resolved not to submit to their new Masters Soon after he was one of the first that was deprived of all that he had in Oxon or elsewhere for not submitting to them tho he was offer'd by one of the Grandees of the H. of Commons to keep all that he had without being put to say or do or subscribe any thing against his Conscience if he would but then give his word only that he would not actually appear against them or their proceedings See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. 391. a. b. 393. a. 394. a. 395. a. 396. a. c. After this he was one of the Divines that was sent for by the King to assist at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight which proving ineffectual he resolved having first assisted the gallant Arthur Lord Capell as his confessor before his execution in the beginning of Mar. 1648 to quit his Country and find out the young King and never to return till he and the Crown and the Church were restored With this resolution he left England in the 51. year of his age and found him at the Hague where he was graciously received by him From thence he went first with him into France and from thence with him to the Scotch Treaty at Breda and there preach'd the last Sermon that the K. heard before he went into Scotland whither being not suffer'd to carry any of his own Divines with him he the said Dr. Morley went thereupon to the Hague and after some short stay there he went with his dearest friend Dr. Jo. Earle to live at Antwerp where they continued together in the house of Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies for the space of one year or thereabouts At which time Sir Charles being called thence to be Steward to the Queen of Bohemia and Dr. Earle to attend on his Higness James Duke of York then in France Dr. Morley continued still in Antwerp with the Lady Frances Hyde her Husband Sir Edw. Hyde being then Embassador for the King in Spain and all the time he was there which was about 3. or 4 years he read the Service of the Church of England twice every day catechiz'd once a week and administred the Communion once a month to all the English in the Town who would come to it as he did afterwards at Breda for 4 years together in the same Family But betwixt his going from Antwerp and his comming to Breda he was invited by the Queen of Bohemia to the Hague to be her Chaplain And he thereupon knowing her condition to be necessitous thought himself so much the rather oblig'd both in Conscience towards God and in duty to the Royal Family for she was Sister to K. Charles 1. to wait on her and accordingly he did and readily officiated both in her family and in the English Church there about two years and an half without expecting or receiving any Salary or gratuity at all for so doing There as in all other places where he lived especially at Breda he was blest with a retirement full of satisfaction to himself and with many opportunities of doing much good to others also For besides the constant reading of the Prayers of the Church his Catechizing of young persons his administring the holy Sacraments and his devoutest supplications for the K. and the Church in private he visited the sick and buried the dead and relieved many whom their Loyalty had impoverished His learned acquaintance abroad were Andr. Rivet Dan. Heinsius and Claud. Salmasius whom he often visited to the last of which then abiding at Leyden the King sent our author Morley to give him thanks in his name for the Apology he had published for his martyr'd Father but not with a purse of Gold as Joh. Milton the impudent lyer reported But his acquaintance was more intimate with the famous Sam. Bochart to whom he wrote a Latine Letter from Paris declaring his reasons of not coming to the French Congregation To which Mr. Bochart printed an answer in Latine the year following And as he was zealous for the Church so he was also for his Royal Master wâ—tness the large Epistle he wrote in Latine to Triglandius to vindicate his Master from the false aspersion of Popery For his friends at home of whom he never lost any but by death only were eminent both for parts and quality the chiefest of which were Lucius L. Falkland and Sir Francis Wenman of Oxfordshire both long since dead and Edward Earl of Clarendon who died long after them Among the Clergy were Dr. Rob. Payne Dr. H. Hammond and Dr. Rob. Sanderson late B. of Linc. who were all Canons of Ch. Ch. at the same time with him To these may be added many more as Mr. W. Chillingworth Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Cant Dr. Earl of Salisbury c. with the two last of which he kept a constant friendship for above 40 years and enjoyed the company of Dr. Earl very often abroad which made his banishment less tedious to him After his Majesties return this most worthy person Dr. Morley was first made Dean of Ch. Ch being then Chapl. to the Duchess of York whence after he had restored those that had been illegaly ejected in 1648 c. and had filled up the vacant places he was called to be Bishop of Worcester to which See he was Consecrated in the Abbey Church at Westm on the 28. of Octob. 1660 and in the beginning of the next year had the honour to preach the Kings Coronation-Sermon and soon after made Dean of the Chappel Royal in the place of Dr. Sheldon In 1662 he was upon the death of Dr. Duppa translated to the See of Winchester confirmed therein 14. May the same year where he hath truly verified the saying that the King gave when he bestowed the said Bishoprick on him that he would never be the richer for it For besides his expences in building and repairing his Palace at Winchester he hath laid out much more than the supplies the Parliament gave him in the Act which impowred him to lease out Waltham Park and his Tenements which were built out of Winchester House in Southwark He spent 8000 l. in repairing the Castle at Farnham before the year 1672 and afterwards spent more and above 4000 l. in purchasing Winchester House at Chelsey to annex it to the See which when he came to he found not an house to dwell in yet afterwards left two fair ones to his successors At that time also he had not purchased one foot of Land or Lease as if he had taken more care to enrich the poor than his Relations and what his benefaction was to the Coll. that gave him education you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 285. a. In the first year of his Translation he visited his Diocese in person and went into the Isle of Wight where had not been a Bishop before in the memory of man In July 1664 he came to Oxon
University He was another Tully and Virgil as being most excellent for Oratory and Poetry in which faculties as also in the Greek tongue he was so full and absolute that those that best knew him knew not in which he most excell'd So admirably well vers'd also was he in Metaphysicks that when he was Reader of them in the University the exposition of them was never better performed than by him and his Predecessor Th. Barlow of Qu. Coll. His preaching also was so graceful and profound withal that none of his time or age went beyond him So that if the Wits read his Poems Divines his Sermons and Philosophers his Lectures on Aristotles Metaphysicks they would scarce believe that he died at a little above thirty years of age But that which is most remarkable is that these his high parts and abilities were accompanied with so much candour and sweetness that they made him equally beloved and admired of all persons especially those of the Gown and Court who esteemed also his life a fair copy of practick piety a rare example of heroick worth and in whom Arts Learning and Language made up the true complement of perfection He hath written The Lady-errant Trag. Com. Royal Slave Trag. Com. Oxon. 1640. second edit Acted before the K. and Q. by the Students of Ch. Ch. 30 Aug. 1636. See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 344. b. 345. a. The Ordinary Com. Siedge or Love's convert Trag. Com. Poems All which were gathered into one Vol. and printed at Lond. 1651. oct usher'd then into the world by many copies of Verses mostly written by Oxf. men among whom were Jasper Mayne D. D. Joh. Castilion B. D. afterwards Dean of Rochester Robert Waring Mart. Lluellin Joh. Fell Franc. Palmer Rich. Goodridge Tho. Severne c. all of Ch. Church Hen. Earl of Monmouth Sir Rob. Stapylton Edw. Sherbourn afterwards a Knight Jam. Howell Franc. Finch Joh. Finch of Ball. Coll. Brethren to Sir Heneage Finch sometimes Lord Chanc. of England Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. Joh. Birkenhead of All 's Coll. Hen. Vaughan the Silurist and Eugenius Philalethes his brother both of Jesus Coll. Josias How and Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. Mathew Smallwood of Brasnose Hen. Bold of New and Will. Bell of S. Johns Coll. c. Our Author Cartwright also wrot Poemata Graeca Latina An Off-spring of mercy issuing out of the womb of crueltie Or a passion serm preached at Ch. Ch. in Oxon on Acts 2.23 Lond. 1652. oct Of the signal days in the month of Nov. in relation to the Crown and Royal Family A poem Lond. 1671. in one sh in qu. besides Poems and Verses which have Ayres for several Voices set to them by the incomparable Henry Lawes servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private musick who outliving the tribulations which he endured for the royal cause was restored to his places after the return of K. Ch. 2. and for a short time lived happy and venerated by all lovers of musick He was buried by the title of Gentleman of his Majesties Chappel in the Cloister belonging to S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster 25 Octob. 1662. As for Cartwright who had the Succentors place in the Church of Salisbury confer'd on him by Bishop Duppa in the month of Octob. 1642 was untimely snatch'd away by a malignant fever call'd the Camp-disease that raged in Oxon. he being then one of the Proctors of the University to the great grief of all learned and vertuous men and to the resentment of the K. and Qu. then there who very anxiously enquired of his health in the time of his sickness on the 29 of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried on the first day of Dec. towards the upper end of the south isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church In his Proctorship succeeded Joh. Maplet M. A. of the same house who served out the remaining part of the year and in his Succentorship Rob. Joyner of Oxford THOMAS MASTER son of Will. Master Rector of Cote near to a mercate town call'd Cirencester in Glocestershire was born at Cote but descended from the gentile family of the Masters living in the said town of Cirencester initiated in Grammar learning by Mr. Henry Topp a noted Master of that place afterward ripened for the University in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1624 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1629 holy orders and at length in 1640 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences At which time he was arrived to great Learning was esteemed a vast scholar a general Artist and Linguist a noted Poet and a most florid preacher He hath written Mensa lubrica Montgom illustriss Domino D. Edwardo Baroni de Cherbury Oxon. 1658. qu. second edit the first having been printed on one side of a large sheet of paper 'T is a poem written in Lat. and Engl. describing the game call'd Shovel-board play published with Sir Henry Saviles Oration to Qu. Elizab. by Mr. Tho. Baâ—low of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. an 1658. printed there again in Dec. 1690. in half a sh in qu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Greek Poem which is printed with Mensa lubrica was made by him on the Passion of Christ 19 Apr. 1633. rendred into excellent Lat. verse by Hen. Jacob of Merton Coll. and into English by Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets of his time which Lat. and Engl. copies are printed with the Greek Oxon. 1â—58 qu. Monarchia Britannica sub auspiciis Elizabethae Jacobi in oratione quam pro more habuit in capella Coll. Novi 6 Kal. Apr. 1642. Oxon. 1661. qu. 1681. oct published by his friend and acquaintance Joh. Lamphire Doct. of Phys sometimes Fellow of New Coll afterwards Comdens Prof. of History Iter boreale Oxon. 1675 in two sheets and an half in qu. written in prose and verse and dedicated to his Father Will. Master beforemention'd 25 Sept. 1637. published by George Ent of the Middle Temple son and heir of Sir George Ent Kt. then a sojourner and student in Oxon being about that time entred a Member of Wadh. Coll. Which George Ent. the son wrot and published The grounds of Unity in religion or an expedient for a general conformity and pacification printed in 1679 in one sheet in qu. In which year in Aug. or thereabouts he departing this mortal life was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London Our Author Master also hath written other Poems as 1 Carolas redux 1623. 2 Ad regem Carolum 1625. 3 On Bish Lake 1626. 4 On Ben. Johnson 1637. and 5 On Vaulx but these I think are not printed He was a drudge to and assisted much Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury when he was obtaining materials for the writing the Life of K. Hen. 8. Four thick Volumes in fol. of
the times reduced to those necessities under which he lived c. And whereas he had been heard to say in his former days that he thought he should never dye a Martyr yet he was known to live a Confessor and died little less than a Martyr for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England The Publisher of his Remains doth tell us that He was a man of as great sharpness quickness and stability of wit as ever this or perhaps any Nation bred His Industry did strive if it were possible to equal the largeness of his capacity Proportionable to his Reading was his Meditation which furnished him with a judgment beyond the vulgar reach of man So that he really was a most prodigious example of an acute and piercing wit of a vast and illimited knowledge of a severe and profound judgment c. He tells us also that he was true and just in his secular Transactions and charitable beyond example and as a Christian none was ever more acquainted with the nature of the Gospel because none more studious of the knowledge of it than he That he was sollicited to write and thereby to teach the World but would resolve against it yet did not hide his Talent being so communicative that his Chamber was a Church and his Chair a Pulpit and was as communicative of his Knowledge as the celestial Bodies of their Light and Influences When the King and Court resided at Windsore he was much frequented by Noble-men and Courtiers who delighted much in his company not for his severe or retired Walks of Learning but for his polite Discourses Stories and Poetry in which last 't is supposed he was excellent for a noted Poet of that time doth bring him into The Session of Poets thus Hales set by himself most gravely did smile To see them about nothing keep such a coile Apollo had spied him but knowing his mind Past by and call'd Falkland that sate just behind Those that remember and were well acquainted with Mr. Hales have said that he had the most ingenious Countenance that ever they saw that it was sanguine chearful and full of air Also that his stature was little and well proportion'd and his motion quick and nimble And they have verily supposed that had not Extremities contributed to the shortning of his days Nature would have afforded him life till he had been 90 years old or more The things that he hath written are these Oratio funebris in obitum Cl. Equitis Tho. Bodleii 29 Mar 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. printed again in 1681. in the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Will. Bates Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at S. Maries on Tuesday in Easter week on Pet. 3.16 Oxon. 1617. qu. and divers others which you may see in his Remains One Joh. Hales hath a Sermon of Duells extant on Numb 35.33 which I take to be the same with our Author yet it is not printed in his said Remains Another also Concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture c. Quaere Dissertatio de pace concordia Ecclesiae Eleutheropoli 1628. in tw This book which is much celebrated by famous Authors is printed in the same character and at the same supposed place as his Brevis disquisitio and therefore by the generality is taken to be written by our Author Brevis disquisitio an quomodo vulgo dicti Evangelici Pontificios ac nominatim Val. Magni De Acatholicorum credendi regula judicium solidè atque evidenter refutare queant Eleuth 1633. in 16. This book containeth as the Puritan then said Sundry both Socinian and Pelagian Points as also that the body which shall be raised in the Resurrection is not idem numero And that Souls do not live till the Resurrection besides other points c. 'T is true that certain of the principal Tenents were cunningly inserted therein pretending them for the best Expedients to appease some Controversies between the Ch. of England and Rome A Tract concerning Schism and Schismaticks wherein is briefly discovered the original and cause of all Schism All or most of this Pamphlet was taken as 't is said from Socinus and written about the year 1636 partly as some think out of discontent that he had no preferment confer'd on him partly as others say for the encouragement of some great Masters of Wit and Reason to dispute the Authority of the Church and partly at the request of his friend W. Chillingworth who desired some such matter of to be used by him in the composition of his book intit The Religion of Protestants c. Several copies of it were transmitted from hand to hand and one coming into those of Dr. Laud he therefore sent for him as I have already told you entred into a long discourse with him about certain particulars therein and being drawn over to his mind our Author Hales as 't is said recanted and was then resolved tho before inconstant to be orthodox and to declare himself a true Son of the Church of England both for Doctrine and Discipline This Tract was afterwards published without a name in one large sh in qu. an 1642 when the Press was open for every Opinion And since it hath given great advantage and use to some that have not loved nor are Lovers of the Ch. of Engl. as 1 E. S. in his Irenicum 2 Dr. Jo. Owen in his Plea for the Nonconformists 3 The Author of Separation no Schism wrot against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord Mayor on Rom. 14.19 4 Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd part 1. c. So that advantage being taken by it and the Tract several times printed some of the orthodox Clergy have answer'd it among which have been 1 Rob. Conold M. A. in his Notion of Schism in two letters The last of which is against Hales 2 Tho. Long B. D. in his Character of a Separatist but more largely in his book intit Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism examined and censur'd c. One Philip Scot also a Rom. Cath. doth modestly accost our Author in his Treatise of the Schism of England Amsterd 1650. in tw but he goes another way to work See more in Will. Page among these Writers under the year 1663. Golden Remains Lond. 1659. 73. 88. oct These Remains consist of Sermons Miscellanies Letters and Expresses from the Synod of Dort c. Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1677. oct Tract conc the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A just censure of which you may see in a book intit An account of the Greek Church c. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. Coll. printed 1680. p. 169. Paraphrase on S. Mathews Gospel Tract concerning the Power of the Keys and Auricular Confession Miscellanies With these is printed his Tract concerning Schism before mention'd according to the orig copy These four last things are printed and go with his Tract concerning sin
minus dubiae fidei supersunt Lond. 1650. in a thick large oct Interiora regni dei Lond. 1665. in tw He also translated The Psalmes of David into English meeter Lond. 1646. oct This translation tho ordered by the H. of Commons to be printed 4. Nov. 1645 yet if I am not mistaken all or most of it was printed in 1641. The said Psalmes were also turned into Meter by Will. Barton pr. by order of Parl. 1645. oct Our Author Rous gave way to fate at Acton near London on the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in Eaton Coll. Church near to the entrance of that Chappel joyning thereunto formerly built by Rog. Lupton Provost of the said College Soon after were hanged up over his grave a Standard Pennon c. and other Ensigns relating to Barons containing in them the arms of the several matches of his Family All which continuing there till 1661 were then pulled down with scorn by the loyal Provost and Fellows and thrown aside as tokens and badges of damn'd baseness and rebellion Those of his Party did declare openly to the World at his death that he needed no monument besides his own printed works and the memorials of his last will to convey his name to posterity And that the other works of his life were works of charity wherein he was most exemplary as the poor in many parts would after the loss of him tell you c. The Poet of Broadgates called Ch. Fitz Geffry did celebrate his memory while he was of that house and after his death Pembroke College built in the place of Broadg. did the like for his benefaction to the members thereof WILLIAM SANDBROOKE of Glocester Hall took one degree in the Civil Law in 1630 and about that time entring into Holy Orders became Rector of the Church of S. Pet. in the Baylie in Oxon 1635 where he was much frequented by Puritanical People and precise Scholars as Rogers Principal of New Inn was who had his turn in preaching there In the beginning of the Civil Wars he left the University and betook himself to a Sea employment in the quality of a Chaplain under the Earl of Warwick Admiral for the Parliament but being weary of it by the year 1644 he officiated as Vicar of S. Margarets Church in the City of Rochester by the leave of one Mr. Selvey the true Incumbent who having a good temporal estate allowed Sandbrooke the whole profits of the living Afterwards he was appointed by the Presbyterian Party one of three Lecturers in the Cathedral there purposely to preach down the Blasphemies and Heresies of Rich. Coppin and his besotted and begotted followers This Mr. Sandbrooke hath published The Church the proper subject of the new Covenant in three Sermons Lond. 1646. oct Several Sermons as 1 Fun. Sermon on Col. 2.6 printed 1657. in oct c. which and others I have not yet seen He died at Rochester in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was inter'd in the South Isle joyning to the Parish Church of S. Margaret beforemention'd remarkable for being the place of burial of one of the Saxon Kings as the People there say on the fifteenth day of March leaving then behind him the character of a godly and painful preacher WILLIAM RUSSELL Son of a Father of both his names was born at Wickware in Glocestershire educated in the Grammar School at Wotton Underedge in the said County became a Batler of Linc. Coll. in Lent term 1635 took one degree in Arts and then taught School for a time at Sadbury in his own Country At length John Langley being called away to be chief Master of S. Pauls School he became Master in his room of the publick College School in the City of Glocester where by his singular industry happy way of teaching and by his great skill in the Tongues and holy Scripture many learned youths were sent thence to the Universities His works are these The old Protestants conscientious enquiries concerning the new engagement printed in qu. 'T was written against the Oath called the Engagement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Holy Ghost vindicated in oct written against Joh. Biddle He gave way to fate on the 5. of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 42 years and was buried in S. Michaels Church within the City of Gloc. See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. p. 167. a. b. He left behind him three most ingenious Sons and excellent Scholars who were afterwards successively Masters of Arts and Fellows of Magd. Coll. The eldest was Samuel who died 22. July 1670. aged 22 the next was William who died 8. Dec. 1672 aged 22 and the third was Richard who dying 21. of Oct. 1681. aged 28 years was buried by his said two Brethren on the south side of Magd. Coll. outer Chappel One Rich. Russell a Rutlandsh man born as it seems bred in the English Coll. of Secular Priests at Lisbon in Portugal was by the K. of that Country designed to go into England as an interpreter to Don Francisco de Mello Earl of Ponte Embassador extraordinary from the said K. to K. Ch. 2 to settle the Marriage between him and Donna Catherina the Infanta of that Country After Russels return into Portugal he was rewarded for his pains with the Bishoprick of Portalegre where he now lives but whether of the same Family with Will. Russell beforemention'd I cannot tell HENRY EDMONDSON or as he writes himself Henricus Edmundus ab Edmundo was born in Cumberland and in the beginning of the year 1622 and in that of his age 15 he was entred a Student in Queens Coll. where after he had undergone the servile places of a poor Child and Tabarder was when Master of Arts admitted Fellow Afterwards he was made Usher of Tunbridge School in Kent under Dr. Nich. Grey and in 1655 when Thomas Widdowes died he was constituted by the Provost and Fellows of Qu. Coll. Master of the well endowed Free-school at Northleech in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Lingua Linguarum The natural Language of Languages wherein it is desired and endeavoured that tongues may be brought to teach themselves and words may be best fancied understood and remembred c. Lond. 1655. oct c. Homonyma Synonyma Linguae Latinae conjuncta distincta Oxon. 1661. oct and other things as 't is probable He was buried in the Church of Northleech on the 15 day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then the character behind him of a most able Person in his profession and of one who had done great benefit for the publick by his sedulous and industrious education of youth MICHAEL JERMIN Son of Alex. Jerm Merchant and Sherriff of Exeter Son of Mich. Jermin somtimes twice Mayor of the said City was born at Knowston in Devonshire entred a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. in the beginning of
Exceptions to the Practical Catechisme from the Censures affixt on them by the Ministers of London in a book intit A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1648. qu. Vindication of three Passages in the Pract. Catechism Lond. 1648. qu. Humble Address to the Lord Fairfax and Council of War 15 Jan. 1648 to prevent the Kings murder Lond. 1649. qu. Answer'd soon after by one who call'd himself Eutactus Philodemius Vindication of the Address c. Lond. 1650. qu. An Appendix or Answer to what was returned by the Apologist Lond. 1650. qu. This Apologist was the R. Cath. before mention'd Author of A treatise apologetical c. Of the reasonableness of Christian Religion Lond. 1650. in tw Dissertationes quatuor quibus Episcopatus jura ex S. Scripturis primaeva antiquitate adstruuntur contra sententiam D. Blondelli c. Lond. 1651. qu. Before which book is printed and set this following Dissertatio de Antichristo de mysterio iniquitatis de diotrophe de Gnosticis sub Apostolorum aevo se prodentibus The Christians obligation to peace and Charity delivered in an Advent sermon at Carisbrook Castle an 1647. and now published with nine sermons more Lond. 1652. qu. 2 edit Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the books of the New Testament Lond. 1653. and 59. fol. Letter of resolution to six Queries of present use to the Church of England Lond. 1653. oct The first Query is Of resolving controversie Review of the Paraphrase and Annotations on the N. Test with some additions and alterations c. printed in oct Of Schism or a defence of the Church of England against the exceptions of the Romanists Lond. 1653. 54. in tw Answer'd in a book intit Schisme disarm'd c. to which is an Appendix in answer to Dr. John Bramhalls Just vindication of the Church of England printed 1653 in a little oct Both which were written by Jo. Sergeant alias Smith born at Barrow in Lincolnshire admitted a Student in S. Johns Coll. at Cambridge 1637 aged 16 years but before he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he was chosen by the Master Dr. W. Beale and some of the Seniors of that Society to be Secretary to Dr. Th. Morton Bishop of Durham who had sent to them to make choice of a fit person for him out of that College to which he was a great Patron and Benefactor After he had continued there in good esteem about a year he fell into some difficulties about Religion and thereupon quitting that employment being then Bach. of Arts he went to the English Coll. of Seculars at Lisbon in Portugal an 1642 where he resumed and perfected his Studies and was afterwards Prefect of Studies in the said College In the year 1652 he returned into England where he was elected Secretary of the secular Clergy and put upon writing Controversie the titles of which I shall elsewhere mention as they lye in my way Reply to a Catholick Gentlemans answer to the most material parts of the Book of Schisme Lond. 1654. 55. qu. Account of H.T. his appendix to his manual of controversies concerning the Abbot of Bangors answer to Augustine printed with the Reply Vindication of the dissertations concerning Episcopacy from the exceptions of the London Ministers in their Jus Divinum Ministerii Evangelici Lond. 1654. qu. Of Fundamentals in a notion referring to practice Lond. 1654. and 58. in tw Account of Mr. Dan. Cawdrey's Triplex Diatribe concerning Superstition Will-worship and Christmas Festival Lond. 1654. 55. qu. This Account was answer'd by the said Cawdrey Minister of Billing magna in Northamptonshire in a book intit The Account audited and discounted c. Lond. 1658. The baptizing of Infants reviewed and defended from the Exceptions of Mr. Tombes in his three last Chapters of his book intit Antipaedobaptism Lond. 1655. qu. Defence of the learned Hugo Grotius c. Lond. 1655. qu. Second defence of Hug. Grotius or a Vindication of the degression concerning him Lond. 1655. qu. Answer to the Animadversions of the dissertations concerning Ignatius Epistles and the Episcopacy in them asserted Printed in qu. The disarmers dexterity examined in a second defence of the Treatise of Schism Lond. 1656. qu. Soon after Jo. Sergeant came out with Schism dispatch'd c. with an Appendix Lond. 1656. in a large oct being a Reply or Rejoynder not only to Dr. Hammond but to Dr. Bramhall The degrees of ardency in Christs Prayer reconciled with his fulness of habitual grace in reply to the Author of a book intit A mixture of scholastical Divinity c. by Hen. Jeanes Lond. 1656. qu. Parenaesis c A discourse of Heresie in defence of our Church against the Romanist Lond. 1656. oct Continuation of the defence of H. Grotius in an answer to the review of his Annotations Lond. 1657. qu. To which is added a Postscript Reply to some passages of the Reviewer in his late book of Schisme concerning his charge of Corruptions in the primitive Church and some other particulars Printed with the Continuation of the defence c. The grounds of Uniformity from 1 Cor. 14.40 vindicated from Mr. Hen. Jeanes's Exceptions in one passage in the View of the Directory Lond. 1657. qu. Paraphrase and Annotations on the book of Psalmes Lond. 1659. fol. These Annotations were remitted by Mathew Poole into the second vol of Synopsis Criticorum Lond. 1671. fol. with this character doctissimus Hammondus in quibus multa reperiet lector acumine plusquam vulgari parique eruditione conscripta nonnulla etiam singularia The said Poole also selected much out of his Annotations on the whole New Test The Dispatcher dispatched or an Examination of the Romanists rejoynder to Dr. Hammonds Replyes wherein is inserted a view of their profession and oral tradition in the way of Mr. White Lond. 1659. qu. By this Mr. White is meant Thom. de Albiis Brief account of a suggestion against The Dispatcher dispatched Lond. 1660. qu. Two Prayers Lond. 1660. oct The dayly practice of Piety Also Devotions and Prayers in time of Captivity Lond. 1660. oct Spiritual sacrifice or Devotions and Prayers fitted to the main uses c. This I have not yet seen and therefore I do not know how it differs from the former His last words Printed in a loose sheet Solemn Petition and Advice to the Convocation with his directions to the Laity how to prolong their happiness Cambr. 1661. oct Published by Thom. Smyth of Ch. Coll. in Cambr. Author of The rise and growth of Quakerism De confirmatione sive benedictione post baptismum solenni per impositionem manuum Episcopi celebrata commentarius ex sententia ecclesiae Anglicanae Lond. 1661. oct Several sermons Lond. 1664. fol. They are in number 31 and some of them were before published Of Hell-torments Ox. 1664 in tw Or An assertion of the existence and duration of Hell torments c. Oxon. 1665. oct An accordance of S. Paul with S. James in the great point
Westminster near to the grave of his great Uncle Dr. Barnab Potter sometimes Bishop of Carlile While the said Ch. Potter was an Undergraduat of Ch. Ch Tho. Severne M. A. and Student thereof Son of Joh. Severne of Broadway afterwards of Powick in Woocestershire was his Tutor and wrot and composed the said Theses Quadragesimales and therefore he who is now living at Worcester is to be taken for the Author of that book much commended when it was first published JOHN HULETT Son of Silvester Hul. Gent. was born in London entred a Commoner in New Inn in the beginning of 1627 aged 20 took the degrees in Arts afterwards travelled into several parts of the World particularly into Russia and Muscovia and improved himself in several sorts of Learning especially in Geography and Mathematicks After his return he setled in Oxon taught Scholars those Arts and became a useful person in his generation He hath written and published Several Ephemerides Description and use of the Quadrant Quadrat Nocturnal Printed several times in octav He died in his Lodgings in Catstreet on the 21 day of December in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxford leaving then behind several written Specimens of his profession which without doubt might be useful if made extant JOHN TOY Son of Joh. Toy was born and bred in Grammar Learning within the City of Worcester became either a Servitor or Batler of Pembroke Coll. in 1627 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts entred into Orders and became Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford under which title he took the degree of Master of Arts in 1634. Afterwards he was made Master of the Free then of the Kings School within the place of his nativity which last he kept for 20 years space and furnished the Universities with several hopeful youths He hath written and published Worcesters Elegie and Eulogie Lond. 1638. quar a Poem Before which Will. Rowland the Poet mentioned among these Writers under the year 1659. hath two Lat. Copies of Verses Quisquiliae poeticae tyrunculis in re metrica non inutilis Lond. 1662. oct Fun. Serm. on Mrs. .... Tomkyns on Job 14.14 Printed 1642. qu. And whether he was Author of Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion in usum scholae Collegialis Wigooniae Lond. 1650. oct I know not yet to the contrary He gave up the ghost on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester Over his grave was a Mon. soon after put with an Inscription thereon wherein he is stiled Vir ingenii perpoliti industriae indefessae eruditionis singularis eximiae morum sanctitatis vitae integer pubis constituendae scientissimus pietate fide modestia gravitate nullâque non virtute spectabilis c. WILLIAM PAGE received his first breath in the Parish of Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex applied his mind to Academical Studies in Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1606 aged 16 took the degrees in Arts and in the year 1619 was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. Afterwards by the favour of Dr. Laud Bishop of London he succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the Rectory of the Free-school at Reading and about the same time was presented by the Society of the said Coll. to the Rectory of East Lockyng near to Wantage in Berks which he kept to the time of his death but his School not for he was sequestred of it by the Committee of Parliament in 1644. In the year 1â—34 he proceeded Doctor of Divinity at which time and after he was esteemed well vers'd in the Greek Fathers a good Preacher and Disputant He hath written A Treatise of justification of bowing at the name of Jesus by way of answer to an Appendix against it Oxon. 1631. qu. An examination of such considerable reasons as are made by Mr. Prynne in a reply to Mr. Widdowes concerning the same Argument Printed with the former Of which Treatise or Treatises I find in a letter written by Will. Baker Secretary to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury directed to the Author Page these passages following Good Mr. Page my Lord of Canterbury is informed that you are publishing a Treatise touching the question of Bowing at the name of Jesus an Argument wherein Mr. Giles Widdowes foolishly and Mr. W. Prynne scurrilously have already to the scandal and disquiet of the Church exercised their pens His Grace hath formerly shewed his dislike of them both and hearing that you take up the bucklers in a theam of so small necessity and of so great heat and distemper which will draw a new Reply for Prynne will not sit down as an idle spectator and beget bitterness and intestine Contestations at home among our selves he is much offended that you do stickle and keep on foot such questions which may be better sopited and silenced than maintained and drawn into sidings and partakings And therefore I am wished to advise you to withdraw your self from these or the like domestick broyles and if your Treatise be at the press to gve it a stop and by no means suffer it to be divulged c. This Letter being written at Lambeth 31 May 1632 the Contents thereof flew to Fulham where finding Dr. Laud B. of London he wrot this following Letter to the Vicechanc. of the Univ. of Oxon dated 22 June following Sir these are to pray and require you in his Majesties name that a book lately printed at Oxon and made by Mr. Page of Allsoules College be presently set to sale and published It is as I am informed in defence of the Canon of the Church about bowing at the name of Jesus and modestly and well written And his Majesty likes not that a Book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prynne against the Church should take place as the Churches opinion against her self or as unable to be answer'd by the Church c. What else our Author Page hath written are Certain Animadversions upon some passages in a Tract concerning Schisme and Schismatiques c. Oxon 1642. qu. Which Tract was written by J. Hales of Eaton The Peace-maker or a brief motive to Unity and Charity in Religion Lond. 1652. in 16o. He hath also published a Serm. on 1 Tim. 5.3.4.5 Printed in qu. which I have not yet seen and also translated from Lat. into Engl. Tho. à Kempis his Treatise De imitatione Christi in 4 books Oxon. 1639. in tw Before which Translation by him amended and corrected he hath set a large Epistle to the Reader This Dr. Page departed this mortal life in the Parsonoge-house of Lockyng before mentioned on the 24 of Febr. being then Ashwednesday in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by Mr. George Ashwell who had the care of his Library and Interment committed to him See more in Dr. Sam. Page under the year 1630.
sacris liberarum Windsorensis Wolverhamptonensis capellarum à restitutione sereniss Caroli 2. Regis Decanus primus nobilissimi ordinis à Periscelide Scriba Fide in rebus Regis promovendis Zelo in rebus Ecclesiae promovendis Affectu in rebus Regni promovendis Toto nuperae rebellionis tempore nemini secundus celeberrimis hujus seculi concionatoribus à primo juventutis flore ad extremam usque senectam annumeratus hic sepultus jacet beatam expectans resurrectionem Obiit Julii 13. an dom 1677. aetatis suae 81. Some are pleased to say that this Dr. Ryves hath written An exposition on the Church Catechisme printed in qu. but mistaken as I conceive because it seems to have been written by one Edm. Reeves Quaere WILLIAM BERKLEY a Knights son was born of an ancient and honorable family near to and in the Diocess of London elected probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1625 and four years after was admitted Master of Arts. In 1630 he travelled into various Countries and at his return he was much valued for his experience and knowledge in many matters In 1646 he was sent to Virginia about publick concerns and in 1660 when Colonel Mathews the then Governour of that Country died this our Author being then a Knight was in consideration of the service he had done there in defending the people thereof from being kill'd by the Natives and destroying the great number of the Indians without the loss of three men of his own made Governour thereof by the unanimous Votes of all that Country and there continued in that honorable Office till 1676 in which year he was sent for into England where he soon finished his course He hath written The lost Lady a Trag. Com. Lond. 1639. fol. Description of Virginia Printed in fol. and said in the title to be performed by an eye-witness The Laws of Virginia now in force collected out of the Assembly records and digested into one vol. Revised and confirmed by the grand Assembly 23 Mar. 1661. c. Lond. 1662. fol. Published by Franc. Moryson and by him dedicated to Sir Will. Berkley in whose Epistle 't is said that Sir William was Author of the most and best of the said Laws and that little addition had been made to what he himself had done during the time of his Government only what vitious excrescencies had grown in the body of them by the corrupt humour of the times This Sir Will. Berkley was buried in the middle Chancel of the Par. Church of Twittenham or Twickenham near Hampton Court in Middlesex on the 13 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven Afterwards a Vault being made for the Lord J. Berkley in the south Chancel of the said Church Sir William's body was removed to it and there deposited 4 Septemb. 1678. TIMOTHY WOODROFFE son of Rich. Woodr sometimes Vicar of Sherton and afterwards Rector of Garsdon near Malmsbury in Wilts was born in that County at Sherston as it seems educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under Rob. Latymer who taught school there 40 years and was Master to Tho. Hobbes the famous Philosopher In 1610 T. Woodr being then 16 years of age he was sent to Balliol Coll. in Lent term and â—hen matriculated as a Ministers son After he had taken the degrees in Arts he translated himself to S. Albans Hall and as a member thereof he was admitted and proceeded Master of that faculty About that time he entred into holy orders and became Chaplain in the family of the St. Johns of Lidyard St. Johns in his own Country but before he had continued long there he by the favour of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England was prefer'd to the Vicaridge of Inglesham near Highworth in Wilts which being about 14 or more miles from Oxon gave him the opportunity of spending much of his time in Ball. College where he set up a Divinity Lecture and himself read it for several years he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much by both Armies and was plundered of a very good library whereupon he left his Living and removed to London and thence without his seeking he was invited to Great Dunmow in Essex where he was recieved as an Angel and became a frequent Preacher Not long after he was invited by Sir Rob. Harley Knight of the Bath to be one of the Preachers in the Minster or Cath. at Hereford from whence by his favour he was again in the year 1649 removed to the Parsonage of Kingsland in the same County where after many years painful preaching and much good done in the Neighbourhood by the practice of Physick wherein he always gave his advice and remedies gratis he finished his course He hath written and published Heavens Alarum c. Serm. on Hosea 4.3.4 Lond. in tw A religious Treatise upon Simeons song or instructions advertising how to live holily and dye happily Lond. 1659. oct Built on Luke 2.29.30 and composed for the use of Sir Rob. Harley before mentioned when weakness and old age confin'd him to his chamber Before this book is a commendatory Epistle subscribed by Joh. Row and S. Wood who stile the said book a sound and savoury discourse and such that wanteth not a pleasant quickness to hold on the Readers appetite c. He died in the month of August in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Church of Kingsland before mentioned Among several Children that he left behind him at the time of his death were Tim. Woodroffe sometimes of Magd. Coll now a Physitian at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and Benj. Woodr D. of D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. JOHN WAGSTAFFE son of John Wags Citizen of London descended from those of his name of Hasland Hall in Derbyshire was born in Cheapside within the City of London became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the latter end of 1649 took the degrees in Arts and applied himself to the study of Politicks and other learning At length being call'd from an academical life to the inheritance of Hasland by the death of an Uncle who died without male-issue he spent his life afterwards in a single estate But before he left Oxon he wrot and published Historical reflections on the Bishop of Rome chiefly discovering those events of humane affairs which most advance the Papal Usurpation Oxon. 1660. qu. This book tho much commended at its first appearance yet the author was laughed at because that he being a little crooked man and of a despicable presence should adventure to encounter with so great person as the Pope After he had left the University he wrot and published The question of Witchcraft debated or a discourse against their opinion that affirm Witches Lond. 1669. oct To which is added Lucians dialogue called Lovers of lyes translated by another hand But an answer coming out against the said book intit The opinion of
Stilling fleets Irenicum c. against his late Sermon entit The mischief of separation against the author of The Christian temper said to be written by John Barret M. of A. in a Letter to a friend I say the respective characters of these five answers to Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon before mention'd together with that of The peaceable design renewed c. wrot by John Humphrey with which Dr. Stillingfleet begins first are to be found in the preface to the said Doctors Unreasonableness of separation c. Which characters as are thus given are reflected on by a short piece entit Reflections on Dr. Stillingfleets book of the unreasonableness of separation Lond. 1681. qu. Written by a Conformist Minister in the Country in order to peace The nature and efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ as typed by all the sacrifices of the Law the erection of the Tabernacle according to the heavenly pattern with the institution of all its utensils and services their especial signification and end c. Lond. 1681. An enquiry into the original institution power order and communion of Evangelical Churches the first part Lond. 1681. qu. Answer to a Discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Stillingfleet Printed with the Enquiry Discourse of the work of the holy spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and formes Lond. 1681. oct An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful Churches and Nations or the only way to deliver a sinful Nation from utter ruin by impendent judgments in a discourse on Luke 13.1 2. 3. 4. 5. Lond. 1681. oct Printed with the Discourse of the work c. The grace and duty of being spiritually minded declared and practically improved Lond. 1681. 82. qu. This is the sum of certain of Sermons A brief instruction in the Worship of God and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers Lond. 1682. oct c. Meditations and discourses on the Glory of Christ in his person office and grace with the difference between faith and sight applyed to the use of them that believe Lond. 1683. 84. c. oct Opus Posth Treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sins reign is discovered in whom it is and in whom it is not how the law supports it how grace delivers from it by setting up its dominion in the heart Lond. 1688. oct The true nature of a Gospel Church and its government wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled 1. The subject matter of the Church 2. The formal cause of a particular Church 3. Of the policy of the Church in general c. Lond. 1689. qu. Afterwards came out certain Animadversions on the said book but by whom written I cannot tell A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the World its strength and weakness with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its publick national profession Lond. 1690. qu. Continuation or the second part of that book formerly printed the difference between faith and sight being the meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto converted sinners and Saints under spiritual decays in two chapters from John 17.24 Lond. 1691. oct Our author Dr. Owen with Dr. Tho. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Dr. Jo. Collings Mr. Pet. Vinke Joh. How Dav. Clarkson and Ben. Alsop did undertake in June 1682 to finish the English Annotations of the Holy Scripture in 2. vol. in fol. which were began by Matthew Pole or Poole and carried on by him to the 58 chapt of Isaiah and there is no doubt but that Owen did his share in that work who also hath written prefaces and epistles before divers books by way of recommendation among which are his and Dr. Tho. Goodwins epist before Dr. T. Taylors works A preface also to the Exposition of the song of Solomon written by Jam. Durham sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Glascow Printed 1669. in qu. An Epist commend with another by Mr. Baxter to The Christians dayly walk in holy security and peace written by Hen. Scudder Printed 1674. the eleventh edit An ep by way of recom to A new and useful concordance of the Holy Bible c. Another before The Ark of the Covenant and a large preface to The true Idea of Jansenisme as I have already told you in Theoph. Gale c. But as for Jo. Bradshawes Ultimum vale being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him as they were delivered in a Sermon preach'd at his interment printed in two sh in qu. and said to be written by John Owen D. D. Time-server general of England is not his but fathered upon him by one who desired then to make sport in the great City At length he the said Dr. Owen having spent most of his time in continual agitation to carry on the cause to promote his own interest and gain the applause of people he did very unwillingly lay down his head and die at Eling near Acton in Middlesex on S. Barthelmews day in sixteen hundred eighty and three having a little before been knowing of and consenting to the Presbyterian Plot that was discovered some time before his death Whereupon his body was conveyed to a house in S. James's where resting for some-time was on the 4. of Sept. following attended by about 20 mourners and 67 coaches that followed to the Fanatical burying-place called by some Tyndales Burying-place joyning on the North side to the New Artillery-garden near London where it was buried at the East end thereof Soon after was an Altar-tomb of freestone erected over his grave covered with a black marble plank with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus Johannes Owen S. T. P. Agro Oxoniensi oriundus patre insigni Theologo Theologus ipse insignior seculi hujus insignissimis annumerandus Communibus humanarum literarum suppetiis ménsura parum communi instructus omnibus quasi ordinata Ancillarum serie suae jussis familiari Theologiae c. Obiit Augusti 24. anno à partu virginio 1683 Aetat 67. Besides this John Owen I find another of both those names Chaplain to Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen author of Immoderate mourning for the dead prov'd unreasonable and unchristian c. Sermon on 2. Sam. 12.21.22.23 Lond. 1680 in oct and perhaps of other things WILLIAM GUISE or Guisius as in his book following he is written Son of John Guise was born of a knightly family living at Abloads Court near to Glocester in Glocestershire became a Communer of Oriel Coll. an 1669 aged 16 years afterwards Fellow of that of All 's Master of Arts and in holy Orders In 1680 he resign'd his Fellowship being about that time married and in great esteem for his Oriental learning but soon after cut off
exceeded him He was also so great a help to the Speaker and the House in helping to state the questions and to draw up the orders free from exceptions that it much conduced to the dispatch of business and the service of the Parliament His discretion also and prudence was such that tho faction kept that fatal commonly called the Long Parliament in continual storm and disorder yet his fair and temperate carriage made him commended and esteemed by all parties how furious and opposite soever they were among themselves And therefore it was that for these his abilities and prudence more reverence was paid to his stool than to the Speakers Lenthall Chair who being obnoxious timorous and interested was often much confused in collecting the sense of the House and drawing the debates into a fair question in which Mr. Elsynge was always observed to be so ready and just that generally the House acquiesced in what he did of that nature At length when he saw that the greater part of the House were imprisoned and secluded and that the remainder would bring the King to a trial for his life he desired to quit his place 26. of Dec. 1648 by reason as he alledged of his indisposition of health but most men understood the reason to be because he would have no hand in the business against the King He was a Man of very great parts and ingenious education and was very learned especially in the Latine French and Italian Languages He was beloved of all sober Men and the learned Selden had a fondness for him He hath written The antient method and manner of holding Parliaments in England Lond. 1663. oct 1675. in tw mostly taken as I presume from a Manuscript book intit Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos Of the forme and all things incident thereunto digested and divided into several chapters and titles an 1626 written by Hen. Elsynge Father to the aforesaid Henry who died while his Son was in his Travels Tract concerning proceedings in Parliament This is a Ms and was sometimes in the hands of Sir Matthew Hale who in his Will bequeathed it to Lincolns inn Library Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom This is a Pamphlet in quarto but when printed I cannot tell After he had quitted his beneficial Office he retired to his house at Hounslow in Middlesex where contracting many infirmities of body occasioned by sedentariness some distresses of his family and by a deep melancholy for the sufferings and loss of his Sovereign concluded his last day about the middle of the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and four and in that of his age 56 Whereupon his body was buried in his private Chappel which is the burying place of his Family at Hounslow he having no other Epitaph or Monument than the Eulogie given as due to him by all that knew him He left behind certain Tracts and Memorials of his own writing but so imperfect that his Executor would by no means have them published least they should prove injurious to his worth and memory THOMAS HORNE Son of Will. Horne of Cassall in Nottinghamshire was born at West Halam in Derbyshire became a Student in Magd. hall in the year 1624 and in that of his age 15 or thereabouts and in 1633 he was advanced to the degree of Master of Arts. About that time he was made Master of a private School in London afterwards of the Free-school at Leycester where remaining two years was translated to that of Tunbridge in Kent At length after he had taught there about 10 years he was for his merits and excellent faculty that he had in pedagogie preferr'd to be Master of the School at Eaton near Windsore where he remain'd to his dying day He hath written Janua Linguarum or a collection of Latine sentences with the English of them Lond. 1634. c. oct This is all or most taken from Janua Linguarum reserata written by J. A. Comenius Afterwards Horne's Janua Linguarum was much corrected and amended by John Robotham and lastly carefully reviewed by W. D. Lond. 1659. oct Which W. D. may be the same with Will. Dugard sometimes Master of Merchant Taylors School Quaere Manuductio in aedem Palladis qua utilissima methodus authores bonos legendi indigitatur sive de usu authoris Lond. 1641. in tw c. Rhetoricae compendium Latino-Anglicè Lond 1651. oct Besides which he hath made learned observations on the Epitome of the Greek tongue written by Ant. Laubegeois but when or where printed I cannot tell for I have not as yet seen it He gave way to fate at Eaton on the 22 of Aug. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel there as I have been informed by Will. Horne his Son Master of the Free-school at Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex One Tho. Horne M. of A. became Rector of Methley in Yorkshire on the death of Tim. Bright Doctor of Physick in the latter end of Octob. 1615 but him I take to be Th. Horne who was Fellow of Mert. Coll. and afterwards Canon of Windsore Another Tho. Horne is now if I mistake not Fellow of Eaton Coll and hath extant one or more Sermons He was Son to Tho. Horne the Writer was born at Tunbridge in Kent and afterwards made Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge Chaplain to the Earl of S. Alban and Senior Proctor of that University about 1682. JOHN SELDEN the glory of the English Nation as Hugh Grotius worthily stiles him Son of John Selden by Margaret his Wife the only Daughter of Thomas Baker of Rushington descended from the knightly family of the Bakers in Kent was born in an obscure Village called Salvinton near to Terring a Market town in Sussex His Father who died in 1617 was a sufficient Plebeian and delighted much in Musick by the exercising of which he obtained as 't is said his Wife of whom our famous Author Jo. Selden was born on the 16 of Decemb. 1584. After he had been instructed in Grammar Learning in the Free-school at Chichester under Mr. Hugh Barker of New College he was by his care and advice sent to Hart Hall in the beginning of Mich. term an 1600 and committed to the tuition of Mr. Anth. Barker Fellow of the aforesaid Coll. under whom being instructed in Logick and Philosophy for about three years which with great facility he conquered he was transplanted to the Inner Temple to make proficiency in the municipal Laws of the Nation After he had continued there a sedulous Student for some time he did by the help of a strong body and vast memory not only run through the whole body of the Law but became a prodigie in most parts of learning especially in those which were not common or little frequented or regarded by the generality of Students of his time So that in few years his name was wonderfully advanced not only at home but in foreign Countries and
these Several Sermons as 1 Sermon of Confirmation preached at the first Visitation of John Lord Bish of Oxon 27 Sept. 1619 on Acts 8.17 Lond. 1620. qu. 2 Serm. concerning decency and order on 1 Cor. 14.40 Lond. 1638. qu. and two or more other Sermons which I have not yet seen viz. one on 1 Cor. 1.10 and another on 1 Joh. 4.1.2.3 Both printed at Lond. in qu. 1635. Treatise shewing the nullity and invalidity of the Presbyterians Ordination of Ministers according to the Parliaments Ordinance an 1644. This book I have not yet seen and therefore can say no more of it only that it stood unanswer'd by the Presbyterians either Scots or English Principles of Religion or a short exposition of the Catechism of the Church of England Oxon. 1646. and several times after at London oct One of which Editions bears this Title A short Exposition of the Catechism of the Church of Eng. with the Church Catechism it self and order of Confirmation in English and Lat. for the use of Scholars Mr. Geree's Case of Conscience sifted wherein is enquired whether the King can with a safe Conscience consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy Lond. 1648. qu. See in Joh. Geree p. 65. who made a Reply to this Two Letters to Mr. T. B. giving an account of the Church Catholique where it was before the Reformation and whether Rome were or be the Ch. Catholick Lond. 1653. Answer'd by R. T. Esq printed as 't is said at Paris 1654 in a little oct By which R. T. is meant as I have been informed by some Rom. Catholicks Thomas Read LL. D. sometimes Fellow of New Coll. in Oxon. This Dr. Boughen as I have been informed lived to see his Majesty restored and what before he had lost he did obtain ISAAC COLF a Kentish man born of gentile Extraction was educated in Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated an 1611. Afterwards entring into the sacred function he became at length Rector of S. Leonards Church in Eastcheap within the City of London where he was much reverenced by the Orthodox Party for his Religion and Learning In the beginning of the Civil Wars commenc'd by the Presb. he was forced by them to give up his rectory to one H. Roborough scribe to the Ass of Divines Whereupon retiring to Chaldwell in Essex the liberal man devised liberal things viz. an Almeshouse for poor People at Lewsham in Kent with a considerable maintenance He hath written Commentary on the eleven first verses of the fourth Chapt. of S. Mathew Lond. 1654 oct and other things which I have not seen When or where he died I cannot tell or where his reliques were lodg'd ALEXANDER GRIFFITH a Welsh man born was educated in Hart Hall took one degree in Arts an 1618 retired to his Country and there had a School or a small cure or both conferred upon him In 1631 he proceeded in his faculty being then or after beneficed in South Wales but after the Rebellion broke out he suffered for his Loyalty and at length was sequestred from his Spiritualities He hath written Strena Vavasoriensis or a New-years gift for the Welsh Itinerants Or an hue and crie after Mr. Vavasor Powell Metrapolitan of the Itinerants and one of the Executioners of the Gospel by colour of the late Act for the propagation thereof in Wales c. Lond. 1654. in 4 sh in qu. Therein is a true relation of the birth course of life and doctrine of the said Vav Powell A true and perfect relation of the whole transaction concerning the petition of the six Counties of South Wales and the County of Monmouth formerly presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for a supply of Godly Ministers and an account of Ecclesiastical revenues therein c. Lond. 1654. in 7. sh and half in qu. He is supposed also to be Author of or at least to have had a hand in a Pamphlet entit Mercurius Cambro-Britannicus or News from Wales touching the miraculous propagation of the Gospel in those parts c. Lond. 1652. in 3 sh in qu. Of what other things he is the Author or promoter I know not nor whether he lived to be restored to his Spiritualities ROBERT GENTILIS Son of Aubrey Gentilis mention'd among these Writers under the year 1611. p. 314 was born in London matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 19. of Apr. 1599 in the ninth year of his age took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of Jesus Coll. in the beginning of July 1603 was translated to S. Johns Coll. soon after and became Collector in the Lent following for Proctor W. Laud of that House Thence he was elected Probationer Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1607 by the endeavours of his Father who got him sped into that house by an argument in Law as being under the statutable years In the said Coll. he continued for some time took a degree in the Civil Law but turned a Rake-hell became King of the beggars for a time and so much given up to sordid liberty if not downright wickedness that he not only spent all that he could get from his Father whom he would often abuse but also afterwards what he could get from his Mother to whom also he was very disobedient as she in her last will confesseth Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas took up and became a sober man and at his return was a retainer to the Royal Court and received a Pension from the King He hath translated from Ital. into English 1 The history of the inquisition Lond. 1639. qu. written by Paul Servita 2 Of the success and chief events of the Monarchy of Spayne and of the revolt of the Catalonians Lond 1639. in tw written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi 3 Considerations on the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus Lond. 1650. in tw written by the same Author Also from French into English Le Chemia abrege or a compendious method for the attaining of sciences in a short time together with the Statutes of the Academie founded by the Cardinal of Richelieu Lond. 1654. oct And lastly from Spanish as it seems into English The antipathy between the French and the Spaniard Lond. 1641. in tw Ded. by the translator to Sir Paul Pindar Kt to whom in his Epist he promiseth something that shall be his own invention that is to publish something of his own writing but whether he was as good as his word I know not One Robert Gentilis a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of Pontfract in Yorkshire wrot a book of Homelies and therefore is numbred among our English Writers but Quaere whether he was not an Outlander HUGH ROBINSON born in S. Maries Parish in the County of Anglesie educated in Grammatical learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1605 took the
degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1611 and about 3 years after leaving his College he became chief Master of Winchester School afterwards Archdeacon of Winton Canon of Wells D of Div. and Archdeacon of Glocester in the place as it seems of Sam. Burton deceased In the beginning of the Civil War when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant he sided with them took the Covenant and having lost in the War time the profits of his Canonry and Archdeaconry obtained the rectory of Hinton near Winchester in Hampshire whence a Loyal Person a little before had been ejected He was an excellent Linguist able Divine and very well seen in antient Histories His works are these Preces written for the use of the children of Winchester School in Lat. and Engl. Grammaticalia quaedam in Lat. and Engl. Antiquae Historiae Synopsis All which were printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct Scholae Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae The latine phrases of Winchester School c. Lond. 1654. 64. oct published by Nich. Robinson his Son Annalium mundi universalium c. Tomus Unicus lib. 14. absolutus c. Lond. 1677. fol. Which book coming into the hands of Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury he did by the Kings command revise amend and fill it up with many things that were wanting He hath also written something in vindication of the Scotch Covenant which I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying on the same day on which James Duke of Richmond died so have I been informed by his Daughter which was the 30 of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five was buried near to and within the North door of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near to London In his Archdeaconry of Gloc. succeeded one John Middleton in 1660. After him succeeded Edw. Pope who dying in Jan. 1671 John Gregory of Cambr. succeeded CHRISTOPHER BENNET Son of Joh. Bennet of Raynton in Somersetsh was born there or in that County became a Com. of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term in the year 1632 and that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line but doctorated in that faculty elsewhere Afterwards he was made a member of the Coll. of Physicians at London and much frequented for his practice in that City His works are Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum c. Lond. 1654 oct Exercitationes Dianocticae cum historias demonstrativis quibus alimentorum sanguinis vitia deleguntur in plerisque morbis c. Lond. 1655. He hath also corrected and inlarged Healths improvement or rules comprizing and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this Nation Lond. 1655. qu. Written originally by Tho. Moufet This Dr. Bennet was buried on the second day of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five in S. Gregories Church near to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him as 't is said one or more things fit for the press EDWARD WOOD Son of Tho. Wood alias à Wood or Awood Bachelaur of Arts and of the Civ Law of this University by Maria la Petite commonly called Pettie his Wife descended from a gentile and antient Family in the County of Oxon was born in the Parish of S. John Bapt. in an house opposite to the forefront of Mert. Coll. within the University of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame under his kinsman Will. Burt M. A afterwards Warden of the Coll. near Winton and D. of D. elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1648 and in 1655 was installed one of the Proctors of the University being then noted for a good Disputant Orator and Preacher His works are Several Sermons as 1 Of the knowledge of God by the book of nature in two Sermons on Rom. 1.19.20 Oxon. 1656. and 74. oct 2 Of the knowledge of Jesus Christ by the book of Scripture in two Serm. on 2. Tim. 3.16.17 printed with the former two Sermons 3 His last Sermon Preached at S. Maries in Oxon 20. March 1654. on Philip. 3.8 first part printed also with the former Sermons All which were then acceptable to the generality for the good practical divinity contained in them but since not He died in his Proctorship on the 22 of the Month of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five aged 28 years he being then the eldest of my Brethren and was buried two days after in Mert. Coll. Church not far from the grave of his Father at which time were present the whole body of Convocation and Juniors of the University JOHN ANGELL was born as I conceive in Glocestersh where receiving part of his juvenile Education made his first entry into Magd. Hall about the beginning of the year 1610. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and holy Orders became a frequent and painful Preacher At length about 1630 being made a Lecturer at Leycester continued there several years a Man mighty in Word and Doctrine among the Puritannical Brethren of that place till about the year 1650 at which time being forced by the Independent faction to leave his place because he refused to take the Engagement the Company of Mercers in London gave him a call and chose him Lecturer of Grantham in Lincolnshire it being one of the Lectures that had been given to the said Company by Vicountess Camden whereupon setling at that place he shone as 't is said as a burning light until God translated him to shine above as a Star for ever To which may be added that as his name was Angell so saith another of his perswasion he was a man indeed of angelical understanding and holiness a burning and shining light c. He hath written The right government of the thoughts or a discovery of all vain unprofitable idle and wicked thoughts c. Lond. 1659. oct Four Sermons 1 The right ordering of the conversation two Sermons on Psal 50 last verse 2 Fun. Sermon at the burial of John Lord Darcey 27. Aug. 1636. on Psal 39.5 3 Preparation to the Communion on 1. Cor. 11.28 All printed at Lond. 1659. oct He was buried in the Church at Grantham beforemention'd on the sixth day of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five at which time being attended to his grave by many Divines of the neighbourhood Mr. Laur. Sarson Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. did then deliver before them a large oration of mortality and in praise of the Defunct This Mr. Angell who had the year before his death been appointed by Parliament an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lincolnshire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters was several times heard to say before he fell sick that it was his great desire to live to see the conclusion of the year 1660 hinting
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
degrees in Arts holy Orders and was made either a Reader or Curate of S. Margarets Church in the City of Westminster In the time of the rebellion when he saw the Church of England declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and went to Paris where by the name of Rolandus Palingenius he made a shift to get a livelyhood by his mendicant scribbles his lepid veine and art of Poetry among the English Gentlemen and other Grandies of France He hath written Varia Poemata Mostly in Lat. some in English and some in French to which he would somtimes make additions of copies to them on new Patrons as they came to his knowledg just as Payne Fisher afterwards did to shark money from those who delighted to see their names in print This Will. Rowland who wrot himself in the title of his Poems Gul. Rolandus Poeta Regius was a boon Droll a jolly companion and was generally called Doctor having had that degree conferâ—d on him as I have heard at Paris At length retiring for health sake to a village called Vambre near to that great City he having brought his body into a consumption by too much lifting ended his days there in sixteen hundred fifty and nine or thereabouts I have seen a Book intit Legenda lignea c. containing a character of some hopeful Saints revolted to the Church of Rome Lond. 1653. oct In which book p. 172 c. you may see a full if not too smart character of this Will. Rowland but whether all is true that is said of him there for the Book is full of scurrilities may be justly question'd Since I wrot this I find one Will. Rowland Master of Arts and Dr. of Physick as he writes himself to have translated into English besides several books of Physick that he hath written A Treatise of spirits and wind offending mans body Lond. 1668. qu. Written by Dr. Jo. Fienus but the translation being by him dedicated to the vertuosi of the Royal Society first founded 1660 I cannot take him to be the same with the former ROBERT DINGLEY Son of Sir Joh. Dingley of London Knight and Nephew by the Mother to Dr. Hen. Hammond was born in Surrey entred a Student in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1634 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a great observer of Church ceremonies and a remarkable Bower to the Altar when he came into the Chappel But soon after the Presbyterians carrying all before he as a vain man sided with them became an enemy to those things which he before had a zeal for and for the love he bore to the cause became by the favour of his Kinsman Coll. Robert Hammond Governour of the isle of Wight Rector of Brightestone alias Brixton or Brison in the said Isle where he was much frequented by the godly party for his practical way of preaching and hated by the Royallists for his activity in ejecting such that were by some called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters during the time that he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of Hampshire an 1654. 55. c. He hath written The Spiritual tast described or a Glimpse of Christ discovered in two parts grounded on Psal 34.8 and on Malac. 4 2. Lond. 1649. oct Before which book is the picture of the Author fat and jolly in a Presb. Cloak This book came out in 1651. with this title Divine relishes of matchless goodness c. The disputation of Angells or the Angell-Guardian 1 Proved by the divine light of nature c. 2 From many rubs and mistakes c. 3 Applied and improved for our information c. chiefly grounded on Acts 12.15 Lond. 1654. oct As the former book was perused and commended to the World by Tho. Goodwin Pres of Magd. Coll. and Will. Strong so this by Nich. Lockyer of New Inn afterwards Provost of Eaton Coll. Messiah's splendor or the glimpsed glory of a beauteous Christian printed in oct Divine Opticks or a treatise of the eye discovering the vices and virtues thereof as also how that Organ may be tuned chiefly grounded on Psal 119.37 Lond. 1655. in oct Philosophical Historical and Theological observations of Thunder with a more general view of Gods wonderful works Lond. 1658. oct in which year he had a Sermon published on Job 26.14 in oct which I have not yet seen But our Author Dingley having said and preached some things not pleasing to the Quakers he was animadverted upon by George Fox in his Great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 361. c. He died at Brightestone beforemention'd in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there with this inscription on his grave Here lieth the body of Mr. Robert Dingley Minister of this place second Son of Sir John Dingley Knight who died in the fortieth year of his age on the twelfth day of January 1659. JOHN SALKELD fourth Son of Edw. Salkeld Gent. second brother to George Salkeld somtimes of Corby Castle in Cumberland Esquire lineally descended from Sir Rich. Salkeld Kt Lord Warden of Carlile in the time of K. Ric. 3 was born at Corby Castle and when very young journied through Oxon beyond the Seas but in what house he was entred unless in Qu. Coll. I cannot tell His continuance there as I have been informed was so short occasion'd by his Religion that we can scarce reckon him among the Oxonians For so it was that his Father soon after conveyed him into Spain entred him among the Jesuits in the University of Conimbria where as also at Corduba and Complutum he continued among them in the condition of a Jesuit many years and was Assistant in the studies to the famous Jesuits Franc. Suarius who was his fellow student several years and Mich. Vasquez Afterwards he was sent into Portugall where he read Philosophy about six years then into the English mission but being taken and brought before K. Jam. 1 who had several times heard of him and his eminency for learning he entred into divers disputes with him at several times At length being overcome by his solid arguments Salkeld turned Protestant was recommended to Dr. King Bishop of London for maintenance and in Nov. 1613 became by the presentation of his Majesty Vicar of Wellington in Somersetshire being then Bach. of Div. where he used to boast of his conversion and to stile himself the Royal Convert In 1635 he was made Minister of Church Taunton in Devonshire worth to him about 200 l. per an whereupon one Walt. Travers was instituted Vicar of Wellington in his place on the 16. of July the same year But after the Civil Wars broke forth he suffer'd for the Royal cause being esteemed by the obstinate and incredulous Presbyterians a Papist in his heart or at least popishly affected He was a Person profoundly read in Theological and other Authors and K. Jam. 1. doth
latter books which he calleth The opening of Mr. Prynns Vindication Apologetical narrative of the late petition of the Common Council and Ministers of London to the honorable houses of Parliament with a justification of them from the contumacy of the weekly Pamphleteers These two last things are printed with the Examinat of J. Saltm new Query c. Light for smoak or a clear and distinct reply to a dark and confused answer in a book made and intit The smoake of the Temple by Joh. Saltmarsh late Preacher at Breasteed in Kent now revolted from his pastoral calling and charge Lond. 1646. qu. To this book is joyned Novello mastix or a scourge for a scurrilous News-monger In answer to the ignorant and malevolent aspersions cast upon that rev and learned Divine Mr. Joh. Ley by the Writer of a Pamphlet called by the figure Antiphrasis The perfect Passages Said there to be written by C. D. Master of Arts. An after reckoning with Mr. Saltmarsh or an appeal to the impartial and conscientious Reader c. against his last paper called An end of our controversie or an answer or letter to Mr. Ley's last large book Lond. 1646. quar This book as Mr. Ley's special friend hath told me was written by the said Ley yet the Reader is to know that in the title it is said that L. M. Student in Divinity wrot it The said book called An end of our controversie c. was written in answer to Light for Smoake This Saltmarsh by the way it must be known was descended from an antient family of his name living sometimes at Saltmarsh in Yorkshire but whether born in that County or at Strubby in Lincolnshire where was a branch of his name living for three generations before his time I know not educated in Magd. Coll. in Cambridge graduated there and afterwards beneficed being esteemed then a person of a fine and active fancy no contemptible Poet and a good Preacher But upon the turn of the times in 1641 he as a mutable man became of a zealous observer a violent opposer of Bishops and Ceremonies At that time he was a Preacher at Northampton and at other places where he was much followed by and found esteem from such who entitled themselves The godly Afterwards he was Chaplain in the Parliament Army under Sir Tho. Fairfax where he always preached the bonds of love and peace praying that that might be the cord to unite Christians in unity He medled not in the pulpit with Presbytery and Independency but solely laboured to draw the soul from sin to Christ Thus he lived among Soldiers in time of health and how his departure was from the Army a little before his death you shall hear more anon and in the mean time I shall tell you of several things that he hath written besides what are before mentioned which shew him to be an Antinomian as 1 The Assemblies petition defended against his Exception 2 Holy discoveries and flames Printed in tw 1640. 3 Free Grace or the flowings of Christs blood freely to sinners being an experiment of Jes Ch. upon one who hath been in the bondage of a troubled spirit at times for twelve years till now c. Lond. 1645. in tw 4 New Quere c. Lond. 1645. qu. 'T is about Church-Government and 't is mention'd before 5 Shadowes flying away Lond. 1646. qu. Animadverted upon by Tho. Gataker in his Shadowes with substance c. Ibid. 1646. qu. 6 Dawnings of light wherein the true interest of Reformation is opened in general and in particular for the establishing of weaker judgments Lond. 1646. in tw 7 Maxims of Reformation Printed with the former 8 Reasons for unity peace and love in answer to Mr. Tho. Edwards his Gangraena Lond. 1646. qu. 9 Groanes for liberty c. presented from the Presbyterian Brethren reputed the most learned among them in some Treatises called Smectymnus to the honorable Court of Parliament an 1641 by reason of the Prelates Tyranny Lond. 1646. qu. 10 Beame of light discovering the way to peace 11 Some Queries for the better understanding of Mr. Edwards last book called Gangraena Lond. 1646. qu. 12 Parallel between Prelacy and Presbytery Ibid. 1646. qu. 13 The divine right of Presbytery asserted by the present Assembly and petitioned for accordingly to the H. of Com. in Parliament with reasons discussing this pretended divine right Lond. 1646. in 3 sh in qu. 14 Sparcles of Glory or Some beams of the morning star wherein are many discoveries as to peace and truth Lond. 1647. in tw 15 Wonderful Predictions declared in a message as from the Lord to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Council of his Army Lond. 1648. in one sh in qu. with other things which I have not yet seen as 1 Several sermons 2 Practice of Policy printed in tw 3 Flagellum Flagelli c. against Dr. Jo. Bastwick and lastly Animadversions on Mr. Tho. Fullers sermon wherein he taxeth him of Popery At length on the 4 of Decemb. 1647 he being then at his house near to Ilford in Essex told his wife that he had been in a trance had seen a vision and received a command from God to go presently to the Army to make known to them what the Lord had revealed to him which would be the last work that he had to do for them and taking leave of his wife he hasted to London that night and declared to Sir Hen. Mildmay a Parliament-man that he was sent by the Lord with a message to the Army to make known some things unto them which God had revealed unto him The next day being Sunday he with much ado got a horse and about 3 of the clock in the afternoon rode towards Windsore the Head-quarter of the Army and about 11 of the clock at night came to a certain Town about 7 miles distant from Windsore where he laid that night and spoke of many wonderful things that the Lord had revealed to him But the man and woman of the house gave no credit at first to what he said tho before he left them they did and began to be taken with his preaching discourses Before break of day the next morning being Munday Dec. 6. he went towards Windsore and being there about 9 of the clock he repaired to the General Council where some of the Officers were met in expectation of the General and the rest to sit in Council before whom he spoke these words with his eyes almost fix'd in his head or rather as if he had come out of a trance with fear and trembling to express what he had received I am come hither to reveal to you what I have received from God That tho the Lord hath done much for you and by you yet he hath of late left you and is not in your Councils because you have forsaken him God will not prosper your Consultations but destroy you by divisions among your selves I have formerly come to you
pure elegancy delightful unaffected neatness of lat stile none scarce hath equal'd much less outdone him how great soever When at any time he is mention'd by authors as he is very often it is done in words expressing their highest esteem of his great worth and excellency and placed still as first in rank among Physitians And further also he hath laid a lasting foundation of a body of Physick chiefly on Hypotheses of his own framing See more in the Epistle to the reader before his works printed at Geneva in two vol. an 1676. His works are these Diatribae duae Medico-philosophicae de fermentatione altera de febribus Hag. Com. 1659. oct Lond. 1660. 65 c. in tw Answer'd by Edm. de Meara a Doctor of Physick of Bristow and Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians See more in Rich. Lower an 1690. Dissertatio Epistolica de Urinis Printed with the former book Cerebri Anatome Lond. 1664. oct Amstel 1667. in tw Whatsoever is anatomical in that book the glory thereof belongs to the said R. Lower whose indefatigable industry at Oxon produced that elaborate piece De ratione motus musculorum Printed with Cer. Anat. Pathalogiae cerebri nervosi generis specimina in quo agitur de morbis convulsivis de scorbuto Oxon. 1667. qu. Lond. 1668. Amstel 1669. c. in tw An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions num 31. Affectionum quae dicuntur Hystericae Hypochondriacae Pathologia spasmodica vindicata contra responsionem epistolarem Nathan Highmore M. D. Lond. 1670. qu. Leyd 1671. in tw c. Exercitationes Medico-physicae duae 1. De sanguinis accensione 2. De motu musculari This is printed with the book next before going and an account of both of them are in the Phil. Transact num 57. De anima Brutorum quae hominis vitalis ac sensativa est exercitationes duae c. Lond. 1672. in qu. and oct c. Amstel 1674 in tw And also of this num 83. All which books except Affectionum quae dicuntur c. and that De anima Brutorum were translated into English by S. P. Esq Lond. 1681. fol. Pharmaceutice rationalis sive Diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore Part. 2. Oxon. 1674. and 75 in tw and qu. Published by Dr. Jo. Fell who in a Postscript added to the authors preface gives some running account of the said author but false as to his parent This Pharmaceutice was translated into English by Anon-Lond 1679. fol. but being not well done it was corrected by S. P. Esq before mention'd and involved in the former translation of 1681. Afterwards came out The London practice of physick or the whole practical part of physick contained in the works of Dr. Willis faithfully made English and printed together for the publick good Lond. 1685. oct with his picture before it What are therein made English of his works are 1 His first and second parts of the Pharmaceutice rationalis 2 His tract of Convulsive diseases 3 His tract of the Scurvy 4 His tr of the Diseases of the brain and Genus nervosum 5 His tr Of Feavers The other parts of his works being Theoretical are therein omitted This translation is said to be different from that containing the same pieces contained in his former translations of all his works in fol. A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague or any contagious distemper in City Camp Country Fleet c. and for curing such that are infected with it This was written in 1666 but not printed till the latter end of 1690. At length after a great deal of drudgery that he did undergo in his faculty mostly for lucre sake which did much shorten his life he concluded his last day in his House in S. Martins-lane before mention'd on the eleventh day of Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and five whereupon his body was conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster and there inter'd in the large isle or trancept joyning to the North side of the choire near to the body of Mary his first Wife Daughter of Samuel Fell D. D. sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon Which Mary died on the Vigil of Allsaints an 1670. The said Dr. Willis who left behind him the character of an orthodox pious and charitable physitian did some years before his death settle a salary for a Reader to read prayers in S. Martins Church in the fields in Westm early and late every day to such servants and people of that parish who could not through multiplicity of business attend the ordinary service dayly there performed All his Latin works were printed in two vol. in qu. at Geneva 1676 as I have before told you and at Amsterdam 1682. qu. by Gerard Blasius M. D. and ordinary professor of the same faculty at that place JOSHUA STOPFORD a Lancashire man born was entred into Brasnose Coll. in Mich. term 1654 aged 18 years being then or soon after Scholar of that House went afterwards to Magd. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1657. Afterwards he entred into Orders became Preb. of Donington in the Church of York collated thereunto by Archb. Frewen 9. Nov. 1660 and about the same time Vicar of S. Martins Church in Conystreet there In the month of Apr. 1670 he was created Master of Arts and in the next month he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being at that time Rector of Allsaints Church in the said City of York He hath written Pagano-Papismus or an exact parallel between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian in their doctrines and ceremonies Lond. 1675. oct publ in Mich. term 1674. Before this work is a catalogue of books and authors made use of by this writer which is very considerable both for number and value To which piece is joyned another of smaller bulk written by the same author entit The ways and methods of Romes advancement or whereby the Pope and his Agents have endeavoured to propagate their doctrines discovered in two Sermons preached 5. Nov. 1671 on Rev. 18.23.24 A catalogue of authors of the like nature with the former is also prefix'd and in the Epistle to the Reader 't is said that those two Sermons were published to vindicate them and their author from the unjust aspersions and false accusations cast upon them by a generation of men who make lies and calumnies a constituted part of their religion He died in the month of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was I presume buried in the Church of All 's before mention'd and not in the Cathedral because he resign'd his Prebendship in 1663. He was a person very well read in substantial and noted authors and might had life been spared done good service for the Church of England of which he was a most zealous member FRANCIS ROBERTS son of Hen. Roberts of Alslake in Yorkshire was
want of understanding tho 't is well known as the E. of Devonshires Chaplain hath said he several times within two years after his death received the Sacrament from him with seeming devotion He dyed at Hardwyke before mentioned about 10 of the clock at night on the fourth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine Whereupon his body being wrap'd up in a woollen shroud and coffin'd was two days after accompanied by most of the E. of Devonshires Family and some of the neighbourhood after they had received a funeral entertainment to the Parish Church called Hault-Hucknell where in an Isle joyning to the Church he was inter'd with the service in the Common-prayer book close to the rail of the monument of the Grandmother of the then present Earl of Dev. Soon after was a Marble stone with an inscription thereon laid over his grave the contents of which and a farther account of the person you may at large see in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium following the life in prose before mention'd written by himself and published by Rich. Blackbourne born in London sometimes M. of A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of Leyden in Holland The materials of which were all or at least the most part taken from the English life in Mâ— of Thom. Hobbes largely and more punctually written by John Aubrey his antient acquaintance born at Easton-Piers near Malmsbury bred under the same Master who had been a Pedagogue above 40 years that educated Hobbes in Grammatical learning afterwards he became Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in Oxon then a Student in the Middle Temple and afterwards a member of the Royal Society Mr. Hobbes by his last Will and Test dat 25. Sept. 1677. did bequeath to Mary Tirell Daughter of his deceased Broâ—ther Edm. Hobbes 40 l. To Eleanor Harding Daughter of the said Edm. 40 l. To Elizab. Alaby Daughter of Thomas Alaby 200 l for her furtherance in marriage which Eliz. was then an Orphan and committed to the tuition of Mâ— Hobbes Exec. to the said Tho. as also an 100 l which thâ— Earl of Devon gave him to dispose in his will to be equalâ—ly divided among the Grandchildren of his said Bâ—otheâ— Edm. Hobbes to the eldest of which named Thom. Hobbes he had before given a piece of Land He also lefâ— considerable Legacies to his Executor James Wheldon a servant to the Earl of Devonshire who before had for many years been his Amanuensis EDWARD BYSSHE or Bissaeus as he writes himself Son of Edw. Bysshe of Burstow in Surrey Esq a Counsellor of Linc. Inn was born at Smallfield in the Parish of Burstow the capital tenement of which he and six of his Ancestors or more were not only Lords of but of divers other Lands in Horne near thereunto and elsewhere in the said County and some of them also owners of the Mannour of Bysshe or Bysshe Court situated and being between Burstow and Smallfield As for our author whom we are now to mention he became a Communer of Trin. Coll. in 1633 aged 18 years but before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the Common Law and was made a Barrester In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Blechenley in Surrey to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year and afterwards taking the Covenant he was about 1643 made Garter King of Arms in the place of Sir John Borough who had followed his Majesty to Oxon. On the 20 of Oct. 1646 there were votes passed in the House of Commons that he the said Bysshe should be Garter K. of Arms and Clarenceaux and Will. Râ—ley should be Norroy or the Northern K. of Arms and that a committee be appointed to regulate their fees so that if Bysshe was ever invested in the said office of Clarenceaux as several of the Coll. of Armes say he was then did he succeed Arthur Squibb who had obtained that office by the endeavours of his Son in Law Sir John Glynn a noted and leading member in that Parliament upon the recess to his Majesty at Oxon of Sir Will. Le Neve Howsoever it is sure I am that in the greatest part of the interrupted times our aâ—thor Bysshe was both Garter and Clarenceaux his genie being more adequat to Arms and Armory in which he did excel than to the municipal laws In 1654 he was elected Burgess for Rigate in Surrey to serve in that Convention called the Little Parliament that met at Westm 3. Sept. the same year and in 1658 a Burgess for Gatton in the same County for that Convention that met at the same place 27 Jan. in that year After the Kings restauration he was forced to leave his Gartership to make room for Sir Edw. Walker who had that office conferr'd on him by his Majesty on the death of Sir Hen. S. George an 1644. and with much ado obtaining the place of Clarenceaux Sir Will. Le Neve being then distracted had the honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him In 1661 he was chosen Burgess for Blechenley to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May the same year which continuing 17 years or more he became a Pensioner as 't is said and received 100 l. every Session and yet was very poor In the rebellious times he was a great gainer by being a Parliament man and thereupon became an encourager of learning and learned men particularly that noted Critick John Gregory of Ch. Ch. He had a very choice Library of books all richly bound with gilt dorses but after the Kings restauration running much in debt became at length necessitous and not only took dishonest courses by issuing out divers Grants of Armes under hand as Clarenceaux to the undoing of the Heralds Office meerly to supply his necessities but also sold many of his books which cost him much for inconsiderable prizes He had been one that understood Armes and Armory very well but could never endure to take pains in Genealogies and in his younger years was esteemed a worthy and virtuous Person but in his latter not being thâ—n much degenerated as to manners His works of learning are these Notae in librum Nicholaâ— Upton de studio militari Notae in Johannis de Bado aureo libellum de Armis Notae in Henrici Spelmanni Aspidologiam These three things which were all printed together at Lond. 1654. fol. weâ—e written by Sir Ed. Bysshe in English but translated into Latine by Dav. Whitford to whom he exhibited after his expulsion fâ—om the Univ. of Oxon. for several years He also pâ—t out under his own name a translation from Gr. into Lat. with some notes and corrections entit Palladius de gentibus Indiae â—ragmanibus Lond. 1665. qu. in Gr. and Lat. To which he added 1 S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmannorum 2 Anonymus de Bragmanibus Both in Gr. and Lat. Of which three pieces see more in Jo. Gregory under the year 646.
of another because Byrd had been dead several years before Whereupon Charnock began anew with the help of a servant and again by himself alone in which work continuing 9 months which was within a month of his reckoning the Crows head began to appear black but a War being proclaimed against the French an 1557 and he thereupon by the malice of a Gentleman who was his neighbour prest for a Soldier his operations were frustrated and all cast aside On the first of January the same year he began to write The Breviary of natural Philosophy and on the 20. of July following he ended it In the title and end of which he stiles himself an unlettered Scholar and Student in the most worthy science of Astronomy and Philosophy This Breviary is written in old English verse which in the next Century coming into the hands of the most renowned Mercuriophilus Anglicus who sometimes writes himself James Hasolle Elias Ashmole was among other authors of the like nature published by him under this title Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum In 1562 Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-Bristow four miles from Bridgwater in Somersetshire being then or soon after setled there but afterwards at a place called Comadge and in the year after he buried Absolon his Son In 1566 he finished his book called The principal rules of natural Philosophy figuratively set forth to the obtaining of the Philosophers stone In which year also he dedicated a book of The Science to Qu. Elizabeth and dated the Rolle at Stockland as he himself saith which Rolle is written in Latine being the same I presume with the Emblematical Scrowle supposed to be invented by George Ripley the inside of which was composed as Charnock says by a great Master of the Hermetick Philosophy and written by a Master of his pen. Some notes in the void spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand which shew that he did not or at least throughly understand it In 1572 he wrot the Poesie of the Rolle which Rolle seems to me to have been a kind of a Vade mecum or a Manual that the Students of the Hermetick Science carried about with them and also to be taken from Raymandus Lullius The same year he wrot Aenigma ad Alchimiam and Aenigma de Alchimia both in English Verse and printed in Theat Chem. before mention'd In 1573 he wrot as himself saith the fragment Knock the Child on the head See Theat Chem. pag. 425 and in the year after he confessed that he never saw The white ferment to the red till the fiftieth year of his age In 1576 appeared The difficulty of the Philosophical number in the Rolle This Rolle so often mentioned is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge before mention'd where for his Studies and carrying on of his Operations he made a little room and contrivance for the keeping his Work and so ingeniously ordered that no accident of fire could befall him as it did on New-years day 1555. It joyns as a Closet to that which was his Chamber to make a Servant needless and the work of giving attendance more easie to himself On the door was drawn by his own hand with course Colours but rudely an Emblem of his Work So likewise about the walls in his Chamber are several pieces of his painting differing from each other some of which are obscure and almost woren out Several fragments written by him are published in the said Theat Chem Brit. but therein are omitted Charnocks Poesie upon the white and red rose and verses on the Philosophers Dragon which eateth up her owne tale c. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt to nature in his house at Comadge and was buried within the precincts of the Church at Otterhampton near to Bridgwater 21. Apr. 1581. HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry Marten son of Sir Hen. Mart. mention'd among these writers under the year 1641 p. 4. was born within the City of Oxford particularly as I conceive in the parish of S. John Bapt in an house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church then lately built by Hen. Sherburne Gent. and possess'd at the time of Harry's birth by Sir Henry his father After he had been instructed in Grammar learning in Oxon he became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in the beginning of 1617 aged 15 years where and in public giving a manifestation of his pregnant parts had the degree of Bach. of Arts confer'd upon him in the latter end of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the Inns of Court travelled into France and at his return his father found out a rich wife for him whom he married somthing unwillingly and therefore afterwards living a part from her and following other creatures she was for sometime distemper'd In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected one of the Knights of Berks to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr and again tho not legally in Oct. to serve in that unhappy Parliament that began at the same place on the 3. of Novemb. following In which last Parliament he shew'd himself out of some little pique the most bitter enemy against the K. in all the House as well in action as speech for which being first reprimanded while the Presbyterians swayed therein was afterwards for the incontinence of his tongue committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but soon after released He was an enemy also to the Kingly Office and all belonging thereunto especially the Regalia which he caused to be sold for being authorized by the said Parliament about 1642 he forced open a great iron Chest within the College of Westminster and thence took out the Crown Robes Sword and Scepter belonging antiently to K. Edw. the Confessor and used by all our Kings at their inaugurations and with a scorn greater than his lusts and the rest of his vices he openly declared that there should be no further use of those toyes and trifles c. And in the jollity of that humour he invested George Wither an old puritan Satyrist in the royal habiliments who being crown'd and royally arrayed as well right became him did first march about the room with a stately garb and afterwards with a thousand apish and rediculous actions exposed those sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter Had the abuse been stript and whip'd as it should have been the foolish fellow possibly might have passed for a Prophet tho he could not be reckoned for a Poet. The said H. Marten was a taker of all Oaths whether that of Allegiance Covenant Engagement c. The last of which being by him taken he would by all means as the Independent Gang did make the Covenant an old Almanack out of date to the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of preserving his Majesties person and authority c. as the Presbyterians would with regret frequently say He was also an eager enemy against Lords Gentry Lawyers and Clergy and a
came out in which he reflected on the falseness of it as 't was also in a smart and ingenious answer to it pen'd by John Northleigh of Exeter Coll. Besides also I conceive that scarcely any body besides Shaftesbury would have adventured on such insolent and bold arraignments of some chief Ministers of State not sparing the Government it self He also made the little short Speech intit The Earl of Essex's Speech at the delivery of the petition to the King 25. of Jan. 1680 which petition was that the King would change his mind from the setting of the Parl. at Oxon to be at Westminster Answer'd in a letter sent to him by Anon. in half a sh in fol. as big as the speech and petition He was also deeply supposed to have written A vindication of the Association which was seized on in the hands of his servant Stringer as he was going to the Press with it in the beginning of Dec. 1682 who being examined about it confessed that it was written by Rob. Ferguson a Nonconformist Minister author of as he added The second part of the growth of Popery Whereupon soon after a Messenger was sent to Brill in Holland to demand the body of him the said Ferguson and of Shaftesbury but the States refused so to do as the common Letters dat 13 January following told us Much about the same time I was informed by Letters also that since the said Earls retirement to Amsterdam he printed and published a book there in which he endeavoured to free himself from all cause of Jealousie and aspersions cast on him upon which a back friend of his immediatly dispers'd a satyrical reply in opposition thereunto Which coming early to his Lordships hands he printed a second book justifying the validity of the first but he did so much confound himself therein that the States had then a jealousie that he came among them for some other intent than barely his Majesties displeasure with him At length dying at Amsterdam of the Gout on the 21. of January in sixteen hundred eighty and two his body was conveyed into England and buried at Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire beforemention'd What Epitaph there is over his grave I know not and therefore in its place take this character of him given by a most ingenious author For close designs and crooked counsels fit Sagacious bold and turbulent of wit Restless unfixt in principles and place In power unpleas'd impatient of disgrace c. In friendship false implacable in hate Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the State c. Before his death came out several Pamphlets in vindication of him but very partially written by his admirers At the time of his death or thereabouts was published The compleat Statesman demonstrated in the life actions and politicks of that great Minister of State Anth. Earl of Shaftsbury c. Printed in tw at Lond. in Hillary term 1682. And after his death was published besides some Memoirs of his life which made against him under the name of Philanax Misopappus a book intit Rawleigh redivivus or the life and death of the honorable Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury Lond. 1683. oct with his picture before it It is divided into two parts and dedicated to the protesting Lords but partially written and containeth many errors and slightly passeth over and omits many of his actions during the time of Rebellion wherein he had a prime hand There were also published Elegies on him pro and con as also A supplement to his last Will. and Test written in verse the particulars of which I shall now for brevity sake pass by THOMAS HUNT son of Hen. Hunt was born in the City of Worcester an 1611 became a Student in Pembr Coll. 1628 Master of Arts in 1636 but whether ever Bach. of that faculty it appears not and therefore Hen. instead of Tho. Hunt in the Fasti 1630 among the Bachelaurs is to be taken away Afterwards he went into the Country and taught a private School then to London and taught in the Church of S. Dunstan in the East and at length being preferred to the Mastership of the Free-school of S. Saviours in Southwark did much good among the Youth there as elsewhere he had done by his admirable way accompanied with much industry in teaching For the use of whom he wrot Libellus Orthographicus or the diligent School-boys Directory c. Lond. 1661 and several times after in oct One Edit of which bears this title Libel Orthograph Or the diligent School-boys Directory very useful for Grammar scholars Apprentices c. or any that desire to be exactly perfect especially in the English Orthography Abecedarium Scholasticum or the Grammar Scholars Abecedary Lond. 1671 oct or thus in the title of another edition Abecedarium Scholasticum Or the Grammar Scholars Flower-garden wherein are these following flowers to wit Proverbs proverbial Sayings Sayings also on several subjects What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died 23 January in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the Church of S. Saviour in Southwark close to the wall in the corner on the left hand of that door that leads from the Bull Churchyard or Bull-head Churchyard into the said Church The Reader may be pleased now to know that besides this hath been another Thom. Hunt who tho no Oxford man by education yet having been famous in his generation among certain schismatical persons for several things that he hath written and published I shall therefore give you these brief memoirs of him viz. That he was born in London in the Augustine Friers as I conceive near the Old Exchange was first Scholar then Fellow and Master of Arts of Queens Coll. in Cambridge where he was esteemed a person of quick parts and of a ready fluence in discourse but withall too pert and forward Thence he went to Greys Inn where before he had been entred a Student and making proficiency in the municipal Laws was made Barrister was had in repute for his practice and acknowledged by most persons to be a good Lawyer In 1659 he became Clerk of the Assizes of Oxford Circuit but ejected from that office at his Majesties restauration to his great loss to make room for the true owner Afterwards he lived and followed his profession at Banbury in Oxfordshire was Steward for a time to part of the Duke of Buckinghams Estate and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk c. He hath written and published 1 Great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York or Successor to the Crown c. considered And an answer to a Letter c. Lond. 1680. in 9 sh in fol. 2 An Argument for the Bishops right in judging in capital Causes in Parliament c. To which is added A postscript for rectifying some mistakes in some of the inferior Clergy mischievous to our Government and Religion Lond. 1682. oct For the writing of
Divine an able Preacher and well vers'd in the Fathers and Schoolmen but when he lived in the Country he had if you 'll believe his conceited Antagonist Glanvill a reputation for learning among his neighbours and was accounted a Philosopher in the peripatetick way and by employing his younger years in the Philosophy of Disputation had gained to himself the reputation of a great Scholar and a Disputant among his country Admirers c. But these and other his foolish commendations of him that follow as that he is a person that understands the Quiddities and Haeccieties the Praecissiones formales and the Objectivae the Homogeneities and Hetrogeneities the Categorematice's and the Syncatagorematice's the Simpliciter's and the Secundum Quid's c. meerly to undervalue his learning because of his undervaluing him Glanvill the Royal Society and experimental Philosophy I shall now pass by as needless to insert and tell you that he wrot Exercitatio Theologica de insipientia rationis humanae gratiâ Christi destitutae in rebus fidei 1 Cor. 2.14 Oxon. 1655. qu. I desire the Reader now to know that after Mr. Joseph Glanvill had setled himself in the City of Bathe and had written certain things against Aristotle and the Academical way of Education 't was the desire of some neighbouring Scholars that our Author Crosse a noted Philosopher after the antient way should be brought acquainted with him In the year therefore 1667 Glanvill was conducted to his house at Great Chew where after the usual Civilities were passed Crosse did in a sufficient manner vindicate Aristotle and knowing Glanvill to be one of the Royal Society and an undervaluer of Academical learning as to Aristotle and his Philosophy he did plentifully then declaim against the proceedings of that Society Glanvill thereupon being surprized he did not then much oppose him but afterwards by letters and common discourses he did to the purpose especially against this Hypothesis of Crosse that Aristotle had more advantages for knowledge than the Royal Society or all the present age had or could have and for this strong reason because he did totam peragere asinam c. Whereupon fell out a great difference between them and Mr. Hen. Stubbe then a Summer-practitioner of Physick at Bathe bearing no good will to the conceited proceedings of Glanvill took Crosse's part and encouraged him to write against the Virtuoso Soon after our author Crosse provided a book which Glanvill call'd a Fardel tho Stubbe not but a good and seasonable book yet rejected by the Licensers as Glanvill adds both at Oxford and London for its incomparable railing and impertinence However Glanvill obtaining the contents of it sent it in a private Letter to Dr. Nath. Ingelo Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore who sending it also to a friend in London he caused it to be printed and intituled The Chew Gazet and dispersed the copies an 100 only for no more were printed into private hands to the end as Glanvill says that his shame might not be made publick c. that a specimen also of the learning he shews in school scraps and little ends of verse and Childrens phrases which are all his reading might be discovered After the Letter was abroad Crosse wrot Ballads against him and made him and his Society ridiculous while other Wags at Oxon who seemed to be pleased with these Controversies made a dogrel Ballad on them and their proceedings the beginning of which is Two Gospel Knights Both learned wights And Somersets renowne a The one in Village of the Shire But Vicaridge too great I fear The other lives in towne a c. Mr. Glanvill tells us also that our Author Crosse hath written a book called Biographia which gives rules how Lives are to be written c. to correct Dr. Fell for his way of writing the life of Dr. Hammond because he denied a License to print his book At length Mr. Crosse having lived to a fair age departed this mortal life about 4 of the clock in the morn of the 12 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in his Church of Chew magna before mention'd leaving then behind him the character among grave and sobber persons of an able Theologist and Philosopher GEORGE RITSCHEL the eldest son of George Ritschel a Bohemian by Gertrude his wife was born at Deutschkana in the borders of Bohemia on the 13 of Febr. styl nov an 1616 sent by his Relations when 17 years of age to the University of Straesburg where he continued about 7 years At length his father dying and Ferdinando 2. driving the Protestants out of his Dominions he rather than he would conform to the Ch. of Rome agreed with his younger brother that he should have the Estate to which he was heir conditionally that he would furnish him with money to travel into foreign parts Which being agreed to our Author G. Ritschel went into England and setling for a time in Oxford was there on the 3 of Decemb. 1641 entred into the publ or Bodleian library under this form Georgius Ritschel Deutchkanan Bosellus but the Rebellion breaking openly out in the year following he went to the Hague Leyden and Amsterdam In 1643 he travelled into Denmark where he spent above an year at Copenhagen and Sora and in 1644 he visited Poland and from Dantzick he went into England where continuing for some time in London journied thence to Oxon took up his quarters in Kettle Hall a member of Trin. Coll. became a severe and constant Student in the Bodleian library and wrot and published a book during his stay in the University as I shall anon tell you but whether he took a degree therein it appears not After he had left the University he became chief Master of the Free-school at Newcastle upon Tyne whence after he had continued there several years he was removed to the Vicaridge of Hexham in Northumberland where he continued Minister almost 28 years He hath written Contemplationes Metaphysicae ex natura rerum rectae rationis lumine deductae c. Oxon. 1648. oct dedicated to Sir Cheyney Culpeper and Nich. Stonghton Esq Before which is a Preface to shew what Metaphysicks are and their use This was reprinted at Frankfort in 1680 by the care of Magnus Hesenthalerus the late famous Professor of Wertemberg with an Epist ded of the said Hesenthalerus to Wolfgangus principal Officer to the Duke of Wertemberg with the title changed thus Georgii Ritschel contemplationes Metaphysicae quas rerum ex natura rectaeque rationis lumine deductas Oxoniae Anglorum 1648 olim publicatas ipsummet per Autorem auctas revisas emendatas ab amica Magni Hesenthaleri manu impetratas exquisitio plurium Literatorum voto c. He hath also written another book intit Dissertatio de ceremoniis Ecclesiae Anglicanae quâ usus earum licitus ostenditur à superstitionis idolatriae crimine vindicatur Lond. 1661. oct
talking about these Papers that I find him not a little angry with Dr. Joh. Hinckley barely for being so bold and daring as to pretend to write somthing relating to them for he himself saying that he believed no man then viz. 1671. living could give an account of them besides himself he judged questionless that the Doctor herein had too rudely invaded his sole Province Yet notwithstanding this together with a great deal of talk about their Sentiments and reception of his Majesties Declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs the reduction and model of Episcopacy made by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland and that other of Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwych subscribed to by Dr. Rich. Holdesworth either of which they would as he saith have willingly allowed of he with a great deal of confidence repeated in the preliminary introductions to most of his very many late most bitter pieces against the Church as if he could not otherwise by any means begin a treatise unless these hughly beloved relations did kindly usher the following very uneven unconcocted roving often repeated and medley stuff will hardly perswade us to believe that he hath been so little conversant with books especially such as have been wrot against his own party and himself as not to have very well known that Roger L'estrange in a book of his entit The relapsed Apostate c. published not long after those three Papers above mention'd had fully and at large answered his Petition for peace animadverted on many parts of the reformed Liturgy and that moreover he had in a Supplement to his Relapsed Apost refuted the Two papers of proposals concerning the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church together with a single sheet in form of petition to his Majesty and that the Papers compriz'd in The great debate c. were briefly also touched and reflected on in the same Supplement c. Mr. L'estrang taketh notice also of this unwarrantable boast and vaunt of Mr. Baxter concerning these Papers in a late preface to the third edit of The relapsed Apostate c. Lond. 1681. qu therein citing Baxters words to that purpose out of the Preface to his answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Charge of Separation c. Mr. Baxter indeed altho in some of his books he saith expresly that none of the above named Papers were ever answer'd by any confesseth that two small treatises one entit Pulpit conceptions popular deceptions or the grand debate resum'd in the point of Prayer viz in defence of prescribed forms c. Lond. 1662. qu. and the other Concerning Lent-Fast had been wrot against some single parts occurring in those three Papers above mention'd as also that L'estrange had said somthing against their Liturgy and that he had no more to say this last in his answer to a Letter of Dr. Hinckley yet mentions nothing even there of L'estranges answers to any of their other Papers But all this being spoken by the way lets now return to our author Morley and his other writings Epistola apologetica paraenetica ad Theologum quendam Belgam scripta Lond. 1663. in two sh and an half in qu written at Breda 7. Jun. 1659. This came out again with several of our authors treatises which I shall anon mention under this title Epistola ad virum clariss D. Cornelium Triglandium unum ex Pastoribus Hagiensibus Principi Auriaco à studiis conscripta in quâ agitur de sereniss regis Car. 2. erga reformatam religionem affectu c. Lond. 1683. qu. The author of this as writing to a Protestant who was a favourer of his Masters interest and with whom he had before held some correspondence by Letters fully clears K. Ch. 2. from all the least ground of suspicion of his enclining to Popery throughout his whole time of exile contrary to what some English men had reported either thro ignorance or hatred and which was by an easie credulity too greedily entertain'd by some foreigners After this he vehemently presseth the Dutch as desiring that this his Epistle might be communicated to other Dutchmen of the like perswasion with the person to whom it was immediatly directed with strong reasons drawn from the several perswasive heads vigorously to employ their speedy and utmost endeavours to restore his Majesty to his lawful throne and just rights The Summe of a short conference betwixt Fath. Darcey a Jesuit and Dr. Morley at Bruxells 23 June 1649. Stil Nov. Lond. 1683. qu. An argument drawne from the evidence and certainty of sense against the doctrine of Transubstantiation Vindication of the argument drawne from sense against Transubstantiation from a pretended answer to it by the author of a pamphlet called A treatise of the nature of Catholick faith and heresie Answer to Father Cressy's Letter This which is about religion and the Clergy of England was written in 1662. Sermon before the King at Whitehall 5. Nov. 1667 on 1. Cor. 14.33 Answer to a Letter written by a Rom. Priest 1676. Letter to Anne Duchess of York some few months before her death written 24 Jan. 1670. This Duchess who was dau of Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England afterwards E. of Clarendon was carefully principled in the doctrine of the Protestant faith by our author Morley while he continued at Antwerp in the family of her father yet died in the faith of the Rom. Church Ad clarissimum virum Janum Ulitium Epistolae duae de invocatione Sanctorum Written on the first of July 1659. The aforesaid Summe of a short conference c. with all the things that follow to these two Epistles were with the Epistle to Corn. Trigland c. printed together in one vol. in qu. an 1683. Soon after was published by L. W. a book entit A revision of Dr. Morley's Judgment in matters of religion or an answer to several treatises of his written on several occasions concerning the Church of Rome Which book was answer'd by another called The revision revised or a vindication of the right rev father in God George L. Bish of Winton against c. Lond. 1685. qu. Letter to the Earl of Anglesey of the meanes to keep out Popery and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof Lond. 1683 At the end of A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesey Printed in fol. Vindication of himself from divers false scandalous and injurious reflections made upon him by Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his writings Lond. 1683. qu. What else he hath published I know not unless A character of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. in one sheet in qu. then vulgarly reported to be by him written much about which time other Characters were published as that by Dr. Wall Charlton c. He made also an Epitaph on K. Jam. 1. an 1625 which was afterwards printed at the end of Dr. John Spotswood's Church Hist of Scotland At length after this most worthy and pious Bishop had
and that of Dr. Humph. Henchmans before The Gentlemans Calling which two books had been published by the said Doctors Dr. Fell also published in the year 1675 two other pieces written by the same author viz. The Government of the Tongue and The Art of Contentment and last of all The lively Oracles given to us c. which was first printed at Oxon 1678. oct In 1684 all the works of the said excellent author were printed together in a pretty large folio and fair character at Oxon and London The whole duty of man The decay of Christian piety and The Gentlemans Calling which altho published by Dr. Henchman some years before The decay of Christian Piety is in this Edit placed after it make the first part which is printed at London and the four pieces above-named make the second part printed at Oxon. Before the whole volume is placed a general preface of Dr. Fells composition wherein among other things he points at no less than five spurious pieces which have expresly or by a designed implication boldly usurp'd on the name and authority of this unknown celebrated author In this edition of his works compleat Dr. Fell hath inserted in the margin of the four last pieces which make the second part of the said vol. if not too of The Gent. Calling and The decay of Christ Piety the heads and contents of each section with useful marginal abbreviations which were till then wanting in all the parts except only in The whole duty of man He caused also at his own proper charge the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon to be translated into latine and kept two men in pay for doing it besides what he did himself which was considerable and the Author which was less And being so done he caused it at his own charge also to be printed with a good character on good paper but he taking to himself liberty of putting in and out several things according to his own judgment and those that he employ'd being not careful enough to carry the whole design in their head as the Author would have done it is desir'd that the Author may not be accountable for any thing which was inserted by him or be censur'd for any useless repetitions or omissions of his Agents under him At length this most godly learned and zealous person having brought his body to an ill habit and having wasted his spirits by too much zeal for the publick he surrendred up his pious soul to God to the great loss of learning and of the whole University about three of the clock in the morning of the tenth of July being then Saturday in sixteen hundred eighty and six leaving then behind him the general character of a learned and pious Divine and of an excellent Greecian Latinist and Philologist of a great assertor of the Church of England of another Founder of his own College and of a Patron of the whole University He was buried on the 13 day of the same month in the Divinity Chap. which is the Isle most northward from the choir of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in a little vault built of brick under the Deans seat on the right hand and under the seats adjoyning Eastward His Monument long since promis'd by his Executors is yet to be expected JOHN JONES son of John Jones of Llang-Ellian in Denbighshire became a Student in New Inn in Act term 1675 aged 20 years was translated afterwards to Trin. Coll. and as a member thereof taking the degree of Bach. of Arts 1681 was soon after made Usher of the Free-school at S. Alban in Hertfordshire where as in the University he was esteemed a good latin Poet. He hath written Fanum S. Albani Poema carmine Heroico Lond. 1683 in 4. sh in qu. dedic to Sir Harbottle Grimston Knight and Bt Master of the Rolls He died in sixteen hundred eighty and six and was buried in the large Church of S. Alban before mention'd with this epitaph soon after put over his grave H. S. E. Johannes Jones Wallus Scholae S. Albanensis Hypodidascalus literatissimus Qui dum Ecclesia haec Anno 1684 publicis impensis instauraretur exsculpsit sibi quoque monumentum quod inscripsit Fanum S. Albani poema carmine Heroico hoc lapide hâc Aede aevoque perrennius omni c. JOHN BENNET son of a Father of both his names was born in S. Margarets Parish within the City of Westminster elected from the Coll. School there a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1676 took one degree in Arts and wrot Constantius the Apostate Being a short account of his life and the sense of the primitive Christians about succession Wherein is shewn the unlawfulness of excluding the next heir upon the account of Religion and the necessity of Passive Obedience as well to the unlawful oppressor as legal persecutor Being a full answer to a late pamphlet entit Julian the Apostate c. Lond. 1683. oct Afterwards the author proceeded in Arts studied Physick and dying of a violent feaver on the 6. of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and six was buried on the south side of the body of the Cathedral of Christ Church in Oxford WILLIAM GOULD was born of gentile parents at Parhams farm in the Parish of Alston in Wiltshire entred a Com. of Oriel Coll. 19 of May 1658 where being extravagant in his life and conversation was forc'd thence but taking up in time and making a through reformation in him self obtained the Chancellors letters for the accumulating the degrees in Arts an 1666 wherein I find this character of him that he is a man of very good parts and learning and well qualified to do service in the Church c. But whether he was admitted Bach. or Master of Arts it appears not About that time being in holy Orders he became Rector of Kenn near Exeter in his own Country a most loyal and orthodox person and a good preacher He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Domus mea domus orationis preached at S. Peters in Exeter on Matth. 21.13 Lond. 1672 qu. 2 Conformity according to the Canon justified and the new way of moderation reproved preached in the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in Exeter at the Visitation of Anthony Bishop of Exeter on 1. Cor. 14.20 Lond. 1674. qu. 3 The generosity of Christian love on 1. Cor. 13.5 Lond. 1676. qu. 4 The primitive Christian justified and Jack Presbyter reproved or a scripture demonstration that to be innocent and persecuted is more eligible than to be prosperously wicked preached in his Abbey Church of Bathe on Job 36.21 Lond. 1682. qu. He died in the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and six and was buried on the first of Novemb. in the Church of Kenn before mention'd where there is a Monument and Epitaph over his grave THOMAS JACOMBE son of Job Jac. was born at Burton Lazers near to Melton Mowbray in Leycestershire became either a Batler or a
raising up his Excellency the L. Gen. Monke c. to deliver this Nation from thraldome and slavery on 2 Sam. 19.14 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Cordifragium or the sacrifice of a broken heart Serm. at S. Pauls in Lond. 25 Nov. 1660 on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1661. qu. and of other things CREATIONS After the battel at Edghill in Warwickshire between his Majesties Forces and those belonging to the Parliament the King retired to Oxon and setling for a time in Ch. Ch. it was his pleasure that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had either done him service in the said battel or had retired to him at Oxon for shelter to avoid the barbarities of the Presbyterians then very frequent throughout the Nation Some called this Creation the Caroline Creation Bach. of Arts. From the first of Nov. to the 16 of Jan. were about 35 young Students actually created Bachelaurs of Arts in the head of whom was Tho. Wood or à Wood of Ch. Ch. Nov. 1. This person when he heard that the Forces belonging to the King and Parliament were drawing up to fight each other at Edghill threw off his gown ran thither did his Majesty good Service return'd on horseback well accoutred and afterwards was made an Officer See more among the Creations in 1647. The next that follow are these Mathew Skinner of Trin. Coll. son of Dr. Rob. Skinner Bishop of Oxon. He was afterwards Doctor of Phys Will. Slater Hen. Dudley c. Dec. 20. Conway Whitterne of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards Captain of a Foot Company in his Maj. Service Jan. 16. Hen. Berkley of Or. Coll a younger son of Sir Hen. Berkley of Yarlington in Somersetshire Knight Will. Norrys of Pemb. Coll. was created about that time He was afterwards a Corner in the Lord Hoptous Army c. Bach. of Law From the 1 of Nov. to the 16 of January were actually created 15 Bachelaurs at least of the Civil Law of whom John Sutton George Walker Will. Birkenhead and Rich. Blome son of Joh. Blome of Brecknockshire Gent. were of the number Which last I here set down not that he was a man of note but only to distinguish him from one of both his names who was originally a Ruler of Paper and now a Scribler of books See in the first vol. p. 389.390 I find also to be created Bach. of the Civ Law an Inhabitant of S. Aldates Parish in Oxon called John Holloway Official to the Archdeacon and Registrary of Berkshire which John was father to Rich. Halloway sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards a Counsellor of the Inner Temple and a person for several years well reputed in these parts for his upright dealing in his profession To which I must add that in 1677 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1683 he was knighted and made one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the place of Just Thom. Raymond In thâ— beginning of July 1688 he and Sir Joh. Powell another Just of the same Bench did receive their Quietus from K. Jam. 2 because they had a little before given in their minds and opinions to the Jury in the Court of the Kings Bench at Westm at which time they were two of the four Judges in the Proceedings and Tryal in the case of William Archb. of Cant and six Bishops that the Petition of the said Archb. and Bishops to his Maj wherein they shewed the great averseness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for liberty of Conscience c. was not libellous or seditious as Sir Rob. Wright L. Ch. Justice and Just Rich. Allebâ—ne the other two Judges did Which act of Justice Holloway being much applauded by the true sons of the Church of England yet for other matters he was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of Indemnity or Pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary dated 23 May 1690. Mast of Arts. From the first day of Nov. to the 21 of Feb were more than an hundred and forty Masters actually created of which number were these following Nov. 1. James Duke of York He was afterwards King of England by the name of K. James the 2. Dom. Henr. Howard Tho. Bosvile or Boswell a Kentish man of Aynsford I think and a Colonel in the Kings Army One Tho. Boswell who had been knighted by his Maj. at Durham in the beginning of May 1642 was buried in S Maries Church in Oxford 25 Oct. 1643. Whether he was the same who was created Master of Arts or the same Sir Tho. Boswell who had a daughter named Isabel the wife of Tho. Gifford Doctor of Physick before mentioned I cannot justly tell George Manwaring an Officer in the Kings Army Will. Dugdale one of the Officers of Arms called Rougecroix now 1642 lodging in Hart Hall This noted person who was son of John Dugdale son of James Dugdale of Cletherâ—w in Lancashire Gent was born at Shustock in the County of Warwick on the 12 of Sept. 1605 3 Jac. 1. at which time was a swarm of Bees in his fathers garden then esteemed by some a happy presage on the behalf of the Babe This accident being many years after related by Mr. Will. Dugdale to the famous Figure-flinger Will. Lilly he thereupon very readily told him that that swarm of bees did foretell that the Infant should in time prove a prodigy of industry c. But the Reader is to know that the said Lilly told him the said Will. Dugdale so after most of his industry was made public His first education in Grammar learning was under one Thom. Sibley Curat at Nether Whitacre near to Shustock before mentioned with whom continuing till he came to ten years of age or more was afterwards sent to the Free-school at Coventry then presided by one James Cranford father of James Cranford mentioned among the Writers pag. 133. After he had continued in the said School till almost he was 15 years of age he was taken home by his father from whom he received instructions in reading that noted Law-book called Littletons Tenures and some others of that profession besides History In all which he soon after by his indefatigable industry became well vers'd In the latter end of 1622 his father being then grown infirm he took to him a wife and in 1625 1 Car. 1. his said father being then dead he purchased the Mannour of Blythe in the Parish of â—hustock At which place setling soon after he composed most of his Books particularly that of The Anâ—iquities of Warwickshere illustrated His natural inclination tending then chiefly to the study of Antiquities and History he was not a little encouraged thereto by one Sam. Roper a Barrester of Lincolns Inn much esteemed for his knowledge and abilities in those studies with whom by reason he was Cosin-German to Rich. Seawell who had married his sister he had
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
good Conscience suffer'd also by the loss of his Goods and Imprisonment and therefore retiring to Oxon was there actually created D. of D. He hath published 1 An adieu to the Duke of Glocester or a Sermon preached in a poor Parish Church Turweston or Turveston near Buckingham 23 Sept. 1660 on Eccles 3.20 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The Cripples Complaint c. Sermon on S. Joh. 5.7 Lond. 1665. qu. He died in 1669 or thereabouts and was I suppose buried at Turveston Jun. 22. Ger. Langbaine Prov. of Qu. Coll. Jun. 22. Thomas Bravell of Magd. Coll. 23. John Croft now of Wadham Coll. He was a younger son of Sir Hen. Croft of Teddington in Bedfordshire was first a Com. of Linc. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules M. of A. and beneficed but suffering for his Majesties Cause he retired to Oxon and was there created D. of D. as 't is here said After his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of William Lord Croft his brother promoted to the Deanery of Norwich in the place of Dr. Joh. Hassall some years before deceased in which being instal'd 7 Aug. 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapning on the 27 Jul. 1670 he was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Norwich His said Brother Will. Lord Croft died either in Aug. or Sept. 1677. Will. Stutevile of Ch. Ch. who had lately done his Maj. special service in the West was actually created the same day June 23. Tristram Sugge of Wadh. Coll. was also created the same day This person who was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire had been public Metaphysick Reader and Proctor of the University Afterwards he was ejected by the Visitors in 1648 and suffer'd much in the interrupted times for his Loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and dying on the 27 of January in the same year was buried in the Chappel of Wadham Coll. He was esteemed by all that knew him a profound Philosopher and Divine and very fit to publish what he had written of those Subjects but since his death his papers are gotten into such hands that it is doubted whether ever they will see light Jul. 1. Edward Boughen of Ch. Ch. Aug. 13. Joh. Pottinger of New Coll the famous Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester He resigned the said Mastership soon after was succeeded by Mr. Will. Burt and died in 1659. This year it was allowed by the Members of the ven Convocation that Hen. Tozer Joh. Proctor and Baldwin Acland of Exeter Coll Rob. Barker of New Coll Rich. Washington of Vniv Coll Edm. Diggle of Magdalen and John Good of New Coll might have liberty when they pleased to be created Doctors of Divinity but they all refused then and the next year to accept of that favour At the same time also Isaac Basire and Rich. Dukeson of Cambr. Thom. Bunbury of Ball. Coll Rob. Sibthorp of Linc. Coll Will. Haywood of S. Johns Coll c. who had fled to Oxon as an Asylum and there had several times preached before his Majesty and the Members of Parliament had each a license given to them under the public Seal of the Univ. to preach the word of God throughout England This year Jun. 24 being Wednesday and Midsummer day the Garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time marched out in a body eastward about 3000 Soldiers besides 500 or thereabouts northward and a little before and after them five hundred more mostly Horsemen and private persons engaged in the Siege On Munday going before Prince Rupert and Pr. Maurice his brother with their attendants departed and those that followed them the next day were about 300 persons most of them of quality and their attendants When the forces belonging to the Parliament were entred who were all Presbyterians Independents or worse were among them their Chaplains of the same perswasion who forthwith upon all occasions thrust themselves into the pulpits purposely by their rascally doctrine to obtain either Proselites or to draw off from their loyal Principles and orthodox Religion the Scholars and Inhabitants Among them were Hugh Peters that diabolical Villain and Pulpit-buffoon Will. Dell Chapl. to Sir Tho Fairfax John Saltmarsh Will. Erbury c. and what they did there besides during their stay is too large a story now to tell you In Sept. following were seven Presbyterian Ministers who had formerly their education in this University appointed by Parliament sent to Oxon to preach at S. Maries and elsewhere to draw off the Scholars from their loyal principles but Edw. Corbet one of them being about that time called thence the six carried on the work yet found opposition by the Independents and other Sectaries of whom Will. Erbury was one yet all upon any occasion would joyn together to pluck down and persecute the Malignants that is Cavaliers and Royalists So that whereas before the surrender there was no place in England more loyal to their Prince orthodox and observant of the Ceremonies of the Church of England than the Scholars and the generality of the Inhabitants of Oxon were so after the entry of the said Parliamenteers there appeared nothing but confusion darkness c. Hell was broke loose upon the poor remnant and they were over-run by Sectaries Blasphemers Hypocrites Exciters to Rebellion Censurers Covetous persons men of self-pride envy and what not So that those of the Gown that could not brook such persons did either leave the University or abscond in their respective houses till they could know their doom by the approaching Visitation The Soldiery did declare their impudence so much that they forbore not to preach in some of the Pulpits and to thrust themselves into the public Schools and there in the places of Lecturers speak to the Scholars against humane learning and challenge the most learned of them to prove their Calling from Christ c. But let the restless Presbyterians be thanked for the original of all these Evils and others that followed who to fill their coffers raise families please and cherish their private lusts and endearments and nothing else care not what mischief they do or what ruin they bring upon this poor Nation so that they might obtain their own unworthy ends An. Dom. 1647. An. 23 Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. William Marquess of Hertford c. who continuing in his office till the beginning of February Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery was about that time restored and according to an order of the Lords in Parl. dated 2 March he was desired to go to Oxford and re-take possession of his place According to which order he went in the beginning of the next year as I shall tell you by and by Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell without any nomination by the Chanc. So that being discharged of his office by order from the Visitors 8 Oct. this year because as they said he was neither nominated or lawfully admitted thereunto yet notwithstanding he took no
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
Coll. Nov. 18. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch. 19. Will. Master of Mert. Coll. Feb. 17. Hen. Leigh of Magd. Hall See more of him in Edw. Leigh among the Writers an 1671. p. 352. Mar. 17. Josiah Lane of C. C. Coll. In 1664 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys at Leyden and published his Disputatio med inaug de cholera morbo the same year Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or man of note Bach. of Div. June .... Thom. Hall sometimes of Pembr Coll. had liberty allow'd him by the Delegates of the University to take the degree of Bach. of Div. See more among the Writers p. 234. But one besides him doth occurr really admitted Doct. of Law Jul. 6. Tobias Swinbourne of Linc. Coll. Dec. 6. Timothy Baldwin of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was a younger son of Charles Baldwin of Burwarton in Shropshire Gent became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in 1634 and Fellow of that of All 's in 1640 being then Bach. of Arts where continuing till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Principal of Hart Hall afterwards Chancellour of the diocesses of Hereford and Worcester in which last he succeeded James Littleton one of the Masters of the Chancery and a Knight in July 1670. being then of Stokecastle in Shropshire He hath published The privileges of an Embassador written by way of Letter to a Friend who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Embassador Printed in 1654 in one sh and an half in qu. See more of Tim. Baldwin in Edward Lord Herbert among the Writers of this second vol. p. 62 and in Dr. Rich. Zouche p. 167. where you 'll find the matter about the Portugal Emb brother who was beheaded and a book of Dr. Zouche which T. Baldwin published He had an elder Brother named Sam. Baldwin bred in Balliol Coll. also afterwards a Common Lawyer and by writ called to be Serjeant at Law an 1669 and in 1672. made the Kings Serjeant Doct. of Phys May 27. Henry Clerk of Magd. Coll who accumulated the degrees in Physick by vertue of the Chancellours Letters He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll of Physitians succeeded Dr. Pierce in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll and dying in the house of his Son-in-law Sir Rich. Shuttleworth called Gawthorp hall in Lancashire 24. March 1686. was buried in the Church at Willoughby in Warwickshire among the graves of his ancestors In his Presidentship was elected â—ch Hough Bach. of Div. 15. Apr. 1687. July 9. Petâ—r Eâ—ioâ— of S. Maries Hall sometimes Chapl. of C. C. Coll. and a Preacher He afterwards practised his faculty many years in and near Oxon and dying 5. Mar. 1681 was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. 20. Tim. Clarke of Ball. Coll. Doct. of Div. July 31. Henry Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall a Compounder On the 28. of Oct. following the Vicechancellour admitted him in Convocation as compleat Doctor and on the 3. of May 1676 his degree was confirm'd by a Diploma This person was usually called Deane Harry as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1690. p. 646. Incorporations April 8. Samuel Collins Doct. of Phys of Padua April 8. George Mede Doct. of Phys of Padua These two had been Travellers together and took their degree of Doct. of Phys in the said Univ. of Padua in Aug. 1651. See in the year 1659. June 24. Henr. Saltonstal a Knights Son Fellow of New Coll by the favour of the Visitors and Doct. of Physick of Padua was then incorporated The said degree he took at Padua in October 1649. 29. Tho. Janes or Jeanes Bach. of Arts of Cambr now of Magd. Coll. in this Univ was then incorporated He was adm Mast of that faculty 6. of Jul. this year See among the Doctors of Physick an 1659. Aug. 9. Thom. Horton D. of D. of Cambr. and Master of Queens Coll. therein was then incorporated in Convocation This person who was Son of Laur. Horton Citizen of London was born in that City bred in Emanuel Coll of which he became Fellow and a noted Tutor to young Presbyterian Scholars among whom John Wallis was one In 1637 he was constituted one of the publick Preachers of the Univ. of Cambr. and in 1638 or thereabouts he became Minister of S. Mary Cole church in the City of his nativity Afterwards he was preacher to the Society of Greys Inn Reader of Div. in Gresham Coll a holder forth sometimes before the Long Parliament Vicar of Great S. Helens in London and one of the Triers or Commissioners appointed for the approbation of publick Preachers an 1653. He was esteemed by those of the Presbyterian perswasion a sound and solid Divine a good Textuary and well skill'd in the original Languages Under his name hath been published 1 Forty six Sermons upon the whole eighth Chapter of the Epist of the Apost Paul to the Romans Lond. 1674. fol. 2 Choice and practical exposition on four select Psalms viz. the 4. Psalm in 8 Sermons the 42 Psal in 10 Sermons the 51. Psal in 20 Sermons the 63 Psal in 7 Sermons Lond. 1675. fol. 3 One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts fifty upon the Old Test and fifty on the New Lond. 1679. fol. He also with William Dillingham D. D. and Master of Emanuel Coll. did publish A chain of principles or an orderly concatenation of theological Aphorismes and Exercitations wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved Lond. 1660 written by John Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S. Johns and Trin. Coll. successively and the Kings Professor of Div. in the University of Cambridge Published since his death according to his own Manuscript This Dr. Horton died in 1673 and was I presume buried in the Church of S. Helen before mention'd leaving then behind him a relict called Dorothy who administred 28. Aug. the same year Nov. 19. Steph. Charnock M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. now Fellow of New Coll. by the favor of the Visitors Dec. 6. Tho. Croyden Doct. of Phys of Padua The same degree he took at Pad 30. Oct. 1648. Jan. 14. Will. Harrington Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr. 16. Will. Squire lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Hall in Cambr. 27. Gabriel de Beauvoir of the Isle of Guernsey Doct. of Physick of Padua This person who was the Son of Charles de Beauvoir took the said degree at Pad in the latter end of Octob. 1648. Creations June 17. Jonathan Maud a Student in Phys 17 years was then actually created Doctor of that fac by vertue first of an order from the Committee and secondly by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the Univ. dated 29. May 1650 rather 51 which say that his conversation is pious and sober and that he hath been a constant friend to the Parliament c. July 9. Thomas Danson of Magd. Coll. was
men of great name and place in Sweedland The last or the younger who in his printed book or books writes himself Benedictus Gustavus Queckfeldt Sudremanius Suecus that is I suppose of the Province of Sodermanland in Sweedland did some exercise for the said degree which he printed with this title Disputatio juridica inauguralis de obligationibus ex contractibus qui re verbis literis consensu perficiuntur in illustriss Anglorum Vniversitate quae Oxoniae est c. pro gradu Doctoratus ejusque privilegiis in Jure c. ... Dec. 1655 modestè exhibita Oxon. 1656. in 3 sh in qu. This year Jacobus Oúzelius who intitles himself Jurisconsultus Dantiscanus was a Sojourner in Oxon purposely to obtain the benefit of the public Library He hath written De numismatibus and is the same as I conceive who hath published Animadversiones in Minutii Felicis Octavium An. Dom. 1656. An. 8 Car. 2. An. 3 4 Oliv. Prot. Chanc. the same viz. Ol. Oromwell Vicechanc. Dr. Owen Oct. 7. Proct. Edw. Littleton of All 's Coll. Apr. 16. Will. Carpender of Ch. C. Apr. 16. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 25. Will. Glynne Principal-Commoner of Jes Coll. In Jan. 1658 he was elected Knight for the County of Caernarvon to serve in Richard's Parliament which began at Westm on the 27 of the said month On the 20 of May 1661 he was created a Baronet and in 1668 he was elected High Sheriff of Oxfordshire See in Joh. Glynne among the Writers p. 270. Jun. 5. Thom. Pittys of Trin. Coll. Oct. 13. Sam. Austin of Wadh. Coll. Oct. 13. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. Oct. 13. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. Oct. 13. Hen. Hesketh of Brasn Coll. The last of which who hath written and published several things is as I presume living and therefore to be remembred hereafter Jan. 29. Tho. Hockin of Magd. Coll. Jan. 29. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. Of both which you may see among the Masters an 1659. Jan. 30. Dav. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jan. 30. Rich. Morton of New Coll. Feb. 3. Hen. Foulis of Queens Coll. The two first of these three are now living one at Northop in Flintshire and the other in Grey-friers Court within Newgate in Lond and have published several things The first of History which he will scarce acknowledge and the other of Physick of which faculty he was created Doctor an 1670 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Feb. 6. Sam. Woodford of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 6. Arth. Brett of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is now Preb. of Winchester and is and hath been celebrated for his Poetry The other was a pretender to it but not to be nam'd or compared with the former 19. Joh Paradise of Mert. Coll. This person who was a Wiltshire man born bred up among Presbyterians and so dexterous in short-hand writing that he would take a Sermon verbatim from the mouth of any Preacher which he would repeat in the College Chappel on Sundays after supper was soon after made Minister of Westbury in his own Country left his Presbyterian Principles and became a Tory-Preacher for the Royal Cause He hath written and published A Sermon on Davids humiliation for cutting off the royal robe and detestation of cutting off the royal head of the Lords anointed preached Januar. 30. an 1660 being a solemn Fast for the horrid murther of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory Lond. 1661. Mar. 21. Hen. Denton of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters of Arts an 1659. Adm. 142. Bach. of Law Jul. ... Joh. Ailmer of New Coll. He was now esteemed an excellent Greecian Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. May 6. Owen Price of Ch. Ch. lately of Jesus Coll. Jun. 5. Ezek. Hopkins of Magd. Coll. 20. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll. 30. Will. James of Ch. Ch. Jul. 9. Joh. Wagstaffe of Oriel Coll. Jul. 9. Clem. Ellis of Qu. Coll. Dec. 13. Hen. Stubbe of Ch. Ch. Mar. 17. Tho Wight of C. C. Coll. This person who was made Fellow of the said Coll as born in the County Pal. of Durham was afterwards Rector of West Hendreth in Berks and wrot and published A discourse of Schisme for the benefit of humble Christians Lond. 1690. qu. He is living there and may publish hereafter more things Adm. 64. Bach. of Phys Jul. 3. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll. Besides him were four admitted and Rob. Wood M. A. of Linc. Coll who had studied Physick six years was licensed to practise that faculty by the decree of Convocation Apr. 10. ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year only created ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was adm this year Doct. of Phys Jul. 3. Franc. Hungerford of All 's Coll. Jul. 3. Rich. Lydall of Mert. Coll. Jul. 3. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll. These three accumulated the degrees in Physick 7. Thom. Kinge of Brasn Coll. Doct. of Div. Jul. 12. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. He was the only person that was licensed to proceed this year Incorporations Mar. 27. James Windet Doct. of Phys of Leyden The said degree was confer'd on him at Leyd in July 1655. This person who was afterwards of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond. was a good Latin Poet a most excellent Linguist a great Rabbi a curious Critick and rather shap'd for Divinity than the faculty he profess'd He hath extant under his name 1 Ad Majestatem Caroli II. sylvae duae Printed in qu. 2 De vitâ functorum statu ex Hebraeorum atque Graecorum comparatis sententiis concinnatus cum corollario de Tartaro Apost Petri in quem praevaricatores Angelos dejectos memorat Lond. 1663. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen among which is the Epist ded to the most ingenious Joh. Hall of Durham set before an edition of Stierius's Philosophy printed and published by Rog. Daniel Printer to the University of Cambridge who having a great respect for the said Mr. Hall got Dr. Windet to write it which being done Mr. Daniel set his own name to it purposely to do honour to that young Gent. of great and wonderful hopes This Dr. Windet left behind him at his death which those of his profession say hapned about 1680 a quarto Manuscript containing many of his Lat. Poems which at this day go from hand to hand having been expos'd to sale in one or more Auctions Apr. 25. Huntingdon Plumtre Doct. of Phys of Cambr. This person was a Nottinghamshire man born was descended from those of his name of Plumtre in that County and when a young Master of Arts of Cambr. wrot Epigrammatum opusculum duobus libellis distinctum Lond. 1629. oct and to it added Homeri Batrachomyomachia latino carmine reddita variisque in locis aucta illustrata Jun. 3. Thom. Browne Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had that degree confer'd on him at Pad in Sept. 1654 is different from the famous Sir Thom. Browne of Norwich whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1682. p.
depos'd from his Protectorship in the beginning of this year Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Conant 8. Oct Proct. George Philipps of Qu. Coll. Ap. 13. Thomas Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Ap. 13. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 14. Franc. Turner of New Coll. July 11. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll. Oct. 12. Joh. Lloyd of Mert. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards successively B. of Rochester and Ely and having written and published several things he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers and Bishops The second was afterwards an Archdeacon as I shall tell you among the Masters an 1662 and the last who was afterwards of Jesus Coll was at length B. of S. David Oct. 12. Jam. Janeway of Ch. Ch. 14. Sam. Hardye of Wadham Coll. He was the author of The Guide to Heaven c. printed at several times in two parts in oct the last part of which was published 1687. 88. and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Nov. 1. Benj. Woodroff of Ch. Ch. He hath published several things and therefore he is also hereafter to be remembred Jan. 16. Thom. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 28. Sam. Parker of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two who is now a Physitian of note is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers The other who was afterwards of Trin. Coll. was at length B. of Oxon. I have mention'd him at large among the Writers in this vol. Feb. 28. Joh. Langford of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Ruthyn man born in Denbighshire did afterwards translate into good welsh The whole duty of man Lond. 1672. oct He took no higher degree in this University but elsewhere and is now living and beneficed in Wales Mar. 15. Sam Holding or Holden or Linc. Coll. This person who hath published several things is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers Adm. 148. Bach. of Law May 18. Thomas Jones of Mert. Coll. Oct. 12. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doct. of the Civil Law 1667. Adm. 4. Mast of Arts. June 2. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. 4. Joh. Skelton of Queens Coll. The last was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Barlow Bishop of Lincolne who collating him to the Archdeaconry of Bedford was installed therein 22. Mar. 1678 and afterwards to the Prebendship of Biggleswade in the Church of Linc. was installed also therein 3. May 1684. June 21. Thomas Hockin of Magd. Coll. This person who was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll hath written A discourse of the nature of Gods decrees Being an answer to a Letter from a person of quality concerning them Lond. 1684. oct In the title of this book he writes himself Bach. of Div sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and late Preacher at Great S. Barthelmews in London But whether he took the said degree of B. of D in this University it appears not June 21. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and at length Rector of Stockport in Cheshire and author of The Christians triumph over death Sermon at the funeral of Rich. Legh of Lime in the County Pal of Chester Esq at Winwick in Lancashire 6. Sept. 1687 on 1. Cor. 15.55 Oxon. 1688. qu. He is Doct. of Divinity not of this University but by the Diploma if I mistake not of Dr. W. Sancroft Archbishop of Canturbury June 25. Henry Foulis of Qu. Coll. June 25. Capel Wiseman of Qu. Coll. June 25. Henry Denton of Qu. Coll. The last of these three who was Son of Thomas Denton of the antient and gentile family of his name living at Warnel-Denton in Cumberland travelled afterwards to Constantinople in the quality of a Chaplain to the English Embassador and after his return did translate into English A description of the present state of Samos Nicaria Patmos and Mount-Athos Lond. 1678. oct Which book was written by Joseph Georgirines Archbishop of Samos living then 1678 in London who the year before had for some weeks been in Oxon about the Act time to obtain money from the Academians towards the finishing the Greek Church in London This Mr. Denton who was Fellow of Queens Coll and presented by the Provost and Fellows thereof to the Rectory of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire on the death of Joh. Hook B. D. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll which hapned 20. of Feb. 1673 was buried in the Church there 19 Aug. 1681. July 2. Arthur Brett of Ch. Ch. 4. Dav. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. 8. Rich. Morton of New Coll. Adm. 78. Bach of Phys June 4. Nath. Hodges of Ch Ch. July 9. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Adm. 6. Two also were licensed to practise Physick of whom Hen. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall was one ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year Doct. of Law May 18. Nicholas Staughton of Exet. Coll. Esq was adm Doctor of the Civ and Can. Law being then dispensed with for certain Terms and on the 27 of June following after he had spoken a formal Speech before the Members of the University for which he was laughed at because not at all desired or required he was admitted ad suffragandum in domo Convocationis Congreg About a month or two after was printed a sharp Libel intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the Vniversity of Oxford c. And at the end of it were printed 25 Queries the last of which runs thus Whether the Boy Dr. Staughton of Exeter Coll. did well to lye in his scarlet Gown that night he was made Doctor since his degree was a thing he ought not to have dreamed of He was then Lord of the ancient Mannour of Staughton in Surrey which unexpectedly fell to him after the death of divers persons of that name and on the 29 of January 1660 he was created a Baronet May 18. Tho. Jones of Mert. Coll who accumulated the degrees of Law by vertue of the Chanc. Letters was then adm to proceed Doct. of Phys Jun. 2. Thom. Jeanes of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. did while he was a Junior there with Joh. Fidoe and Will. Shaw his Contemporaries of the said House write and publish The Parliament justified in their late proceedings against Charles Stuart Or a brief discourse concerning the nature and rise of Government together with the abuse of it in Tyranny and the peoples reserve To which is added An answer to a certain paper entit The humble advice to the Lecturers of Banbury in Oxfordshire and of Brackley in Northamptonshire Lond. 1648 in 2 sh and an half in qu. Afterwards Jeanes going to Oxon was made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors and always after during his stay there he was esteem'd by all that knew him a good Scholar and a generous and stour man But so it fell out that after Dr. Tho. Pierce became President of the said Coll. he found means to expell him thence an 1662 under pretence of
the taking of their degrees only to have the benefit of the publick Library c. This person who was much addicted to Musick while he studied in Oxon which was about 8 years was made Archdeacon of Ely by his Father after his Majesties restauration had other spiritualities as I conceive confer'd upon him and became a member of the Royal Society He died in 1679 being then of Wilberton in the Isle of Ely and whether he was Doctor of the Laws at Cambridge I cannot tell Aug. 7. Daubigney Tarbervill of Oriel Coll. Aug. 7. Degorie Pollwhele of Exet. Coll. The first who afterwards practised Phys in the City of Salisbury was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters the other who had been ejected his Fellowship of Exeter Coll. by the Parliament Visitors in 1648 was also created by vertue of the said Letters which say that he the said D. Pollwhele had from the beginning of the late unhappy troubles vigorously and faithfully served his Majesty under the command of Ralph Lord Hopton then of Sir Jam. Smith in the quality of a Major of Horse and continued in Armes until the surrender of Pendennis Castle from whence he went to his late Majesty of blessed memory and afterwards followed his now Majesty for some time in Holland and Flanders And in or about the year 1650 he returned into Cornwall his native Country where he betook himself to the study and practice of Physick c. Aug. 10. Edw. Duke of Gloc. Hall Aug. 10. Augustus or Augustine Caesar of the Univ. of Cambr. 16. Will. Jacob of Ch. Ch. He was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say We have received good testimony of his abilities in the Theorie and practice of Physick He hath been formerly a Graduate in Oxon and hath studied in Foreign Countries c. This person who was Son of John Jacob a Physitian of Canterbury was bred in Ch. Ch afterwards practised his faculty with good success for many years in the said City and was if I mistake not a Burgess to serve in one of the Parliaments that began after the discovery of the Popish Plot. Oct. 17. Edw. Hawtaine M. A. of Magd. Coll. 30. John Lamphire M. A. of New Coll. and Camdens Professor of History This person who was Son of George Lamphire an Apothecary of the City of Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Wykehams School there made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1636 entred on the Physick line when Master of Arts ejected his Fellowship by the Parl. Visitors and afterwards practised his faculty with good success in and near Oxford After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship became Camdens Professor of History upon the ejection of Lewis du Moulin Principal of New Inn in the place of Dr. Rogers ejected for Non-conformity and soon after Principal of Hart Hall He hath published of other mens works with Epistles before corrections on and sometimes additions to them these following 1 Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris commentariis c. and Dictata Both written by Hugh Lloyd See in the first Vol. of the Athenae Oxon. p. 269. 2 Monarchia Britannica c Written by Tho. Master See in this sec Vol. of Athenae pag. 19. 3 Rev. Patris Lanc. Andrews Episcopi Winton preces privatae Graecè Latinè Oxon. 1675 in tw Afterwards Dr. Lamphire obtained a more perfect copy of the said prayers which he was about to publish but hindred by other affairs 4 Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita 1592. 'T is the oration of Sir Hen. Savile and 't was published by Dr. Lamphire with the sec edit of Monarchia Britannica See in the first Vol. of Ath. Oxon. p. 397. 5 Questiones selectiores in Logica Ethica c. See in Dr. Pink among the Writers of this Vol. p. 58. This Dr. Lamphire who was Justice of the Peace for the County and City of Oxon a good generous and fatherly man of a publick Spirit and free from pharasaical leven or the modish hypocrisie of the age he lived in died in his Lodgings in Hart Hall on the 30 of March 1688 aged 73 years and was buried in the outer Chappel near the W. door belonging to New Coll. The next day Will. Thornton M. A. of Wadh. Coll. was admitted Principal of the said Hall in his place and on the 2. of Apr. following the learned Hen. Dodwell M. of A. of Dublin was elected Camdens Professor of History to the great content of the generality of the members of the University Oct. 30. Thom Willis of Ch. Ch. Nov. 29. Rich. Franklin of Qu Coll. He was put in among the rest tho no sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 6. Henry Wyat of Pemb. Coll. He was no sufferer but was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 and by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation by Lenthall the Speaker of the H. of Commons he was created M. of A. in 1649. Afterwards he went Physitian with the Lord Rutherford lately made Earl of Tiveot in Scotland to the Garrison of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa and practised his faculty there with good success At length he accompanying the said Count with a select party of horse out of that Garrison to view the Moors Country on the 3. of May 1664 were all some very few excepted cut off after they had passed the Jews River some Miles distant from Tangier by Gayland the chief of the Moors and his party who having had notice by the treachery of a certain person that they would take a view of the Country there was an Ambuscade planted to receive them by Gayland and sheltred by a thick wood and seconded as 't was supposed by his whole Army March 12. Joh. Fisher M. A. of Cambridge Steph. Bowden of Magd. Coll. was nominated by the Chancellors Letters dat 1. Dec. this year to be created Doct. of Physick but whether he was so it appears not Doct. of Div. Aug. 1. Nich. Monke sometimes of Wadh. Coll now Provost of Eaton Brother to Gen. George Monke Duke of Albemarle at this time in high value by the King Church University and all British People was presented by Dr. Rob. Sanderson the Kings Professor of Div. to the degree of Doct. of that faculty and actually created by the Vicechancellour in Convocation by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well satisfied of the full standing sufficiency and merit of Nich Monke M. of A as duly qualified for the degree of D. of D and also well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings and service for our self and the Church during the late distractions c. These persons following till you come to Byrom Eaton were actually created Doctors on the second day of Aug tho several of them had not suffered for the Kings cause Guy Carleton M. A. of Qu. Coll. Anth. Hawles M. A. of Qu. Coll. The last was
the place of Dr. Joh. Lloyd sometimes of All 's Coll. deceased and was about that time Rector of Hartley Westpoll in Hampshire 27. Sam. Jackson M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Practitioner in Physick for several years in this University and near it was created Doct. of that faculty by vertue of the Kings Letters This person who had been an Officer in the Kings Army during the grand Rebellion died 3 of March 1674 and was buried in the body of S. Maries Church in Oxon near that of his Father sometimes an Apothecary of that City Joh. Henr. Otho of Berne in Switzerland became a Sojournour in the University in the latter end of this year where improving himself much in Literature by the use of the public Libr. did afterwards write a Talmudical Lexicon and a book De autoribus Mishnae that is of the Talm. Text or of those old Jewish Doctors who wrot the parts of the Mishna which is the Text of the Talmud and other things An. Dom. 1672. An. 24 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Mews made this year Bish of Bathe and Wells Proct. George Verman of Ex. Coll. Apr. 19. Tho. Crosthwaite of Qu. Coll. Apr. 19. Which Proctors were not admitted till the third day of Easter term because on the first was observed a public Fast for a prosperous War against our Enemies the Dutch and on the second was preached a Lat. Sermon and other Preparations made for the beginning of the Term. Bach. of Arts. May 14. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters an 1682. Jun. 22. Jonath Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Jun. 22. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards successively Bishop of Bristow and Exeter the other hath published several books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers Adm. 213. Bach. of Law Eight were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Among them Rob. Rigby of Ch. Ch. was one a person of good rank and a Traveller as the Chancellors Letters written in his behalf tell us Mast of Arts. Mar. 28. Rich. Lucas of Jesus Coll. Jun. 12. Joh. Williams of Jesus Coll. Jun. 12. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll. The second of these three was afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan 19. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Curate for Dr. George Hooper at Woodhay in Hampshire and Author of The Antidote or a seasonable discourse on Rom. 13.1 shewing the necessity and reasonableness of subjection to the higher Powers with an account of the divine right or original of Government Lond. 1684. oct Mar. 22. Joh. Rogers of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to George Earl of Berkley and published A Sermon preached before the Corporation of Trinity-House in Deptford Strand at the election of their Master 30 May 1681 on Jonah 1.6 Lond. 1681. quart Adm. 120. Bach. of Phys Two were admitted this year but neither of them was afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. Jul. 1. Henr. Rose of Linc. Coll. He was about this time Minister of Allhallowes Church in Oxon and afterwards wrot A philosophical Essay for the re-union of the Languages or the art of knowing all by the Mastery of one Oxon. 1675 in about 5 sheets in oct He afterwards went into Ireland and whether he be there now living I cannot tell Jul. 10. Moses Pengry of Brasn Coll. He was about this time Chaplain to Will Earl of Devonshire to whose son Will. Lord Caâ—endish he dedicated his Translation into excellent Latin Verse of Sir John Denham's English Poem called Coopers hill which Mr. Pengry intituled Coopers hill latine redditum c. Oxon 1676. in 3 sh 〈…〉 This Mr. Pengry who was born in the City of Glocester was an ingenious man well read in the Poets and humane Literature And had not death untimely snatch'd him away he might have given us larger Specimens of his curious fancy He died on the fourth day of Octob. an 1678 being then Minister of Gillingham in Kent and was buried in the Cath. Church of Rochester Jul. 10. Will. Ashton of Brasn Coll. Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. Adm. 8. This year Oct. 22 Anth. Saunders M. A. of Ch. Ch. was created Bach. of Div. by the Diploma of Gilbert Archb. of Canterbury See among the Doct. of Div. 1677. Doct. of Law May 11. Hugh Wynne of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chanc. of the dioc of S. Asaph and is now a Non-juror 14. Hen. Jones of Magd. Coll. He was now Chanc. of the dioc of Bristow Jun. 7. Franc. Lennard of All 's Coll. 12. Joh. Edisbury of Brasn Coll. The last of these two was chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 6 Mar. 1678 and was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery Doct. of Phys Jul. 4. Joh. Master of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Physick and was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. Doct. of Div. Jun. 27. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. The two last were Accumulators Incorporations Jun. 22. Edward Chamberlayne Doctor of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was then incorporated as he had stood at Cambridge This person who was originally of S. Edm. Hall and M. of A. of this University hath written several things among which is Angliae Notitia and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers In the month of July were 15 Masters of Arts of Cambr. incorporated among which were Nathan Bacon of Qu. Coll. Joh. Gregory of Pemb. Hall The first of which was a Writer as it seems for one of both his names hath published several things The other is the same I presume with Joh. Gregory mention'd among the Creations of D. of D. in Franc. Gregory an 1661. Besides them was one Bach. of Phys and two Bach. of Div. of the same University incorporated also Creations Jul. 17. Thom. Skynner of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon was actually created Doct. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which say that he was for some time bred in Cambridge but was forced to leave that Vniversity in the times of Vsurpation by reason of the illegal Oaths and other impositions offer'd to him whereby he was prevented the taking his degree c. This Doctor hath added a third Lat. part to Dr. G. Bate his Elenchus motuum c. Lond. 1676. oct which he calls Motus compositi afterwards translated into English by another hand with a Preface to it by a person of quality Lond. 1685. oct See in George Bate among the Writers in this vol. p. 304. Mar. 19. Edmund Webbe of Ball. Coll. was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Chancellors Letters which say that he is Master of Arts and now Chaplain in ord to his
the Son of Thomas Williams of Swansey in Glamorganshire went away without compleating his degree by Determination and was author of 1 A pindarick Elegy on the famous Physitian Dr. Willis Oxon. 1675 in one sh in fol. 2 Imago saeculi or the image of the age represented in four characters viz. the ambitious Statesman insatiable Miser atheistical Gallant and factious Schismatick Oxon. 1676. oct The Pindarick Elegy is printed with and added to this last book He died in his own Country about 1679. June 13. Sam. Derham of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Theoph. Downes of Ball. Coll. 26. Will. Haylie of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1679 and of the other in 1680. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day He hath written and published many things relating to Divinity and therefore he is to have a place hereafter among the Oxf. Writers Feb. 6. Rob. Brograve of Magd. Hall See among the Masters 1679. Adm. 188. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. James Bampton of New Coll. This person who took no higher degree entred afterwards into holy Orders and published a Sermon but the title of it I know not only the text which is Suffer the little children to come c. Mark 10.14 He also had provided another thing for the press which I think is not yet published or ever will He died of a consumption 9. May 1683 aged 37 and was buried in the west Cloyster belonging to that Coll. Adm. 11. Mast of Arts. June 8. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. July 3. Edm. Sermon of S. Maries Hall This person who was the Son of a Father of both his names of Naunton Beauchamp in Worcestershire was originally of Trin and afterwards of Ball. Coll and as a member of the last he took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1665 but left the University without compleating it by Determination Afterwards he took upon him a spiritual cure and the education of a youth of noble extraction but instead of taking the degree of Bach. of Div in order to which he had the Chancellours Letters he with much ado obtained that of Master He hath published The wisdom of publick piety discoursed in a Sermon at Guild-hall Chap. on Jam. 3.13 Lond. 1679. qu. He died about 1680. Nearly related to him was that forward vain and conceited person named Will. Sermon who wrot himself Doctor of Physick and Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2 author of 1 The Ladies companion or English Midwife c. Lond. 1671. oct 2 A friend to the sick or the honest English mans preservation c. Lond. 1673. 4. oct and of other things but whether he was of this or of any University I know not He died in his house in the Parish of St. Bride alias St. Bridget in Lond. in Winter time an 1679. Oct. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn. Nov. 23. Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Vplime in his native Country of Devonshire and author of The Rebels text opened and their solemn appeal answered Thanksgiving Sermon 26. July 1685 on Josh 22. ver 22. Lond. 1686. qu. Jan. 15. Tho. Mannyngham of New Coll. Adm. 130. Bach. of Phys Two were admitted but neither of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Six were admitted of whom Tho. Snell Can. resid of Exeter was one Three others I shall make mention among the Doct. of Div. in their respective places Doct. of Law July 6. Rich. Warren of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Phys July 4. Joh. Ludwell of Wadh. Coll. 6. William Warner of S. Joh. Coll. 7. Ralph Harrison of New Coll. a Compounder He had been of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge of which Univ. he was Bach. of Phys and coming to Oxon he was incorporated in that degree on the 26 of June this year Doct. of Div. July 6. Edward Reynolds of Magd. Coll. July 6. Will. Hawkins of Magd. Coll. These were both Compounders as being dignified in the Church On the 20 of Sept 1660 the first was installed Preb. of Worcester and on the 15 of Apr. 1661 Archdeacon of Norfolk on the death of Philip Tenison which last Dignity was confer'd upon him by his Father Dr. Edw. Reyn. Bish of Norwich The other was Preb. of Norwich and had some other preferment in the Church July 6. George Owen of All 's Coll. July 6. Tho. Pargiter of Linc. Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Mert. Coll was now Canon of S. David The other was Rector of Greetworth in his native Country of Northamptonshire and published A Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond 23. July 1682 on 1. Thess 4.6 Lond. 1682. qu. Incorporations July 6. Will. Howell or as he writes himself Hoëlus Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge He was educated in Magd. Coll. in the said University of which he was Fellow was afterwards Tutor to John Earl of Mulgrave and at length Chancellour of the Diocess of Lincolne He hath written 1 An institution of general History from the beginning of the world to the monarchy of Constantine the Great Printed 1661. oct In this work the Reader may without any intervening matters impertinent to his present purpose read the History of any Empire or Kingdom contemporary to it by it self The principal passages in all of them are linked together by Synchronisms not only placed in the Margin but in the beginning or end of every occurrence This book which was afterwards put into latine by the author for the use of the said Earl entit Elementa Historiae ab orbe condito usque ad Monarchiam Constantini magni c. Lond. 1671. in a thick tw was increased to two folio's Lond. 1680. and afterwards had three remaining parts of it published in 1685. 6. 2 Medulla Historiae Anglicanae Being a comprehensive History of the lives and raigns of the Monarchs of England From the time of the invasion thereof by Julius Caesar to the death of K. Ch. 2 with an abstract of the lives of the Rom. Emperours commanding in Britain There have been several editions of this book to the great benefit of the Bookseller that printed it One came out in 1679 with the addition of A list of the names of the H. of Com. then sitting and a list of his Majesties Privy Council c And in 1687 the third edit of it was published in oct with a continuation from the year 1678 to 1684 by a great favourer of the Roman Catholicks There is no name set to this Medulla Hist Angl. only report makes Dr. W. Howell the author and upon that report I presume here to set it down under his name He hath without doubt other things extant but such I have not yet seen and therefore I can only now say that he died in the beginning of the year 1683. One William Howell Minister of Tuttleworth in Sussex hath published A Sermon at the Bishop of Chichesters first Visitation Lond. 1675. 6. qu. but
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest
1690 1690. 1690. 1690. 1690. (*) See also in An impartial Collection of the great affairs of Sâ—ate c. published by Jio. Nalson LL. D. (a) In The Ghost of the laâ—e House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at published about the 19. of March 1680. 1690. (b) See more in a book entit The Lawes subversion or Sir Jo. Maynards case truly stated c. Lond. 1648. qu. written by Joh. Howldin Gent. 169â— 1. 1641. 1641 2. 1641 2 (a) Pat. 21. Jac. 1. p. 27. (b) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 12. 1643. 1644 5. (c) Pat. 15. Car. 1. p. 15. (d) Pat. 16. Car. 1. p. 19. 1644 5. (e) Reg. Matriculat Univ. Oxon. P. p. 473. 1646. (f) Jac. Waraeus in Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae edit 1665. p. 232. (g) Ibid. p. 138. 1648. (h) Ib. p. 121. 1650. 1650. Clar. 1651. (i) See in Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation c. of Ball. Coll. c. Oxon. 1668. p. 121. Clar. 1652. 1653. 1653. (*) Jac. War ut supr p. 219. (a) Gul. Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS sub an 1622. (b) Dr. John Gauden in his Suspiria Eccles Anglicanae c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 614. 1654 1654 5. (c) Jac. War ut supra p. 260. 1655. (d) Mystery and method of his Majesties happy restauration Lond. 1680. oct p. 20. Written by John Price D. D. 1661. 1662. 1662. 1662 3. (f) Dr. Laud in the Breviat of his life or Diary sub an 1632. p 17. (g) Ibid. p. 20. 1663. (h) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 2. p. 304. b. (i) Jac. War ut supra in Com. de Praes Heb. p. 273. 1663. (k) Reg. Electionum soc semicom Coll. Magd. 1664. (l) Ibid in Jac. War p. 268. 1664. 1665. (*) Ibid. p 138. 1665. 1665. 1665. (m) Pat. 13. Car. 1. p. 15. 1666. 1666. (n) Wiltshire visitation book in the Heralds Office an 1623. fol. 118. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1668. 1669. (a) Reg. Matric Univ. Oxon. P. fol. 124. b. 1669. (b) Pat. 6. Car. 1. p. 24. (c) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 14. (d) In his book called Canterburies Doome (e) In his book entit A new discovery of some Romish Emissaries Quakers c. Lond. 1656. qu. p. 32. 1670. (f) Pat. 12. Car. 1. p. 5. 1670. (g) Jac. War in Com. de Praesul Hibern p. 273.279 1671. 1671. (*) Edit Dubl 1665. p. 77. 1671. 1671 2. 1671 2. 1672. 1674 5. (*) Jac. War ut supra p. 190. (†) Hen. Coventry Esq originally of Qu. Coll afterwards Fell. of All 's and Sir Jos VVilliamson (a) Reg. Matric PP fol. 28. b. 1675. 1676. 1677. 1677. 1677. 1678. 1678. 1678 9. 168â— â— (*) Jac. Waraeus in Com. de Praesuiib Hibern p. 260. 1681 2. 1682. 1684 1684. 1684. 1685. 1686. 1686. 1666 7. 1687. 1687 8. 168â— 9. 1688 9. 1689. 1689. 1690. 1690. (a) Hen. Kâ—epe in his Monum Westmonast p. 361. (b) So 't is said among the names of the English Popish Converts set before Dr. Ben. Cariers Mâ—ssive to his Majesty of Gr Britaine K. Jam. 1. c. printed 1640 oct (c) In the preface to Steps to the Temple Lond. 164â— oct second edit (a) Tho. Hâ—bbes in praefat ad Element Philos sect 1. de corpoâ—e (*) Englands Recovery c. written by Josh Sprigg Lond. 1647. p. 45. (a) Joh. Wâ—eâ—er in his Ancient funeral Monuments c. Lond. 1631. p. 678. (*) Sir Robert Byron was Master of the Ordnance of the Kingdom of Ireland 1664 65. (a) Will. Dugd. in Chron. Scrii an 1640. (b) Ibid. (*) So in the Baronage of England tom 3. p. 419. b. (†) Jac. Waraus in Com. de Prasul Hi. Dab 1665. p. 26â— (a) Reg. Convoc S. p. 40. (b) Ibid. (*) Reg. Convoc S. p. 33. (*) At the end of a book of his entit Rationes sereniss Caroli contra effectatam curiae 〈◊〉 dicibatur Justitia jurisdictionem c. Printed in qu. about 1674. (a) Mystery of the good old cause printed 1660. p. 33. (b) James Heaâ—h in his Brief Chron. of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. â—râ—nâ—ed at Lond. 1663 in a thick octavo under the year 1650 p. 496. (c) In the Book oâ— Register of Administrations in the Will Office near S. Pauls C h. Ch. in London beginning in Jan. 1650. fol. 54. â— (*) Book of Certificates in the Coll. of Arms indorsed J. 30. pag. 53. 54. c. (†) Ibid. (*) In The Walkley's New Cat. of Duâ—kes Marquesses Earles Visc c. Printed at Lond. 16â—â— in oct p. 167. (a) Dr. Charles Goodall in his Royal Coll. of Physitians at London c. with a brief Hist of the lives and works of several of the Members of that Royal foundation c. Lond. 1684. qu. (b) In his prâ—f to Clavis Mathemat Oxon. 1652. third edit in oct (*) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1647. (*) See in Will. Prynn's book entit Canterburies Doome c. printed at Lond. 1646. p. 73. c. (a) Reg. Convoc T. p. 43. (b) Ibid. p. 26. (*) An exact and impartial Account of the Indictment Arraignment Tryal and Iudgâ—â—â—â— of 29 Râ—gâ—eâ—des c. Lond. 1660. qu. p. 46. (‖) Jam. Heath in his Brief 〈…〉 pr. aâ— Lond. 1663. under the year 1648. p. 355. (†) Exact and impartial 〈…〉 as before p. 44. (‡) Ibid. (*) In A seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England to petition for a Parliament c. Printed 1677. qu. (a) Josh Sprigge in his Englands recovery being the Hist of the moâ—ions actions c. of Sir Tâ—â— Fairfax Kt. c. Lond. 1647. fol. pag. 8. (*) Idem (b) Clem. Walker in his Hist of Independency c. part 1. §. 3. (c) Ibid. §. 34. (d) Ib. part 2. §. 22. (e) Ib. §. 23. (f) Ib. §. 146. 162. c. (a) Collection of Nativities by Sir Rich. Napiers MS. in the hands of El. Ashmole Esq (b) Flagellum or the life death c. of Ol. Cromwell c. Lond. 1665. third Edit in oct p. 4. (c) Collect. Joh. Vincent MS. nuper in bib Râ—d Sheld nunc in Collâ—â—trm (d) Ibid. (*) Sam. Austin in his Naps upon pernastus c. Lond. 1658. oct (*) See in A seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England to petitiâ—◠〈◊〉 a new Parliament Or a list of the principal Labourers in the great design of Popery and 〈…〉 c. Prâ—nted 1677 qu p. 22. (†) Ibid. (a) So in the Preface of Joh. Ray Esq to The Ornithology of Franc. Willoughly Esq Lond. 1678. fol. (*) Edw. Sherburne Esq in his Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of M. Manilius made an English Poem Lond. 675. p. 113. (*) Anth. Walker in his Virtuous Woman found Fun Serm. of Mary Countess Dowâ—ger of Warwick c. Lond. 1678. oct (*) Baronage of England Tom. 3. p. 1â—8 (*) Joh. Seawen as it seems M. A. of Ch. Ch. (†) He presented a copy of the said Lyricks to Mr. Sheldon when he was at Rome an 1669. (a) Letter from a Gent. in London to his friend in the Country Printed at Lond. in the beginning of Apr. 1676 in two shâ— and a half in qu. pag. 3. (b) Ibid. p. 13. (c) Ibid. (d) Ibid. p. 1.