificate expressing that the said Mr. Herbert was not imposed upon him but by his Maj. made choice of to attend him in his Bed-chamber and had served him with faithfulness and loyal affection At the same time his Maj. delivered to him his Bible in the margin whereof he had with his own hand wrot many annotations and quotations and charged him to give it to the Prince of Wales so soon as he returned repeating what he had enjoyned the Princess Elizabeth his daughter and that He the Prince would be dutiful and indulgent to the Queen his mother to whom his Maj. wrot two days before by Mr. Seymour affectionate to his brothers and sisters who also were to be observant and dutiful to him their Soveraigne And forasmuch as from his heart he had forgiven his enemies and in perfect charity with all men would leave this world he advised the Prince his son to exceed in mercy not in rigour c. And as to Episcopacy it was still his opinion that it is of apostolic institution and in his Kingdom exercised from the primitive times and therein as in all other his affairs he prayed God to vouchsafe both in reference to the Church and State a pious and discerning Spirit c. and that it was his last and earnest request that the Prince would read the Bible which in all the time of his affliction had been his best instructor and delight and to meditate upon what he read as also such other books as might improve his knowledge c. He likewise commanded Mr. Herbert to give his son the Duke of York his large Ring Sundial of silver a Jewel his Maj. much valued it was invented and made by Rich. Delamaine a very able Mathematician who projected it and in a little printed book did shew its excellent use in resolving many questions in Arithmetick and other rare operations to be wrought by it in the Mathematicks To the Princess Elizabeth he gave the Sermons of Dr. Lanc. Andrews sometimes B. of Winchester and Prelate of the Garter Archb. Laud's Conference between him and Joh. Fisher the Jesuit which book the K. said would ground her against Popery and Mr. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie He also gave him a paper to be delivered to the said Princ. Elizabeth to be printed in which his Maj. asserted Regal Government to have a divine right with proofs out of sundry authors civil and sacred To the Duke of Gloc. he gave K. James's Works and Dr. Hammonds Practical Catechisme He gave also to Mountague E. of Lindsey L. High Chamberlain Cassandra and his gold Watch to Mary Duchess of Richmond All which as opportunity served Mr. Herbert delivered His Maj. then bid him withdraw which being done his Maj. with the Bishop were in private together about an hour and then Mr. Herbert being call'd in the Bishop went to Prayer and reading the 27 chapt of the Gospel of S. Mathew which relates to the passion of our blessed Saviour the K. after the Service was done asked the Bishop If he had made choice of that Chapter being so applicable to his present condition the B. answered May it please your Maj. it is the proper lesson for the day as appears by the Kalendar Whereupon his Maj. was much affected with it as so aptly serving a seasonable preparation for his death that day His Maj. abandoned all thoughts of earthly concerns continued in prayer and meditation and concluded with a cheerful submission to the will and pleasure of the Almighty saying he was ready to resign himself into the hands of Christ Jesus and with the Kingly Prophet as 't is expressed in the 31 Psal ver 5. Into thy hands c. Col. Franc. Hacker then knocked easily at the Kings door but Mr. Herbert being within would not stir to ask who it was that knock'd At length the Col. knocking the second time a little louder the K. bade him go to the door he guess'd the business So Mr. Herbert demanding wherefore he knock'd the Col. said he would speak with the King the K. said Let him come in The Col. in a trembling manner came near and told his Majesty Sir it is time to go to Whitehall where you may have some further time to rest The K. bade him go forth and told him I will come presently Some time his Maj. was private and afterwards taking the good Bishop by the hand looking upon him with a cheerful countenance said Come let us go and bidding Mr. Herbert take with him the silver clock that hung by his bed-side said Open the door Hacker has given us a second warning The K. passed thro the Garden into the Park where making a stand asked Mr. Herbert the hour of the day and taking the clock into his hand and looking upon it gave it to him and said Keep this in memory of me which Mr. Herbert kept to his dying day The Park had several Companies of Foot drawn up who made a guard on each side as the K. passed and a guard of Halbertiers in company went some before and others followed the King The drums beat and the noise was so great as one could hardly hear what another spoke Upon the Kings right hand went the Bishop and on the left Col. Mathew Tomlinson with whom his Maj. had some discourse by the way Mr. Herbert was next behind the K and after him the Guards In this manner went the K. thro the Park and coming to the stairs
University and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of York did answer it in a book entit A fuller answer to Elymas the Sorcerer or to the most material part of a feigned memorial towards the discovery of the Popish Plot c. in a letter addressed to Mr. Thom. Jones Published at Lond. in Feb. 1682 in 8. sh in fol. with the date in the title of 1683 set to it Our author Jones also published his Sermon preached at the funeral of Ez. Tongue D. D. which I have not yet seen At length this person who was troubled with a rambling and somtimes craz'd pate dying at Totteridge in Hertfordshire on Sunday the eight of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Chappel or Church of that place He had a little before been received into the house there belonging to Franc. Charlton Esq the same who was suspected to be in Monmouths rebellion an 1685 and the same whose Sister Magaret had been married to Mr. Rich. Baxter HENRY BLOUNT third son of Sir Tho. Pope Blount of Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire Knight son of Will. Blount of Blounts hall in Staffordshire was born at Tittenhanger before mention'd which is in the parish of Ridge on the 15. of Decemb. 1602 educated in the Free-School at S. Alban where by the help of his pregnant parts he made such large steps in learning that before he was 14 years of age he was transplanted to Trinity Coll of which he became a Gent. Commoner and there not so much upon his relation to Sir Tho. Pope the Founder thereof as upon account of his own intrinseck worth and the facetiousness of wit so peculiar to him he had in a particular manner the deference and respect of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he retired to Greys Inn studied the municipal Law and at length upon his retreat thence sold his Chamber to Tho. Bonham of Essex the Poet. In 1634. May 7 he embarked at Venice for Constantinople in order to his voyage into the Levant returned about two years after became one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to K. Ch. 1 and by him Knighted 21. Mar. 1639. Afterwards he attended him at York Edghill Battle and at Oxford for a time and then leaving him he retired to London where being esteemed a Cavalier was called before the House of Commons and question'd by them for his adherence to his Majesty But he remonstrating to them that he did no more than what his place required that is his duty to wait he was acquitted So that closing with that party he was appointed one of the Committee of 21 persons in Jan. 1651 to consult about the reformation of the Law to consider of the inconveniences in it and mischiefs which frequently arised from the delays and other irregularities in the administration thereof and about that time he shewed himself active against the payment of Tythes and endeavoured that every Minister should not have above an 100 l. per an for his pains in administring the Gospel In 1654. Jul. 5. he with Dr. Rich. Zouch Dr. W. Clerk Dr. Will. Turner Civilians Mr. Lucy c. sate in the Upper Bench in Westm Hall for the trial of Pontalion Sa brother to the Portugues Embassador three more Portugueses and an English boy for a murther and a riot committed by them in the New Exchange and on the 1. of Nov. 1655 he was appointed one of the Committee to take into consideration the Trade and Navigation of the Common wealth c. He was esteemed by those that knew him a Gentleman of a very clear judgment great experience much contemplation tho not of much reading and of great foresight into Government He was also a person of admirable conversation and in his yonger years was a great Banterer which in his elder he disused He hath written and published A relation of a voyage into the Levant Lond. 1636. 37 qu c. In other editions in tw it hath this title A voyage into the Levant being a brief relation of a journey performed from England by way of Venice through the Turkish Empire and Egypt unto Grand Cairo c. It was so well esteemed abroad that as I have been enformed it hath been translated into French and Dutch In the first of which Languages I have seen a book entit Voyage de Levant Par. 1632 qu. written by D. C. He also wrot as I have been enformed by some of his relations tho his sons know nothing of it a pamphlet entit The Exchange Walke printed much about the time that Hen. Nevill published his pamph called The Parliament of Ladies c. 1647. This Sir Hen. Blount whom I have mentioned in Joh. Lylie in the first vol. p. 257. and in Walt. Ramsey in this p. 166. died on the ninth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried privatly on the eleventh day in a vault joyning to the Church of Ridge leaving then behind him two ingenious sons one named Tho. Pope Blount a Baronet author of Censura celeberiorum authorum sive tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi Scriptoribus judicia traduntur c. Lond. 1690. fol as also of Essayes on several subjects and another called Charles who published Anima Mundi or an historical narration of the opinions of the Antients concerning mans soul after this life Lond. 1679. oct The Manuscript copie of this book in which the father was suppos'd to have a considerable hand went about the City of London with many gross passages in it Afterwards being printed it was taken for granted that the said book was published according to that copy But those errors were all decryed and exploded in the impression and with those corrections Rog. L' estrange the Licenser was prevail'd upon at the instance of a particular friend to license it Afterwards L' estrange hearing the clamours that were raised about this book and the fate to which it was doom'd he waited upon Dr. Compton Bishop of London laid the matter before him and his Lordship thinking the book however inconvenient to be published was pleased to rest satisfied with the bare suppression of it But advantage was taken in the Bishops absence of burning it contrary to his Lordships promise and as 't was believ'd to his order The said Mr. Ch. Blount also published Great is Diana of the Ephesians or the original of Idolatry together with the politick institution of the Gentiles Sacrifices Lond. 1680 oct Also Janua Scientiarum or a compendious introduction to Geography Chronology Government History Phylosophy and all gentile sorts of literature Lond. 1684 oct and a little pamphlet for the Liberty of the Press besides his publication in English with philological notes on each chapter of The two first books of Philostratus concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus written Originally in Greek Lond. 1680 in a thin fol. Soon after suppressed and only a few copies
relating only to himself in the margin of the Preface before his Body of Divinity Lond. 1674. fol. What other books our author Durell hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that dying on Friday the 8 day of June about 8 of the clock at night in sixteen hundred eighty and three was buried on the 12 day of the same month about the middle of the north isle joyning to the choire of the Chap. oâ— Ch. of S. George within the Castle at Windsore in a small Vault of brick built for that purpose and intended for his wife also after her decease Soon after was a flat black marble stone laid with a little inscription thereon containing his name title and obit as also his age when he died which was 58. In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Franc. Turner and in his Prebendship of Durham Dr. Jo. Montague Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Brother to the present Earl of Sandwych WILLIAM BELL was born in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London on the 4 of Feb. 1625 educated in Merch. Taylors School elected Scholar of St. Johns Coll. in 1643 afterwards Fellow but in 1648 ejected thence by the Visitors appointed by Parliament he being then Bach. of Arts and well skill'd in the practical part of Musick Afterwards he lived in several places as opportunity served was in France an 1649 and about 1655 he had a small benifice in Norfolk confer'd on him but could not pass the Triers When his Majesty was restored in 1660 he became Chaplain in the Tower of Lond. to Sir Joh. Robinson Lieutenant thereof and in the year after he was actually created Bach. of Divinity In 1662 he was presented by the President and Society of S. Johns Coll. to the Vicaridge of S. Sepulcher in London void by the Nonconformity of Tho. Gough sometimes of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who died 29 Oct. 1681 aged 77 years and in 65 he was made Prebendary of S. Pauls Cathedral by Dr. Henchman Bishop of London In 1667 he had the Archdeaconry of S. Alban confer'd upon him by the said Bishop was the same year sworn Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and in 1668 he proceeded Doctor of his faculty and was for his eminence in preaching made soon after one of the Lecturers of the Temple c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 City security stated preached at S. Pauls before the Lord Mayor on Psal 127. latter part of the first vers Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Joshuahs resolution to serve God with his family Recommended to the practice of the Inhabitants of S. Sepulchers Parish from 24 of Josh 15. latter part Lond. 1672. qu. sec edit 3 Serm. preached at the funeral of Mr. Anth. Hinton late Treasurer of S. Barthelmews Hospital 15 Sept. 1678 at S. Sepulchers Lond. 1679. qu. He the said Dr. Bell was buried in the Chancel of S. Sepulchers Church before mentioned on the 26 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and three leaving then behind him a precious name among his Parishoners for his Charity Preaching and other matters of which they could not speak enough and was soon after succeeded in the said Vicaridge by Edw. Waple Bac. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon. On the marble stone which covers the said Dr. Bell's grave I find this written M. S. Heic jacet Gulielmus Bell SS Theologiae Professor Ecclesiae hujus Pastor vigilantissimus vir optimus ingens Ecclesiae Anglicanae ornamentum si primaevam spectes pietatem faelicissimum ingenii acumen morum suavitatem integritatem partibus regiis inconcussam fidelitatem vel charitatem denuo vix imitabilem Nec plus dicere decorum nec fas minus I tu fac similiter Pientissimam exhalavit animam Julii 19. an Chr 1683. aetatis 58. As for Th. Gough before mentioned who was D. D. he was buried in the Church of S. Ann Blackfriers 4 Nov. 1681 at which time Dr. Joh. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury preached his funeral sermon which with an account of his life therein being extant you may if you please satisfie your self more of the person who as t is said did translate several things into Welsh as the Bible Whole duty of man A catechisme c. Besides the said Will. Bell I find another of both his names Master of Arts and late preacher of the word at Hyton in Lancashire author of The excellency necessity and usefulnes of patience As also of The patience of Job and the end of the Lord or the glorious success of gracious suffering opened and applyed Both which were printed at Lond. 1674 in oct with a pteface to them written by Mr. Rich. Baxter Which Will. Bell who was a Nonconformist and living at Sinderland in the Parish of Ashton-Underline in Lancashire in June 1668 I take to be the same with him who was author of 1 Well doing well done to Serm. on Jer. 22.15 Printed 1650. qu. 2 Enucks Walk on Gen. 5.24 Printed 1658. oct 3 Incomparable company keeping or a conversation on earth in heaven Pr. in oct Whether this Will. Bell be the same W. Bell son of Joh. Bell of Chigwell in Essex who was matriculated in this University as a member of Ch. Ch. an 1634 aged 17. years but took no degree there I know not Quaere JOHN BARNARD or Bernard the son of a father of both his names Gent was born in a Market Town in Lincolnshire called Castor educated in the Grammar School there whence going to Cambridg he became a Pensioner of Queens Coll and thence journying to Oxon to obtain preferment from the Visitors there appointed by Parliament in the latter end of 1647 was actually created Bach. of Arts in the Pembrokian creation 15. Apr. 1648 and on the 29 of Sept. following he was by order of the said Visitors then bearing date made fellow of Linc. Coll. In 1651 he proceeded in Arts and about that time became a preacher in and near Oxon. At length wedding the dau of Dr. Pet. Heylyn then living at Abendon became Rector of a rich Church in his own Country called Waddington near Lincoln the perpetual advowson of which he purchased and held for some time with it the Sinecure of Gedney in the same County After his Majesties restauration he conformed and not only kept his Rectory but was made Preb. of Asgarby in the Church of Lincoln In 1669 he took the degrees in Divinity being then in some repute in his Country for his learning and orthodox Principles He hath written Censura Cleri or against scandalous Ministers not fit to be restored to the Churches livings in point of prudence piety and fame Lond. 1660 in 3 sh in qu. This was published in the latter end of 1659 or beg of 1660 to prevent such from being restored to their Livings that had been ejected by the Godly party an 1654. 55 c. His name is not set to this pamphlet and he did not care afafterwards when he saw how
by the small pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of Astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turn'd into Lat. and illustrated with a Commentary entit Misnae pars ordinis primi Zeraim tituli septem Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the translation into Latine by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonides praefatio in Misnam Mr. Guise died in his House in S. Michaels Parish in Oxford on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in that Chancel called the College Chancel in St. Michaels Church within the said City Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his Widow named Frances Daughter of George Southcote of Devonshire Esq with an inscription thereon beginning thus MS. Gulielmi Guise Equestri apud Glocestrenses familia orti è Coll. Oriel in Coll. Omn. Anim. asciti Linguar praecipue Orientalium peritissimi Critici Rhetoris Mathemat Theologi in omnibus adeò eximii ut raro quisquam in singulis in juventute ut raro quisquam in senio quem ne perfectionis humanae apices transiret c. HENRY BOLD fourth Son of Will. Bold of Newstead in the Parish of Buriton in Hampshire sometimes Capt. of a Foot company descended from the antient and gentile family of the Bolds of Bold-hall in Lancashire was born in Hampshire elected Probationer-fellow of New Coll. from Winchester School 1645 or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 and afterwards going to the great City became a member of the Examiners office in Chancery and excellent at translating the most difficult and crabbed english into latine verse He hath written Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique c. Lond. 1664. oct Ded. to Col. Hen. Wallop of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton and to The ingenious he saith thus If thou wilt read so if not so it is so so and so farewell Thine upon liking H. B. Among these Poems is Scarronides or Virgil Travestie c. He hath also written Latine Songs with their English and Poems Lond. 1685. oct Collected and perfected by Capt. Will. Bold his Brother This Hen. Bold died in Chancery-lane near Lincolns inn on the 23. of Oct. being the first day of the Term in sixteen hundred eighty and three aged 56 or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Twyford West Twyford near Acton in the County of Middlesex I shall make mention of another H. Bold in the Fasti an 1657. WILLIAM SCROGGS son of Will. Scroggs was born in a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Dedington became a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 aged 16 years but soon after was translated to that called Pembroke where being put under the tuition of a noted Tutor became Master of a good Latine stile and a considerable Disputant Soon after tho the Civil War broke forth and the University emptied thereupon of the greatest part of its Scholars yet he continued there bore arms for his Majesty and had so much time allowed him that he proceed Master of Arts in 1643. About that time he being designed for a Divine his Father procured for him the reversion of a good Parsonage but so it was that he being engaged in that honorable tho unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 wherein as I have been credibly informed he was a Captain of a Foot Company he was thereby disingaged from enjoying it So that entring himself into Greys inn studied the municipal Law went through the usual Degrees belonging to it was made Serjeant at Law 25. June 1669 and Knighted and the same year on the 2 of Nov. he was sworn his Majesties Serjeant In 1678 May 31. he was made L. Chief Justice of the Kings Bench upon the resignation of Sir Richard Rainsford but not long after his advancement the Popish conspiracy was discovered So that his place obliging him to have the chiefest hand in bringing some of the principal conspirators concern'd therein to publick justice he in several trials of them behaved himself with so undaunted a courage and greatness of spirit giving such ample testimony of his true zeal for the Protestant cause that he gained thereby for a while an universal applause throughout the whole Nation being generally esteemed as a main Patriot and support of his Country whose all seem'd then especially to the fanatical party to lay at stake and to be threatned with apparently impendent ruin But at length the implacable and giddy headed rabble being possess'd with an opinion that he had not dealt uprightly in the trials of some of the conspirators he mitigating his zeal when he saw the Popish Plot to be made a shooing-horn to draw on others which caused articles of impeachment to be drawn up against him read in the H. of Commons and ingrossed and on the 17 of Jan. 1680 sent up to the H. of Lords he was removed from his high office about the eleventh of April 1681 meerly to stop their mouthes and so obtain quietness Whereupon Sir Francis Pemberton Kt. was sworn to the said office on the next day as it seems and the day following that he paid his duty to his Majesty Soon after Sir William retired to his Estate at Weald hall near Burntwood in Essex where he enjoyed himself for a time in a sedate repose He was a person of very excellent and nimble parts a good Orator and a fluent Speaker but his utterance being accompanied with some stops and hesitancy his Speeches effected more in the reading than they did when heard with the disadvantage of his delivery Under his name were printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech before the L. Chancellor when he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench Printed in half a sh in fol. 2 Sp. in the Kings Bench in Westm hall on the first day of Mich. term 1679. Lond. 1679 in 3 sheets in fol. Answer'd by an idle fellow and remarks made on it in one sh in fol. entit A New years gift for Justice Scroggs c. He hath other Speeches extant as I shall tell you by and by Notes on the writing found in the pocket of Laur. Hill when he and R. Green were executed 21. Feb. 1678. Pr. in one sh in fol. Answer to the Articles against him given in by Titus Oates and Will Bedlow in Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680 in two sh and an half in fol. He hath also several discourses arguings and speeches printed in divers Tryals and Condemnations while he was Lord Chief Justice as in 1 The Tryal of William Staley Goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against his Majesty c. 21. Novemb. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 2 Tryal of Edw. Coleman Gent. for conspiring the death of the King subversion of the government c. 28. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. This Coleman was as I have heard a Ministers Son had been
liv'd to a fair age spent all in celebacy and had done much good he surrendred up his soul to God in Farnham Castle about three of the clock in the morn of the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was conveyed to Winchester and buried in a little vault in the body of the Cathedral there betwixt two pillars just opposite to those between which Bishop Will. Edendon was buried at the foot of the steps ascending to the Choire on the north side Soon after was an altar-tombe erected over his body and the inscription put thereon which he the said Dr. Morley had made for himself in the eightieth year of his age The contents of which being too large for this place shall be now omitted and especially for this reason because there is nothing in it but what is mention'd before in his life BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE the Son of a Minister of Gods word by his Wife the Daughter of that noted Puritan called Rob. Parker author of the four books De descensu Christi ad inferos was born near Highworth in Wilts became either Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1638 aged 16 years where he continued for some time under the tuition of Will. Eyre But before the time came that he could be adorned with a degree the times changed and the Civil War thereupon began So that he removing to New England he answer'd in the University of Cambridge there several positions which were about that time printed for the taking the degree of Master of Arts. After his return thence he retired to Oxon and as a member of Magd. Hall he was admitted to the same degree an 1648 being about that time a Minister in Salisbury Afterwards setling at Newbury in Berks. where he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian perswasion he was constituted one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom that party and the Independents then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he became one of his Chaplains and a Canonry of Windsore was offer'd to him but he bogling long with himself whether he should take that Dignity or not it was at length bestowed on a Son of the Ch. of England Soon after he being silenc'd by vertue of the act of conformity for he seemed then to hate a surplice and the Common-prayer he preached in private to the Brethren but being often disturbed and imprison'd once or twice he at length by the perswasion of some of his friends took holy Orders from the hands of Dr. Earl Bishop of Salisbury in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon in Octob. 1665 with a resolution to be conformable to the Church of England But finding not preferment sutable to his desire to be confer'd upon him and a grand neglect and scorn of the Brethren he return'd to his former opinion which some then call'd his rags and preached several times in Conventicles to the great disturbance of the government the peace of Newbury and the neighbourhood When the Proclamation for toleration or indulgence of Religion was issued out 15 of March 1671 he became so audacious that he did not only preach publickly in the Market place there to the Brethren but disturbed or caused to be disturbed the good people in their going to Church Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot an 1678 when then the Fanaticks took all advantages to promote their respective interests he did then appear more publick again to the disturbance of the peace preached every Sunday in a Conventicle at Highcleere in Hampshire and generally once in a week at Newbury before mention'd which is not far off that place At length upon the breaking out of the Presbyterian Plot in June 1683 he sculk'd and retired to Inglefield in Berks where as I have been informed he constantly if his health permitted him frequented the publick service of the Church of England and Sermons in the Church there to the time of his death He hath written Justification by faith or a confutation of that Antinomian errour that justification is before faith c. Lond. 1652. qu. 'T is the sum of a Sermon preached at Salisbury and is contained in 3. or 4. sh of paper It must be now known that one Tho. Warren Parson of Houghton in Hampshire preached at a Wednesdays Lecture in Salisbury in April 1651 and therein letting fall several passages which Will. Eyre a Minister in that City then present conceived to be very wide from the Orthodox faith did desire a conference with him after its conclusion Which being accordingly held with him they parted without any satisfaction to each other The next day Eyre preached in the same place and maintained what he had disputed upon the day before Whereupon our author Woodbridge being much concern'd at the matter for he was present at all these transactions took Warrens part preached the next Wednesday following on the same Subject that Warren had done before Afterwards he and Eyre at a conference about the matter in the publick meeting place after Sermon made it a publick quarrel and defied each other So that Woodbridge being much concern'd at it he published the aforesaid Sermon and entituled it Justification by faith c. in the body of which is contained the contents of the disputation with him by VV. Eyre before mention'd The famous Rich. Baxter saith that the sight of the said Sermon of Mr. VVoodbridge of so much worth in so narrow room did cause him to bless God that the Church had such a man and especially Newbury who had so excellently learned a pastor before meaning Dr. Twysse who had mistaken so much in this very point Also that the said Sermon is one of the best easiest and cheapest preservatives against the contagion of this part of Antinomianisme as any c. But by the way I must tell the Reader that as the said Mr. Baxter was enclining to Arminianisme so our author VVoodbridge was in some points who hath farther written The method of grace in the justification of sinners against Mr. Eyre his Vindiciae Justificationis gratuitae c. Lond. 1656. qu. The Apostolick Protestant doctrine of justification by faith asserted Printed with The method of Grace c. Church members set in joynt or a discovery of the unwarrantable and disorderly practice of private Christians in usurping the peculiar office and work of Christs own Pastors viz. publick preaching c. Lond. 1656. 57. qu. He also preached an excellent Sermon before K. Ch. 2. while he was his Chapl. on Acts 17.11 but whether printed I cannot yet tell sure I am that he published Moses and Aaron or the rights of the Church and State containing two disputations c. pen'd by James Noyes somtimes of Newbury in New England Lond. 1661. At length this Mr. VVoodbridge who was
Peter in the East in Oxon under the South wall joyning on the S. side of the tomb-stone of Silv. Wood. ROBERT WHITEHALL son of Rich. Whiteh somtimes Bach. of Div. of Ch. Church afterwards Rector of Agmundesham commonly called Amersham and of Addington in Bucks was born at Amersham educated mostly in Westminster School under Mr. Rich. Busby became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1644. or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 for giving this answer to when required of them whither he would submit to their authority My name 's Whitehall God bless the Poet If I submit the King shall know it But he cringing afterwards to his Countrymen and Neighbours the Ingoldesbies especially to Rich. Ingoldesbie the Regicide before whom he often acted the part of a Mimick and Buffoon purposely to make him merry he was upon submission made to the Committee for regulating the Univ. of Oxon put in by them Bachelaur-fellow of Merton Coll an 1650. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts was Terrae Filius with Joh. Glendall of Brasn Coll. 1655 entred on the Physick line and by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chancellour of this Univ. of Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Phys in 1657. Since which time he made divers sallies into the practice of Physick but thereby obtained but little reputation and lesser by his Poetry to which he much pretended having been esteemed no better than a meer Poetaster and time-serving-Poet as these things following partly shew The Marriage of Arms and Arts 12. Jul. 1651 being an accompt of the Act at Oxon to a friend Lond. 1651. 'T is a Poem in one sh in qu. and hath in the title the two Letters of R.W. set down being then as since generally reported to be his and he would never positively deny it The occasion of the writing of it was this viz. that an Act having not been solemnized for several years before it became such a novelty to the then Students of the University most of which had been put into places by the Visitors that there was great rudeness committed by them and the concours of people in getting into places and thrusting out strangers during all the time of that solemnity in S. Maries Church Whereupon the Vicechancellour Dr. Greenwood of Brasenose a severe and cholerick Governour was forced to get several Guards of Musquetiers out of the Parliament Garrison then in Oxon to keep all the doors and avenews and to let no body in only such whom the Vicech or his Deputies appointed There was then great quarrelling between the Scholars and Soldiers and thereupon blowes and bloody Noses followed Carmen gratulatorium Olivero Cromwell in Protectorem Angliae inaugurato 1653. Printed in half a sheet on one side Carmen Onomasticon Gratulatorium Richardo Cromwell in Cancellarii officium dignitatem faeliciter electo an 1657 Pr. in half a sh on one side The Coronation a Poem Lond. 1661. in one sh in qu. Carmen gratulatorium Edvardo Hide equiti aurato summo Angliae optato Oxoniae Cancellario c. Printed on one side of a sh in Lat. and English an 1660. Urania or a description of the painting of the top of the Theater at Oxon as the Artist lay'd his design Lond. 1669 in 3. sh in fol. c. Verses on Mris. Mary More upon her sending Sir Tho. Mores Picture of her own drawing to the Long Gallery at the public Schools in Oxon. Oxon. 1674. on one side of a large half sheet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iconicum quarundam extranearum numero 258 explicatio breviuscula clara apprimè Epheborum aliquot proenobilium in usum exculta quâ ad SS Scripturas alliciantur Quibus singulis accessit symbolum cum sententiolâ concinnâ ex autoribus Graecis Latinis depromptâ Being an Epigrammatical explanation of the most remarkable stories throughout the Old and New Testament after each Sculpture or cut Oxon. 1677 in a large and thick quarto It must be noted that the author had bought from Holland as many Cuts of the Old and New Test that cost him 14 l. Each Cut he caused to be neatly pasted in the middle of a large quarto paper on which before was printed a running title at the top and six English verses at the bottom to explain the Cut or Picture Which being so done in twelve copies only he caused each to be richly bound and afterwards presented a very fair copy to the King and the rest mostly to persons of quality of which number was Charles son and heir of Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester for whom he pretended 't was chiefly compos'd Gratulamini mecum Or a congratulatory Essay upon his Majesties recovery Lond. 1679. in one sh in fol. Written upon his Majesties being freed from an Ague at Windsore in Sept. 1679. The English Recabite or a defyance to Bacchus and all his Works A Poem in 67 Hexasticks c. Lond. 1681. in four sheets in fol. See more of him in his old friend Edm. Gayton p. 271 a Poet of the like stamp This Mr. Whitehall died on the eighth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five and was buried the next day in the south part or Isle of Merton College Church having for several years before hang'd on that house as an useless member JOHN ROBERTS son and heir of Richard Lord Roberts of Truro in Cornwall was born in that County entred a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. John Prideaux an 1625 where he continued two years or more and after his fathers death he succeeded him in his honour In the beginning of the grand rebellion raised by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in that unhappy Convention afterwards called the Long Parliament he adhered to the cause that was then by them carried on was made a Colonel in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex and Governour for a time of the Garrison of Plymouth in Devonshire against his Majesties forces but when he afterwards beheld how things would terminate he withdrew and acted little or nothing during the times of Usurpation After his Majesties restauration he retired to the Court and in 1662 he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of William Lord Say deceased but giving not that content which was expected he was sent into Ireland to be Lord Lieutenant there in Sept. 1669 and his Government being disliked he was recalled in May following In Octob. 1679 he was made Lord President of his Majesties Council upon the removal of Anthony Earl of Shatfsbury and soon after he was made Earl of Radnor He hath written A discourse of the vanity of the creature grounded on Ecclesiast 1.2 Lond. 1673. oct and one or more books as I have been enform'd fit for the Press He died at Chelsey near London on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon about 8 days after his body was conveyed to Lanhedriock near Bodmin in Cornwall and buried
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
ordered that a copy of it should be sent to Anglesey and that he return an answer thereunto on the 20 of the said month at Hampton Court But no Council being then held notwithstanding Anglesey had made answer to Ormond's particular charges against him the next day the matter was defer'd till the 27 of the same month Another Council being therefore there held on that day the charges and answers were debated Which done and the Lords concerned being withdrawn this resolution passed by the Council on Anglesey's letter to the Earl of Castlehaven viz. That it was a scandalous libel against his late Majesty against his now Majesty and against the Government When the Parties or Lords concern'd were called in again the Lord Chancellour only told Anglesey that the King conceived him faulty in the clause pag. 32. of the said Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven wherein the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were mention'd as having been in at the intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court. After which a farther hearing was appointed to be on the 3 of Aug. following but Anglesey continuing extream ill of the Gout and finding himself prejudg'd by the Lords of the Council on the 27 of July he wrot a Letter on the 2 of Aug. to his Majesty which being openly read in Council the next day he did in some manner as 't was said resent it for some passages therein yet nothing appear'd entred to be done thereupon Afterwards the Earl of Castlehaven James Touchet was called in several times and question'd about his Memoires which he acknowledging to be his the said book in conclusion was by his Majesty and Council judged to be a scandalous Libel against the Government On the 9 of the said month of Aug. 1682 the Privy Seal by command from his Majesty was taken away from Anglesey by Sir Leolin Jenkins Principal Secretary of State without any farther hearing and was given to George Marquess of Halyfax Besides the aforesaid Letter of the E. of Anglesey written to the Earl of Castlehaven containing Observations c. was another book published intit Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires c. written by Dr. Edm. Borlase Author of The Hist of the execrable Irish Rebellion c. and printed at London 1682. oct But the said Author who commends Anglesey's Letter was not regarded Afterwards our Author Anglesey wrot A true account of the whole Proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesie before the King and his Council c. Lond. 1682 in 18 sh in fol. and A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian Lond. 1683. in two sh in qu which Jovian was wrot by Dr. George Hicks Dean of Worcester In the beginning of the year 1686 he began to be admitted into the favour of King James 2 but being about that time seized with a Quinsey in his throat died soon after as I shall anon tell you leaving behind him The History of Ireland MS. and The Kings right of indulgence in spiritual matters with the equity thereof asserted Which book being put into the hands of Hen. Care he caused it to be published at Lond. in Nov. 1687. in 10 sh and an half in qu. with the date of 16S8 put at the bottom of the title So that that person who in the time of the Popish Plot had shew'd himself the most bitter enemy in the Nation against the Papists and Duke of York by publishing The weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome and other things was when the said Duke came to the Crown taken so much into favour as to be made a Tool to print matters for the abolishing of the Test and Penal Laws the publishing of which book was one At length after our Author Arthur Earl of Anglesey had acted the part of a Polititian for more than 45 years he gave way to fate in his house in Drury-lane within the Liberty of Westminster on Easter Tuesday the 6 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body being conveyed to Farnborough in Hampshire where he had an Estate was buried in the Church there He left behind him a choice Library of Books which were exposed to sale by way of Auction in Oct. Nov. c. following JOHN DOLBEN son of Will. Dolb. D. D. was born at Stanwick in Northamptonshire of which his father was Rector elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. school an 1640 aged 15 years bore arms for a time in Oxon when made a Garrison for his Majesty and having made proof of his Courage in that service he was appointed an Ensign and at length a Major in one of the Armies belonging to his Majesty but after the surrender of Oxford the declension of the Kings Cause and his Army disbanded he returned to Christ Church again and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1647 and the next year was ejected from his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Soon after he took to wife Catherine daughter of Ralph Sheldon elder brother to Dr. Gilb. Sheldon then lately Warden of All 's Coll. with whom he lived during the time of Usurpation in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon and assisted Mr. Joh. Fell in keeping up the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England in a private house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church After the Kings restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. 27 Jul. 1660 in the place of John Pointer then ejected and soon after was created Doctor of Divinity At which time the Uncle of his Wife being Bishop of London and in great favour with the King he was upon his recommendation deservedly made not only Archdeacon of London in the place of Dr. Thom. Paske deceased but afterwards Clerk of the Closet and Dean of Westminster upon the promotion of Dr. Earle to the See of Worcester in which last dignity he was installed 5 Dec. 1662. In 1666 he was made Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner deceased to which See being consecrated in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25 of Nov. the same year he had then liberty allowed him by his Majesty to keep his Deanery in commendam Afterwards he became Almoner to his Majesty and at that time and before that place was manag'd to the benefit of the Poor with great justice and integrity At length upon the death of Dr. Sterne Archb. of York he was by vertue of the Kings Conge d'eslire elected to that See 28 Jul. 1683 and soon after viz. Aug. 16. being translated thereunto in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth was on the 23 of the same month enthronized He was a man of a free generous and noble disposition and withall of a natural bold and happy Eloquence As he imitated his Uncle Bishop Williams in the greatness of his parts and abilities so he by a certain hereditary right succeeded him in his Honours both in his Deanery of Westminster and his Archbishoprick of York He was not very careful
Gregory wrot a whole book De cura Pastorali to tell us it should be done By which means he ever obtained the love and respects of the City of Coventry and his ends for their good amongst the Citizens thereof Of his integrity and courage also they farther add this instance viz. In the year 1648 when Oliv. Cromwell then Lieut. Gen. of the forces in England was at Coventry upon his March towards London the said Ob. Grew took his opportunity to represent to him the wickedness of the design then more visibly on foot for taking off the King and the sad consequences thereof should it take effect earnestly pressing him to use his endeavours to prevent it and had his promise for it And afterwards when the design was too apparent he wrot a letter to him to the same purpose and to mind him of his promise Which letter was conveyed by an honest Gent. since Mayor and Alderman of Coventry now or lately living to a Messenger then waiting at Whitehall and by him delivered into Cromwells own hand c. In 1651 he accumulated the degrees in Divinity and in the next year he compleated that of Doctor by standing in the Act much about which time he preached the Concio ad clerum with applause In 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Warwickshire for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and continued after till his Majesties restauration in good repute among the Precisians He hath written A Sinners justification by Christ or the Lord Jesus Christ our righteousness Delivered in several Sermons on Jer. 23.6 Lond. 1670. oct Meditations upon our Saviours parable of the prodigal son being several sermons on the 15 Chapter of S. Lukes Gospel Lond. 1678. quart Both written and published at the request and for the common benefit of some of his quondam Parishioners of S. Michael in Coventry What other things he hath written that are fit for the Press I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the 22 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and that his body was buried in the Chancel of the said Church of S. Michael This Divine was the Father of Dr. Nehemiah Grew a Physitian of good note and practice in London whose publish'd works are so well known and valued that divers of them have been translated into Latin and French by learned forraigners and many eminent persons both at home and abroad have returned him their thanks with great respect and it is believed that he hath still much under his consideration relating both to Philosophy and the practice of Physick Among several things that he hath written and published are 1 Musaeum Regalis Societatis Or a description of the natural and artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Societie and preserved at Gresham Coll. Lond. 1681. fol. 2 The Anatomy of the History of Plants and Vegetables Lond. 1683. fol. c. JOHN GOAD son of Joh. G. of Bishopsgate street in London was born in St. Helens Parish there 15 Febr. 1615 educated in Merchant Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. and admitted in his due course and order by the just favour of Dr. Juxon the then President an 1632. Afterwards he became Fellow Master of Arts Priest and in 1643 Vicar of S. Giles's Church in the North Suburb of Oxon by the favour of the Pres and Fellows of his College where continuing his duty very constant during the time that the Garrison was besieged by the Parliament Forces did undergoe great dangers by Canon Bullets that were shot from their Camp adjoyning in the time of Divine Service On the 23. of June 1646 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Yarnton near Oxon by the Chancellour and Masters of this University by vertue of an Act of Parliament begun at Westm 5. Nov. 3. Jac. 1 disinabling Recusants from presenting to Church Livings and in the year following he was in consideration of his Sermons preached either before the King or Parliament at Oxon or both actually created Bach. of Divinity In 1648 he was sollicited by Dr. Franc. Cheynell one of the Visitors appointed to visit the University of Oxon to return to his College and Fellowship he having heard of and partly known the great worth and merit of him but because he would not conform himself to the new Directory he refused to go and with much ado keeping Yarnton till the Kings restauration did then contrary to his friends expectation take the offer of Tunbridge School in Kent But being scarce setled there he was in July 1661 made chief Master of Merchant Taylors School in London In which place continuing with good success and great applause till Apr. 1681 at which time the great and factious City was posses'd by the restless Presbyterian Ministers of the sudden introduction to Popery among them he was summoned to appear before the chief Heads of the Society of Merchant Taylors In obedience to which summons he appearing and then charged with certain passages savouring of Popery in his Comment on the Church of England Catechisme which he had made for the use of his Scholars he was by them discharged with a considerable gratuity in Plate from them The particulars of this affair being too many for this place you may see them at large in a Postcript to a book entit Contrivances of the Fanatical Conspirators in carrying on the treasons under umbrage of the Popish-Plot laid open with Depositions c. Lond. 1683. in 8 sh in fol written by Will. Smith a Schoolmaster of Islington near London who stiles therein Mr. Goad a pious and learned person so extraordinarily qualified for his profession that a better could not be found in the three kingdoms Mr. Goad being thus dismist he took a house in Piccadilly in Westminster to which place many of the gentiler sort of his Scholars repairing to be by him farther instructed he set up a private School which he continued to or near the time of his death In the beginning of 1686 K. Jam. 2. being then in the Throne he declared himself a Rom. Catholic having many years before been so in his mind for in Dec. 1660. he was reconcil'd to that Faith in Somerset house by a Priest belonging to Hen. Maria the Qu. Mother then lately return'd from France This person who had much of Primitive Christianity in him and was endowed with most admirable morals hath written Several Sermons as 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An advent Sermon preached at S. Paules on Luke 21.30 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sermon of the tryal of all things preached at S. Paules on 1 Thes 5.21 Lond. 1664. qu. c. Genealogicon latinum A previous method of Dictionary of all Latine words the compounds only excepted that may fruitfully be perused before the Grammar by those who desire to attain the Language in the natural clear and most speedy
a Batler of Madg. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Parliament forces and being Puritannically educated from his childhood he submitted to the power of the Visitors when they came to reform or rather deform the University an 1648. In the latter end of the next year he was made by them Probationer-Fellow of Mert. College where as in the public Schools he shew'd himself a quick dexterous and smart Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a frequent preacher in these parts without any Orders from a Bishop especially in the Church or Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell in the Suburbs of Oxon where he was much frequented by those of his perswasion and somtimes by others too for his edifying way of Preaching Much about the time of his Majesties restauration he left the College and preached in London with the good approbation of those of his party So that upon the vacancy of the Church of S. Matthew in Fridaystreet in London he was by the majority of the Parishoners votes elected the Rector thereof In 1662 he was ejected at Barthelmew-tide for Nonconformity whereupon taking all opportunities he preached in Conventicles for which he was somtimes brought into trouble In the latter end of the year 1671. when then an Indulgence of Liberty was granted to Nonconformists he preached openly in London and somtimes at his native place where those of his party would usually say that the Gospel was then come among them But that Indulgence being soon after annul'd upon the petition of the Parliament made to his Majesty he return'd to his customary preaching in private and about 1675 his preaching being much admired by Elizabeth Countess or Anglesey he was taken into the service of her Family and made Chaplain to her Lord with whom he continued several years Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot in Sept. 1678 he shewed himself very active in aggrevating the concerns thereof in his preachments and common discourses And it was usual with him to vent his mind in Conventicles not without some passion many things savouring of Treason But when the Fanatical which was generally call'd the Presbyterian Plot broke out in June 1683 he sculk'd being closely sought after and was several times in danger of being brought into trouble When K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown and another Indulgence was soon after allowed he preached openly again and continued his Lectures in and near London to the time of his death His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The inability of the highest improved natural man to attain a sufficient and right knowledge of indwelling sin discovered in three Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxford all on Rom. 7. latter part of the 7 verse Oxon. 1659. oct The running title on the top of every page is The natural mans blindness In an Epistle to the Reader set before them which cut the very sinews as t is said of Pelagius and Socinus in some of their doctrines written by one of the authors perswasion named Hen. Wilkinson D. D. Princ. of Magd. Hall is this Character given of the author viz. that he was sufficiently known to him and many others to be a godly learned and orthodox Divine and that through his modesty and low opinion of himself did deny for a long time his consent to the making of those Sermons of publick use c. 2 Whether well composed religious vowes do not exceedingly promote religion on Psal 116.12 and 14. This is the thirteenth Sermon in The Morning Exercise at Cripplegate preached in Sept 1661 Lond. 2661. qu. 3 Kings and Emperours not rightful Subjects to the Pope on Acts 26.2 This is the third Sermon in The Morning Exercise against Popery preached by Nonconformists in Conventicles in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 The faithful and diligent Servant of the Lord a funeral discourse on the death of Mr Tho. Cawton on Luke 12.43 Lond. 1677. qu. 5 How we may best cure the love of being flattered on Prov. 26.28 in the continuation of The Morning Exercise 1682. 6 How we may enquire after news not as Athenians but as Christians for the better managing our prayers and prayses for the Church of God on Acts 17.21 Preached in Oct. 1689. The revival of Grace in the vigour and fragrancy of it by a due application of the blood of Christ a Sacrifice a Testator and bearing a curse for us particularly each for the exciting and increasing the graces of the believing Communicant Lond. 1678. oct Dedicated to his Patron Arthur Earl of Anglesie Annotations upon Ezekiel and the twelve lesser Prophets In continuation of M. Poole's Annotations of the holy Scripture At length this learned and religious Nonconformist preaching on the Lords day in a Conventicle or Meeting-House in or near Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster on a Lords day Apr. 13 was taken with an apoplectical fit whereupon being conveyed to a Goldsmiths house adjoyning expired the next day ascending as t were from the Pulpit to the Throne in sixteen hundred and ninty aged 61 or thereabouts Afterwards his body was buried in the yard near the Sun-Dial within the Railes belonging to the Church of S. Paul within the said Cov. Garden wherein he before had buried 3 of his children at which time Rich. Adams M. A. somtimes Fellow of Brasn Coll. a Nonconformist Divine preached his funeral Sermon Which being extant the Reader may see more of the person at the latter end thereof p. 21.22 c. ABRAHAM WRIGHT son of Rich. Wr. Citizen and Silk dier of London son of Jeffr. Wr. of Longborough in Leycestershire was born in Black-Swan Alley in Thamestreet in the Parish of S. James Garlickhith in Lond. on the 23. of Decemb. 1611 educated in Grammar learning partly in Mercers-Chapel School in Cheapside but mostly in Merchant-Taylors School under Dr. Nich. Grey elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1629 by the endeavours of Dr. Juxon President there who finding him to be a good Orator especially in proper and due pronuntiation which in his elderly years he retained in his Sermons and public Offices favoured him then and afterwards in his studies In 1632 he was elected Fellow and having then a Genie which enclined him to Poetry and Rhetorick did while Bach. of Arts make his collection of Delitiae Poetarum being then esteemed also an exact master of the Latine tongue even to the nicest criticisme On the 30. Aug. 1636 at which time Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. entertained the King and Qu. at S. Johns Coll he spoke an English Speech before them when they entred into the Library to see and be entertained in it at a dinner and after dinner he was one of the principal persons that acted in the Comedy called Loves Hospital or The Hospital of Lovers presented before their Majesties in the public refectory of that House The chief Actor was the author Mr. Geor. Wilde and the others who were all of that House
Smerne about the year 1651. While he was in Oxon he had a book of Musick laying by him which as he said was of his own composition And being well skill'd in that faculty his Countryâ—men in their Letters sent to stil'd him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the notes were such as are not in use with or understood by any of the Western Churches When he died or what he wrot after he had left England I know not It was observed that while he continued in Ball. Coll. he made the drink for his own use called Coffey and usually drank it every morning being the first as the Antients of that House have informed me that was ever drank in Oxon. You may see more of this Conopius in the Epistles of Ger. Joh. Vossius written to learned men lately published part 2. p. 145. RICHARD PARR sometimes Fellow of Brasnose College was made Bishop of Sodor or the Isle of Man about the year of the Lord 1635 and dyed in the times of Usurpation but the year when I cannot tell tho several times I have sent Letters to know it See more of him among the Writers p. 96. The See of Man laid void till 1662 and then in June Dr. Isaac Barrow being elected to govern it was consecrated thereunto in K. H. 7. Chap. at Westm on the 5. of July 1663 and not before at which time his Nephew Son of his Brother Thomas called Dr. Isaac Barrow Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. preached the Consecration Sermon This worthy and godly Bishop who was Son of Isaac Barrow of Spiney-Abbey in the County of Cambridgeshire Esq was educated in S. Peters Coll. commonly called Peter House in Cambridge of which he became Fellow but turn'd out thence by the Presbyterians an 1643 or thereabouts whereupon going to Oxon and his eminency being known there he was made one of the Chaplains of New Coll by the most loyal and generous Warden thereof Dr. Pink where continuing till after the garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament shifted afterwards from place to place and suffered with the rest of the loyal and orthodox Clergy till the most blessed return of K. Ch. 2. At which time he was not only restored to his Fellowship but also made one of the Fellows of Eaton Coll. near Windsore which he held in Commendam with the Bishoprick of Man In Apr. 1664 he was made Governour of the Isle of Man by Charles Earl of Derby governed it piously and prudently held that office all the time he was Bishop of Man and sometime after his translation to S. Asaph He was a great benefactor to the Island especially to the Clergy did collect by his great care and pains from pious persons one thousand eighty one pounds eight shillings and four pence with which he bought all the impropriations in the Island from the Earl of Derby and setled them upon the Clergy as every one had need He ordered them all to teach School in their respective Parishes and allowed 30 l. per an for a Free-school and 50 l. per an for Academical learning He got also one hundred pounds a year setled which was like to have been lost upon the Clergy which was given by K. Ch. 2 and gave 135 l. of his own money for a lease upon lands of twenty pounds a year which is setled towards the maintenance of three poor Manks Scholars in the College at Dublin that in time there might be a more learned Clergy in the Island He gave likewise 10 l. towards the making a bridge over a dangerous water and did many other good works there Afterwards going into England for healths sake and continuing in a house of the Countess of Derby in Lancashire called Cross-hall he received the news of his Majesties conferring on him the Bishoprick of S. Asaph See more of him in Hen. Glemham among these Bishops under the year 1667. p. 670. ROGER MANWARING was born at Stretton in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning in the Kings School at Worcester under Hen. Bright entred a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1604 and soon after was made one of the Clerks of All 's Coll. After he had run through the usual courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts being about that time as I conceive one of the Chaplains of that House At length being made Vicar of S. Giles in the fields near London he took the degrees in Divinity and was made Chaplain in Ordinary to K. Ch. 1 before whom while he was in his attendance at Oatlands he preached two Sermons in July 1627 entit Religion and Allegiance on Eccles 8.2 Lond. 1627. qu. and about the same time preached them at his Country cure In the year following on the fourth of May he preached on the same subject in his Church of S. Giles before mention'd for which as also for his former Sermons he was the same year June 14 censur'd in Parliament to be imprisoned fined 1000 l to make submission and to be disinabled to have or enjoy any preferment or office At that time John Pym a busie Man in the House of Commons brought into the House a charge against him that he endeavoured to destroy the King and Kingdom by his Divinity c. On the 21 of the said month he made his submission and in the next month following he was presented by the King to the rich rectory of Stanford Rivers in Essex void by the promotion of Dr. Richard Mountague to the See of Chichester with license to hold it and his other Living with it On the 9. of Jan. following he procured his pardon which in the next month made some stir in the Session of Parliament that then was In the month of May 1633 he was made Dean of VVorcester in the place of Dr. VVill. Juxon promoted to the See of Hereford where he made some alterations for the better in that Church and in Dec. 1635 he was nominated Bishop of S. David on the translation of Dr. Theoph. Field to Hereford On the 28 of February following he was consecrated thereunto by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants in the Chap. at Lambeth where he sate till his function was silenced On the 22. Feb. 1640 were several complaints made against him in the Long Parliament but not for the present prosecuted because the members thereof were employed on greater matters Afterwards the rebellion breaking out he was imprison'd violently persecuted from place to place lost all his Spiritualities and had only some small temporal Estate left to maintain him and his Family He was a person that had some curiosity in learning but greater zeal for the Church of England He was of a pious life and conversation charitable and tho with Sibthorpe accounted a Sycophant by the Puritans yet by the Royallists he was esteemed worthy of the function of a Bishop He finished his course at Caermerthen after he had
use of him he having then an eye upon his Brother George in Scotland whom his family had obliged likewise I say that this good benefice being bestowed on him he was by his Brothers interest fix'd therein and ready to perform what laid in his power to serve the interest of the Royal Family In 1659 he agitated with his said Brother by Letters to and soon after in Person in Scotland in order to influence him for the restauration of K. Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms being put upon it chiefly by the said Sir Jo Greenvill and some of the Gentry in the West who were of kin to Monke So happy it was for his Maj. to employ the said Sir John and so lucky for him to send his Clerk Mr. Monke thither where he omitted nothing of his instructions but prudently managed them as may reasonably be inferred from the good effect they had Thus did the sense of allegiance and the love of his Country prevail with his Brother against all hazards And if I should speak right the revenge of slights was some part of grain in the Scales In the year following 1660 his endeavours and desires being effected he was by the interest of the said Sir John minded thereunto by Gen. Monke made Provost of Eaton Coll in the month of June then or lately enjoyed by Nich. Lockyer sometimes Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell lately Protect In the beginning of Aug. following he was actually created Doctor of Divinity by vertue of the Kings Letters sent to the University for that purpose and soon after being nominated by his Majesty to the See of Hereford which had laid void for 14 years by the death of George Cook he was consecrated thereunto on the sixth day of January Epiphany day in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Archb. of York Bishops of Durham Chichester Lincolne and Peterborough But before he had enjoyed that See a full year he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in the Old Pallace-yard in Westminster on the seventeenth of December in sixteen hundred sixty and one whereupon his body was buried on the twentieth of the said month in S. Edmunds Chappel within the Precincts of the said Church of S. Peter In the See of Hereford succeeded Dr. Herbert Croft of whom may future mention be made and of his works as to learning BRIAN DUPPA sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1638 translated to Salisbury in 1641 and thence to Winchester in 1660. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 176. He was so bountiful in his Legacies to Ch. Church that the money might serve to found a new and not to compleat an old College He left Legacies to Allsouls Coll to the Cath. Churches of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester and erected an Hospital at his own charge in the place of his nativity as I have elsewhere told you Over the door of which may this be engraven That a poor Bishop vowed this House but a great and wealthy one built it In the See of Winchester succeeded Dr. George Morley of whom I have made large mention among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 581. JOHN GAUDEN sometimes of Wadham College was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the 2. of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent an 1660 and translated thence to Worcester on Morleys going to Winchester in the beginning of 1662 in which year in Septemb. he died See more of him among the Writers under the same year p. 207. In the said See of Worcester succeeded Dr. John Earle and him Dr. Rob. Skinner as I shall tell you anon under the year 1670. ROBERT SANDERSON sometimes Fellow of Lincolne College was consecrated Bishop of Lincolne on the 28 of Octob. 1660 and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 213. He was succeeded in the said Bishoprick by Dr. Benj. Laney Bishop of Peterborough who after he had sate there four years was translated to Ely WILLIAM JUXON son of Rich. Juxon of Chichester son of John Juxon of London was born as 't is said within the City of Chichester in Sussex educated in Merchant Taylors School became Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in 1598 and Bach. of the Civil Law in 1603 being about that time a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London Soon after he took holy Orders and in the latter end of the year 1609 he was made Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon where continuing about six years he was much frequented for his edifying way of preaching In 1621 he was elected President of his College and in the next year he proceeded in the Civil Law In 1626 and after he did execute the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in January 1627 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Jos Hall promoted to the See of Exeter On the 10. of July 1632 he was at Dr. Lauds suit then Bishop of London sworn Clerk of his Majesties Closet which office was by that great person procured for him to the end that he might have one that he might trust near his Majesty if he grew weak or infirm In the beginning of the year 1633 he was elected Bishop of Hereford in the place of Dr. Franc. Godwin deceased was about that time made Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the translation of Dr. Laud to the See of Cant. which was on the 19 of Sept. the same year he was translated to London that City being then in its height of giddiness and faction About that time he was called to be one of his Majesties Privy Council who finding him to be a person of uprightness and justice did confer upon him the great office of Lord Treasurer on Sunday the sixth of Mar. 1635. Which office no Churchman had since Hen. 7 time as Doct. Laud observes who adds this I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour and the King and the state service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more In this office which he enjoyed till 1641 he kept the Kings Purse when necessities were deepest and clamours loudest to the great content of all that had to do with him In the time of the rebellion began and carried on by the restless Presbyterians he suffer'd as other Bishops did was outed of the House of Lords with his Brethren and lost the Lands belonging to his Bishoprick as the rest did In 1648 he had the honour and happiness if it may be so called to attend K. Ch. 1.
favour he had free access Nor was he less careful to obtain the like access for him to the Records in the Tower of London by his interest with old Mr. Collet the chief Clerk at that time there under Sir John Burroughs whom he amply rewarded with sundry kind gratuities for his friendliness in assisting Mr. Dugdale with what he thought proper for his purpose from those rarities there reposed He also about that time was introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Sir Tho. Cotton Baronet whereby he had free access to that incomparable Library in his house near Westminster Hall began and set up by his father that noted Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton Baronet where finding rare MSS. and original Charters in that incomparable Treasury made such Collections thence as were of singular use in several Volumes which have since been made publick by the press He was likewise introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Mr. Scipio Squire then one of the Vicechamberlains of the Exchequer thro whose kindness and favour he had access to that venerable Record called Domesday-book as also to the Fines Plea-Rolls and sundry other Records remaining in the Treasury there Nor was Sir Christ Hatton backward in giving him all possible encouragement in those his studies For having seconded Sir H. Spelman in recommending him to the Earl of Arundel that Earl sent for him in Septemb. following an 1638 and obtained the Kings Warrant to create him a Pursevant at Arms extraordinary by the title of Blanch Lyon and thereupon so created him at the Kings royal Pallace of Richmond in Surrey upon the 24 of that instant Sept. Also upon the removal of Mr. Edw. Walker then Pursevant called Rogue-Croix to the Office of Chester Herald his Lordship obtained his Majesties Letters Pat. for creating him Rogue-Croix Pursevant in ordinary bearing date 18 of Mar. 1639. By which means having a Lodging in the Heralds Office and some benefit by funerals and other ways with the yearly Salary of 20 l. out of the Kings Exchequer for his support he thenceforth spent the greatest part of his time in London in order to the augmenting his Collections out of the Records in the Tower and other places in and near the said City till by the influence of a very forward and predominant Party in the most unhappy Parliam that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which aiming at the subversion of Religion established which came afterwards to pass and unjustifiable extirpation of monarchick Government whereby nothing less could be expected than the profaning of all places of Gods publick Worship destruction of monuments in Churches and defacing whatsoever was beautiful and ornamental therein the said Mr. Dugd. therefore receiving encouragement from Sir Chr. Hatton before mention'd then a member of the H. of C. for Higham-Ferres in Northamptonsh who timely foresaw the near approaching storm did in the summer time 1641 taking with him one Will. Sedgwick a skilful Arms-painter repair first to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London and next to the Abbey Church of Westminster and there made exact draughts of all the monuments in each of them copied the Epitaphs according to the very letter as also of all Arms in the Windows or cut in stone All which being done with great exactness Mr. Dugdale rode to Peterborough in Northamptonshire Ely Norwich Lincoln Newark upon Trent Beverley Southwell Kingston upon Hull York Selby Chester Lichfield Tanworth Warwick and did the like in all those cathedral collegiate conventual and divers other parochial Churches wherein any tombs and monuments were to be found to the end that the memory of them in case if that ruin then eminent might come to pass might be preserved for future and better times As it was feared so it soon after fell out all things thro the influence of the predominant party in that Parliament looking every day more and more that way insomuch as in the middle of January following the King himself his Queen and royal issue forc'd by tumults were constrained to betake themselves for safety to other places viz. the King Prince and Duke of York unto the City of York and the Queen to her own relations in France His Majesty being therefore necessitated at that time to continue in those northern parts where many of the Nobility attended him he did by his Warrant under his royal Signet manual bearing date 1 June 1642 command the said Mr. Dugdale forthwith to repair thither to him according to the duty of his place Upon the reception of which he obeyed and continued at York till about the middle of July at which time he received his Majesties farther command to attend Spencer Earl of Northampton then L. Lieutenant of the County of Warwick who was endeavouring to secure the chief places of that County and near it and to disperse the Forces under the Lord Brook which he had gathered together for the Parliament by the Trained-Band Soldiers and other loyal persons under him But they having secur'd the Castles of Banbury and Warwick Mr. Dugdale did by command from his Maj. who was advised at York of their proceedings in his Coat of Arms with a Trumpet sounding before him repair to those Castles and required them to disband and to deliver up their Arms requiring also the said L. Brook and his Adherents to disband c. Accordingly the Castle of Banbury with all the Arms and Ammunition therein were delivered up but the Castle of Warwick being a place of more strength and defended by a greater number of Soldiers under the command of Sir Edw. Peto of Chesterton in that County Knight they did contemn the said Summons c. Afterwards when the King marched southward from York and had taken up his quarters for some time at Stonley house about 4 miles distant from Coventry on the 19 of Aug. 1642 Mr. Dugdale did by his Majesties special Warrant dated the next day summon the said City of Coventry a little before taken in for the use of the Parliament with his Coat bearing the Kings Arms thereon and a Trumpet sounding before him to the end that the Defenders deliver up their Arms to his Majesty and depart peaceably to their respective homes c. but they obstinately denying his Summons he proclaimed them Traytors and forthwith returned Afterwards he attended the King at Kineton commonly called Edghill in Warwickshire where the grand battel between him and his Army and that belonging to the Parliament was fought on the 23 of Oct. 1642. Which battel being finished and the royal party victorious he attended his Maj. to Oxon and thence to Reading and Brainford his Maj. intending for London but finding the power of the Rebels much recruited by the Inhabitants of that populous City he did after some skirmishes had at Brainford where the royal party took many Prisoners return to Oxford fix his chief residence there and fortified that City with Bulwarks for the better
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 pâ—rf 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 Edghâ—ll 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 Norrâ—y 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.
in the Parliament sitting at Westminster being then Serjeant Major and in the next year he sate as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon. George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire He also left that Parliament retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliam 1643. On the said first of Nov. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts among whom towards the latter end of the solemnity when it grew dark some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created which was signed by his Majesty One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot mostly educated in France but at this time 1642 actually in Armes for his Majesty and soon after was an Officer Some years after the declining of the Kings cause he setled for altogether in Oxon read and taught the French language to young Scholars and for their use wrot and published 1 Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae Oxon 1659. in tw Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner 2 Dialogues in French and English c. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was had his principles been sound which were not and therefore in some respects he debauched young men died by a fall down stairs in S. Johns Coll. where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society on the 28. of January 1668 whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon. Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Maries Hall He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ Law Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesties Attillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning was born in his Fathers house in Goldsmiths Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London on the 18. of Sept. 1618 Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq a Native of the City of Oxon and Clerk of his Majesties Ordnance within the Kingdom of England Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University but descended from the antient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire After our author Edw. Sherburne whom I am farther to mention had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned he was privately instructed for a time in his Fathers house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrot a Poem entit The battle of Crescy and Poictiers and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh Lond. 1638 oct written in verse also with The battle of Bosworth who dying about 1640 was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France and was intended for a journey into Italy but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Fathers sickness who not many weeks after his return dyed some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediatly after his death he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesties Ordnance granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince where he lay for several months at great expences and charge of fees till having in the beginning of Oct. following gain'd his Liberty he went immediatly to the King who made him Commissary General of his Artillery In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill and during the four years Civil War while in the mean time he was depriv'd of an estate of 160 l. per an till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland his house plundered and all his personal estate and houshold goods taken away among which was the loss of a study of books as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesties restauration which was great and choice and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in or near London After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention While he continued there you cannot but imagine that he was liable as indeed he was to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication as being a Cavalier which the godly party then called Malignant till at the return of Sir George Savile afterwards Marquess of Halyfax from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns and sometime after by his honorable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad In the beginning of March therefore in 1654 he left England with his charge ran through all France Italy some part of Hungary the greater part of Germany Holland and the rest of the Low Countries and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination by conference with learned persons when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse more than what he could obtain at home After his Majesties restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England after his old sequestrators were dead by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken I mean by that busie man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury so that he was forced to plead the â—ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance After some time of the Kings settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former for by the politick Reducers of the charge of his Majesties revenue and treasure he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an and never received any consideration
be created D. D. but he came not to take it nor was he diplomated Nov. 10. John Earle sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Chaplain to Charles Pr. of Wales Dec. 20. John Arnway of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 20. Thom. Bradley of Exet. Coll. Dec. 20. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. ..... Staunton of Ch. Ch. ..... Hodges of Ch. Ch. These two last were created the same day or at least were allowed their degrees when they would please to call for them but whether they were educated in Ch. Ch. it appears not and therefore I presume they were Strangers that came with and attended the Kings Court lodging now in that house I find one Thom. Hodges to be Rector of Kensington near London before the rebellion broke out a Preacher sometimes before the Long Parliament one of the Ass of Divines and a Covenantier After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of S. Peter's Church in Cornhill London and Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. H. Croft made Bishop thereof an 1661 which Deanery he holding to the time of his death was succeeded therein by Dr. George Benson about Midsummer an 1672. This Tho. Hodges hath extant 1 A Glimps of Gods glory Sermon before the H. of Com. at a solemn Fast 28 Sept. 1642 on Psal 113.5.6 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The growth and spreading of Heresie Fast-serm before the H. of Com. 10 Mar. 1646. on 2 Pet. 2.1 Lond. 1647. qu 3 Inaccessible glory or the impossibility of seeing Gods face whilst we are in the body Serm. at the funeral of Sir Theod. de Mayerne in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields on Friday 30 of Mar. 1655. on Exod. 33.20 Lond. 1655. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I believe him to be the same with Hodges before mentioned who was created D. of D because I cannot find him written or called Doctor till after his Majesties return Another Thom. Hodges I find who was Rector of Soulderne near Deddington in Oxfordshire and Bach. of Divinity not of this University but of that of Cambridge and afterwards one of the Chaplains of Allsouls Coll in the time of Oliver which he kept with his Rectory This person who was also a zealous Presbyterian was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire first admitted into Emanuel Coll and thence taken and made Fellow of that of S. John the Evangelist the Master and Society of which presented him to the Rectory of Soulderne before mention'd When the Act of Uniformity came out he prevailed so much with the said Society that they nominated his friend to be his Successor viz. one Will. Twyne Fellow of the said Coll and then Hodges leaving the place he retired to Okingham in Berks and became Chaplain to the Hospital there where he died and was buried about the month of January 1688 as I have been informed from Soulderne The said Mr. Hodges hath written 1 A Treatise concerning Prayer containing particularly an Apology for the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. in tw 2 A Scripture Catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours of the present times Lond. 1658. oct Besides which two things he hath also several Sermons extant as 1 The hoary head crowned a fun serm on Prov. 16.31 2 The creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hands and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures c in two sermons printed twice at least 3 A cordial against the fear of death preached before the University of Oxon on Heb. 2.15 Oxon. 1659. qu. and one two or more which I have not yet seen This Thomas Hodges tho he lived in Oxon several years yet he was neither incorporated or took any degree in Divinity Dec. 20. Edw. Wolley M. of A. or Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and at this time one of the Chapl. to his Majesty was actually created Doct. of Div. He was born in the antient borough of Shrewsbury educated in the Kings School there transplanted thence to St. Johns Coll. in the said University where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards adhering to the cause of his Majesty retired to Oxon to attend and preached sometimes before him there When his Majesties cause declined he suffered as other Royallists did attended his Son in his adverse fortune while he himself endured great misery After the return of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of a Church in Essex Finchingfield I think to settle the inhabitants thereof in loyal principles and to undo and invalidate the doctrine which that most notorious Independent Steph. Marshall had instil'd into them In 1665 he was promoted to the Episcopal See of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland to which being consecrated at Titam on the 16. of Apr. the same year sate there for some time and was held in great veneration for his admirable way Of preaching and exemplary life and conversation Among several things that he hath extant are these 1 Eulogia The Parents blessing their Children and the Children begging on their knees their Parents blessings are pious actions warrantable by the word of God and practiced by Gods saints and servants Lond. 1661. c. oct 2 Eudoxia A module of private prayers or occasional helps in retired devotions Printed with the former book 3 Loyalty amongst Rebels the true Royallist c. Lond. 1662. oct ... Edmonds M. A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. ... Earskin B. D. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. Both which were actually created the same day Jan. 16. Christoph Prior M. A. of Ball. Coll. On the 24 of Dec. 1641 he was collated to the Prebendship of Slape in the Church of Salisbury in Sept. 1643 he became Prebend of Barton Davy in the Church of Wells and in the latter end of the same year Principal of New Inn in the place of Christoph Rogers who some time before had fled from Oxon to the Parliament This person who was always esteem'd a good Greecian and well furnish'd with other parts of learning dyed about half a year before his Majesties return and thereby prevented not only his restauration to what he had lost for the Kings cause but his promotion to higher Dignities Will. O' dis of New Coll. sometimes Proctor of the University was actually created the same day He was afterwards slain by the Parliament Soldiers without any provocation given on his part between Adderbury in Oxfordshire of which place he was Vicar and the Garrison of Oxon about 1644. Jan. 16. Henry Ancketyll of Wadh. Coll. Jan. 16. Hugh Halswell of All 's Coll. Jan. 16. Joh. Metelfer or Meltalfer of Cambr. Jan. 16. Edw. Hyde of Cambr. The last of these four I take to be the same Edward Hyde who is mention'd in Alexander Hyde among the Bishops nu 34. ... Fowler of Ch. Ch. was created the same day On Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch. took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1637 as I have in the Fasti of that year told you So that if the said Fowler be the
in our fortifications c. among the created Doctors of Div. 1661. Oct. 17. John Poston Oct. 17. Cave Beck The last of these two hath published The universal character by which all nations may understand one another Lond. 1657. oct and perhaps other things Dec. 9. John Coke or Cook Jan. 31. Dan. Southmead Bac. of Arts of this University was then created Master Mar. 18. Will. Zanchie who had rendred both his life and fortunes in the Kings service under the command of Richard Vicount Molineaux and thereby had lost time in the University was actually created Mast of Arts by vertue of the Kings Letters dat 10. of Jan. this year Bach. of Phys Oct. 17. Franc. Metcalf of S. Maries Hall Feb. 8. John Catchpole of Christs Coll. in Cambridge Bach. of Div. Oct. 17. James Bardsey He was a stranger as it seems and the only Bach. of Div. that was created this year In the month of May it was granted to Edw. Willisford then absent that he might be created when he came to the University but whether he came or was admitted it appears not perhaps he was the same Mr. Willisford who was lately ejected from Peter house in Cambridge for denying the Covenant Doct. of Law Apr. 12. George Owen one of the Heralds of Armes by the title of York May 29. Rich. Colchester was then also actually created He is stiled in the publick reg dignissimus vir and de republica optime meritus One Rich. Colchester of Westbury in Glocestershire Esq was one of the six Clerks in the High Court of Chancery and died in the troublesome times about 1646 whether the same Quaere June 16. Jeffry Palmer of the Middle Temple Esq This worthy Gentleman who was son of Thom. Palmer of Carleton in Northamptonshire by Catherine his wife daughter of Sir Edw. Watson of Rockingham Kt sister to the first Lord Rockingham was chosen Burges for Stanford in Lincolnshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he was a manager of the evidence against Thomas Earl of Strafford and seemed to be an enemy to the prerogative But afterwards he perceiving full well what mad courses the members of the said Parliament took he boldly delivered his mind against the printing of that Declaration called the Grand remonstrance for which he was committed to custody in Nov. 1642. Afterwards being freed thence he retired to Oxon sate in the Parliament there and was esteemed a loyal and able person in his profession Upon the declining of the Kings cause he suffered as other Royallists did lived obscurely in England and upon pretence of plotting with the Cavaliers against Oliver the Protector he was imprison'd in the Tower of London in the month of May 1655. On the 31. of May 1660 his Majesty being then newly restored he was made Attorney General and about that time chief Justice of Chester and a Knight and on the 7 of June following he was created a Baronet He hath collected and written Reports bearing this title Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer Chevalier Baronet c. Lond. 1678. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hamsted in Middlesex on the fifth day of May an 1670 aged 72 whereupon his body being conveyed to the Hall of the Middle Temple laid there in state for a time attended by three Heralds of Armes Afterwards it was conveyed to the Seat of his Ancestors at Carleton in Northamptonshire before mention'd and there buried in a Vault under part of the Parish Church What inscription there is for him over his sepulcher I cannot tell sure I am that Dr. Thom. Pierce hath composed a most noble epitaph on him as also on his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Franc. More of Fawley in Berks who died on the 16. of the Cal. of May 1655 aged 47 years but it being too long for this place I shall only give you the beginning Galfridus Palmer vir ad omnia praesertim optima usque quaeque comparatus c. July 18. John Philipot Herald of Armes by the title of Somerset This person who was of Eltham in Kent was born at Folkston in that County and having a genie from his childhood to Heraldry and Antiquities was from being an Officer of Armes extraordinary called Blanch Lyon created Officer in ordinary called Rouge-Dragon 19 of Nov. 1618 and on the 8. July 1624 Herald by the title of Somerset In which capacity he was employed by his Majesty to make a presentation of the most noble Order of the Garter to his Highness Charles Lodowick Prince Elector in the Army at Bockstell or Bockstall in Brabant In the beginning of the Presbyterian rebellion in 1642 he was one of those Loyal Heralds who followed his Majesty was with him at Oxon but took up his quarters two miles distant thence at a place called Chawley in the Parish of Comnore where being seized on by certain Parliament Soldiers of the Garrison of Abendon was conveyed thence a Prisoner to London in 1644 or thereabouts But being soon after set at liberty he spent the short remainder of his days in London in great obscurity At length yielding to nature I cannot say in want was buried within the precincts of S. Bennets Church near to Paulswharf on the 25 of Nov. 1645. He hath written 1 Catalogue of the Chancellours of England the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurers of England With a collection of divers that have been Masters of the Rolls Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Additions to Will Camdens Remains concerning Britaine Lond. 1637 c. qu. 3 Villare Cantianum or Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the Parishes Boroughs Villages and Mannours of the County of Kent Lond. 1659. fol. Published by and under the name of Thom. Philipot his Son as I have told you among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1640. 4 An Historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent This is added to the said Villare Cautianum He the said Joh. Philipot hath also written as 't is said a book proving that Gentry doth not abate with Apprenticeship but only sleepeth during the time of their indentures and awaketh again when they are expired But this book I have not yet seen Aug. ... Sir John Borough Kt Garter Principal King of Armes His Grace did then pass in a Convocation to be Doctor of the Civil Law but whether he was admitted it appears not as several Creations do not in the publick register This person who was the Son of a Dutch man a Brewer by trade living in Sandwych in Kent as I have been informed at the Office of Armes was educated a Scholar and afterwards in the com Law in Greys Inn but his genie inclining him much to the study of Antiquity he obtained the office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London where by his searches he laid the foundation of certain books In 1623 he by the favour of the
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 â—n 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
at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire because he died in 1638. Thom. Some or Soame D. D. was incorporated also the same day Aug. 12. as he before had stood at Cambridge He had been Fellow of Peter House was now Canon of Windsore Preb. of S. Pauls in London Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex and if I mistake not Rector of Haseley near to and in the County of Oxon in which last Benefice he was succeeded by Dr. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. This Dr. Some who hath one or more Sermons extant died at Stanes as it seems in the beginning of the year 1649 leaving a son then behind him called Henry Will. Beale D. D. sometimes of Pemb. Hall afterwards Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge now one of his Majesties Chaplains was incorporated the same day This most worthy person who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and by him promoted and therefore esteemed an Arminian and popishly affected by the inveterate Puritans did suffer much in the beginning of the Rebellion raised by them as first for his having a hand in gathering and conveying the plate belonging to the University of Cambr. to his Majesty he was violently hurried thence Prisoner to London suffered great indignities from the Rabble in his way thro that City to the Tower where continuing some years was at length exchanged Secondly by being plunder'd and thrown out of his Headship of S. John's Coll. before mentioned for the same reason and for denying their wicked Covenant and lastly sequestred of all other his Spiritualities After his Exchange he fled to Oxon the common Asylum of afflicted Royalists where he exercised his function sometimes before his Majesty and at other times before the remnant or the royal Court there remaining After the Kings Cause declined he went beyond the Seas where he died heart-broken in 1651. or thereabouts David Stokes D. D. of the said Univ. was incorporated the same day This most loyal Doctor was educated in the College School at Westminster and thence elected into Trin. Coll. in the same University an 1610 afterwards he was Fellow of Peter House Fellow of Eaton Coll Canon of Windsore and Rector of Binfield in Berks All which preferments he losing in the time of the Rebellion was put to his shifts as other Royalists were retired to Oxon for refuge and there exercised his function for a time as others did After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost lived several years in great quiet and repose with much content to himself and died 10 of May 1669. He hath written and published 1 An explication of the twelve minor Prophets Hosea Joel c. wherein the difficult places are unfolded the seeming contradictions are reconciled according to the best Commentators now extant c. Lond. 1659. oct 2 Verus Christianus Or directions for private devotions and retirements with an Appendix containing some private Devotions of Bishop Andrews never before extant Oxon 1668 in tw 3 Several sermons which I have not yet seen nor his Truths champion c. pr. in oct George Bardsey D. D. of Qu. Coll. in the said Univers was also then Aug. 12. incorporated He died in Oxon in January 1645 and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in that chancel commonly called The College chancel in S. Michaels Church joyning to the north gate of the said City Aug. 12. .... Peake D. D. of Cambr. Aug. 12. .... Andrews D. D. of Cambr. The christian name of the first of these I cannot yet recover and therefore I can say nothing of him The other I take to be Nich. Andrews whom I have mention'd among the Incorporations in the first vol. an 1626. p. 853. Aug. 12. Brian Walton D. of D. of the same University was also then incorporated This most learned and loyal Doctor was born in Cleavland in the North Riding of Yorkshire an 1600 admitted first in Magd. Coll. under Mr. Joh. Gooch as a Sizer or Servitour and thence removing to Peter House under one Mr. Blake 4 Dec. 1616 took the degree of M. of A. as a member thereof an 1623. About that time or before he taught school in Suffolk and served as a Curate there Thence he removed to London and lived for a little time under the rev and learned Divine Mr. Rich Stock Rector of Allhallows Breadstreet in London After his death he became Rector of S. Martins Orgar in the said City and of Sandon in Essex at both which places he was highly valued by the orthodox party for his Learning and Religion In 1639 he commenced D. of D at which time he was Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral Chaplain to his Majesty and a person of great esteem especially for his skill in the Common Laws of this Realm so far I mean as they related to the patrimony and liberties of the Church as it appears by a little book written by him in defence of the Tithes within the City of London according to the proportion of two shillings and nine pence the pound rent Upon the breaking out of the diabolical Rebellion he was assaulted by the faction abused sequestred and forced to fly Whereupon retiring to Oxford he did there lay the ground of a most noble design which afterwards he did live to accomplish For upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he returned to London and residing with his father in law Dr. Will. Fuller then a great sufferer for the royal cause as he was he had time and leisure at command as being debar'd the exercising of his ministerial function tho often disturb'd for his loyalty of proceeding in the work with the advice of the most learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland his said father in law Dr. Bruno Ryves and some others residing in London yet not without the leave and license of Dr. Juxon Bishop of that City I say that this most worthy person Dr. B. Walton being most eminent for his learning especially in the holy Scriptures and Eastern Languages did undertake and happily perform the publishing of the Biblia Polyglotta printed at Lond. in six volumes in folio an 1657 wherein the sacred Text was by his singular care and oversight printed not only in the vulgar Latine but also in the Hebrew Syriake Chaldea Samaritan Arabick Aethiopick Persick and Greek Languages each having its peculiar Latin translation joyned therewith and an Apparatus fitted for each for the better understanding of those tongues In this great Work tho he met with infinite disturbances and discouragements by reason of the times wherein the Usurping Powers ruled and a multitude of other difficulties yet he most happily accomplished it in about four years space which when published was by the generality of Scholars esteemed the most absolute and famous edition of the Bible that the Christian World had or is like to enjoy In this most noble work so far as concerned the correcting of it while at the Press and in collating
was admitted Master See among the created Bach. of Phys 1649. Dec. 8. Joh. Rowe of Cambridge in Old England Two days after he was admitted Master as I have before told you Mast of Arts. Seven or more Masters of the said Univ. of Cambridge were incorporated but such obscure persons they were that nothing can be said of them Oct. 10. Will. Hamilton M. A. of the Univ. of Glascow in Scotland This person who was noted among the Presbyterians for a learned man was put in Fellow of All 's Coll. this year by the Visitors but left it in 1651 because he refused the Independent Oath called the Engagement Afterwards he took his rambles setled and had some place bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Among several things that he hath written is a Pamphlet intit Some necessity of reformation c. Printed 1660 1 in reply to a Pamphlet written by the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson intit No necessity of Reformation c. in answer to Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation c. See in Corn. Burges p. 237 in Hen. Savage p. 366 and in Jo. Biddle p. 198. There were also 4 English-men who were Masters of Arts of the University of S. Andrew incorporated but not one of them was afterwards a Writer Bishop or man of note Two of them were at present of Merton Coll who afterwards were prefer'd by the Visitors to be Fellows of Colleges in the places of Royalists ejected viz. one of Wadh. and another of Brasn Coll. Doct. of Phys Apr. 14. Edm. Trench Anglo-Nordovicensis Doct. of Physick of Bourges in France He took that degree there in 1638. John Micklethwait a Yorksh. man born who had taken the degree of Doct. of Phys at Padua in Italy 1638 was incorporated also the same day Apr. 14. He was now one of the Coll. of Physitians was several years after President thereof Physitian in ord to K. Ch. 2 from whom he received the honour of Knighthood and dying on Friday 28 July 1683 aged 70 years was buried in the lower end of the Church on the north side of S. Botolph without Aldersgate London George Rogers of Linc. Coll. Doct. of Phys of Padua was incorporated the same day Apr. 14. He is now as I conceive or at least was lately President of the Coll. of Physitians hath published certain things and therefore is to be remembred hereafter Oct. 13. Rob. Waydesden Doct. of Phys of Cambridge was then incorporated CREATIONS There were two or more Creations this year in all faculties which were called the Pembrockian Creations because they were made by the command of Philip Earl of Pembroke Chancellour of the University while he continued in Oxon to brake open Lodgings and give possession to the new Heads of the Presbyterian Gang. The Creations were made on the 12 14 and 15 of April and those that were not then created are not to be numbred among those of Pembrockian Creations Bach. of Arts. Twenty and three were created of which ten were of Magd. Hall yet but two were afterwards Writers as I can yet find viz. Apr. 15. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. Apr. 15. Tho. Neast of Magd. Hall The last was afterwards made Fell. of New Coll. by the Visitors See more among the Masters an 1650. Bach. of Law Apr. 14. Benjamin Needler of S. Johns Coll. He was the only person that was created Bach. of Law He is mentioned among the Writers under the year 1682. Mast of Arts. Among 61 Masters that were created are these following Apr. 12. Charles Dormer Earl of Caernarvan Grandson by the Mother to Philip Earl of Pembroke Apr. 12. James Herbert Sons of the Earl of Pembroke Apr. 12. John Herbert Sons of the Earl of Pembroke Apr. 12. Sir Will. Cobbe of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Visitors of the Univ. appointed by the Parliam Apr. 12. Will. Tipping of Draycot Esq in Oxfordshire Visitors of the Univ. appointed by the Parliam Apr. 12. Joh. Cartwright of Aynoe in Northamptâ—shire sometimes of Brasn Coll. Visitors of the Univ. appointed by the Parliam Apr. 12. Joh. Wilkinson Gent. Visitors of the Univ. appointed by the Parliam All these besides three more whose Christian names occur not were presented by Sir Nath. Brent to the new Vicechanc. Dr. Reynolds at which time the Chancellour of the Univ. sate in the supream chair in the Convocation-house Apr. 14. Lieut. Col. Tho. Kelsey commonly called Colonel Kelsey now Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon for the Parliament was then actually created M. of A. This person who had been a mean Trader in Birchin-Lane in London a godly Button-maker as I have heard was a great Creature of Ol. Cromwell who made him a Commissioner of the Admiralty worth 500 l. per an and Major Gen. for Kent and Surrey the Salary for one of which Counties came to 666 l. 13 s. 4 d per an besides the Revenues due to him as being Governour of Dover Castle After his Majesties restauration when then he was deprived of all his places he took upon him the trade of Brewing in London lived at least 20 years after and died but in a mean condition as I have heard Francis Allen a Captain in Oxford Garrison was created the same day He afterwards lived at or near Abendon and died but in a sorry condition One of both his names a Goldsmith in Fleetstreet London son of the poor Vicar of Gretton in Northamptonshire was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and a constant Rumper but whether of any kin to the Captain I cannot tell Thom. Wait another Judge of the said King was the son of an Ale-house Keeper of Market Overton but he was not created Latimer Cross lately Manciple of Magd. Hall now Steward of Magd. Coll. He died 3 Dec. 16â—7 and was buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel whereupon his Stewardship was bestowed by the then President on a godly brother called Elisha Coles Francis Howell of Exet. Coll. He was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University moral Philosophy Reader and at length Principal of Jesus Coll. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell as being an Independent to the purpose After his Majesties restauration he was turn'd out of his Principality so that living mostly in and near London a Nonconformist and a Conventicler died at Bednal Green in Middlesex on the 8 or 10 of Mar. 1679. Afterwards his body being conveyed to the phanatical Burying-place joyning to the New Artillery yard near London was there buried in the presence of a great many Dissenters Sam. Lee of Magd. Hall was created also the same day He was afterwards made Fellow of Wadham Coll became a Writer and Publisher of several Books and is now living in New England John Milward of New Inn was created the same day Apr. 14. This person who was soon after made Fell. of C. C. Coll. by the Visitors continued always after a Nonconformist and died so Under his name is published a Sermon intit How we ought to love our neighbour as
Presbyterian was now 1648 a forward Preacher up of the cause in the Church of S. Martin and in that of Allsaints within the City of Oxon. His usual form of prayer for the King before his Sermons was that if God took any pleasure in him he would do so and so c. When he was created Bach. of Div. he took the oath of Allegiance but with this salvo I take this Oath so far forth as it doth not contradict the national Covenant Feb. 9. George Marshall M. of A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge a Student in Divinity for twenty years at least Chaplain to the Garrison of Oxon belonging to the Parliament and the designed and nominated Warden of New Coll was then also created Johan Progulbicki born in the Province or Dukedome of Samogitie in Poland was created the same day He was now or at least lately Deacon or Catechist of the Church of Keidun in the said Dukedome and one of the Scholars of the illustrious Prince Janusius Radzevill the chief Fautor and Patron of the reformed Church in those part This Progulbicki had spent before this time four years in several Universities in Germany and Holland Mar. 8. Isaac Knight Chaplain to Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parliament Army Doct. of Law April 14. Samuel Aneley of Qu Coll. This person who wrot himself afterwards and was called by the name of Annesley because it is the same with a noble name hath written and published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers He is now or at least was lately living a Nonconformist Divine either in or near London See in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 404. b. Jan. 5. John Miils LL. Bach. one of the Visitors and Canon of Ch. Ch. He had been lately Judge Advocate of the Parliament Army and was this year put into possession of his Canonry but in 1651 being turned out thence for denying the Oath called the Engagement Ambr. Vpton succeeded as I have before told you On the 13. of March 1659 he was restored to his Canonry by the Rump Parliament with the secluded members added to them but soon after upon his Majesties restauration he was forced to leave it to make room for Dr. Edw. Pococke See Hist Antiq. Vniv Ox lib. 2. p. 259. a. 261. a. Soon after by the favour of Dr. Edward Reynolds he became Chancellour of Norwich and died in or near Doctors Commons in London about the beginning of the year 1676. Doct. of Phys April 12. Joh. Palmer alias Vaulx Bach. of Phys of Queens Coll now a Recruiter of the Long Parliament was actually created Doct. in the presence of the Chancellour The next day he was put into possession of the Lodgings belonging to the Warden of All 's Coll. by the said Chancellour and Visitors Dr. Sheldon the Warden being then dismist by them and imprison'd See Hist Antiq. Vniv Ox. lib. 1. p. 402. b. 403. a. Apr. 14. Tobie Garbrand alias Herks Bach. of Phys and Principal of Gloc. Hall was also actually created In 1660 he being turn'd out from his Principality he retired to Abendon in Berks practised his faculty there and dying 7. Apr. 1689 was buried in S. Helens Church in that Town Samuel Thompson of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of Will. Thomp of Westbury in Wilts Minister of Gods word wrot Exercitations and Meditations on some texts of holy Scripture and most in Scripture phrase and expression Lond. 1676. oct In the title of this book he writes himself Master of Arts and Doct. of Physick but whether he was Mast of Arts of this University it appears not in the publick register April 14. John French of New Inn. I have spoken of him at large among the Writers Apr. 15. Peter Dormer of Magd. Hall He was the fifth Son of Fleetwood Dormer of Grange in Bucks and a Neighbour and Relation to the Earl of Caernarvan Feb. 9. Humphrey Whitmore of S. Maries Hall was then created by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation from Fairfax the General now Lord Fairfax which say that he is a Physitian of note and eminency in those Cities and Towns where he hath lived and that he hath been a member of both Vniversities c. Mar. 8. Abraham Huard alias Lomprè sometimes of the University of Caen in Normandy was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that his affections to the cause of the Parliament have exposed him to sufferings That he is a Protestant of France and his quality and sufferings have been made known to me by persons of honour Gentlemen of quality and Physitians of this Kingdom as also by one Mr. Joh. Despaigne one of the French Ministers of London c. Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Edward Reynolds M. A. Dean of Ch. Church by order of Parliament and actually put into possession of it by the breaking open the doors belonging to the Dean in the morn of this day by the Chancellour Visitors and a band of the Soldiers of the Garrison of Oxon was declared Doct. of Div in a Convocation held in the afternoon by order of Parliament He was not presented Doctor according to the usual manner and custome only stood near the Chancellours Chair while the order of the said Parliament was reading And the reason for this unusual way was because there was no Vicechancellour to whom he should be presented and if he had been presented to the Chancellour he could not have returned any Latine for he understood it not After the said order was read and he seated among the Doctors another was produced by vertue of which he was to be Vicechancellour which being read he was admitted by Sir Nathan Brent as I have before told you in the beginning of this year and thereupon he took his place Apr. 12. Rob. Harris Bach. of Div. of Magd. Hall The next day he was put into possession of the Presidents lodings of Trinity Coll by the breaking open the doors thereof a little before which time the old and loyal President had withdrawn himself to avoid imprisonment Afterwards he removed his family to the said Lodgings but before they were setled there three quarters of a year the new President employed a Painter to do some work there for him in the week before that of the Act if one had been solemnized an 1649. Which Painter pulling down some old boards and shelves found two bags sealed and a paper in the mouth of each which signified that there was an 100 l. in each bag And tho they were covered with dust about half an inch thick yet Dr. Harris and his Wife solely addicted to money and reformation presently own'd them and said confidently that they were theirs but oportet mendacem esse memorem For first he had not been setled in his Lodgings scarce 3 quarters of a year and the baggs were so old and overcovered with dust as if they had laid there 40 years
any thing else of him only that he was a fiery violent and hot-headed Independent a cross and ill natur'd man and dying on the 20 of Octob. 1680 aged 77 years was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster in the Parish of which he had before lived several years CREATIONS The Creations this year were made in all faculties especially in that Creation called by some the Fairfaxian Creation that is that Creation which was made when the Lord Fairfax Generalissimo of the Parliam Army and his Lieut. Gen. Cromwell were created Doctors of Law and when others afterwards were created by the said Generals nomination when he was entertained by the then Members of the University Bach. of Arts. May 19. Robert Scrope lately made Fellow of Linc. Coll. by the Visitors was then actually created Bach. of Arts being done in the same Convocation that Fairfax and Cromwell were created Doctors of the Civil Law as I shall tell you by and by He was a younger son of Adrian Scrope of Wormesley in Oxfordshire Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Hart Hall and afterwards a noted Puritan which made him take up Arms for the blessed Cause in the beginning of the Presbyterian Rebellion in which being first a Captain was at length a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse When K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was tried for his life by a pack of Hell-Hounds this person sate and was one of his Judges in that dismal Tragedy and afterwards signed the bloody Warrant for severing his head from his body Just after his Majesties restauration Sir Rich. Browne soon after elected L. Mayor of Lond. did accidentally meet him in the Speakers Chamber to whom I suppose he came to surrender himself upon his Maj. Proclamation and when the said R. Browne was acquainted who he was he drew up and said to him What a sad case have we brought this Kingdom unto Whereupon Scrope answer'd Why Saith Browne then Do you not see how it is ruined now the King is murthered c. To which Scrope made answer I will not make you my Confessor or words to the same effect All which being witnessed against him at his Tryal as words to justifie what he had done Browne being then L. Mayor elect were the chief Cause of his Execution otherwise as 't was then thought he would only have suffer'd perpetual imprisonment and the loss of his Estate as many others of the same Gang did He suffer'd by hanging drawing and quartering with Tho. Scot Greg. Clement and Joh. Jones at Charing Cross on the 17 of Octob. 1660 Whereupon his Quarters were not hanged up as others were but given to his Relations to be buried His death was then much pityed by many because he was a comely person beg'd the Prayers of all good people and that he was of a noble and antient family being descended from the Scropes Barons of Bolton After his death were printed under his name his Speech and Prayer spoken at the Gallows May 31. Aubrey Thompson of Qu. Coll. He was then created by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon. Jul. 14. Franc. Blackwall an Assistant to or an Officer about a Captain in the Parl. Army He is stiled in the common Register Optimae indolis eruditionis Adolescens In 1657 I find one Capt. Blackwall to be Treasurer of the Army whether the same I cannot tell Mar. 14. Edw. Reynolds lately of Merton now of Magdalen Coll. He was about this time made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors See among the Doct. of Div. an 1676. 20. Brook Bridges of Glâ—c Hall lately a Student of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. He was son of Coll. John Bridges Governour of Warwick and was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors Bach. of Law Jun. 5. Vnton Croke a Captain in the Parl. Army was then created by vertue of a Dispensation from the Delegates of the University This person who was son of Vnton Croke of Merston near Oxon Counsellour at Law descended from the antient family of the Crokes of Chilton in Bucks had been made a Captain or at least a Lieutenant for his ventrous service done in seizing on and carrying away with his party to Abendon Garrison where he was a Soldier many horses belonging to the Royalists of Oxford Garrison while they were grazing in the meadows joyning on the east side to Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Major and in 1658 made High Sheriff of Oxfordshire by Richard and his Council and soon after a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse This is the Gentleman who became infamous to the Royalists and all true generous Hearts for his falsness in denying and breaking the Articles which he had made with the truly loyal Col. Joh. Penruddock when he and his party were taken by him and his at South Molton in Devonshire 15 March 1654 after they had retreated from Salisbury where they first rose at which time they endeavour'd but in vain to redeem the Kingdom from Slavery and Tyranny For this Service done by Croke his father was called to the degree of Serjeant at Law by Oliver by a Writ bearing date 21 of June following and he himself if I mistake not to that of Major of a Reg. of Horse After his Majesties restauration when he and his Reg. were disbanded he was shun'd and hated by Gentlemen and Royallists where he abode whether in Dâ—vonshire from whence he married his wife at Cheddington in Bucks in Oxford or at the Wick in the Parish of Hedington near Oxon or elsewhere He is now or at least was lately living in a gouty condition at or near London He has a younger brother named Charles Croke sometimes Com. of Ch. Ch who after he had taken many rambles been a Soldier and seen the vanities of the World published Youths Vnconstancy c. Lond. 1667. oct Dec. 18. Rob. King lately made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the Visitors was created by vertue of an order from the Delegates of the University This person who was a younger son of Sir Rob King Kt Commissary of the Musters in Ireland in the time of the Lord Lieut. Hen. Cromwell was after his Majesties restauration made a Baronet and elected several times a Parliament-man in that Kingdom He had an elder brother called Henry who was also made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the Visitors and another elder than he named John who was by King Ch. 2. made Baron of Kingston in the same Kingdom Jan. 18. Peter Pett of All 's Coll. was admitted by vertue of an Order from the said Delegates Besides the three before mention'd Rowl Hunt who had been lately made Fellow of the said Coll was created also this year which is all I know of him only that he was a Salopian born Mast of Arts. Those that were created this year Masters of Arts were mostly Officers that attended Fairfax the General and Cromwell his
the Army landed in the Isle of Wight under the command of the said Lieut. Col. Cobbet and coming unexpectedly to Newport the Lieut. Col. did in the first place make enquiry for the quarter of the Governour of that Isle called Col. Rob. Hammond for there at Newprrt he continued while his Majesty was present albeit he was under no restraint to the end that he might secure him and put his Lieut. Col. Is Ewre in his place of trust and government The reason for this intended seizure was not then known for Col. Hammond had all along managed his trust with sufficient circumspection and asperity so as it continued him in the applause of most men in power both in the two Houses of Parl. and the Army insomuch as 't was believed this alteration proceeded principally from the apprehension either the Adjutators or some that influenc'd them had and were not a little jealous that he was at length too much a Courtier which they by no means approved of and from that supposition they thought it the safest way to remove him yet he being premonish'd he evaded Cobbet and at his coming to Westminster had a fair reception by the members of Parliament In this conjecture his Opposits in the Army were mistaken for albeit by his constant attendance most times walking and discoursing with the King whensoever he walk'd for refreshment about the out-works of Carisbrook Castle before he went to Newport to treat with the Commissioners there being none in the Garrison so fit and forward as Hammond it gave him opportunity to ingratiate himself into his Majesties favour yet it made the Army Officers jealous he being solely intrusted with the Person of the King And the truth is he did never forfeit the Kings good opinion of him only when he peep'd into his Scrutore for no good end as 't was supposed which as I have been told by one then present with some aggravations from other hands made the King to design an escape For soon after he made way for his descent out of his Chamber as he farther told me and Horses were provided and placed near the works and a vessel ready for his imbarking but by a corrupted Corporal of the Garrison it took no effect c. Now to return L. Col. Cobbet failing of his first enterprise he made a higher flight for in the morning of the 30. of Nov. 1648 being S. Andrews day he just at break of day did with other Officers in his Company come to the door of the Kings Dressing-room with Anth. Mildmay the Kings Carver Brother to Sir Henry a Parliamentarian and making a great knocking there the King sent James Duke of Richmond then in attendance as Gentleman of the Bedchamber to know what it meant and he enquiring who was there was answer'd by Mildmay that there were some Gentlemen from the Army that were desirous to speak with the King The Duke returned and gave an account to the King but the knocking increasing the King commanded the Duke to let them into his Dressing-room No sooner was that done but Cobbet in the head of them went into his Chamber and made an abrupt and unexpected address to the King letting him know that he had orders to remove him forthwith from Newport The King beheld him with astonishment and interrogated him whether his orders were to remove him to his prison at Carisbroke the Lieut. Col. said no whither then said the King out of the Isle of Wight replied the Lieut. Col but the place he was to remove him to he was not to communicate Vnder favour said the King let me see your orders as to which the L. Col. desired to be excused this business said he is of no ordinary concernment I am not to satisfie any mans enquiry until a fitter season Now was verified his Majesties Maxim that such as will assume the boldness to adventure upon a King must not be thought over modest or timorous to carry on his design His Majesty being thus denied a sight and answer demanded if his orders and instructions were from the Parliament or General of the Army the Lieut. Col. answer was he had them from neither said the King thereupon it may be so seeing you are afraid to shew them But that he had orders or secret instructions for this bold act is not to be doubted for tho there was but one General yet things were at that time so much out of frame both in the Commons House and Army that there were many Commanders The Duke of Richmond Mountague Earl of Lindsey Thomas Earl of Southampton Gentlemen of the Bedchamber and other Nobility several venerable Persons his Chaplains and many of the Kings Houshold servants at that time attending were in a manner confounded at this surprise and unexpected accident yea not a little affrighted with idea's and apprehensions of danger to his Majesties person and the more for that Cobbet refused to satisfie any to what place he would go or what he intended to do with the King other than that no harm or violence should be offer'd to him The Lieut. Col. Cobbet did press the King to take Coach with what convenient speed he could The Coach accordingly was made ready and brought to the door where the King lodged Never at one time was beheld more grief in mens faces or greater fears in their hearts the King being at such a time and in such a manner hurried away they knew not whether But no remedy appearing the Noble men venerable persons and other his Majesties servants approached to kiss the Kings hand and to pour forth their supplications to Almighty God to safeguard and comfort his Majesty in that disconsolate condition His Majesty who at other times was cheerful did at this parting from his friends shew sorrow in his heart by the sadness of his countenance a real sympathy and wrot unto the Lords in Parl. acquainting them with this fresh violence and complaining of the Armies severity to his person The King being now ready to take Coach he asked Cobbet whether he was to have any servants with him To which he made answer only such as were most useful The King then nominated James Harrington and Tho. Herbert to attend him in his Bedchamber and scarce a dozen more for other service And at that time his Majesty taking notice that Herbert had for three days absented himself Harrington told his Majesty that he was sick of an Ague His Majesty then desir'd the Duke of Richmond to send one of his servants to see in what condition he then was and if any thing well to come along with him The Gent. that the Duke sent found him sweating but as soon as he received the message he arose and came speedily to his Majesty who presently took Coach and commanded Harrington Herbert and Mildmay his Carver to come into his Coach and L. Col. Cobbet offering to enter the Coach uninvited his Majesty by opposing with his foot made him sensible of
his rudeness so as with shame he mounted his horse and followed the Coach with his party or guard the Coachman driving as he directed and Captain Merriman a name ill suting with the occasion with another party went foremost The King in this passage shew'd no discomposure at all tho at parting he did and would be asking the Gentlemen in the Coach with him Whether they thought he was travelling they made some simple replies such that served to make his Majesty smile at their innocent conjectures Otherwhile he would comfort himself with what he had granted at the late Treaty with the Commissioners whom he highly praised for their ingenuity and fair deportment at Newport The Coach by the L. Colonels direction went Westward towards Worsley's Tower in Fresh-water Isle and a little beyond Yarmouth Haven About that place his Majesty rested until the Vessel was ready to take him aboard with those few his Attendants The King after an hours stay went aboard a sorrowful spectacle and great example of fortunes inconstancy The wind and tyde favoured him and his company and in less than three hours time they crost that narrow Sea and landed at Hurst Castle or Block-house rather erected by order of K. Hen. 8 upon a spot of earth thrust by nature a good way into the Sea and joyned to the firm land by a narrow neck of Sand which is constantly covered over with loose stones and pebbles Upon both sides of this passage the Sea beats so as at spring tydes and in stormy weather it is formidable and hazardous The Castle has very thick stone walls and the platforms are regular and both have Culverins and Sakers mounted A dismal receptacle it was for so great a Monarch as this King was the greater part of whose life and reign had been prosperous and full of earthly glory Nevertheless it was some satisfaction to his Majesty that his two Houses of Parliament abhor'd this force upon his person having voted that the seizing of the Kings Person and carrying him Prisoner to Hurst Castle was without the privity and consent of either House of Parliament c. The Captain of this wretched place was not unsutabâ—e to it At the Kings going on Shoar in the Evening of the said 30 of Nov. he stood ready to receive him with small observance His look was stern his hair and large beard were black and bushy He held a Partizan in his hand and Switz-like had a great Basket-hilt-sword by his side Hardly could one see a man of more grim aspect and no less robust and rude was his behaviour Some of his Majesties servants were not a little fearful of him and really thought that he was designed for mischief especially when he vapoured as being elevated with his command and puft up by having so royal a Prisoner so as probably he conceived he was nothing inferior to the Governour of the Castle at Millan But being complained off to L. Col. Cobbet his superior Officer he appeared a Bubble for being pretty sharply admonished he quickly became mild and calm whereby 't was visible that his humour or tumour rather was adulatory acted to curry favour wherein also he was much mistaken For to give the L. Colonel his due he was after his Majesty came under his custody very civil to him both in language and behaviour and courteous to those that attended him on all occasions Also that his disposition was not rugged towards such as in loyalty and love came to see and to pray for him as sundry persons out of Hampshire and the neighbouring Counties did His Majesty as it may be well granted was very slenderly accommodated at this place for the Room he usually eat in was neither large nor lightsome insomuch that at noon day in that Winter season candles were set up to give light and at night he had his wax Lamp set as formerly in a silver bason which illuminated the Bedchamber and Tho. Herbert then attending being the sole person at that time left as Groom thereof for Harrington was soon after dismist as I have elsewhere told you he could not otherwise but call to mind a relation well worth the observance which is this as by Letters with several other stories relating to the Kings last two years of his life he very kindly imparted to me When Mountague Earl of Lindsey one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bedchamber did lay one night on a Pallet by the Kings bed-side a little before he left Oxon in a disguise to surrender his person up to the Protection of the Scots then laying seige to Newark upon Trent was placed at the end of his Majesties Bed as was usually every night a Lamp or round cake of wax in a bason set on a stool The Earl awaked in the night and observed the room to be perfectly dark and thereupon raising himself up he looked towards the Lamp and concluded that it might be extinguished by water got into the bason by some creek But he not hearing the King stir he forbore rising or to call upon those in the next chamber to bring in another light About half an hour after he fell asleep again and awaked not till morning but when he did awake he discerned the Lamp bright burning which so astonish'd him that taking the boldness to call to the King whom he heard by his stirring to be awake he told him what he had observed whereupon the King replied that he himself awaking also in the night took notice that all was dark and to be fully satisfied he put by the curtain to look on the Lamp but concluded that the Earl had risen and set it upon the bason lighted again The Earl assured his Majesty he did not The King then said he did consider it was a prognostick of Gods future favour and mercy towards him and his that tho he was at that time ecclipsed yet either he or they may shine out bright again c. But to return in this sad condition was the King at Hurst the place and military persons duly considered He was sequestred in a manner from the comfort that earth and air affordeth and the society of men The earth confin'd him to that promontorie or gravel walk overspread with loose stones a good depth on which when he walked as usually he did was very uneasie and offensive to his feet but endure it he did with his most admirable and accustom'd patience and serenity of spirit and more alacrity than they that followed him The air was equally noxious by reason of the marish grounds that were thereabouts and the unwholsome vapours arising from the â—argosses and weeds which the salt water constantly at tydes and stormes cast upon the shoar and by the foggs that those marine places are most subject to so that the dwellers thereabouts find by experience how that the air is insalubrious and disposing to diseases especially aguish distempers Notwithstanding all these things the King was content in this most
his proceedings James Baron lately made Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. by the Com. and Visitors was created the same day He was Son of George Baron of Plymouth in Devons had been puritanically educated in Exeter Coll and closing with the dominant party in the time of the rebellion got besides his Readers place to be Minister of one of the Hendreths in Berks and by the name of Mr. James Baron of Hendreth he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom the Saints called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Orthodox and Loyal Clergy After his Majesties restauration he retired to London and lived a Nonconformist mostly at or near Bunhill He hath published under the name of Jacobus Baronius a little thing printed on one side of a sheet entit Quaestiones Theologicae in usum Coll. Magd Oxon. Oxon. 1657 And with Thankful Owen did gather and publish the works of Thom. Goodwin in two vol. in fol. and set before them a canting preface He died in the beginning of the year 1683 and was buried as I have been informed near the graves of the Goodwin and Owen in the fanatical burial place near Bunhill-fields and the New Artillery-yard John Dale of Magd. Coll was created the same day June 8. As for Joshua Cross he was not created Bach. of Div. but Doct. of the Civil Law as I shall anon tell you Febr. 16. Sim. Ford of Ch. Ch. was created by dispensation of the Delegates On the 12. of Jan. going before the said Delegates decreed that the said Mr. Ford. sometimes of Magd. Hall who had been expelled the Vniversity with great injury as they said should be restored with all Academical honour imaginable and that his Grace be proposed for Bach. of Divinity c. He proceeded Doct. of Div. in 1665. Mar. 14. Will. Durham sometimes of New Inn now Chaplain to Will. Lenthall Master of the Rolls was created in Convocation by dispensation of the Delegates Doct. of Law May 19. Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Camerone in Scotland Generalissimo of all the Parliament Forces in England and Constable of the Tower of London was created Doctor of the Civil Law being then in Oxford and entertained by the members thereof as Cromwell and divers prime Officers were The ceremony of the Creation was thus After he had been adorned with a scarlet gown in the Apoditerium or Vestry belonging to the Convocation but without hood or cap the new Beadles who had not yet got their silver staves from those that were lately ejected conducted him with Cromwell towards the upper end of the Convocation House the members thereof then standing up bare whereupon Hierom Zanchy one of the Proctors rising from his seat which pro tempore was supplied by a Master and going to and standing on his left side took him by the right hand and presented him in a most humble posture to the Vicechanc. and Proctors standing with a short flattering Lat. speech such as 't was Which being done and he who then held the Chancellours Chair Dr. Chr. Rogers admitting him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him up to the next place on the right hand of the Chancellours Chair This person who made a great noise in his time not only in England but throughout a great part of the world was Son and Heir of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax a busie and forward man in Yorkshire in raising men and maintaining the Parliament cause against his Majesty by the Lady Mary his Wife Daughter of Edmund Lord Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave which Ferdinando dying 13. March 1647 aged 64 years was buried in the Church of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire As for his Son Thomas whom we are farther to mention he was born at Denton in the Parish of Otlay in the same County in January 1611 9. Jac. 1. and was baptized at Denton on the 25 of the said month After he had spent some time in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which afterwards in his latter days he was a benefactor he went beyond the Seas and spent the rest of his youth in martial discipline under the command of Horatio Lord Vere among whose forces he trailed a Pike in the Low Countries was at the considerable action of the taking of Busse in Flanders but had no command while he was there Afterwards he retired to his Fathers house and took to Wife Anne the Daughter and Coheir of the said Lord Vere by whom he had issue Mary born 3. July 1636 and Elizabeth The first of which was married to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham 19. Nov. 1657. In the beginning of the rebellion in 1642 when his Majesty was forced to raise a Guard at York for the defence of his Person this Sir Thomas Fairfax who was entrusted by his Country to prefer a petition to his Majesty the scope whereof was to beseech him to hearken to his Parliament and not raise Forces he did accordingly deliver it but his Majesty refusing it as a Parliamentarian Writer tells us he press'd it with that instance and intention following the King so close therewith in the Field call'd Heyworth-moor in the presence of near a hundred thousand People of the County the like appearance was ever hardly seen in Yorkshire that he at last did tender the same upon the pomel of his saddle But finding no propitiatory as the said author tells us and seeing a War could not be avoided he early paid the vows of his martial education and as soon as the unhappy troubles brake forth he took a Commission under his Father Ferdinando before mention'd whose timely appearance and performances for the Rebels in the North deserves a story of it self He had not served the Parliament in lower commands long but that the great Masters at Westminster did vote him their General 31. Dec. 1644 at which time they cashier'd Robert Earl of Essex of that high command with whom they had sworn 12. July 1642 to live and dye This making of a new General was done when the Parliament ordered their Army to be new modell'd So that victory in a manner being prepared to his hand he vigorously proceeded and what he did in a short time for the blessed cause which is too much here to be set down let the author of Englands recovery c. tell you who tho in the latter end of that book p. 321. he doth highly characterize him especially for his religion but little for policy yet a severe Presbyterian will tell you that he was a Gentleman of an irrational and brutish valour fitter to follow another mans counsel than his own and obnoxious to Cromwell and the Independent faction upon whose bottom he stood for his preferment it having been no dishonour to him to become the property of another mans faction c. adding these matters but what will not a fool in
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
10. Peter Vasson was created Bach. of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours O. Cromwell Letters dat 25 Mar. this year which say that he the said Chanc. had received very good satisfaction from several hands touching Mr. Vasson as to his suffering for his Religion in his own Nation his service in the late Wars to the Commonwealth his skill in the faculty he professeth and success through the blessing of God in the practice of it together with the unblameableness of his conversation c. 25. Oliver Pocklington M. of A. of Cambr. now a practitioner of Physick at Nottingham was created Doct. of Physick by vertue of the said Chancellours Letters written in his behalf May 6. Thom. Tiszaebetsi or Tizabetsi a Transylvanian Hungario Transylvanus was created M. of A. Dec. 29. Faustus Morsteyn a Noble man of the Greater Poland was created M. of A. by vertue of a Dispens from the Delegates He was a Student or Sojourner in the Univ. several years purposely to obtain learning from the publ Libr. Jan. 29. Abrah Conyard of Roan in Normandy who had studied Divinity several years in Academies in France and Switzerland was created Bach. of Div. by the decree of the Members of Convocation who were well satisfied with his Letters testimonial under the hands of the Pastors of the reformed Church of Roan written in his behalf In the beginning of this year studied in Ox. in the condition of a Sojourner Henry Oldenburg who wrot himself sometimes Grubendole and in the month of June he was entred a Student by the name and title of Henricus Oldenburg Bremensis nobilis Saxo at which time he was Tutor to a young Irish Noble man called Henry ô Bryen then a Student also there He had been Consul for his Country-men in the Duchy of Breme in Lower Saxony to reside in Lond in the time of the Long Parl. and Oliver and acted for his Country men in that Office for some years At length being quitted of that Employment he continued in Engl was Tutor to L. O Bryen before mention'd and afterwards to Will. L. Cavendish and at length upon the foundation of the Royal Society Fellow and Secretary thereof He hath written Philosophical Transactions commencing from 6 March 1664 and carried on to Numb 136 dated 25 June 1677 all in qu. By which work he rendred himself a great benefactor to mankind by his affectionate care and indefatigable diligence and endeavours in the maintaining philosophical intelligence and promoting the designs and interests of profitable and general Philosophy And translated into English 1 The prodromus to a dissertation concerning Solids naturally contained within Solids c. Lond 1671. oct Written by Nich. S. Steno 2 A genuine explication of the book of Revelation full of sundry new christian considerations c. Lond. 1671. oct Written by the learned and pious A. B. Peganius 3 The life of the Duchess of Mazarine Printed in oct and other things which I have not yet seen This Mr. Oldenburg died at Charlton near Greenwich in Kent in Aug. 1678 and was buried there leaving then behind him issue by his wife the dau and only child of the learned Joh. Dury a Scot by whom he had an Estate of 60 l. per an in the Marshes of Kent a son named Rupert God-son to Pr. Rupert and a daughter called Sophia As for Henry Lord O Bryen before mention'd he was the eldest son of Henry Earl of Thomond and was afterwards one of his Majesties Privy Council in Irel. He died in Aug. 1678 to the very great grief of his Relations Whereupon his widow Catherine Baroness Clifton Sister and Heiress to Charles sometimes Duke of Richmond was married to Sir Joseph Williamson one of the principal Secretaries of State in Decemb. following By which match tho he lost his place of Secretary by the endeavours of Tho. Earl of Danby who intended her for one of his sons yet he obtained large possessions in Kent and elsewhere and the hereditary High Stewardship of Gravesend in the said County An. Dom. 1657. An. 9 Car. 2. An. 4 5 Oliv. Prot. Chanc. the same viz. Oliver Cromwell c. but he resigning on the 3 of July his eldest son commonly called Lord Rich. Cromwell was elected into his place on the 18 and installed at Whitehall the 29 of the said month Vicechanc. Joh. Conant Doct. of Div. Rector of Exeter Coll. Oct. 9. Proct. Sam. Byfield of C. C. Coll. Apr. 8. Sam. Conant of Exet. Coll. Apr. 8. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. May 28. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll. The first of these two was afterward a celebrated Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred Of the other you may see among the Bach. of Div. 1669. Jun. 8. Joseph Guillim of Brasn Coll. 12. Jenkin Christopher of Jes Coll. Of the first of these two who was originally of Mert. Coll you may see among the Bach. of Div. 1669 and of the other among the Masters of Arts 1660. Jul. 7. Rich. Griffith of Vniv Coll. He was lately Censor of the Coll. of Phys and hath published one or more things of his faculty See among the Masters an 1660. Oct. 10. Joh. Quick of Exet. Coll. This person who was a Servitour of that House and afterwards beneficed in the West parts of England I take to be the same Joh. Quick who published The Test of true godliness Sermon preached at the Funeral of Philip Harris late of Alston in the County of Devon Esq 10 Aug. 1681. Lond. 1681. 2. qu. Oct. 15. Tho. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll. Oct. 15. George Vernon of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more under the tit of Doct. of Phys 1668. The other is now living in Glocestersh and hath published several things 24. Philip Marinel of Pemb. Coll. 24. Capell Wiseman of Qu. Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Masters 1660. The other who was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll is now Bishop of Dromore in Ireland Dec. 17. Edm. Thorne of Or. Coll. Jan. 15. Tim. Hall of Pemb. Coll. Of the first of these two you may see among the Masters an 1661. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ. was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. Jan. 28. Franc. Vernon of Ch. Ch. Feb. 4. Nath. Bisby of Ch. Ch. The last of these two did afterwards publish several Sermons and is now I suppose living and beneficed near Sudbury in Suffolk 9. Tho. Marsden of Brasn Coll. See among the Masters in 1661. 12. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll. 12. Narcissus Marsh of Magd. Hall The first hath published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The last was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll Principal of S. Alb. Hall Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin and at length Archb. of Cashells in Ireland He hath written and published certain matters and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Writers and Bishops Feb. 19. Tim. Nourse of Vniv
Dr. Alex. Hyde in the beginning of Aug. 1661 and at length Preb. of Winchester Rich. Owen B. D. of Oriel Coll. Tho. Good B. D. of Ball. Coll. Thomas Powell M. A. of Jes Coll. Will. Thomas M. A. of Jes Coll. The first of these two had performed his exercise for Bach. of Div. 20 years before this time The other was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say thus of him I have heard of the great worth and deserts of him as well in respect of his learning and orthodox judgment as of his most exemplary life and conversation who for divers years together hath lived in S. Wales c. He was afterwards B. of St. Dav. and Worc. successively These four last Doctors I have mention'd at large among the Writers in their respective places Byrom Eaton of Brasn Coll. He was soon after Principal of Gloc. Hall and when Dr. Barlow became Bish of Linc. he gave him first the Archdeaconry of Stow and afterwards that of Leycester in which last he was installed 8. Sept. 1683. All the said Doctors before mention'd from Guy Carleton to Byr. Eaton were created on the 2. of Aug. At the same time were letters from the Chancellor read for George Jay of Ch. Ch. to be created D. of D but being not present he was to be admitted when he made his appearance The said Letters speak thus of him He continued a Student of Ch. Ch. for the space of 20 years and upwards and in the year 1614 he proceeded M. of A and was first made Grammar Reader then Terrae filius at the publick Act and afterwards was made Chaplain to the Earl of Anglesie and after to the Duke of Bucks and then to Dr. White B. of Ely lately deceased And now his Majesty taking special notice of Mr. Jayes worth and abilities as also of his services done to him and his sufferings for him hath been graciously pleased without any privity or seeking of his own to give unto him an eminent preferment in the Church By reason of the late troubles he was forced beyond the Seas to save his life c. This Mr. Jay who was born of gentile parents in Dorsetshire but not admitted Doctor hath several Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Aug. 7. Raphael Throckmorton of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Linc. was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings for us and the Church c. He was installed Archdeacon of Linc. in the place of Morgan Wynne deceased an 1645 and dying on the second day of Febr. 1666 was buried in S. Andrews Church in Holbourne near London Aug. 7. Tho. Pierce M. A. of Magd. Coll. Aug. 7. Will. Creed B. D. of S. Joh. Coll. Aug. 7. Will. Owen of Mert. Coll. Aug. 7. Joh. Priaulx of Mert. Coll. The former of these two last was Treasurer of the Cathedral Ch. of S. David afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan and died in 1680. The other who was fourth Son of Peter Priaulx of Southampton and born and educated in Grammar there was admitted Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. of Merton an 1635 proceeded in Arts and soon after entred into the sacred function In the time of the rebellion he left the College sided with the men that were uppermost became Rector of Fovant in Wilts and afterwards Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians and Independents called ignorant scandalous and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654. After his Majesties restauration he became Preb. of Netherbury in terra in the Church of Salisbury D. of D. as before 't is said and being then esteem'd an excellent Theologist the Kings Professorship of Divinity was offer'd to him upon Dr. Sandersons promotion to the See of Linc but he modestly refusing it it was confer'd on Dr. William Creed In May 1671 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury in the place of Joh. Sherman deceased and dying at Salisbury on the second day of June 1674 was buried in the Cathedral Church there whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Thomas Lambert on the 12 day of the said month of June This Dr. Priaulx hath written Confirmation confirmed and recommended from Scripture antiquity and reason in a Sermon preached in the Cathedral Ch. of S. Mary in Salisbury at a solemn confirmation there administred by Humph. B. of Sarum on Acts 8.17 Lond. 1662 qu. Aug. 10. Jam. Lamb M. A. of S. Maries Hall 16 Thomas Washbourne Bac. of Div. of Ball. Coll. He was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is a learned pious and orthodox person Sept. 11. Matthew Smalwood B. D. of Brasn Coll. 20 Edw. Pocock B. D. Can. of Ch. Ch. 20 Rob. Townsend M. A. of New Coll. The last was installed Preb. of Bedford Minor in the Church of Linc. 9. Nov. 1660. Oct. 3. Joh. Fell M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. Oct. 3. Rich. Allestry M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. Oct. 3. Joh. Dolben M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. 10. Joh. Arthur a noted Theologist was diplomated by vertue of the Kings Letters written to the University in his behalf and unknown to him This Diploma was to pass because Mr. Arthurs great age would not permit him to take a journey to Oxon to be there presented in person He was Son if I mistake not of Laur. Arthur of Springfield in Essex and had been mostly educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge but ejected from his living at Capham in Surrey for Nonconformity an 1662. 17. Mirth Waferer of S. Alb. Hall Oct. 19. Joh. Doughtie B. D. of Mert. Coll. Preb. of Westm Oct. 19. Walter Jones B. D. of Ch. Ch. Preb. of Westm Oct. 19. Rich. Busby M. A. of Ch. Ch. Preb. of Westm The last of these is now living in the Coll. at Westminster and is an author and therefore he is hereafter to have a place among the Oxford Writers 30. Rich. Parr of Ex. Coll. In the month of Octob. were the Kings Letters dated 27 of Sept read in behalf of one Herbert Astley to be Doct. of Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not He was afterwards Dr. of Law of Cambridge as it seems Preb. and at length Dean of Norwich in which last Dignity he was installed on the second day of Sept. 1670 in the place of Dr. Joh. Croft deceased This person who was Son of Herb. Astley or Ashley rather of Plymouth in Devonshire was upon his accidental coming into Nâ—rfolk taken into the patronage of Sir Jac. and Sir Isaac Astley and by them who took him to be their kinsman was prefer'd to several Livings in those parts and marrying with a Hobart he was by the endeavours of that family promoted to the said Deanery He died in the month of May as it seems in 1681 and was inter'd in the Cath Ch. at Norwych near to the monument of Sir Hen. Hobart Nov. 9. Walter Dayrel or Darrell M.
26. of Feb. 1675 aged 54 years and was buried in Ball. Coll. Chappel There was an epitaph made for him but not put over his grave part of which runs thus Hic jacet Johannes Good â— T B. Coll. Ball XXX plus minus annos socius meritissimus omnigenâ oâ—natus eruditione neutiquam inflatus Sic excultus ipse alios pariter excoluit sedulitate usus adeò indefessâ ut celebriori Tutoris quam Johannis prenomine diu innotuerit c. Octob. 17. Thomas Ellis M. A. of Jesus Coll. He is at large mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 248. Adm. 4. Doct. of Law May 14. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll. He was then licensed to proceed but did not stand in the Act following to complete that degree ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was licensed this year only created Doct. of Div. July 3. George Escourt of Trin. Coll. a Compounder Incorporations May 21. George Smith Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who was lately of Qu. Coll. in this Univ took the said degree at Pad in Mar. 1651 8. He was afterwards of the Coll. of Phys June 18. Edw. Wetenhall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge In the next month he was admitted M. of A. as I have before told you 25. Joh. Parry Fellow of Jesus Coll. and M. of A. of 8 years standing who having performed all his exercise for Bach. of Div. in Trin. Coll. Chap. near Dublin on the 26. of January 1660 and the same day declared Bach. of Div. there was incorporated Bach. of Div. of this Univ. He was afterwards B. of Ossory as I have among the Writers told you p. 448. Ralph Whitfield B. A. of Dublin was incorporated the same day He took that degree at Dub. 7. Aug. 1655 which is all I know of him July 9. Tim. Puller M. A. and Fellow of Jes Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Rector of Sawcombe in Hertfordshire D. of D. of Cambr. an 1675 Rector of the Church of S. Mary de la Bow in London and author of The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted Lond 1679 oct c. At the same time when this worthy person Mr. Puller was incorporated which was just after the Act time nine Mast of Cambr. were incorporated also among whom Joh. Ellis of Caies Coll. was one Will. Williams of Emanuel another of both whose names have been several Writers and Tho. Leigh of the said Coll a third One Thom. Leigh Bach. of Div. and Vicar of Bishops Stortford in Hertfordsh hath published The keeping of Holydays Serm. preached at Hadham before Henry B. of London at his Lordships conference with the Clergy there Lond. 1684. 85. qu. Whether he be the same with the former Tho. Leigh I know not Quaere Hamnet Ward Doctor of Physick of Anger 's in France was incorporated on the same day July 9. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born had the said degree confer'd on him at Anger 's an 1646 and was now Vicar of Stourminster-Newton-Castle in his own Country and one of the Minor Preb. of Wells He hath published 1 The Protestant Soldier fighting under truths banner printed 1642. 2 Sermon preached at Shaftesbury in the primary visitation of Guy B. of Bristow on Ephes 3.8 Lond. 1674. qu and other things which I have not yet seen See more in Hen. Byam among the Writers p. 307. July 9. Tobias Dickson Doct. of Phys of Cambr. 11. Will. Bright Doct. of the same fac at Padua The same degree was confer'd on him at Pad an 1658. He was afterwards Hon. Fell. of the Coll. of Phys Sept. 9. Rob. Wishart M. of A. of S. Andrew in Scotland He was Son of the learned and famous George Wishart D. D of whom the Reader may be pleased to know that he was a Scotch man born and a Minister in the Church of S. Andrew in the same University that he had suffered in the time of the Covenant a long and tedious imprisonment in the nastiest part of the Tolbooth at Edinburgh called the Thiefs hole and afterwards did accompany the most victorious and noble James Marquess of Montross in his conquest of Scotland But upon the much lamented declension of that immortal person he became Chaplain to the Sister of K. Ch. 1. called the Queen of Bohemia and about the time of his Majesties restauration a Minister in Newcastle upon Tyne where he was held in great veneration for his unspotted Loyalty In 1662 Jun. 1 he was consecrated at S. Andrews Bishop of Edinburgh with Dr. Dav. Michell to Aberdene and dying at Edinburgh in Jul. or Aug. 1671 was buried in the Abbey Church of Halyrood house He was a person of great religion and very charitable to the poor and having been a Prisoner he was always careful at each dinner that he made to send the first dish from his table to the Prisoners He hath written The compleat Hist of the Wars of Scotland under the conduct of the illustrious and truly valiant James Marquess of Montross c. Printed several times in Lat. and English The first edit came out at the Hague in 1647. oct See in Dav. Whitford among the Writers pag. 389. Nov. 12. Rich. Trevor of Mert. Coll. Doct. of Phys of Padua This well-bred Gent. who was son of Sir Joh. Trevor Kt and younger brother to Sir Joh. Trevor who was made Secretary of State in the latter end of Oct. 1668 after his return from his Embassy in France died near the Temple Gate on the 17 of July 1676 and was buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. 21. Levin Fludd Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Rob. Stapâ—ey Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two had that degree confer'd on him at Pad in Aug. 1639 and the other in May 1648. Dec. 7. John Downes Doct. of Phys of Leyden Mar. 4. Joh. Atfield Doct. of Phys of Caen. 13. Thom. Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these three was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. The second who was a Londoner born and had taken his degree at Caen in 1657 was also afterwards Fellow of the said Coll and the third who took his degree at Leyden in 1659 was afterwards a Knight and I think Fell. also CREATIONS Creations were made in all Faculties either by the favour of his Majesty or of Clarendon the Chancellour of the University when he was entertained by the Univ. in Sept. 1661. Bach. of Law About five were created but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Among them were Tho. Wilkins of Jes Coll a Sufferer for his Majesties Cause Sept. 12 Edm. Arnold of Mert. Coll. belonging to the Court of Arches Oct. 10. c. Mast of Arts. The Creations of Masters were mostly made in a Convocation held in the morn of the 9 of Sept at which time Edw. Earl of Clarendon Lord
is so called Preb. of Westminster was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that Mr. Dav. Michell of Aberdene is a person very learned and honest and from the beginning of the Troubles has been a great Sufferer for the Cause of his Majesty and the Church c. This worthy person was born in the Shire of Merne was Minister at Edinburgh and there challenged for Arminianisme in the time of the Covenant and forced afterwards to fly into Engl where he enjoyed some Benefice during his exile After his Maj. restauration he was made Preb. of Westm as before 't is told you and on the first day of June 1662 he was consecrated Bishop of Aberdene at S. Andrews with Dr. Wishart to Edinburgh where sitting but one year died of a Fever and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Macchar at Old Aberdene among his Predecessors Jul. 19. Tho. Gorges of All 's Coll. On the 23 Apr. 1643 he was collated to the Prebendship of Woodford and Willsford in the Ch. of Salisbury and afterwards suffered much for the royal Cause After the return of his Maj. he was restored to his Prebendship was installed Archdeacon of Winchester on the death of Dr. George Roberts 19 Mar. 1660 and soon after became Preb. of Westminster After his death his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Walt. Dayrel and his Preb. of Salisbury on Dr. Will. Lloyd to which he was collared in Dec. 1667 but who succeeded him in Westm I cannot yet tell In 1629 the said Tho. Gorges was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. with Gilbert Talbot a Native of Worcestershire son of Sherington Talbot an Inhabitant then of Lacock in Wilts Which Gilb. who was originally of Ch. Ch. was by his Majesty sent ordinary Agent to the Republic of Venice about 1638 was afterwards a Sufferer for his Cause in the time of the Rebellion and having the honour of Knighthood confer'd on him became Master of the Jewel house and one of the first 21 persons who were appointed by his Majesty to be of the Council of the Royal Society at its first institution c. Sept. 5. Will. Barker of New Coll was created Doctor for his laudable Sermons preached before the King and Parl. at Oxon during the time of Rebellion He was now Preb. of Canterbury and dying in his Rectory house at Hardwick in Bucks 26 Mar. 1669 was buried in the Church there I have seen his Epitaph wherein 't is said that he was always noted for his orthodox Sermons and for his frequent and innocent Conceits and Jests Sept. 9. Rich. Rallingson or Rawlinson of Queens Coll Chaplain to the Duke of Newcastle was created while the Chancellour held the Supreme Chair in Convocation He was an ingenious man well skill'd in the Mathematicks but had not preferment confer'd on him equal to his merits He died in 1668 being then as I conceive Rector of Pulborough in Sussex Sept. 12. Sam. Cotton of Pemb. Coll. Sept. 12. Laur. Hungerford of Pemb. Coll. Sept. 12. Rob. Henderson of Mert. Coll. Sept. 12. Hen. Parkhurst of Magd. Coll. Sept. 12. Humph. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Sept. 12. Jenkin Lloyd of Jesus Coll. The second of these four was beneficed at Norton in Kent and died in 1669 or thereabouts The third was afterwards Bish of Bangor and the last beneficed in his own Country of whom by the way I must let the Reader know these things viz. That he was a Cardiganshire man born son of Joh. Lloyd of Varedreff in the same County Gent. That he became a Student in Jesus Coll. in Mich. term an 1640 but the Rebellion breaking out soon after he left the University without a degree and closed with the predominant party That in 1648 or before he retired to the University again submitted to the Visitors appointed by the Parl and was actually created Mast of Arts in the Pembrokian Creation That about that time he was Rector of Llandishill in his own Country and afterwards wrot and published Christs Valedictions or sacred Observations on the last words of our Saviour delivered on the Cross Lond. 1658. in tw They are discourses or at least the effect of certain Sermons on Luke 23. ver 34.43.46 and on Joh. 19. ver 28.30 c. That he put in among the Royalists and several Presbyterians to be created D. of D. Sept. 12. Thom Ballow of Ch. Ch. Sept. 12. Nich. Searle of Cambridge Sept. 12. Henry Beesley of S. Alb. Hall Sept. 12. Sam. Rich of Hart Hall Sept. 12. Tim. Dewell of Magd. Hall Sept. 12. Joh. Jones of Hart Hall Francis Gregory of S. Maries Hall was created the same day This person who was the son of Francis Gregory was born at Wodstock in Oxfordshire educated in Gram. Learning in the Coll. school at Westminster in Academical at Cambr whence he return'd to Westm and was an Usher under Mr. Rich. Busby Afterwards he became Master of the Free-school in the Town of his nativity founded by Rich. Cornwell Cit. and Skinner of Lond. 27 Eliz. dom 1585. and at length the first Master of the Free-school founded at Witney in Oxfordshire by Hen. Box a Druggist of Lond after his Majesties restauration At both which places continuing several years he did much good by his sedulous instruction In 1672 or thereabouts he became Rector of Hambleton near Great Wycomb in Bucks and about that time one of his Majesties Chaplains in ordinary He hath written 1 Etymologicum parvum ex magno illo Sylburgii Eustathio Martinio aliisque magni nominis authoribus excerptum digestum explicatum c. in usum Schol. publ Westmon Lond. 1654. c. oct 2 Instructions concerning the art of Oratory for the. use of Schools more especially for the use of Westm School Lond. 1659. c. 3 Nomenclatura brevis Anglo-Latino-Graeca in usum Sch. pub VVestm 4 Examples of five declensions of Nounes These last two have been several times printed and with some impressions were added Centuriae duae proverbiorum Ang. -Lat.-Graecorum 5 Vorivum Carolo Or a welcome to his sacred Majesty Charles 2 printed 1660 in 3 sh and a half in qu. This book consists of several copies of Verses mostly made by Mr. Greg. and some by his Scholars at Wodstock 6 The tryal of Religions with cautions to the Members of the reformed Church against defection to the Roman Lond. 1674. 75. qu. 7 The grand presumption of the Rom. Church in equalling their Traditions to the written word and their jealousies of themselves in refusing to admit the holy Scriptures as the rule for the tryal of their Religion in two discourses Lond. 1675. qu. 8 Discourse upon the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles c. Oxon. 1678. qu. He hath also several Sermons extant as 1 Davids return from his Banishment Thanksgiving sermon for the return of K. Ch. 2 preached at S. Maries in Oxon 27 May 1660 on 2 Sam. 19.30 Ox. 1660. qu. 2 The Gregorian Account or the spiritual Watch preached to the Society of
Transact nu 129.147 in which the author hath one or more Discourses Dec. 20. John Vlacq Doct. of the Civil Law of Orange was incorporated in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange was entertain'd with the delights of the Muses there He was the Son of Cornelius Vlacq chief Amanuensis or Scribe or Secretary to the said Pr. of Orange Edw. Halsius Doct. of Phys of Leyden and Physitian in the Court of the said Prince was then and there also incorporated Sam. Morrys Doct. of Physick of the said University was also then and there incorporated He was Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall an 1662. These three last were nominated by the Pr. of Orange to be incorporated CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of the Prince of Aurange or Orange Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joshua Stopford of Brasnose lately of Magd. Coll. He was soon after admitted Bach. of Div. as I have before told you Dec. 20. Rich. Lauder of S. Johns Coll was actually created in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange sate in a chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour This noble person was son of Charles Maitland Baron of Haltown in Scotland by his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Lauder younger Brother to John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale and was afterwards Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland where he was called Lord Maitland so long as his Father Charles was Earl of Lauderdale for by that title he was known after the said Joh. Maitland Duke of Lauderdale died which was at Tunbridge in Kent on S. Barthelmews day 1682 and after the said Charles his death which hapned about the ninth day of May an 1691 the said Richard Lauder became Earl of Lauderdale and is now living in Scotland After him were these persons following created in the said Convocation Will. Scharp of Ch. Ch who was allowed to wear the gown of a Noble man during his stay in the University was next after Lauder created He was the eldest Son of Dr. James Scharp sometimes Professor of Divinity and Rector of the University of S. Andrew afterwards consecrated Archbishop of S. Andrew in S. Peters Church commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster 15 of Decemb. 1661 at which time were also consecrated Andr. Fairfoâ—d Minister of Dâ—nce to the Archiepiscopal See of Glascow James Hamilton late Minister of Cambusnethum to the See of Gaâ—loway and Rob. Leighton Dean of his Majesties Chappel Royal in Scotland and late Principal of the Coll. at Edinburgh to the See of Dâ—mblayne This most worthy Archbishop Scharp who is justly characterized to have been Pietatis exemplum pacis Angelus sapientiae oraculum gravitatis imago c. was most barbarously murdered for his function sake near the City of S. Andrew by a pack of Hell-hounds enemies to God Man and all kind of Religion to the great horror and amazement of all the christian world on the 3 of May 1679 aged 61 years whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Andrew and had soon after put over it a stately monument with a most noble inscription thereon the contents of which being now too large for this place they shall for brevity sake be omitted George Sheild a Scot Governour to the before mention'd John Lauder Andrew Bruce a Scot of an antient family I have made mention of another Andrâ—w Bruce among the Incorporations an 1660. Joh. Trevor Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll. Son of Sir Joh. Trevor one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and of his most honorable Privy Council The said Sir Joh. Trevor died on the 28 of June 1672 aged 47 years and was buried in the Church of S. Barthelmew in Smithfield London whereupon Hen. Coventrie Esq was sworn Principal Secretary in his place on the 3. of July following The said Sir Joh. Trevâ—r was Son of another Sir John Trevor of the City of Westminster Kt who after he had kept pace with the dominant party in the times of Usurpation as his said Son had done for they were both halters in the Presbyterian Rebellion and adherers to the Usurper died full of years in the said City in the Winter time before the month of Dec. an 1673. Besides the aforesaid persons were then actually created William Tayler Joh. Dan Franc. Anshenhurst Jam Innys Clem. Dolby Joh. Mathew and James Waddyng of all whom I know nothing Febr. 1. Altham Annesley of Magd. Coll. Febr. 1. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. These were the Sons of Arthur Earl of Anglesey and were to have been created had they not been absent in the Orangian Creation I shall make mention of the said Rich. Annesley among the Doct. of Div. an 1689. Mar. 21. Sir Will. Ellis of Linc. Coll. Bt. He was also nominated to be created when the Pr. of Orange honored the degree of Doct. of the Civil but was then absent Bach. of Div. Jan. 13. Joseph Sayer of Wadh. Coll. This Divine who was Son of Franc. Sayer sometimes Minister of Yattenden in Berks became Servitour of Wadh. Coll. in 1647 left it without a degree took holy Orders but from whom I know not succeeded his Father in Yattenden an 1656 resign'd it to his Brother Francis sometimes of Mert. Coll. an 1665 at which time Joseph Sayer became Minister of Newbury and of Sulham in his own Country of Berks. In the month of May 1670 he became Preb. of Bishopston in the Church of Salisbury by the death of one Will. Hobbes and under pretence of being ejected for his loyalty from his Coll which is false he got himself to be put in the roll of those which the Prince of Orange desired to be created while he was entertain'd at Oxon. About which time he by the endeavours of one Sayâ—r his Majesties chief Cook procured the rich Rectory of North-Church in Hertfordshire He hath published A Sermon preached at Reading 25 Feb. 1672 at the Assizes there holden for the County of Berks c. on Rom. 13. part of the 5 vers Lond. 1673. qu. On the 8 of Decemb. 1681 he was installed Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex which is all that I hitherto know of him Doct. of Law Sept. 16. Isaac Vossius Son of the famous Joh. Gerard Vâ—ssius was then actually created Doct. of the Civil Law after he had been with great humanity and friendship entertained by some of the chief Heads of Colleges as his Father had been before in 1629 much about which time he was installed Canon of Canterbury This Dr. Vossius was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Tho. Viner deceased 12 May 1673 and dying in his Lodgings in Windsore Castle on the 10 of Feb. 1688 was buried there leaving then behind him the best private library as it was then supposed in the whole world He hath published several books the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodâ—eian
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae Fâ—issingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae dâ—tionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii â—landriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored
Rhine and Prince Elector of the Empire elder Brother to Pr. Rupert and he the Son of Frederick Co. Pal. of the Rhine Pr. Elect. of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of King Jam. 1. of England was received with solemnity the day before in the University and took up his Lodgings in the Deans apartment in Ch. Ch. The next day being conducted to the publick Schools by the Bishop and others and thence to the Apodyterium he was there habited in scarlet with some of his retinue Thence he was conducted by the Beadles and Dr. Morison the Botanick Professor who at that time executed the office of the Kings Professor of Phys then absent to the Theater where the Convocation was solemnized And coming near to the Vicech Seat the said Doctor presented him with a little Speech which being done the Vicech created him with another and then was conducted to his seat of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellour All which with the Creation of some of his retinue being finish'd the Orator complemented him with another Speech in the name of the University The next day his Highness left Oxon went to Hampton Court and just at his arrival there Sept. 12 news was brought him that his Father died suddenly at Edingen between Manheim and Frankendale on the 7 of the said month according to the account there followed Philip Christopher de Koningsmarck Count or Earl of Westerwick and Stegholme Lord in Rotenburg and New-house was created Doct. of Physick the same day Sept. 9. as one of the retinue of the aforesaid Electoral Pr. He was Brother if I mistake not to Charles John Count of Koningsmarck who in the latter end of 1681 was committed to Newgate and brought to a publick trial of his life for a deep suspicion of having a signal hand in the murder of Tho. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts Esq in revenge as 't was then said for depriving him of his Mistress called Elizabeth Countess of Ogle dau and heir of the antient and illustrious family of Piercy Earl of Northumberland William Dutton Colt an Engl. man Master of the Horse to Prince Rupert Uncle to the Elect. Pr. He is now or else was lately his Majesties Resident at Lunenberg and Brunswick Eberhardus Frederic à Venningen of Alsatia in Germany Master of the Game or Hunting to the Elect. Prince Abraham Dorr a German of Hanaw Joh. Bernhardus Ferber a Saxon. These four last were of the retinue of his Electoral Highness Feb. 25. Andr. de Mellevil a Knight and Colonel Feb. 25. Anton. de Saictot These last two who were of the retinue of the Prince of Hannover were created Doct. of Phys after the said Prince had been created Doct. of the Civil Law Doct. of Div. Sept. 9. Fred. Christian Wincherus Professor of Medicine in Heidelberg as in the pub reg 't is said was created in the same Convocation wherein the Electoral Prince was created being one of his retinue Oct. 21. Thom. Hinde Bach. of Div. of Brasn Coll. and Chaplain to James Duke of Ormonde He succeeded in the Deanery of Limerick in Ireland one Dr. Will. Smith promoted to the See of Killala and died in his house in Limerick in the month of Nov. 1689. An. Dom. 1681. An. 33. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde who being as yet in Ireland did on the 2 of June this year upon notice received that some of the delegated power were dead appoint new Delegates to manage and execute in his absence all powers and jurisdiction belonging to him in the University Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton again nominated by the Chanc. Letters dat at Kilkenny 27. Sept. confirmed by Convocation 2. Oct. Proct. Joh. Halton of Qu. Coll. Apr. 13. Rich. Oliver of S. Jo. Coll. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Hudson of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters 1684. 5. Will. Digby of Magd. Coll. He succeeded his Brother Simon sometimes of Magd. Coll. in the honour of Baron of Geashill in Ireland which Simon who had succeeded in the said Barony his elder Brother Robert mention'd in these Fasti an 1676 died on the 19 of January 1685 and was buried in the Church of Coleshull in Warwickshire among the graves of his Ancestors Oct. 27. Rich. Stafford of Magd. Hall Soon after he went to one of the Temples to study the Law and is now a frequent Writer See in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 829. Dec. 1. Joh. Jones of Trin. Coll lately of New Inn. 17. Leopold William Finch of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Heneage Earl of Winchelsey Adm. 177. Bach. of Law June 6. Joh. Northleigh of Exet. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. and a publisher of certain books Adm. 7. Mast of Arts. June 10. Tho. Bent of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in or near Friday-street in London bred in the quality of a Com. in the said Coll and afterwards travelled but died before he had consummated his intended journey He hath translated from French into English An historical defence of the Reformation in answer to a book entit Just prejudices against the Calvinists Lond. 1683 in a pretty large qu originally written by Monsieur Claud Minister of the reformed Church at Charenton The Translator hath a preface to this book wherein he saith that the Romanists caused the said book of Claud to be burned in France This Mr. Bent died at Geneva 21. of May 1683 aged 23 years and was buried in the Cemitery or Yard on the south side of the Church of S. Gervaice there Soon after was a monument fixed on the wall of that Church near his grave with an Epitaph thereon made by Richard Blackmore M. A. of S. Edm. Hal◠which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Adm. 95. Bach. of Phys Feb. 9. Samuel Derham of Magd. Hall Adm. 4. Bach. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 27. Hugh Barrow of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 27. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. March 2. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. Mr. Barrow who is now Rector of Heyford Purcells or Heyford ad Pontem near Bister in Oxfordshire hath written A brief account of the Nullity of K. James's title and of the obligation of the present Oathes of Allegiance Lond. 1689. qu. He is a learned man and able to write other things which would without doubt be more pleasing to the sober part of Scholars As for Mr. Cade who was now or about this time Rector of Allington and Vicar of Smeeth in Kent hath published The foundation of Popery shaken or the Bishop of Romes Supremacy opposed in a Sermon on Matth. 16.18.19 Lond. 1678. qu. Mar. 2. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain of S. Saviours in Southwark and author of A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Lond. in Guild-hall Chappel on Sunday 20.