hath this Character in all the Britannia's which escaped the Index Expurgatorius that for what reasons the Inquisitors knew best blotted these words out Verae Nobilitalis Ornamentis vir longe Honoratissimus and Iohn Lord Harrington Executor to the Lady Francis Sidney Daughter of Sir Henry Aunt of Sir Philip Sidney Relict of Thomas Ratcliffe the third Earl of Sussex and Foundress of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge the third Master of that House 1609. and by his Patron and Predecessor Bishop Mountague Arch-Deacon of Taunton where so moderate and milde his Government that there was not in the first eight years of his Government a Negative voice in any affair of the House he taking care to beget a general understanding about any matter in debate in private before they sate upon it in publick tuning each string before they set to a Consort his Discipline so becoming and exemplary that Sir Francis Clerk of East-Soton in Bedfordshire coming privately to Cambridge to see unseen took notice of Dr. Wards daily Presence in the Hall with the Scholars Conformity in Caps and diligent performance of Exercises to so good purpose the careful observation of old Statutes is the best Loadstone to attract new Benefactors that he augmented all the Scholarships in the Foundation Erected a new fair and firm Range of Building and Founded four new Fellowships discovering by the way such skill in Architecture and Arithmetick that staying at home he did provide to a Brick what was necessary for the finishing of the aforesaid Building 5. Such his Reputation for deep skill in Divinity that he with the Reverend Dr. Davenant of Queens Dr. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Hall Dean of Worcester was sent from the Church of England by King Iames to the Synod at Dort to assist the Dutch Churches in the five Controversies of Predestination and Reprobation of the extent of Christs death of the power of mans free will both before and after his Conversion and of the Elects perseverance and to that purpose with Dr. Davenant sent for by that Learned and deep-sighted Prince to Royston October 8. 1618. where His Majesty vouchsafed his familiar Discourse with them for two hours together commanding them to sit down by him till he dismised them with this solemn Prayer which the good man would recollect with pleasure That God would bless their endeavours At that Synod besides the common Applause he had with his Brethren testified by the 10 l. a day allowed them there the entertainments given them at the Hague Amsterdam Rotterdam Vtrecht and Leiden by the 200 l. the Meddals and the Commendatory Letter sent with them at parting thence had they this peculiar Character that he was slow but sure recompensing in the exactness of his notion what he wanted in the quickness of it being but once contradicted and that at the first opening of that middle way he and his good Friend Davenant opened to them which surprized some in the Synod at first but reconciled the Synod to them and to its self at last the moderate that cut the hair in a Controversie like those that part a Fray meet with blows on both sides at first but embraced by those very arms that were lift upon them at last Bishop Carleton came home with this Commendation in the States publick Letter to King Iames. Dominus G. Landavensis Episcopus imago expressa virtutis Effigies Dr. Ward returned with these Testimonies from the most Eminent Scholars in those Parts Modestia ipsa quae plus celavit eruditionis quam alii habent Literarum Abyssus taciturnus profundus qui quot verba tot expressit e sulco pectoris or acula c. and among the rest in iis eam eruditionem pietatem pacis studium eumque zelum deprehendimus ut cum ipsius beneficii causa Majestatituae multum debeamus they are the States expressions to the King in their foresaid Letter of thanks Magna pars ipsius beneficii nobis videatur quod ipsi ad nos missi sunâ— with which testimonial Letters they came over and presented themselves to King Iames who seeing them out at a window when first entring the Court Here comes said he my good Mourners alluding to their black habit and the late death of Queen Anne When he was to perform any exercise as the part assigned him in the English Colledge which was generally to oppose because of his acuteness and variety of reading or to give his weekly account to the King as they all did by turns the expectation was great especially in one respect as King Iames would say that he would set down no idle or impertinent word 6. So good a man that he was Tutor as well as Master to the whole Colledge yea kept almost as big a Colledge by his goodness as he governed by his place more depending upon him there and abroad as a Benefactor than did as a Governor Being a great recommender as well as incourager of Worth he used to say that he knew nothing that Church and State suffered more by than the want of a due knowledg of those Worthy men that were peculiarly enabled and designed to serve both And as another Argument of his goodness he went alwayes along with the moderate in the censures of Preachers in the University practices in the Courts that were under his Jurisdiction And in Opinions in the Convocation whereof he was a Member much pleased with a modest soft way that might win the persons and smoother their errors being much pleased with his Friend Mr. Dods saying that men should use soft words and hard Arguments And this so much known to others though so little observed by him this meek and slow speeched Moses his face shining to all men but himself that it procured six or 7000 l. Improvement in his time to the Colledge besides the Building of that Chappel which he Dedicated by his own burial being the first that was buried there His Virgin body injoying a Virgin grave like that of the Lord wherein never man lay Sleeping there where the Franciscans had a dormitory The best Disputant having his Grave where the best Philosophers and School-Divines had their Beds and the modest man resting where that modest order slept who called themselves Minorites from Iacobs words Gen. 32. 10. Sum minor omnibus beneficiis suis. Yea his Adversaries themselves admiring him so far that he was named one of the Committee for Religion in the Ierusalem Chamber 1642. whither he came with hope that moderation and mutual compliance might finde expedients to prevent if not the shaking yet the overturning of Church and State so the wary Merchants throws somethings over-board to save the Ship which escapes not by struggling with the storm but by yielding to it And inserted one of their Assembly whither he came not being not called by the King one of the flowers of whose Crown it is to call Assemblies as appears by Bishop Andrews his Learned Sermon
is slack And Rots to nothing at the next great thawâ—k Dr. Richard Zouch not beholden to his Noble Extraction for his Reputation founded on his own great worth and Books Reprinted beyond Sea Fellow of New-colledge Principal of Albanehall Regius Professor of Law in Oxford for almost forty years and Judge of the Admiralty an exact Artist especially Logician reducing all his Reading especially in History wherein he excelled to the Civil Law as appears by the method of his Writings both of the Law and some other inferior Sciences He was as useful in the world as his profession and that time that foolishly thought it could have carried on things without the Civil Law could not without Dr. Zouch the Living Pandect of that Law when the Usurper in the Case of the Portugez Ambassador must needs have his advice in London who had grudged him his place in Oxford Dr. Owen in the same discourse I mean his Preface to Dr. Zouch his Book de legatis wherein he commendeth Grotius with qualification extolleth Dr. Zouch without who was the ornament of this Nation as Grotius was of Christendom He had a great hand in the Oxford Articles being one of the Treaters upon the Surrendry and after composition he had a great benefit by them he died 1660. To whom I might adde his very good friend Degory Whear Principal of Glocester-hall and History Professor in Oxford well known by his excellent Methodus Leg. hist. Cro. and his Epistolae Eucharisticae and Dr. Thomas Claiton the first Master of Pembroke-colledge in Oxford and the Kings Professor of Physick Father of Sir Thomas Claiton now Warden of Merton-colledge Dr. Thomas Soames born in Yarmouth an holy Fisher of Men Son of a Fisher-man bred in Peter-house Cambridge where his Uncle was Master Minister of Staines in Middlesex and Prebend of Windsor having sent all he had to the King he had nothing left to be taken by the Rebels but himself who was Imprisoned in Ely-house New-gate and the Fleet because he had so much of the primitive Religion in his excellent Sermons and so much of the primitive practice in his looks and life reckoned a blessing wherever he came these sad times by his Fatherly Aspect his Zealous Prayers and his Divine and in many respects Prophetical discourses He died not long before his Majesties Restauration of whom his modest relation have been as deserving as any persons of their quality in England Stephen Soanes of Throwlow in Suffolk Esq paying 0700l 00 00. THE Life and Death OF WILLIAM St. MAUR Duke of Somerset WILLIAM St. Maur Marquiss of Herford Duke of Somerset and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter noble in his extraction being restored to use his Majesties words because he had merited as much of his Majesties Father and Himself as a Subject could do and he hoped none would envy the Duke because he had done what a good Master should to a good Servant created Duke of Somerset 1660. 12. Car. 2. an Honor his good Grand-father in Edw. 6. time had from whom Somerset-house which he built hath that name Edward Duke of Somerset injoy and descending from the ancient Lords Beauchamp illustrious in his alliance his Aunt Iane Seymour being Wife to one King Henry 8. and Mother to another Edward 6. Was none of those male-contents who by the sins of their riper years make good the follies of their youth and maintain oversights with Treason As he was patient under his Imprisonment for the one so he was active in his Services against the other not more dutifully submitting to the severity of King Iames for a marriage without his Majesties privity or consent with the Lady Arabella Stuart nearly related as himself to the Crown than Loyally assisting by several Declarations for the King and Bishops in the Long-parliament by his attendance on his Majesty at York to be a witness to the world of his Majesties proceedings and subscribe with other Lords his own Allegiance and a resolution to oppose others Treasons by his raising the Western Country by his interest and yielding the Command of the Army he had raised as the Kings first General against the Earl of Essex to more experienced Commanders though he had been a Souldier abroad out of prudence governing his Majesty then Prince under his Tuition with discretion and moderation by bringing his Majesty 60000 l. of his own and others to set him by securing for him forty five Inland Garrisons and six Sea-towns by waiting on his Majesty in his Privy Counsel and Parliament at Oxford and in all his treaties and negotiations and offering himself when there was no other remedy to dye for him by supplying his present Majesty and his Friends with near 5000l yearly one year with another during the Usurpation for which services he paid at Goldsmith-hall 1467 l. the necessities of King Charles in his war It s true he was drawn in by a pretending moderate party to subscribe the untoward Propositions for an accommodation with the Scots 1640. at York but it is as true that when he discovered the bottome of the design he did of his own accord disown the unnatural Plot in London 1641 2. where the King advanced him to the tuition of the Prince and he went himself to the defence of the King at what time such his popularity that he raised an Army himself such his humility that he yielded the Command of it to another as if he knew nothing but others merits and his own wants being own of those men that admire every thing in others and see nothing in themselves His face his carriage his habit favoured of lowliness without affectation and yet he was under what he seemed His words were few and soft never either peremptory or censorious because he thought both each man more wise and none more obnoxious than himself being yet neither ignorant nor careless but naturally meek lying ever close within himself armed with those two master-pieces Resolution and Duty wherewith he mated the blackest events that did rather exercise than dismay that spirit that was above them and that minde chat looked beyond them the easiest enemy and the truest friend whom extremities obliged while he as a well-wrought Vault lay at home the stronger by how much the more weight he did bear He died 1660. full of honor and days the exact pourtract of the ancient English Nobility As was his Brother Sir Francis Seymor a wise and religious person a great Patriot in the beginning of King Charles his reign for three Parliaments together in the first year of whose reign he was High-sheriff as long as the people desired reason and as great a Courtier towards the latter end of his reign when he saw some projectors under colour of the peoples good plotting Treason He was indeed one of the Lords being Created Baron of Trowbridge in Wilt-shire Tebig 1640. 16. Car. I. that Petitioned his Majesty against several grievances
abolishing Kingly Government so much as to drink in her house bidding him be gone to his Masters for his wages Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers who repented heartily that ever he had any thing to do with Fowks in opposing the Kings Customs for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal of the latter Oaths from former were then degraded in the City and forced to retire out of it Alderman Culham whom I think they used to call the Queens Knight and Alderman Gibs by attending their own Affairs in the Country escaped the snares laid for their Consciences in the City Sir George Whitmore was till his death 1658. as great a support to and sufferer for his Majesties Government in his habitation at Middlesex as Sir Thomas Whitmore at Auley in Shrop-shire his Conscience having cost him who being very aged would say that he could serve his Majesty only with his Purse 15000 l. as Sir Thomas his Allegiance besides Plunders Decimations and infinite troubles did 5000 l. many Orthodox Ministers and distressed Gentlemen were his Pensioners during his life more his Legates at his death when he bestowed as much money in Charitable uses on the City as he brought to it Having been a great instrument to promote the repair of Pauls begun in his Mayrolty 1631. a great Benefactor towards the repair of other Churches Men these for shew as the Mulberry-tree the most backward of any to put forth leaves and the most forward in bringing forth fruit of good works for sincerity Sir Iohn Gair Lord Mayor of London 1646. when he lost his liberty hazarded his Estate yea and his life in the defence of the City and in it of the Kingdom A Gentleman of very discerning judgment impartial intigrity pressing the Parliament to do what they fought for that is bring home the King and though of a tender disposition yet of a resolute severely just spirit being wont to say that a foolish pity is cruelty deserving the testimony given him at his death that his place did not so much honor him as he his place Zealous was he in his attendance in the Houses of prayer in that way of Worshipping the God of his Fathers which the Faction called Popery and the Papists Heresie all his life and very bountiful towards the repair of them when he dyed singular was his Reverence in hearing Gods word and affectionate his respect to the dispensers of it and that not in Complement but relief of those whom he thought Orthodox and found necessitous to whom besides many particular and liberal Supplies by his own hand he bequeathed an 100 l. by his Executors A faithful friend and a just dealer he must needs be in his publick commerce among men being so sincere in his private Communion and secret Devotion with God to which he often retyred professing to the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Abdy his Son-in-law O how glad he was of his frequent wakings in the night since thereby he had opportunity to praise his God and pray for the settlement of this miserably distracted Church and Kingdom He dyed at his house Iuly the 20 th 1649. and was buryed at St. Katharine Creechurch August 14. following having left 500 l. for the yearly Cloathing of the poor of Plymouth where he was born 200 l. to Creechurch Parish where he lived besides various other Gifts to several Hospitals Releasing of Prisoners and the like and 500l given Christs-Hospital when he was President of it Being of opinion that he must do in his life what should comfort him at his death for when his friends that stood by him on his death-bed minded him of making his peace with God he answered That old Age and Sickness were no fit times to make peace with Heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make Sir George Stroud of Clarkenwell a Gentleman that performed good service to his Majesty in time of Peace whereof he was one of the Conservators in Middlesex and therefore much trusted by him in the time of War when he was one of the Commissioners of Array for London by the one much restraining the lewdness of the Suburbs for the filthiness of London as of Ierusalem is in its skirts by the other endeavouring to suppress the tumults Pity it was he should suffer many thousands loss for his Loyalty besides tedious Imprisonments who gave so many hundreds away in Charity in weekly Contributions to the Parishes of St. Sepulchres St. Iames Clerken-well c. while he lived there and in yearly allowance to those Parishes in the Suburbs and to the Hospitals and Prisons in London A devout man that made Conscience of preparing himself for the highest Comfort as well as Mystery of our Religion the holy Eucharist and therefore left 6 l. a year for a monethly Sermon on the Friday before the first Sunday in the moneth at Clerken-well where he is buryed to prepare others A very great Patron to Orthodox men in the late troubles as the Heir of his Estate and Vertues is of sober men since In a word he was Sir Iulius Caesars friend and second in Piety and Charity Sir Paul Pindar first a Factor then a Merchant next a Consul and at last an Ambassador in Turky whence returning he repaired the Entry Front and Porches of St. Pauls Cathedral to the Upper Church Quire and Chancel enriching them with Marble Structures and Figures of the Apostles and with Carvings and Gildings far exceeding their former beauty to the value of 2000 l. an action so Christian that King Iames would say It was the work of a good man for which and his great skill in Trade he made him one of his great Farmers of the Custom-house and he in gratitude laid out 17000. pound more upon the South Isle of that Church in the beginning of King Charles his Reign and lent his Majesty 3000 l. besides 9000 l. he gave him to keep up the Church of England in the latter end of his Reign A Projector such necessary evils then countenanced and he a Clergy-man too informed King Iames how to get himself full Coffers by raising first Fruits and Tenths under-rated forsooth in the Kings books to a full value The King demands the Lord Treasurer Branfields judgment thereof he said Sir you are esteemed a great lover of Learning you know Clergy-mens Education is Chargeable their â—referment slow and small let it not be said that you gain by grinding them other ways less obnoxious to just censure will be found out to furnish your occasions The King commended the Treasurer as having only tryed him adding moreover I should have accounted thee a very Knave if incouraging me herein But he sends for Sir P. Pindar and tells him he must either raise the Customs or take this course Sir Paul answered him nobly That he would lay 30000 l. at his feet the morrow rather than he should be put upon such poor projects as
that was during the Usurpation and he himself set five times before a nâ—igh Court of Justice nor any judgement given till his Majesty returning May 29 1660. was met by him at Charing Cross with a stand of Loyal Gentlemen and old Officers of the Kings Army the stateliest sight seen that glorious day He died Feb. 21 1661 2. faelicitas in ipsa faelicitate mori Sen. being supported under his great age and greater suffering by a naturally great spirit made greater by solid and unquestionable principles by a chearful temper by noble studies that both comforted and diverted sublimating natural bodies for he was a great Chymist as he did his affections by a well grounded patience for he would say he learned patience himself by looking on the inconvenience of impatience anger in others And to keep his body in a temper suitable to his soul for many years he eat no Breakfasts that his stomach might be cleansed and its superfluous humors consumed before he came to Dinner saying that those who went with a crude stomach from one meal to another without an extraordinary use of exsiccatives as Ginger Oranges and Lemons Citrons Horse-Radish Roots c. would hardly escape the Scurvey if they did the Dropsie Coll. Edward Stradling Major General Sir Henry Stradling Coll. Iohn Stradling and Coll. Thomas Stradling of the ancient Family of the Stradlings the second Baronet of England of St. Donats in Glamorgan one of the noblest seats in all Wales Very forward in raising that Country for his Majesty and in eminent trust commanding it under him much to the satisfaction of the people more of the Gentry Good Prome-Condi of Antiquity faithful in keeping monuments thereof and courteous in communicating them whereof though some had as it said of Iohn Stow Mendacio now and then jogging them on the elbow yet many of them lacked Learning ratâ—er than Truth seldom omitting what is sometimes observing what is not considerable A Family to whom a Septenary number is happy a Nonary fatal Iohn Lord Culpepper of Thorsway whose Family is now honourable in the Isle of Wight bred to the Law was resolved to maintain it relating to the Exchequer in times of Peace when the Parliament grew sullen and would not see what they did he made his business to fill it against a War bringing his Majesty in some thousands from his friends and all that he had himself Novemb. 9. 1640. he made a smart Speech in Parliament against the grievances of the Government in the behalf of Kent for whom he sate Decemb 6. the same year he offered the peaceable and safe ways of repressing them and when he saw the Remedy like to prove worse than the Disease he endeavoured to compose differences in the House as long as he could and afterwards out of it bringing the first message of Peace with the R. H. the E. of Southampton and the most accomplished Sir Will. Wedall a handsome man and as knowing as much Learning long Travels and great Observations could make him men of parts sided with the King that could encourage them to the Parliament 1642. as he did six more during the Wars assisting in all his Majesties Councils and promoting all the Treaties wherein he was always a very sober Commissioner And when he saw no more good to be done by those Treaties than the Father saith he saw by Councils advising his Majesty to enlarge his Interest by dividing it into his own the enjoyment of the Kingdom and his sons the hope the one-to draw together the North and South out of a sense of their present duty and the other the West out of a regard to their posterities happiness he was appointed to direct his Highness the Prince his Counsel 1645 6. as he did first in raising a good Army towards the recruiting of the War and afterwards in proposing his Highness as a fit Mediatour between the King and Parliament for Peace From Cornwal he attended his Highness to Holland to negotiate supplies from thence to the revolted Fleet to keep it in order and dispose of it to advantage thence to France and Holland to settle the new Design 1648. for re-establishing the King mannaging an exact correspondence then both with the Scots and English thence to Breda to forward the Agreement with the Scots where he with an admirable dexterity solved or mitigated each morning the difficulties they made at over-night therefore called by those people The Healer thence to Denmark and Muscovy where he prevailed so far for his afflicted Master that he made the first Kingdom declare against the Rebels and the other besides some supplies he sent his Master lay all the Estates and persons of English men in those parts at his Masters feet whom he used so civilly as to convince that his Master aimed more at their good than his own Right and that he desired to govern his people only to protect them He lived to see his own maxim made good That time cures sedition which within few years groweth weary of its self the people being more impatient as he would say of their own Libertinism than of the strictest and most heavy Government besides that the arts and impulses of seditious Demagogues may a while estrange and divorce their minds yet the genius of English men will irresistably at last force them to their first love and his Majesty entring his Metropolis where he would say A Prince should keep himself in all commotions as the seat of money and men May 29. 1660. He dying Iune 12. following Master of the Rolls and his Son Governor I think of the Isle of Wight Sir Tho. Culpepper of Hallingborn in Kent paid 824l Composition William Culpepper and Thomas his son of Bedbury in Kent 434l Sir Alexander Culpepper 40l Prince Maurice bred in the Wars of Germany which were undertaken for his Father Frederick Prince Elector Palatine and chosen King of Bohemia and with some German Officers coming Sept. 17. 1664. over to serve his Unkle K. Charles I. whose only sister Elizabethâ— son he was in the Wars of England Where he behaved himself at once valiantly and soberly acting nothing in any place without a Council of War of the most knowing Gentlemen in that place nor exacting any contribution without the consent of the Inhabitants very much did he assist by a strange reach in contrivance he was Master of in pounding Essex in Lestithiel and more towards the taking of Exeter wary in his advice and bold in his action surprized twice by the carelessness of his Officers yet so that both times he told them of it having a strange mixture of Jealousie mingled with Courage Indeed he was a Monogdoon that is one admirable Prince of eight compleat Qualities Sobriety Meekness Civility and Obligingness Conduct Resolution Seriousness and Religion Justice and Integrity Foresight and Thoughtfulness Patience and Constancy Noble in bringing his people on and careful in bringing them off being called by his Enemies the
as Ghosts do about the seat of their hid treasure 11. Sir Arthur Georges Chelsey Middlesex 512 l. Sir Richard Grosven Eaton-Chester 5350 l. in Land and Money Sir H. Gibbs and Thomas his son of Huntingtonâ— Warwick 517 l. Sir Io. Gibson of Weston York 1947 l. in Land and Money Sir H. Griffith of Agnisborton York 10649 l. in Land and Money Walter Grosvenor of Totten-hall Staff 300 l. Fulk Grosvenor Morhal War Esq 356 l. Ralph Goodwin Ludlow Esq Angel Gray Kingston Marwood Esq 718 l. Anthony Gosborough Sapley Huut. Esq 440 l. Richard Goddard Swinden Wilts Esq 413 l. Sir Tho. Gemham of Gemham Suffolk 951 l. Henry Gilbert Locked Derby Esq 680 l. Sir Tho. Garden Cuddleston York 982 l. Sir Edward Griffin Dingley Northam 1700 l. Sir Thomas Gower senior and junior Stilnam York 1730 l. Richard Goddard Sarum Wilts Esq 862 l. Sir Charles Gawdy Growsbal Suff. 4264 l. in Land and Money Mich. Grigg Hadley Middl. Esq 1060 l. Robert Gosnal Otley Suff. Esq 600 l. Sir Richard Graham Norton York 1384 l. Tho. Goodale Lichfield Esq 830 l. Iohn Gifford of Brightley Devon Esq 11 6 l. Samuel Gorges Wruxal Som. Esq 582 l. Sir Gordicke Ribston York 1343 l. Sir Richard Grimes Pecham Surrey 500 l. Peter Griffith Carnoy Flint Esq 113 l. A Catalogue of Worthies that instilled into their respective Neighbours the good principles of Allegiance and were able to go to the charge of then most of them most active as natural motions are most swift towards the end of the War when the air being corrected by cold and nipping misfortune there was no danger of taking the Kings side as some did in warmer times only by Infections professing themselves better able to manage great miscarriages than a great success most of them provided for the War suitable supplies while others performed in it great actions Admiral Colligni was wont to say He that would paint the Beast War must first begin to shape the Belly meaning that the chiefest care in War should be the supply of the Army Many of whose Ladies deserve to be mentioned among these men for having done in the War more then Women One especially who trained a Pigeon to carry Letters which were sent as they were written with the wing of a Fowl all of them at last conquering that party by yielding which they could not by fighting lurking in corners as Truth doth often fearing her Judges though never suspecting her Cause till the Conquerors having so much choice had in effect none at all being able among so many Governments to pitch upon none fell of the Collick I mean the Divisions in the r own bowels partly as well as Cowardise the disease of their hearts and these Gentlemen who followed the Crown with the Cross at first and afterwards endured the Cross without the Crown at last injoyed the Crown without the Cross. They who never refuse what God carveth them do never cut ill for themselves being contented to see much misery upon condition their eyes should not be put out and they in compliance with their fortunes should not be compelled to do any thing unworthy of their Birth patiently bearing their Masters loss of his Crown of Gold in consideration that their Saviour wore one of Thorns being comforted with this general Opinion that his Majesties worse Vice was his Vertue Jo. Warden Ches 600 l. Sir Tho. Wildbraham Woodhay Ches 2500l W. Waldron Wells Somerset â—sque 630l Arth. Warren Lond. Esq 850l Jo. Were Silvert Devon Esq 526l R. Walker Exon. 886 l. Sir W. VValter Sarsd Oxon 1607l Edw. Whitchot of Bishops-Norton Linc. Esq 1700l in land and money Dr. Maurice Williams of Oriel Col. Oxon. 1100l Jo. Walpool Spalding Linc. Esq 450l Sir Michael Wharton of Benly York 9999l in land and money 12. Sir Thomas and Sir William Bridges both Colonels able to serve his Majesty in the War and one or both Prentices but of very good Families ready to serve their Country in time of Peace by their good service under Command deserving one Sir Thomas as discreetly deserting both in time while he might have good conditions when untenable as he stoutly maintained Leicester while tenable Sir Henry Billingham well known for his eminent services not only in Kent but in Christendom and Thomas Billingham Esq who seeing the differences among us grown so great that they could not be united by either Law or Reason endeavored to cut them asunder with their Swords much against their wills not that they were worse Souldiers than others but that they were better Christians their demurre being not in their Courage but Conscience Sir Thomas Bower of Lethoru Sussex a Gentleman whose soul was enriched with many vertues whereof the most Orient was his Humility which took all mens affections without resistance but those men who had guts and no bowels to whom he paid 2033 l. and he said he had a cheap penny-worth of the Peace of his Conscience Sir Thomas Bosvile Eynsford Kent 205 l. of whom and of Col. Bamfield who conveyed away his Highness the Duke of York from St. Iames that rule holds not true that Ambition is the spur of a Souldier 13. Sir William Bulton of Shaws Wiltshire a Gentleman to whom his Ancestors honor were a spur to Vertue his Parents not satisfying themselves that they had begot him honor unless they bred him so too and implanted in him those Vertues to support the Family that raised it by Dr. Prideaux his tuition whose Pupil he was at Exeter Col. Oxon. and Sir Arthur Hoptons Company whom he attended in his Embassie through France into Spain by Geneva untainted with the levity of the French the pride of the Spaniard the superstition of Italy or the novelties of Geneva but nobly accomplished for the service of his Country had it been capable of it Having a large Estate and no Children his Hospitality was exemplary his charity to his poor Neighbors great to poor Ministers and Cavaliers greater to poor Scholars at School and the University greatest of all his Devotion according to the way of the Church of England strict both at his Parish Church and in his Family and his duty and conscience justly valued above his Estate whereof besides his contributing to his Majesty he paid 2380 l. composition to the enemy dying April 1660. and buried at North-Wraxall the 12 th of the same moneth with this noble Character of a most beloved Patriot a most indulgent Husband a loving Brother a fast Friend a good Landlord a bountiful Master and a very just man 14. Sir Thomas Ailesbury one of the Masters of Request to King Charles I. whose Ancestors were High-Sheriffs of Bedford and Buckinghamshire often in Edw. 2. and Edw. 3. time the Countess of Clarendons Father and the Dutchess of Yorks Grandfather suffering much in his Estate at home and dying I think banished abroad 15. Sir William Valentine Lane and Col. Io. Osburn Prince Ruperts old Souldiers at whose advance such a
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in
Charity it self Charity suffereth long and is kinde beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things I can truely avouch this Testimony concerning him That living in the same Colledge with him more than twenty years partly when he was Fellow and partly when he returned President I never heard to my best remembrance one word of anger or dislike against him I have often resembled him in my thoughts with favour of that Honourable Person to him whose name sounds very near him who being placed in the upper part of the World carried on his Dignity with that justice modesty integrity fidelity and other gracious plausibilities that in a place of trust he contented those whom he could not satisfie and in a place of envie procured the love of them who emulated his Greatness and by his example shewed the preheminence and security of true Christian Wisdom before all sleights of humane policy that in a busie time no man was found to accuse him so this good man in that inferiour Orb which God had placed him demeaned himself with that Christian clemency candor wisdome and modesty that malice it self was more wary than to cast any aspersions upon him I shall willingly associate him to those other Worthies his Predecessors in the same Colledge all living at the same time to the invaluable Bishop Iewel Theologorum quas Orbis Christianus per aliquot annorum Centenario produxit maximo as grave Bishop Goodwin hath described him The greatest Divine that for some former Centuries of years the Christian World hath produced To the famous Master Hooker who for his solid Writings was surnamed The Iudicious and entituled by the same Theologorum Oxonium the Oxford of Divines as one calls Athens The Greece of Greece it self To the learned Dr. Reynolds who managed the Government of the same Colledge with the like care honour and integrity although not with the same austerities He willingly admitted and was much delighted in acquaintance and familiarity of hopeful young Divines not despising their Youth but accounting them as Sons and Brethren encouraging and advising them what Books to read and with what holy preparations lending them such Books as they have need of and hoping withal that considering the brevity of his own life some of them might live to finish that Work upon the Creed which he had happily begun unto them This was one of the special Advices and Directions which he commanded to young men Hear the dictates of your own Conscience Quod dubitas ne feceris making this the Comment upon that of Syracides In all thy matters trust or believe thine own soul and bear it not down by impetuous and contradictuous lusts c. He was as diffusive of his knowledge counsel and advice as of any other his works of mercy In all the Histories of Learned Pious and Devout Men you shall scarcely meet with one that disdained the world more generously not out of ignorance of it as one brought up in cells and darkness for he was known and endeared to men of the most resplendent fortunes nor out of melancholy disposition for he was chearful and content in all estates but out of a due and deliberate scorn knowing the true value that is the vanity of it As preferments were heaped upon him without his suit or knowledge so there was nothing in his power to give which he was not ready and willing to part withal to the deserving and indigent man His Vicarage of Saint Nicholas Church in New-Castle he gave to Master Alveye of Trinity Colledge upon no other relation but out of the good opinion which he conceived of his merits The Vicarage of Wetney near Oxford after he had been at much pains travail and expence to clear the Title of the Rectory to all succeeding Ministers when he had made a portion fitting either to give or keep he freely bestowed it upon the worthy Master Thomas White then Proctor of the University late Chaplain to the Colledge and now incumbent upon the Rectory A Colledge Leaâ—â— of a place called Lye in Gloucestershire presented to him as a Gratuity by the Fellows he made over to a third late Fellow there meerly upon a plea of poverty and whereas they that first offered it unto him were unwilling that he should relinquish it and held out for a long time in a dutiful opposition he used all his power friendship and importunity with them till at length he prevailed to surrender it Many of his necessary friends and attendants have professed that they have made several journeys and employed all powerful mediation with the Bishop that he might not be suffered to resign his Prebendship of Winchester to a fourth and upon acknowledge that by their continuance he was disappointed of his resolution herein he was much offended that the Manus mortua or Law of Mortmain should be imposed upon him whereby in former days they restrained the liberality of devout men towards the Colledges and the Clergy But this was interpreted as a discourtesie and dis-service unto him who knew it was a more blessed thing to give than to receive But that which remained unto him was dispersed unto the poor to whom he was faithful dispenserâ— in all places of his abode distributing unto them with a Free Heart a Bountiful Hand a Comfortable Speech and a Cheerful Eye How dis-respectful was he of Mammon the God of this World the Golden Image which Kings and Potentates have set up before whom the Trumpets play for War and Slaughter and Nations and Languages fall down and worship besides all other kind of Musick for jollity and delight to drown if it were possible the noise of bloud which is most audiable and cries loudest in the ears of the Almighty How easily could he cast that away for which others throw away their lives and salvation running head-long into the place of eternal skreekings weeping and gnashing of teeth If it were not for this spirit of covetousness all the world would be at quiet Certainly although the nature of man be an apt soil for sin to flourish in yet if the love of money be the root of all evil it could not grow up in him because it had no root And if it be so hard to a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God and the Narrow Gate which leads unto life then he that stooped so low by humbleness of mind and emptied himself so nearly by mercifulness unto the poor must needs find an easier passage doubtless they that say and do these things shew plainly that they seek another Country that is an Heavenly for if they had been mindful of this they might have taken opportunity to have used it more advantageously His devotions towards God were assiduous and exemplary both in publick and private He was a diligent frequenter of the publick service in the Chappel very early in the morning and at evening except some urgent occasions of infirmity did excuse him His private
would one Stratagem twice being it is Hannibal's character inverted excellent at using keeping and improving Advantages as the foregoing Gentleman was at gaining them And never coming on the Stage to act any Part but what he was so much Master of as to come off with applause as one that understood as well his own defects as abilities Upon all occasions of the Kings Armies withdrawing from those parts he kept all places in such subjection to his Majesty that at their return they found all things so well that they wondred to see themselves there when elsewhere a constant awe and love keeping those coasts loyal But it was so As clocks once set in motion do yet go The hand being absent or as when the quill Ceaseth to strike the string yet trembleth still So grave and reserved a man might have escaped but that the serious combination measuring other people by themselves looked on those men as most dangerous that were most sober His Estate indeed being so great that it was malignant too and as once a merry servant of his said and by the way his Service was such Preferment and a Relation to him so much more than Wages from others that he had as many ingenious Gentlemen to wait upon him for his divertisement as others of his quality had meaner people for their service If they could finde nothing else against him surely they would sequester him for Original sin At which and his other vexations being but a prisoner at large all the while he was resolved not to be at leisure to seem sorrowful that he might be the more serviceable for though as the Tortoise keeps in his shell all the winter so he retired in the sharpness of the late times yet he had all occurrences waiting upon him when he seemed not to take any notice of them One asked a grave Matron how her Maids came by so good Husbands when they seldome went abroad O said she good Husbands come home to them That Text of Solomon Fear God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change cost him they said three thousand four hundred sixty odd pounds blessing God for the benefits he hoped the Kings good Subjects should receive from their bitter usage which might prove wholsome Physick God sanctifying the malice of enemies the Serpents poyson may be used as an Antidote to do the office of a friend And supplying loyalty as freely as he had paid for it usually concluding his honest Discourses among friends with these two sayings Nothing undoeth us but security and We may well spare our superfluities to serve the Kings necessities To conclude a man this so happy in his Invention that in all his Loyal and Worthy Designs he was never at a loss but so projected all his courses that a second began commonly where the first failed and he would fetch strength from that which succeeded not A great observer of common occurrences the result of which enabled him to Advise and a religious one of extraordinary especially wonderfull emergencies for he thought that the ordinary course of things declared the glory of God The artificial mixture of them was an instance of the art of God and Men managing the subtile engine of the Universe The alteration of them as in a miracle did discover the will of God but the disturbance of nature as in Prodigies proclaimed approaching judgements which made him serious though not ensnared to those two credulous and superstitious Principles Fear and Ignorance which usually manage and deprave mens conclusions and affections Sir GEORGE BERKLEY IT is reported that in the last battel against the Turks for the defence of Christendom there was such a slaughter of the French Gentry engaged in that war upon the French Kings motion to them one day in his Palace that it was fitter they should appear in Arms against the enemies of Christendom than in their Silks and Feathers among their Ladies that there was hardly throughout all France a Family of quality that was not in Mourning It s certain that in the late and we hope the last controversie between the Government and the Faction there fell such a share of the publick calamities upon this Name involved therein by their own Consciences that permitted them not to sit down and injoy their own Estates at home while the State and Church were in so much danger abroad that I find but one person of any eminency and that is Alderman Berkley of London of the name that suffered not sooner or later on the Kings side For not to mention Francis Berkley of London Gentleman who no doubt might answer as the mannerly Gentleman did King Iames when he asked him what Kin he was to such a Lord of his Name Said Please your Majesty my elder Brother is his Cousien Germane And might be owned as once a Howard was by an honorable person of the name under whom he was impressed his Father interceding for his release the Lord asked for his name and when he replied that his name was Howard Said That his Cousien Howards Son should not be a Foot-souldier adding we are not all born to be rich though we are born to be great This Gentleman for his great happiness in conveighing Intelligence from London to Oxford travelling under the notions of a Pedlar and Chirurgeon for forming Combination here for his Majesty under the colour of Trade for securing and relieving his Majesties friends for being one of them that with Master Iohn Fountain and others at London who when they were demanded what they would be pleased to lend for the carrying on of the war Answered That it was against the Petition of Right to answer Yea or Nay whereupon Master Fountain was by the House committed to the Gate-house declaring forsooth against his judgment lest it should draw on others to the like honest error for indeavouring to publish every where the Kings Papers and Declarations to disabuse his Majesties good Subjects He was sixteen times Imprisoned thrice Plundered twice Banished and glad to Compound for the poor remainder of his Estate five hundred sixty two pounds four shillings and two pence Nor Thomas Berkley of Worcester Gentleman one of those happy men that are only to be found in England living in the temperate Zone between Greatness and Want France and Italy being in this case like a False Dye which hath no points between Sink and Ace Nobility and Peasantry who deserved so well of his Majesty in his Person in his Relation and in his Estate that he was forced besides several irregular sums extorted from him to lay down for his Loyalty in the Corban of the conspiracy Goldsmiths-hall four hundred twenty six pounds fifteen shillings and six pence A sum that deserves a mention for we are resolved none shall be denied admittance to the Temple of Honor who hath been at so great a charge to go through the Temple of Virtue Nor Edmund Berkley of Hereford shire the man
softly and unperceivably into the hearts of all that knew him but those that first vexed him out of St. Stephens Walbrook London where he was Minister and afterwards sequestred him for going away whereupon his Majesty promising himself good effects of his clearness candor solidness sweetness eloquence and good repute recommended him to the Diocess of Bristol 1644. where like Gregory Thaumaturgus he found few well-affected to the Church and left few dis-affected upon which account that honourable City as I have been told hath taken care for his childrens comfortable Education out of gratitude to their Father in Christ. A man not only flourishing with the verdure and Spring of Wit and the Summer of much Learning and Reading but happy in the Harvest of a mature Understanding and a mellow Judgment in matters Politick and Prudential both Ecclesiastical and Civil one who like Diogenes confuted the Enemies of his Function not his Person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by circumspect walking He died about the year 1646. and his brother Mr. Iames Howell of the same Colledge mentioned by Sir Kenelm Digby in his discourse of the Sympathy Cure of Wounds at Montpelier with so much respect Secretary to the Lord Scroop when President of the Council in the North relating to my Lord Conway in the Marriage-Treaty with Spain many particulars whereof may be met with in his familiar Letters which as all private Letters do give the best History I meet with in that and other affairs of that Time Assistant to Sir R. Mansel in the Glass-Works and in some place about the Clerks of the Council before the late Civil Wars when he was imprisoned in the Fleet where and in other places of his suffering he wrote 49 Books most Translations out of French Spanish Italian and Portugez wherein he had a good faculty and a great advantage with a handsome Parabolical and allusive fansie according to his Motto Senesco non segnesco He died 1665. Mr. Launce of St. Michael in the Quern a grave man and Minister to whom his people would have given their right eyes till he began to open them by telling them the truth A choice man in the Books he read and in the friends he conversed with many mens excellent parts are kept low for want of a well contrived and by reason of a scant ill chosen Library The knowledge of Books as it is a specious so he would say it was an useful part of Learning as whereby upon any emergent doubt or difficulty a man may have recourse unto the advise of grave and learned men who it may be have bestowed a great part of their time and study in the resolution of that particular business The presence of a Bishop at a Marriage is a License and his appearance before the War was among his Neighbours countenance enough to any action the good he did by the holy Ingenuity of his private Visitations wherein his discourses were quick and cheerful was not inferiour to the effects of his publick administration those indeed making way for these and by his inviting looks far from the threatning aspects of some men to both the predominant habit of the Mind by the conformity of the Fansie spirit bloud and constitution to those habits like the black and yellow Jaundies leaving a notable tincture and signature on the eye and aspect especially when men come to be fixed in their desires and designs vultu promisit quicquid vita praestitit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. de Basil. fornia innocentissimus ingenio florentissimus propositio sanctissimus vit a innocentissimus in a word he was one well seen in the different conditions of the people of God which he studied that he might divide the Word aright and give unto every one a due proportion to every state Impatient of two things in a Sermon a jeering Irony or a furious Zeal advising that if the matter required a passion it should be the zeal of a displeased Friend rather than the biterness of a provoked Enemy to convince rather than exasperate He died 1665. Dr. Swadlin of St. Bololph Aldgaie sequestred plundered imprisoned at Gresham Colledge and Newgate his wife and children turned out of doors he himself administring to most of the Martyrs before their death and preaching so boldly in the behalf of both their Majesties as if he did intend to be a Martyr himself saying when he heard of some horrid action of the Adversary Blessed be God! now their oppressions are at highest they will be at an end the night is darkest ever upon the break of day Dr. Walter Balcanguel known by his place and discreet interposals in the Synod of Dort when very young representing the Church of Scotland by his shrewd accounts of that Synod when something farther in years a very pathetick Preacher having a great command as Orators should over his own affections and his Hearers and a notable prudential man he being Duke Hamiltons creature having the draught of the grand Declaration about the Scotch affairs for which he was made Dean of Durham as he was before Master of the Savoy one of a nimble wit and clear expression sequestred plundred and forced to fly in which condition he died in Chirk Castle 1644. Dr. Thomas Fuller born at Oâ—ndle in Northamptonshire where his Father was Minister and bred in Queens and Sidney Colledges in Cambridge under Dr. Ward and Dr. Davenant Master of a good Method and by that of an extraordinary memory which qualified him for an excellent Historian and by keeping the coherence of things in his mind for a great Wit his Writings are very facetious and where he is careful judicious his Pisgah sight is the exactest his Holy War and State the wittiest his Church-History the unhappiest written in such a time when he could not do the truth right with safety nor wrong it with honour and his Worthies not finished at his death the most imperfect A good natured man too credulous and a witty man too quick considering that every thing is big with Jest if we have the vein not so well skilled where to spare his Jests as where to spend at once serious and Cheerful moderate in his judgement and practice and therefore faring as moderate men use to do who are suspected on both sides and Guests at the middle of a Table who can reach to neither Mess either above or beneath He was so good Company that happy the person that could enjoy him either Citizens Gentlemen or Noblemen he removing up and down out of an aequanimous civility to his many worthy friends that he might so dispense his much desired company among them that no one might monopolize him to the envy of others so general a Scholar that it was his insight into every thing he had read that together with his thinking and meditating nature out of which he could not be got sometimes for several hours together made his fansie so nimble
or governed he did it exactly according to the old Injunctions of the Realm the Canons of the Church and the Laws and Statutes of the place of all which his Visitation Articles were an exact Collection For which by men ignorant and impatient he was cried down into Prison without ever being heard for fifteen years together by a Parliamentary power and by the same power as St. Paul Act. 16. 39. was intreated out of his bonds by them that put him in discharged out out-living by a strong constitution used to hardship never seeing Fire in the coldest time nor bating the hardest Meat in his weakest years seldome a bed till eleven a clock at night and always up at five in the morning at his hours walk without either Fire or Candle and continual Study diverting his thoughts whereof his Accurate and Critical Vindication of the Scripture against the Socinian Glosses is a very great instance Printed at the end of the Critica Sacra a small part of a vast Treasure of such choice observations If he discoursed he did it to his last with a vast comprehension and memory of particular and minute circumstances though at never so great a distance of time or place If he had relation to any Colledge as he had to Peter-house and Pembroke-hall and I think St. Iohns Cambridge as Visitor and Charter-house as Governor he looked to the concernments of each place narrowly he incouraged hopeful men in them bountifully and kept up the interest of the Church as he did every where strictly if it was a time of Parliament or Convocation he attended them carefully and constantly for he knew that a Vote may sometimes save or loose a kingdom This Eminent Prelate dying 1667. above 80. years of age was buried in a Chappel erected at his own charge in Cambridge with the greatest solemnity seen in the memory of man performed by the whole University ordered by an Herald Dr. John Pearson Master of Trinity-colledge and Margaret Professor making an excellent Funeral Oration upon the occasion and all the Company besides that they laid the rich Miter and Crosier upon the Altar making the greatest offering that ever was seen in the University I wish him so good an Historian of his life as he had been of the Church if he had undertaken what Bishop Andrews imposed upon him before he understood Sir Henry Spelman was about it viz The Collection of Counsels and so good an Epitaph David LLoyd Dr. of Law born in Mongomeryshire or Shropshire bred in All-souls Oxon sometime Comptroller of the Earl of Derbies house and Chaplain to his Family Warden of Ruthen Denbighshire and Dean of St. Asaph an ingenious Gentleman of greater spirit than estate well esteemed of by the neighbour Gentry where he lived and not understood by the populacy a great agent and sufferer for his Majesty well understanding how to take off his enemies and ingage his friends He died 1662 3. Dr. Iohn Barneston born of a good Family in Cheshire to which he was an ornament bred Fellow of Brasen-nâ—se-colledge in Oxon to which he was a benefactor founding there a Lecture for Hebrew where he had been an excellent Proficient in Greek that that Colledge which is so eminent for Philosophy should be as excellent for the Tongues Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton to whom he was Counsellor and Residentiary of Salisbury where he was an hospitable House-keeper a chearful Companion and a peaceable Man by the same token that a Church-warden being brought before him by the Parish in a Consistory for having lost the Chalice out of his House which should have been kept in the Church he perceiving that the Church-warden had carried it home with an honest intent not to Imbezzle but to scoure it ended the controversie thus Well I am sorry that the Cup of Vnion and Communion should be the cause of difference and discord among you Go home and live lovingly together and I doubt not but either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same or some other as good will be sent you Which by a charity as secret as the offer was prudent was performed not only on the Doctors motion but his charge too who rested in that peace he lived when the whole Nation was imbroiled in a war 1642. About which time died Mr. Io. Bois who credited Elesmeth in Suffolk by his Birth Hadley School and Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge by his Education Boxworth in Cambridgeshire where he was Parson and Ely-church where he was Prebendary by his preferment His voluntary Greek Lecture read a Bed early in the morning to young Scholars whereof Mr. Gataker was one improved him much and the young men of those times more King Iames his Translation of the Bible wherein he was an eminent instrument Sir Henry Savils Chrysostome whereof he was the Supervisor and the choice Notes and Criticisms that go up and down among learned men whereof he was the Author will preserve his memory in the world as long as it is either religious or learned Bishop Andrews who made it not his business to finde preferment for men but men for preferment stole those they had upon him and Mr. Nicholas Fuller in a way equally agreeable to their modesty and merit As Bishop Laud did for Mr. Edward Symonds a native of Cottered in Hertsordshire Scholar of Peter-house in Cambridge and Minister of Little Rayne in Essex before the wars so strict his life and so plain piercing and profitable his preaching whereof some very pertinent Sermons extant are instances that he was looked upon as a Puritan yet in the wars so early his care in vindicating his Majesty in a Book bearing that Title in principling his Country against Rebellion in some controversies with Stephen Marshall whom he after visited in his Bed at Westminster telling him That if he had taken him for a Wild Beast he would not have rouzed him in his Den and afterwards in being instrumental to set forth his late Majesties true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he was Sequestred of his Living and forced first to Worcester then to Exeter and Barnestable after that to France and at last to London where he died 1649. being buried in St. Peters Pauls-wharfe where he often preached and elaborately for being requested once to Preach upon a small warning and told that the plain Auditors would be best pleased with his plain performance he answered I can content them but not mine own Conscience to preach with so little preparation The Earl of Kildare being accused before Henry the eighth for burning the Cathedral Church of Cassiles in Ireland professed ingeniously That he would never have burned the Church if some body had not told him that the Bishop was in it Several persons being urged with their severity to this good man answered He had never suffered so had he not been a stubborn Kingling and Prelatist Tanti non est bonum quanti est odium Christianorum Dr. Edward Simson born
April 13. 1578. at Tottenham-high-crosse in Middlesex where his Father was the faithful Minister who having bred himself to a competent skill in Latine sent him to Westminster under Mr. Cambden to learn Greek at fourteen as he did him to Trinity-colledge in Cambridge to accomplish himself with the Arts and Sciences at eighteen whereof being Master at twenty five as Bachelor of Divinity at thirty two when after vast instances of his proficiency in Critical and Historical Learning whereof his Catholique History as good of the great world as his Master Cambden is of Great Brittain Printed 1652. at Oxford a vast heap of Commentaries and Glosses upon the most known Authors lying in his Study and several Treaties as his Notae Selectiores in Horatium Praelectiones in Persii satyras Dii Gentium Sanctae linguae soboles Anglicanae linguae vocabularium Etymologicum Tractatus de justificatione A Treatise concerning Divine Providence in regard of evil or sin The knowledge of Christ in two Treaties dedicated to the Countess of Maidston Positive Divinity in three parts containing an Exposition of the Creed the Lords Prayer and the Decalogue worn out in the hands of private friends gave a very good account he was preferred for four years Chaplain to Sir Moyle Finch and upon his death whose Funeral Sermon he Preached with great applause returning to the University for three years Preacher in a private Parish at Cambridge and then Commencing Doctor at fourty advanced Rector of Eastling in the Diocess of Canterbury by the Viscountess Maidston Sir M. Finches Relict and Prebend of Coringam where being a man of an erect and tall though not very strong body a chearful soul a strong memory and quick senses to his last he continued with infinite satisfaction to all his Neighbors being complaiâ—ant as well as studious but the ignorant thirty years dying suddainly if his death who had lived so well 73. years might be thought suddain for he went to bed over night not to awake till the great morning sleeping his last even without a Metaphor 1652. having written over his Chronicon Catholicum Egregium Absolutissimum opus summa Industria omnigena eruditione magno Iudicio et multorum annorum vigilis perductum saith Dr. Edward Reynolds then Vice-Chancellor in his License prefixed to it with his own hand though very ancient in as neat a Character almost as the Printer published it Ipsos Saturni tumularunt viscera natos et Genitus rursus pars Genitoris erat Scilicet in proprios saevit gula temporis artus dumque necat serpens omnia primus obit Sed iu defunctis tribuisti saecula saeclis Qui vel praeteritos scis revocare dies Vmbras atque orcum redimcns e faâ—cibus orci nam sine te Manes bis poâ—uere â—â—ri Natales ante orte tuos posi â—â—nerâ— vâ—â—â—x Huic monstras aevo pristâ— of 〈◊〉 novo Tempore nata prius nunc gignit Aleâ—â—â—â—a tempus vitam alii mundo debet aeâ—â—â—stâ—tibi H. Birchhed Coll. Om. An. Soc. Saecula qui vasta reparasti lapsa ruina Aequum est ipse feras mansuram in saecula famam Rob. Creswell Col. Trin. Cant. St. Austines Retractations was the noblest of his Works and his Declaration about the Sermon before King Iames at Royston 1616 17. after the two Professors of Cambridge gave in their judgement against his Exposition of Rom. 7. for which Armenius had been lately blamed was the most ingenious of his Dr. Wilford Fellow and Master of Bennet Colledge in Cambridge Vice-Chancellor of that University Archdeacon of Bedford and Dean of Ely well seen in the Statutes of the University the Canons of the Church and the Laws of the Land a good Scholar and a strict Governor able to instruct men to do well to restrain them from doing ill He dyed Iuly 1667. having strugled much with bad manners and sad times wherein in promoting his Majestieâ—â—â—rvice he was discreet close and active he did as the gladiators â—â—ed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honeste decumbere neither suffered Religion only with his Majesty but all ingenuity too For Thomas Farnaby that excellent Gramarian Rhetorician and Critick as appears by his own systems and his Notes upon most Classick Latine Authors so often Printed here and oftner beyond Sea his life being taken up in making those excellent Collections he had been forty years instilling those principles of Loyalty and Religion into young Gentlemen for which with those Gentlemen he suffered it was a good sight to see Sir Thomas Moore when Chancellor condescend to ask blessing humbly on his knees in the middle of Westminster-Hall of his Father then Puisne Judge and it was a sad sight to see so many Bishops and Doctors at Ely-House thank plain Mr. Farnaby for teaching them those Maxims Loyalty in the School Affliction by his Patience which he had taught them in the Grammar-School by his Lectures The War spent him many of those thousands he had got in Peace he throwing as the Mariners his Goods over-board to secure himself and his Conscience keeping a calm within in the middle of a storm without The Parliament not forcing from him so much but he sent in more to the King His discovering the false Glosses and Comments put upon words and things in those times was as good service as the light and clearness he gave to the words and things of the old-times and when he could not correct the times to duty he retired though with trouble to his old way of breeding up young Gentlemen that should hereafter alter them planting a Nursery in the advantageous way of Boarding and Schooling which he always managed together and he would say it was not worth the while to undertake them asunder for the next Age that would make amends for this being Master of a grave Prudence to calm the unswayed humorsom Children and a good Spirit and fancy to raise the depressed Genius of others fixing and reducing each temper as Socrates did Alcibiades to an usefulness One that understood Greek and Latine Authors so as to understand himself Dr. Iohn Pottinger the Famous Master of Winchester who hath bred so many excellent men of late Fellow of New Colledge as Dr. Ailmer Dr. Sharwicke Dr. Ailworth Mr. Turner Mr. Ken c. able by their great Parts to master that Faction that with force mastered him The very discipline and method of his excellent School was able to instill learning like a Watch once well set that goeth always even without him to the dullest capacity and his fancy parts and incouraging temper put life into that Learning instilling not the Learning only but the Life of Authors especially Homer into his Scholars who came generally to the University in my time with more vigorous parts than others went out fit although otherwise he was a man as once Tully spake qui opprimi potius onere officii maluit quam illud deponere yet what pains he took to
calm of Cowardize seized on the Enemies hearts as that their skirmishes were rather Executions than frights but our sins put a stop to their success 16. Sir Io. Monson of South-Carleton Lincoln a good Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any in Oxford assisting in all Counsels and one in all Treaties for which he paid 2642 l. being permitted a quiet retirement for the same reason King Iohn being urged to untomb the bones of an Enemy permitted him a quiet grave Oh no said he were all my Enemies as honorably buryed To whom I must annex Sir Steven Hawkings never separated from him either in his services or sufferings a Commander of his Majesties Army and an eminent man in his Counsel as were Sir Thomas Haggerston Sir Gilbert Houghton Sir William Hart Sir Richard Hastings and Col. Io. Hilton Persons cut out by nature for Superiority and Command being like Saul taller by the head and shoulders than their Brethren and deserving it every where but among our phanaticks who raised mean men to Authority as the Goths had a Law always to chuse a short thick man for their King most of them bred Scholars and when exchanging their Caps for Helmets not putting off their Learning with their Habit. For though bookishness may be unactive yet Scholarship doth accomplish a Souldier and make him wield his Sword the steadier as appeared in Sir Io. Heydon who was a great Scholar especially in the Mathematicks whereby he overthrew the Astrologers upon their own principles and a good Souldier as were Col. Gosnall and Mr. Iohn Dutton both active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxford the last of whom was an instance of that great truth that Riches may be wanted with Pride and injoyed with Humility he being one of the Richest one of the meekest men in England not so rich in the great Estate he had as in the good works he did Notwithstanding that I find this Note in Goldsmiths-hall viz. Io. Dutton of Sherburn Gloc. Esq 5216 l. William Dallison of Greetwell Linc. 600 l. Fr. Drew Holcomb-Regis Devon 500 l. R. Davies Gwysanney Flint Esq 645 l. Will. Dâ—venport of Broomhall Ches Esq 745 l. Sir Will. Darcy of Witton Castle Durham 2457 l. Sir Robert Dormer and Sir Io. Curson of Oxfordshire who were both taken at Watlington in the same County as they sate upon his Majesties Commission of Array for which besides long Imprisonment they paid 12000 l. and Sir Io. Curson losing of a son in the service as did Sir Alexander Denton Knight of the shire for Bucks and losing his own life with heart-breaking grief in Prison as his son Col. George Denton did his with thirty wounds in the field Sir Tho. Malleâ— Exon. 871l Sir F. Moreton Howd York 828l Major Metcalf whom a shot took out of the hands of a lingring disease quickly cutting off what had been long a fretting Capt. Charles Osburn Capt. Tho. Meynel at the relief of Pontfract Col. Gilbert Marhkam and messenger at Nazeby Capt. Haggerston eldest son of Sir Tho Haggerston slain in Lanc. Coll. Holyland Sir Jo. Mary Mr. Tho. Davison Black Dur. paid 1412l composition Tho. Earl Down 6000l Tho Dove Upton Norf. 930l Math. Davis Sherb Dors. 300 l. Sir Will. Dalston Sir G. Dalston Cumb 4000l Jo. Davis of Raxford Devon and Pangborn Berks. Esq 1400l P. Dayrill Lilling Bucks Esq 700l Sir Tho. Delves Dor. Chester 1484. Sir Fr. Dowse Wall south 570l Fr. Lord Denniscomb 6042l in land and money Sir Edw. De Leyn Hallaxton Linc. 1000l Edw. Dyer Sarkam Park Ed. Dymock of the Race of the Kings Champions Esq 8633l in land and money Sir Lodowick Dyer 1500l in land and money Sir Wolston Dixey of Normator Derby Esq 1835l G. Digby of Landon Staff 1440l Phil. Dracot of Pavisley Recus 816l Sir Ralph Dutton Coll. in the Kings Army 500l Sir Drue and Col. Edw. Druery 1100l Coniers Lord Darcy of Hornby Castle York a noble Gentleman worthy his ancient Family 5464 l. in land and money 17. Doctor William Harvey the Eldest Son of Master Thomas Harvey who had as good a faculty in improving his Sons money with which they all trusted him in Land as they had to get it born at Folkston in Kent bred ten years in Cajus Colledge in Cambridge five years at Padua whence he became so accomplished with such a mixture of Foreign and Domestick Learning as to be Physician in Ordinary to King Iames and King Charles I. to establish in the world against opposition in his life time that new but noble Opnion of the Circulation of the bloud received as generally at last as it was strangers are apt to be suspected distrusted at first all those Riolanus c. shaking hands with him that hand tilted Pens against him yet notwithstanding his great Worth and Obligations upon mankind he suffered 2000 l. deep for attending his Master King Charles I. in these Wars at Oxford he was turned out of the Wardenship of Merton Colledge Oxon. and which was of worse consequence than all the rest having made a good progress to lay down a Practice of Physick conformable to the Thesis of the Circulation of the bloud he was plundered of his Papers by those men who not contented to murther the people of their own time destroyed thereby those that were unborn He died Iune 3. 1657. and the 80 th year of his age a Bachelor leaving behind him three Monuments I His four Books De Circulatione Sanguinis de Generatione de Ovo exercitatio Anatomica de motu cordis sanguinis in Animalibus in quibus scientiam humani corporis Physicae partem utilissimam mirabili sagac detexit demonstravit Vid. Gassend vit Peâ—â—es l. 4. p. 323. 2 His Benefactions whereby he hath been a second Linacer to the Excellent Colledge of Physicians in London 3 His Statue in that Colledge with this Insription Industria Sagacitate Successu Nobilis Perpetuos Sanguinis Aestus Circulari Gyro Fugient is Primus Promulgavit Mundo Nec Passus ultra Mortales Sua Ignorare Primordia Aureum Edidit de ovo atque pullo librum sic novis inventis apollineam ampliavit artem meruitque esse stator perpetus 18. Dr. William Iohnson Fellow of Queens and Dr. Nicholas Bernard Fellow of Cambridge Parallels in most of their vertues and most of their sufferings The first at once the most witty and pious man living the other Master of the greatest Mirth and seriousness in the World Both happy in sanctified Fancies and Parts both bred with eminent men the one with B. B. the other with Bishop Vsher whose Instrument he was in making many and useful Observations and Collections and whose Trustee he was in reference to his Reputation and Remains the first of which he often vindicated and the latter he often published both suffering equally the one turned out of his Fellowship and all his Preferments in England and the other out of his Deanery
London 1644 1645 1646. and to rise in Arms for him about Kingston where being defeated taken at St. Neots after a tedious imprisonment notwithstanding his sickness and infirmities tried for his life and beheaded in the Pallace-yard Westmin recommending with his last words to the deluded People the Kings Government and the established Religion The Right Honorable Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham who with Sir Io. Hotham the Earl of Stamford Sir Hugh and Sir H. Cholmley Sir Christopher Wray Sir Edward Ayscough c. all Converts afterwards in being as active in setling the Militia of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in obedience to the Parliament as other persons of quality were in prosecuting the Commission of Array in obedience to his Majesty was warned by a Letter under his Majesties hand dated at York Iune 4. 1642. to desist from Assembling the people in those parts upon any pretence whatsoever upon his allegiance and answered with much modesty and humility that though he could not presently desist without falsifying the trust reposed in him by the Parliaments particular Directions according to an Ordinance voted by the Lord Keeper Littleton and the Lord Chief Justice Banks whose judgments swayed his younger one as he said to this action so unsuitable to his Majesties liking yet nothing should pass by his Commands but what should tend to his Majesties honour and safety Agreeably to which ingenious Declaration when he saw into the bottom of the factious designs he was so active for his Majesties honour and safety in the House of Lords and the City of London 1645 1646 1647. that with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Middlesex the Lords Berkley Hunsden and Maynard all a while deluded by the Iuncto and because they presumed to be undeceived at last punished by them being impeached of high Treason for levying War against the King by endeavouring to make the City and Kingdom for him chose rather to hazzard himself 1648 1649 for a conquered and a captive Soveraign assisting and attending his Son in Holland and the Fleet as long as there was any likelihood of serving him than to have a share any longer in a conquering and prosperous Rebellion though it cost him several imprisonments and molestations besides 5000 l. composition Prosecuting his Loyalty by providing Arms for his Majesties Friends 1655 1657 1658 1659. at his own charge till the Restauration when having a large Estate and great experience in he was made Governour of the Caribee Islands 1660. where going during the late War upon a design of recovering St Christophers newly seized by the French he was cast away with most of his Fleet by an Hurricane 1666. being succeeded in his Government and Honor by his brother the Right Honorable G. Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666. A blessed Cause this to use the words of that ornament of his ancient and worshipful Family in Suffolk and Norfolk Mr. Hammond L'Estrange who enobled his sufferings as well as the cause he suffered for by his Writings especially his Alliance of Liturgies a Book full of that Various Reading not common in men of his quality and his History of King Charles I. a piece compiled with that ingenuity prudence and moderation as was not vulgar in the Writers of his Time that won its conquering Enemies all but one that sacrificed his Reason and Conscience to his ambition who yet in the midst of his greatness had not one minutes rest from those Fears his Conscience and common foresight that Right and Truth which are greater notwithstanding all his Arts and Methods of settling himself should prevail And there being nothing left now for the Kings Cause to conquer but those principles of Religion and those Ministers that supported the Faction those stood not out against its Evidence and Arguments for 1. Mr. Alexander Henderson a Moderator of that is in effect Archbishop in all the Assemblies in Scotland one in all the Treaties of England one of the ablest Presbyterians in both Kingdoms being overcome with his Majesties Arguments at Newcastle where he was Ordered to converse with and convert his Majestie when as all his Confinements his Pen gained those Victories which were denied his Sword went home heart-broken with Conscience of the injuries he had done to the King he found every way so excellent To whom I may joyn 2. Iohn Rutherford a Layman who was so far won by his Majesty then their Prisoner as to hazzard his life seven times for his rescue for which after a great reputation he gained in the King of France his service and great integrity and ability in serving his own Master he was 1660. made Governour of Dunkirk and 1662. Governour of Tangier and Earl of Tiveot both which Garrisons he fortified impregnably being a man of a great reach in Trade Encamping and Fortification and of an unwearied Industry and Diligence laying the design of the Mole in the last of those places which when finished will be a Piece of the greatest concernment in Christendom He was cut off 1664 5. in a Sally out as he was a very forward and daring man upon the perfidious Moors whom he had reduced to the most honourable peace that ever was enjoyed at Tangier to recover a Wood that was a great shelter to the Enemy and would have been of vast advantage unto us They that begin Wars know not how to end them without horrid scandals to Religion and an unparallel'd violence offered to all the Laws and Rights in the World On which consideration many returned to sober principles of Allegiance and indeed all rational men acquiesce in the present establishment according to their respective consciences actively or passively in gratitude to his Majesty and the Government for their former Indemnity that since his Majesty as a Father looked on all his Subjects as sons yet caressed his Prodigals those Subjects that came to themselves and acknowledged their errour with extraordinary kindness and tenderness out-doing all his promises and engagements Let the World see that his promises made and performed were not the effects of necessity but the fruits of a gracious and Princely mind like his Grandfather H. IV. of France not only pardoned the former Errours of those that were seduced against him and his Father but preferred and trusted them too They may make good his late Majesty of blessed memory his Royal word and engagement for them Medit. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that will be more loyal and faithful to his Majesty than those Subjects who being sensible of their own errours and his injuries will feel in their souls vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects Mr. Cauton and Mr. Nalton was banished and Mr. Christopher Love born in Wales and bred under Dr. Rogers in New-Inn◠Hall Oxon. Minister first of St. Ann Aldersgate and afterwards of St. Lawrence Jury was beheaded for owning the Kings Interest by those with whom he opposed it so far as