was observed to smile and lift up his Eyes to Heaven as appealing to the Divine Majesty the most supreme Judge The King at the rising of the Court was with a guard of Halberdiers returned to Whitehall in a close chair through King-street Both sides whereof had a guard of Foot soldiers who were silent as his Majesty passed but shop-stalls and windows were full of People many of which shed tears and some of them with audible voices prayed for the King till he was carried through the Privy garden door to his Bedchamber whence after two hours space he was removed to S. James's Nothing of the fear of death or indignities offer'd seem'd a terrour or provok'd him to impatience nor uttered he a reproachful word reflecting upon any of his Judges albeit he well knew that some of them were or had been his domestick servants nor against any member of the House or Officer of the Army so wonderful was his patience tho his spirit was great and might otherwise have express'd his resentment upon several occasions It was a true Christian fortitude to have the mastry of his passion and submission to the will of God under such temptations The same night after which sentence was pronounced Coll. Hacker who then commanded the Guards at S. James's about the King would have placed two Musquetiers in the Kings Bedchamber with which his Majesty being acquainted he made no reply only gave a sigh Howbeit the good Bishop Dr. Juxon and Mr. Herbert apprehending the horrour of it and disturbance it would give to the King in his meditations and preparation for his departure out of this uncomfortable world they never left the Col. till he had reversed his order by withdrawing those men representing it as the most barbarous thing in nature The King now bidding a farewel to the World his whole business was a serious preparation for death which opens the door unto eternity In order thereunto he laid aside all other thoughts and spent the remainder of his time in prayer and other pious ejaculations and exercises of devotion and in conference with that meek and learned Bishop before mentioned who under God was a great support and comfort to him in that his afflicted condition And resolving to sequester himself so as he might have no disturbance to his mind nor interruption to his meditations he ordered Mr. Herbert to excuse it to any that might have the desire to visit him I know said the K. my Nephew the Prince Elector will endeavour it and some other Lords that love me which I would take in good part but my time is short and precious and I am desirous to improve it the best I may in preparation I hope they will not take it ill that they or any have not access unto me only my Children The best office they can do now is to pray for me What he had said it fell out accordingly for his Electoral Highness accompanied with James D. of Richmond William Marq. of Hertford Thomas Earl of Southampton and Mountague E. of Lindsey with some others having go leave came to the Bedchamber door where Mr. Herbert persuant to the Kings command acquainted his Highness and the said Noblemen with what the King gave him in charge and thereupon they acquiesced and presented their humble duty to his Majesty with their prayers which done they return'd with hearts full of sorrow as appeared by their faces The Prince of Wales also then in Holland did by the States Embassadors interceed to the Parliament and used all possible means to prevent or at least to defer his Majesties execution and applyed themselves likewise to the Army At this time Jan. 30. Mr. Herbert should have said came to S. James's Edm. Calamy Rich. Vines Jos Caryl Will. Dell and some other London Ministers who presented their duty to the King with their humble desires to pray with him and perform other offices of service if his Majesty would please to accept of them The King returned them thanks for their love to his Soul hoping they and all other good Subjects would in their addresses to God be mindful of him but in regard he had made choice of Dr. Juxon whom for many years he had known to be a pious and learned Divine and able to administer ghostly comfort to his Soul sutable to his present condition he would have none other The Ministers were no sooner gone but John Goodwin Minister in Coleman street came likewise upon the same account to tender his service whom the King also thanked and dismist with the like friendly answer Mr. Herbert about this time going to the Cockpit near Whitehall where the Lodgings of Philip Earl of Pembroke were he then as at sundry times enquired how his Majesty did and gave his humble duty to him and withal asked if his Majesty had the gold Watch he sent for and how he liked it Mr. Herbert assured his Lordship the K. had not yet received it The Earl fell presently into a passion marvell'd thereat and was much troubled least his Majesty should think him careless in observing his commands and told Mr. Herbert that at the Kings coming to S. James's he as he was sitting under the great elm tree near Sir Ben. Rudyerds Lodge in the Park seeing a considerable military Officer of the Army going towards S. James's he went to meet him and demanding of him if he knew his Cosin Tom Herbert that waited on the King the Officer said he did and was going to S. James's The Earl then delivered to him the gold watch that had the Larme desiring him to give it to Mr. Herbert to present it to the King The Officer promised the Earl he would immediately do it My Lord said Mr. Herbert I have sundry times seen and past by that Officer since and do assure your Lordship he hath not delivered it to me according to your order and his promise nor said any thing concerning it nor has the King it I am certain The Earl was very angry and gave the Officer his due character and threatned to question him But such was the severity of the times that it was judged dangerous to reflect upon such a person so as no notice was taken of it Nevertheless Mr. Herbert at the Earls desire did acquaint his Majesty therewith who gave the Earl thanks and said had he not told the Officer it was for me he would probably have delivered it he well knew how short a time I should enjoy it This relation is in prosecution of what is formerly mentioned concerning the Clock or Larm-watch which his Majesty would have to lay by Mr. Herbert's Pallet to awaken him at the hour in the morning which his Majesty should appoint when he was at Windsore The name of this Officer Mr. Herbert told me not only that he was executed after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and therefore I take him to be either Major Harrison or Col. Hacker That evening Mr. Hen. Seymour a
all of them with great respect save only by Archb. Abbot and William Earl of Exeter the first of which disliked the argument and the other snapped him up for a begging Scholar which he was after much asham'd of when it came to be known Soon after the said History was much impugned by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill which was as Heylyn saith full of most base and malicious calumniations both against the Person and Religion of the Author Whereupon his Maj. having received notice of it from Laud who had a copy of it sent to him from Oxon by Dr. W. Smith the Vicechancellour of that place and he from Hakewill to be approved before it was to go to the press commanded Heylyn to consider of the matter and withal sent him to Windsore to search into the records of the Order of the Garter there Which command he accordingly obeying occasioned a second edition of the said History an 1633 as I have before told you wherein he answer'd all Hakewills allegations letting pass his slanders Upon the coming out of which Heylyn heard no more of Hakewill till a second edition of his book of the supposed decay of nature entit An Apol. or Declaration of the Power c. wherein Heylyn found a retraction of the passages which concerned S. George About the same time Hakewill thinking better to sit silent than to come out with a reply yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what sentiments he had of the said second edition of The Hist of S. George in several letters sent abroad one of which speaketh thus In the second impression of his book The Hist of S. George where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers especially the Legendaries he magnifies them more and when he mentions our men he villifies them more than he did in his first edition But the matter is not much what he saith of the one or of the other the condition of the man being such as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or slander c. From the said Hist of S. George written by Heylyn is a little Pamphlet taken and stoln entit The Hist of that most famous Saint and Soldier S. George of Capadocia c. Lond. 1661 in 7. sheets in qu. Also another for the most part intit The Hist of the life and Martyrdome of S. George the titular Patron of England c. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh in qu. written in verse by Tho. Lowick Gent. And many things are taken thence also with due acknowledgment by E. Ashmole in his book of The Institutions Laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. An Essay called Augustus Printed 1632 since inserted into Heylyns Cosmography History of the Sabbath in two books Lond. 1636. qu. twice printed in that year Written to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided zealots who turned the observation of the Lords day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at About that time was published A letter to the Vicar of Grantham by Dr. Jo. Williams Bishop of Linc. against the Communion Table standing Altar-ways whereupon Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply entit A coal from the Altar or an answer to the Bishop of Lincolns letter to the Vicar of Grantham Lond. 1636. qu. To which the Bishop in a year after return'd an answer under this title The holy table name and thing c. pretending withal that it was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Qu. Maries raign whereupon Heylyn made a reply as I shall anon tell you Brief discourse in way of Letter touching the form of prayer appointed to be used by preachers before their Sermons Can. 55. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester in the year 1636 and afterwards printed in the first part of Ecclesia Vindicata Brief and moderate answer to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Hen. Burton late of Friday-street in two Sermons preached by him on the 5 of Nov. 1636 and in the Apologie set before them Lond. 1637. qu. Antidotum Lincolniense or an answer to a book entit The holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1637. 38. qu. Another answer came out against the said Holy Table c. entit Two looks over Lincolne or a view of his holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1641. in 4. sh and an half written by Rich. Day who stiles himself Minister of the Gospel yet seems rather to be an enemy to the Ceremonies of the Church In which book also Heylyns Coal from the Altar is sometimes animadverted upon An uniform book of articles to be used by all Bishops and Archdeacons in their Visitations Lond. 1640 qu. De jure paritatis Episcoporum MS. written 1640 upon a proposition in the Lords house whether Bishops should be of the Committee for the preparatory examinations in the cause of Tho. Earl of Strafford Printed afterwards and involved in his Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts Reply to Dr. Hakewills dissertation touching the sacrifice of the Eucharist Lond. 1641. qu. See more in George Hakewill under the year 1649. An help to English history containing a succession of all the Kings of England and the English Saxons the Kings and Princes of Wales c. As also of all the Archbishops Bishops Dukes Marquesses and Earles within the said dominions In three tables Lond. 1641 c. in oct Published under the name of Rob. Hall Gent. Several additions to this book were made by Christop Wilkinson a Bookseller living against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street London the first edition of which additions with the book it self came out in 1670. in oct with the name put to the book of Pet. Heylyn who made use of Dr. Franc. Godwins Commentarie of the Bishops of England in his succession of Archb. and Bishops and of Ralph Brook and August Vincent their respective Catalogues of the succession of Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls c. 'T is said also that in the same year 1641. our Author Heylyn wrot and published a book intit Persecutio Undecima c. Lond. 1641. 48. quarto 1681. fol. but finding no such thing in his Diary which I have several times perused I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was the Author History of Episcopacy in two parts Lond. 1642. qu. Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman This makes the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata c. Lond. 1657. qu. Historical narration of Liturgies c. written 1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata c. Relation of Lord Ralph Hoptons victory near to Bodmin in Cornwall on the 19 of Jan. 1642. Oxon. 1642 3. in one sh in qu. Brief relation of the remarkable occurrences in the northern parts viz. The landing of the Queens Majesty in the Bay of Burlington from Holland
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1â—91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
prefix'd being come which was about the 9. of January 1648 his Majesty took Coach near the Keep in Windsore Castle at which time was a Guard all along of Musquets and Pikes both Officers and Soldiers expressing civility as he passed by At the great gate a party of Horse commanded by Major Tho. Harrison was drawn up into the Market place and Pescod street end in the Town of Windsore who followed the Coach which passed through Brainford Hammersmith and the direct way to his Majesties House at S. James within the liberty of Westminster His Lodgings there were furnished by Mr. Clem. Kinnerslie his Majesties Servant in the Wardrobe strict guards were placed and none suffer'd to attend in his Maj. Bedchamber only Mr. Thom. Herbert before mentioned His usual diet was kept up and the Gentlemen that formerly waited were permitted to perform their respective services in the presence where a state was placed and for a few days all things were with decency and honor observed Sir Fulk Grevill was Cup-bearer and gave it upon his knee Mr. Anthony Mildmay was Carver Captain Preston was sometimes Sewer and kept the Robes Mr. Anstey was Gent. Usher Capt. Burroughs Mr. Firebrass Mr. Muschamp had their places Capt. John Joyner or Jeoner was Cook Mr. Babington Barber Mr. Reading Page of the Back-stairs and some others also waited The Kings dishes were brought up cover'd the say was given and all things were performed with satisfaction in that point But to return a little it is very well worth the observation that so soon as the King came into his Bed-chamber before he either eat or drank or discours'd with any he went to prayer or to reading in the Bible Whilst he was in this sorrowful condition none of his Nobility Chaplains or Counsellors nor any of his old Attendants had the liberty to repair to him to converse about any matters yet he had private notice that the H. of Commons in a resolve had declared that by the Laws of England it was treason in the King to levy War against the Parliament and Kingdom which resolve as he had farther been informed they sent up unto the Lords for their concurrence who assoon as they had heard it read rejected it and after some debate did pass two votes c. He had also information from private hands of the late proceedings in the House of Commons and of their violent secluding and seizure of several members by force by some eminent Army-officers under a notion of purging the House as also of their Votes passed concerning him By which he was very apprehensive of their ill intentions towards him and his government and did believe that his enemies aimed at his deposing and confinement in the Tower or some such like place and that they would seat his Son the Prince of Wales in his Throne if he would accept of it but as to the taking away his life by trial in any Court of Justice or sub dio in the face of the people he could not believe there being no such precedent or mention in any of our Histories 'T is true his Grandmother Mary Queen of Scots suffer'd under Qu. Elizabeth but in England she was no Sovereign but a subject to Law And indeed some Kings of England had been lamentably murdered by Ruffians in a clandestine way as the Chronicles inform us but the facts were neither owned or approved of by any King These were his Majesties imaginations till he came unto his trial in Westm Hall when then he alter'd his mind Nevertheless his faith overcoming his fear he continued his accustomed prudence and patience so as no outward perturbation could be discerned with Christian fortitude submitting to the good pleasure of the Almighty sometimes sighing but never breaking out into passion or uttering a reproachful or revengeful word against any that were his Adversaries only saying God forgive their impiety For about a fortnight after his Majesties coming to St. James's House he constantly dined in the presence-chamber and at meals was served after the usual state the Carver Sewer Cup-bearer and Gent. Usher attending and doing their Offices respectively His Cup was given upon the knee as were his covered dishes the say was given and other accustomed Ceremonies of State observed notwithstanding this his dolorous condition and the King was well pleased with the observance afforded him But soon after the case was alter'd for the Officers of the Army being predominant they gave order at a Council of War that thenceforth all state ceremony or accustomed respect unto his Majesty at meals should be forbourn and his menial servants tho few in number should be lest'ned And accordingly the Kings meat was brought up by Soldiers the dishes uncovered no say no cup upon the knee or other accustomed Court-state was then observed which was an uncouth sight to the King he then saying that the respect and honour denyed him no Soveraign Prince ever wanted nor yet Subjects of high degree according to antient practice and adding Is there any thing more contemptible than a despised Prince So that seeing things were so ordered the best expedient he had to reconcile them was to contract his diet to a few dishes out of the bill of fare and to eat in private His eating was usually agreeable to his exercise and his abstinence was in no wise displeasing His temperance preserved his health especially in the two last years of his life and reign without any indisposition or recourse to Physick So as in all probability had not his thread of life been immaturely cut he might have surpassed the age of any of his Royal Ancestors On Friday the 19 of Jan. his Majesty was removed from S. James to Whitehall and lodged in his Bedchamber After which a Guard of Musquetiers were placed and Centinels set at the door of his Chamber Thenceforth Mr. Herbert who constantly lay in the next room to the King according to the duty of his place was ordered to bring his pallet into his Majesties Bedchamber to the end that he might be nearer to his royal Person and so accordingly he did rest every night after during his Maj. life in the said Bedchamber near the royal bed The next day Jan. 20. the King was removed in a Sedan or close chair from Whitehall to Sir Thom. Cottons House near the West end of Westm hall Guards were placed on both sides of King-street in the Pallace-yard and Westm hall As his Maj. was carried through the Garden door belonging to Whitehall which is between the two gates leading to King-street none but Mr. Herbert went bare by him because no other of his Majesties Servants were permitted by the Soldiers At Cotton house there was a Guard of Partizans Collonel Francis Hacker sometimes and Col. Hercules Hunks at other times commanding them His Majesty being summoned by Hacker to go to the Court then sitting in Westminst Hall where Serjeant John Bradshaw was President and seated in a chair and about
Gent. belonging to the Bed-chamber of the Prince of Wales came by Col. Hacker's permission who commanded the Guards at S. James's to his Majesties chamber door desiring to speak with the King from the said Prince and being admitted he presented to the King a letter from him dated at the Hague 23 Jan. 1648 old stile At Mr. Seymour's entrance he fell into a passion having seen his Majesty in a glorious and now in a dolorous state and having kist the Kings hand he clasp'd about his legs and mourned in a most lamentable condition Hacker came in with this Gentleman and beholding these things was very much abash'd But so soon as his Maj. had read his sorrowing letter and heard what his servant had to say and he imparted to him what his Maj. thought fit to return the Prince's servant took his leave and was no sooner gone but the King went to his devotion Dr. Juxon praying with him and reading some select Chapters out of the sacred Scripture The same evening also the K. took a ring from his finger having an emrold set therein between two diamonds and gave it to Mr. Herbert and commanded him as late as 't was to go with it from S. James's to a Lady living then in Canon row on the back-side of Kingstreet in Westminster and to give it to her without saying any thing The night was exceeding dark and Guards were set in several places as at the Houses in the Gardens Park at the gates near Whitehall in Kingstreet and elsewhere nevertheless getting the Word from Col. Math. Tomlinson then there and in all places wheresoever he was about the K. so civil both towards his Majesty and such as attended him as gained him the Kings good opinion and as an evidence thereof gave him his gold pick tooth case as he was one time walking in the Presence Chamber Mr. Herbert pass'd currently tho in all places where Sentinels were he was bid stand till the Corporal had the Word from him Being come to the Lady's house he delivered her the Ring Sir said she give me leave to shew you the way into the parlour where being seated she desired him to stay till she returned In a little time after she came and put into his hands a little Cabinet closed with 3 seals two of which were the Kings Arms and the third was the figure of a Roman which done she desired him to deliver it to the same hand that sent the ring which ring was left with her and afterwards Mr. Herbert taking his leave the Word served him in his return to the King at which time he found that Dr. Juxon was newly gone to his Lodging in Sir Hen. Henns house near S. James's gate Mr. Herbert gave the Cabinet into the hands of his Majesty who told him that he should see it opened next morning Morning being come the Bishop was early with the King and after Prayers his Majesty broke the seals and shew'd them what was contained in the Cabinet There were Diamonds and Jewels most part broken Georges and Garters You see said he all the wealth now in my power to give to my Children That day the Bishop preached before the King on Rom. 2.16 In the day when God shall judge c. inferring from thence that Altho Gods judgments be for some time deferred he will nevertheless proceed to a strict examination of what is both said and done by every man Yea the most hidden things and imaginations of men will most certainly be made to appear at the day of judgment when the L. Jes Ch. shall be upon his high tribunal c. It may not be forgotten that Sir Hen. Herbert Master of the Revells and Gent in ord of his Maj. Privy Chamber one that cordially loved and honour'd the King and during the War had suffer'd considerably in his estate by sequestration and otherwise meeting Mr. Tho. Herbert his kinsman in S. James's Park first enquired how his Majesty did and afterwards presenting his duty to him with assurance that himself with many others of his Majesties Servants did frequently pray for him desir'd that his Maj. would be pleased to read the second Chapter of Ecclesiasticus for he should find comfort in it aptly suting his present condition Accordingly Mr. Herbert acquainted the King therewith who thanked Sir Harry and commended him for his excellent parts being a good Scholar Soldier and an accomplish'd Courtier and for his many years faithful service much valued by the King who presently turned to that Chapter and read it with much satisfaction Munday Jan. 29. the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Glocester her brother came to take their sad farewell of the K. their father and to ask his blessing The Princess being the elder was the most sensible of her royal fathers condition as appeared by her sorrowful look and excessive weeping Her little brother the Duke seeing his sister weep he took the like impression tho by reason of his tender age he could not have the like apprehension The K. raised them both from off their knees he kist them gave them his blessing and setting them on his knees admonish'd them concerning their duty and loyal observance to the Queen their mother the Prince that was his successor Love to the D. of York and his other relations The K. then gave them all his Jewels save the George he wore which was cut in an Onix with great curiosity and set about with 21 fair Diamonds and the reverse set with the like number and then again kissing his children had such pretty and pertinent answers from them both as drew tears of joy and love from his eyes And then praying God almighty to bless them he turned about expressing a tender and fatherly affection Most sorrowful was this parting and the young Prince shedding tears and crying most lamentable moved others to pity that formerly were hard-hearted And at the opening the chamber door the K. returned hastily from the window kissed them blessed them and so parted This demonstration of a pious affection exceedingly comforted the K. in this his affliction so that in a grateful return he went immediately to Prayer the good Bishop and Mr. Herbert being only present That day the K. eat and drank very sparingly most of it being spent in Prayer and Meditation It was some hours after night ere Dr. Juxon took leave of the King who willed him to be early with him the next morning After Dr. Juxon was gone to his Lodgings the King continued reading and praying more than two hours after The K. commanded Mr. Herbert to lye by his bed-side upon a Pallat where he took small rest that being the last night his gracious Soveraign and Master enjoyed But nevertheless the King for four hours or thereabouts slept soundly and awaking about two hours before day he opened his curtain to call Mr. Herbert there being a great cake of wax set in a silver bason that then as at all other times burnt all
favour he had free access Nor was he less careful to obtain the like access for him to the Records in the Tower of London by his interest with old Mr. Collet the chief Clerk at that time there under Sir John Burroughs whom he amply rewarded with sundry kind gratuities for his friendliness in assisting Mr. Dugdale with what he thought proper for his purpose from those rarities there reposed He also about that time was introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Sir Tho. Cotton Baronet whereby he had free access to that incomparable Library in his house near Westminster Hall began and set up by his father that noted Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton Baronet where finding rare MSS. and original Charters in that incomparable Treasury made such Collections thence as were of singular use in several Volumes which have since been made publick by the press He was likewise introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Mr. Scipio Squire then one of the Vicechamberlains of the Exchequer thro whose kindness and favour he had access to that venerable Record called Domesday-book as also to the Fines Plea-Rolls and sundry other Records remaining in the Treasury there Nor was Sir Christ Hatton backward in giving him all possible encouragement in those his studies For having seconded Sir H. Spelman in recommending him to the Earl of Arundel that Earl sent for him in Septemb. following an 1638 and obtained the Kings Warrant to create him a Pursevant at Arms extraordinary by the title of Blanch Lyon and thereupon so created him at the Kings royal Pallace of Richmond in Surrey upon the 24 of that instant Sept. Also upon the removal of Mr. Edw. Walker then Pursevant called Rogue-Croix to the Office of Chester Herald his Lordship obtained his Majesties Letters Pat. for creating him Rogue-Croix Pursevant in ordinary bearing date 18 of Mar. 1639. By which means having a Lodging in the Heralds Office and some benefit by funerals and other ways with the yearly Salary of 20 l. out of the Kings Exchequer for his support he thenceforth spent the greatest part of his time in London in order to the augmenting his Collections out of the Records in the Tower and other places in and near the said City till by the influence of a very forward and predominant Party in the most unhappy Parliam that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which aiming at the subversion of Religion established which came afterwards to pass and unjustifiable extirpation of monarchick Government whereby nothing less could be expected than the profaning of all places of Gods publick Worship destruction of monuments in Churches and defacing whatsoever was beautiful and ornamental therein the said Mr. Dugd. therefore receiving encouragement from Sir Chr. Hatton before mention'd then a member of the H. of C. for Higham-Ferres in Northamptonsh who timely foresaw the near approaching storm did in the summer time 1641 taking with him one Will. Sedgwick a skilful Arms-painter repair first to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London and next to the Abbey Church of Westminster and there made exact draughts of all the monuments in each of them copied the Epitaphs according to the very letter as also of all Arms in the Windows or cut in stone All which being done with great exactness Mr. Dugdale rode to Peterborough in Northamptonshire Ely Norwich Lincoln Newark upon Trent Beverley Southwell Kingston upon Hull York Selby Chester Lichfield Tanworth Warwick and did the like in all those cathedral collegiate conventual and divers other parochial Churches wherein any tombs and monuments were to be found to the end that the memory of them in case if that ruin then eminent might come to pass might be preserved for future and better times As it was feared so it soon after fell out all things thro the influence of the predominant party in that Parliament looking every day more and more that way insomuch as in the middle of January following the King himself his Queen and royal issue forc'd by tumults were constrained to betake themselves for safety to other places viz. the King Prince and Duke of York unto the City of York and the Queen to her own relations in France His Majesty being therefore necessitated at that time to continue in those northern parts where many of the Nobility attended him he did by his Warrant under his royal Signet manual bearing date 1 June 1642 command the said Mr. Dugdale forthwith to repair thither to him according to the duty of his place Upon the reception of which he obeyed and continued at York till about the middle of July at which time he received his Majesties farther command to attend Spencer Earl of Northampton then L. Lieutenant of the County of Warwick who was endeavouring to secure the chief places of that County and near it and to disperse the Forces under the Lord Brook which he had gathered together for the Parliament by the Trained-Band Soldiers and other loyal persons under him But they having secur'd the Castles of Banbury and Warwick Mr. Dugdale did by command from his Maj. who was advised at York of their proceedings in his Coat of Arms with a Trumpet sounding before him repair to those Castles and required them to disband and to deliver up their Arms requiring also the said L. Brook and his Adherents to disband c. Accordingly the Castle of Banbury with all the Arms and Ammunition therein were delivered up but the Castle of Warwick being a place of more strength and defended by a greater number of Soldiers under the command of Sir Edw. Peto of Chesterton in that County Knight they did contemn the said Summons c. Afterwards when the King marched southward from York and had taken up his quarters for some time at Stonley house about 4 miles distant from Coventry on the 19 of Aug. 1642 Mr. Dugdale did by his Majesties special Warrant dated the next day summon the said City of Coventry a little before taken in for the use of the Parliament with his Coat bearing the Kings Arms thereon and a Trumpet sounding before him to the end that the Defenders deliver up their Arms to his Majesty and depart peaceably to their respective homes c. but they obstinately denying his Summons he proclaimed them Traytors and forthwith returned Afterwards he attended the King at Kineton commonly called Edghill in Warwickshire where the grand battel between him and his Army and that belonging to the Parliament was fought on the 23 of Oct. 1642. Which battel being finished and the royal party victorious he attended his Maj. to Oxon and thence to Reading and Brainford his Maj. intending for London but finding the power of the Rebels much recruited by the Inhabitants of that populous City he did after some skirmishes had at Brainford where the royal party took many Prisoners return to Oxford fix his chief residence there and fortified that City with Bulwarks for the better
advanced to the See of Hereford See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 185. b. The third Dr. Taylor was after his Maj. return made Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland Nov. 1. .... Mason of Cambridge Nov. 1. .... Sherwood of Cambridge The first of these two was perhaps Charles Mason of Kings Coll. who was afterwards Rector of the Church of S. Peter le Poore in London author of 1 Concio ad Clerum Londinensem in Eccles S. Alphagi Lond. 1676. qu. 2 Miles Christianus preached to the Artillery Company 16 Octob. 1673 at S. Mich. in Cornhill on 2 Tim. 2.3 and of other things He died in the time of Winter 1677. Peter Hausted M. A. of Cambridge was also actually created D. of D. the same day This noted person was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire educated in Queens Coll. in the same University entred into holy Orders when M. of A became Curat of Vppingham in Rutlandshire and at length Rector as 't is said of Hadham in Hertfordshire Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion or thereabouts he became Chaplain to the noble and loyal Spencer Earl of Northampton stuck close to him in all Engagements was with him in the Castle of Banbury in Oxfordshire when stoutly defended against them where concluding his last day in the year 1645 was either buried in the precincts of that Castle or else in the Church belonging to Banbury This person who was always accounted an ingenious man and an excellent Poet hath written and published several things as 1 The Rival Friends a Comedy Lond. 1632. qu. Acted before the K. and Qu. at Cambridge 19 Mar. 1631. 2 Senile odium Comedia Cantabrigiae publicè Academicis recitata in Coll. Reginali ab ejusdem Collegii juventute Cantab. 1633. in tw 3 Ten Sermons preached upon several Sundays and Saints-days Lond. 1636. qu. To which is added An Assize Sermon 4 Ad populum A lecture to the people with a Satyr against Separatists Oxon. 1644 c. in three sh in qu. 'T is a Poem and the title of it was given by K. Ch. 1 who seeing it in Manuscript with the title of A Sermon to the People he alter'd it and caused it to be called A Lecture c. being then much pleased with it He also translated into English Hymnus Tobaci c. Lond. 1651. oct See in the first vol. p. 422 at the bottom Nov. 1. George Roberts sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in this University now Rector of Hambledon in Bucks This person who was a general Scholar and a most accurate Preacher was afterwards thrown out of his Living by the Usurpers and suffered much for his Loyalty After his Majesties return he was restored to his Living and on the 9 of August 1660 he was install'd Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Edw. Burby some years before dead Dr. Roberts died at Istleworth in Middlesex about the middle of March an 1660 and was buried in the chancel of his Church at Hambledon before mention'd on the 17 of the same month Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument with an inscription thereon made by Dr. Ralph Bathurst In his Archdeaconry was installed on the 19 of the said month of March Dr. Thom. Gorges sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. Gilb. Wats Bach. of Div. of Linc. Coll. was actually created D. D. the same day James Fleetwood of Cambridge was also then created He was the seventh son of Sir George Fleetwood of the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks Knight by his wife Catherine daugh of Henry Denny of Waltham in Essex and Sister to Sir Edw. Denny Earl of Norwich And being when a child very forward to learn he was sent to Eaton School where being rip'ned for the University was admitted Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1622. After he was four years standing in the degree of Mast of Arts he became Chaplain to Dr. Wright Bishop of Lichfield by whom he was presented to the Vicaridge of Prees or Priss in Shropshire and soon after collated to the Prebendship of Eccleshall belonging to the said Church of Lichfield but before he was admitted or installed the rebellion broke out Afterwards being forced for his Loyalty to forsake his preferment he betook himself to the Wars and became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Earl of Rivers and in the quality of a Chaplain he continued to the end of the said Wars In 1642 he was by the Kings special command honored with the degree of Doct. of Div. for the service he did for him at Edghill fight and soon after he was made Chaplain to Charles Prince of Wales and Rector of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire After the Wars were ceased and he ejected thence he became Tutor to three Earls viz. to the Earl of Lichfield E. of Kildare and the E. of Sterling Afterwards to two Dukes namely to Esme Duke of Richmond and Lenox with whom he travelled into France where he died and to Charles who succeeded him in his Dukedoms After the restauration of K Ch. 2. he was the first that was sworn Chaplain in ord to him was made Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in June 1660 and about that time Rector of Anstey in Hertfordshire and of Denham in Bucks On the 29 of Aug. 1675 the Archbishop of Cant. being then at Croydon and the B. of London Henchman languishing and near his end he the said Dr. Fleetwood was consecrated Bishop of Worcester not in the Chap. at Lambeth or in that at Fulham nor in Bow Church because unfinished but in the Church of S. Peter le Poore in Broadstreet in London in the place of Dr. Walt. Blandford deceased at which time his old friend and acquaintance Dr. Charles Mason sometimes of Kings Coll. was Rector of the said Church and procured for him a neighboring Hall to keep his Consecration Feast in He died on the 17 of July 1683 aged 81 years and was buried near the body of Bishop Gauden in our Ladies Chappel within the Precincts of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester In his Provostship of Kings Coll. succeeded Sir Tho. Page Knight about Michaelmas 1675 a person of great experience learning and infinite accomplishments who died 8 Aug. 1681 and in his Bishoprick Dr. Will. Thomas as I have elsewhere told you After Easter in 1687 was erected over the grave of the said B. Fleetwood a large marble Monument with an Epitaph of his own making which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Tho this Bishop was a very loyal person yet several of his Family of the Vache were great Parliamentiers and Cromwellians among whom was George Fleetwood one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1 for which he lost the Vache and his other Estate Nov. 1. John Watkins of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Hen. Kelligrew of Ch. Ch. Will. Chillingworth of Trin. Coll. was put into the same roll with the former persons by his Majesty to
I shall anon set down In 1639 he was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland and when the Rebellion broke out there he suffered much in his Estate In 1644 he with the Lord Edward Brabason afterwards Earl of Meath and Sir Hen. Tichbourne Kt were sent by James Marquess of Ormonde then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon about the affairs of that Kingdom Which being concluded to their minds they returned but in their way they were taken on the seas by a Parliament Ship just after Sir James had flung over board the Kings packet of Letters directed to Ormonde Whereupon being all conveyed to London were committed Prisoners to the Tower where continuing eleven months were then released upon exchange Afterwards Sir James returned to Dublin continued there for some time and was one of the hostages for the delivery of that City to Coll. Mich. Jones for the use of the Parliament of England Afterwards the said Colonel thinking it not convenient for several reasons that he should remain there commanded him to depart so that by vertue of his pass he went into France where he continued an year and an half mostly at Caen and partly at Paris In 1651 he left that Country went into England and setling in London wrot several books and published one or more there Upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he went into Ireland and by special order was restored to his place of Auditor General and continued a privy Counsellor there His works are these 1 Archiepiscoporum Casseliensium Tuamensium vitae duobus expressae commentariolis Dubl 1626. qu. This book was afterwards involved in his De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius 2 Caenobia Cisterciensia Hiberniae Included afterwards in his Disquisitiones de Hibernia c. 3 De praesulibus Lageniae sive provinciae Dubliniensis lib. unus Dubl 1628. qu. Included also in his Comment de praesulibus Hib. 4 De scriptoribus Hiberniae libri duo Dubl 1639. qu. A great part of which is taken out of the book of Joh. Bale intit De script maj Britan. and from Rich. Stanyhurst his book intit The Description of Ireland 5 De Hibernia Antiquitatibus ejus disquisitiones Lond. 1654 and 1658. in a thick oct 6 De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius à prima gentis Hibernicae ad fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra usque tempora Dubl 1665. fol. 7 Note ad Bedae epist Apologeticam Dubl 1664. oct 8 Notae ad Historiam Abbatum Weremuthensium Girwicensium per Bedam composit Dubl 1664. oct 9 Notae ad Bede Epistolam ad Egbertum Ib. eod an oct 10 Notae ad Egberti dialogum de institutione ecclesiastica Ib. eod an oct 11 Notae ad rem Historicam Antiquariam spectantes ad opuseula S. Patricio qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit adscripta c. Lond. 1656. oct He also wrot and published Rerum Hibernicarum Henrico 7 regnante Annales Pr. at the end of his Disquisit de Hibernia and De praesul Hib. comment Also Rerum Hib. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Maria regnantibus Annales which are at the end of the said book De praesul besides the publication of Campians Hist of Ireland the Chronicle of Mered. Hanmer that of Hen. Marleburrough and The view of Ireland by Edm. Spenser At length Sir James having lived beyond the age of man and by his endeavours had gotten a fair estate departed this mortal life at Dublin on Saturday Decemb. the first an 1666 and was buried on Tuesday following in a burying place appointed for his Family within the Church of S. Warborough in the said City He had a choice Collection of antient MSS many of which related to Irâ—sh affairs procured from many persons as well in Engl. as Irel a catalogue of which was printed at Dublin an 1648. in â— sh and an half in qu. All or most of which MSS. came into the hands of Hen. Earl of Clarendon when he was Lord Lieutenant of Irel. an 1686 who soon after brought them with him into Engl. and deposited them in the custody of Dr. Tho. Tenison Vicar of S. Martins Church in the Fields in Westm a Catalogue of which is lately made extant by Edm. Gibson B. A. of Qu. Coll. in Ox. This year also about the beginning thereof as it seems was a proposal made by vertue of a letter sent to the Vicechancellour that Rich. Fanshaw Esq Servant to Prince Charles should have the degr of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him but whether he was presented thereunto tho diplomated he might be it appears not in the publick Register Howsoever it is sure I am that certain Masters now living in the University did many years after report that he had that degree confer'd on him here yet whether personally presented thereunto they could not positively affirm This right worthy and loyal person Richard Fanshaw originally of the University of Cambr. was descended of the family of Fanshaw of Fanshaw gate in Derbyshire being the great Grandchild of John Fanshaw of that place brother of Henry Fanshaw and father of Tho. Fanshaw Esquires who were successively Remembrancers of the Exchequer to Qu. Elizabeth Which Thomas was father to Sir Hen. Fanshaw Kt who died of an Apoplexy at the Assizes in Hertford 10 Mar. 1615. father of Thomas sometimes Lord Viscount Fanshaw of Dromore in Ireland father of him who is now or at least was lately L. Visc Fanshaw Which three last have also been Remembrancers of the Exchecquer to K. Jam. 1. K. Ch. 1. and 2. The said Rich. Fanshaw brother to Lord Thomas of whom we are farther to speak was for his early abilities taken into the Employment of the State by K. Ch. 1. an 1635 and then sent Resident to the Court of Spain Whence being recall'd in the beginning of the Troubles 1640 1 into Engl. he followed the royal interest during all the calamitous times that followed and was employed in several weighty matters of State In 1644 he was appointed Secretary at War to Charles Prince of Wales afterwards King whom he attended into the Western parts of Engl and thence into the Isles of Scilly and Guernsey In 1648 he was appointed Treasurer of the Navy under the command of Prince Rupert which he managed till the year 1650 when then he was prefer'd by his Majesty to the dignity of a Baronet and sent Envoy extraordinary to the Crown of Spain and being thence recalled into Scotland he there served in the quality of Secretary of State Which weighty and difficult Employment he performed in that conjuncture with great satisfaction of all parties notwithstanding he never took Covenant or Engagement Thence he attended his Maj. at Worcester was at the battel there 1651 taken Prisoner and conveyed to Lond. by the Rebels where continuing in close custody till he contracted a great sickness had liberty allow'd him upon Bayle given for the recovery of his health to go to any place he
Cleypole a Gent. of Nâ—rthamptonshire made by Oliver Master of the Horse one of his House of Lords and a Knight and Baronet 16. of July 1657 he being then Clerk of the Hamper The said Elizabeth died 7. Aug. 1658 and was buried in Henry the Sevenths Chap. at Westm in a Vault made on purpose 5 Mary the second Wife of Thom. Bellasyse Vicount Fauconberg or Fauconbridge married to him with a great deal of state at Hampton-Court on the 18 of Nov. 1657 much about which time he was made one of Olivers Lords Several years after his Majesties restauration he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners 6 Frances the youngest Daughter was married to Mr. Rob. Rich the only Son of Robert Lord Rich Son of Robert Earl of Warwick on the 11 of Nov. 1657 and about the same time was made one of Olivers Lords or of the Other House This Mr. R. Rich died 16. of Feb. 1657 his Father on the 29. of May 1659 and his Grandfather on the 18 of Apr. 1658. Oliver Cromwell had also four Sisters one of which was married to John Desborow a Yeoman and a great lubberly Clown who by Olivers interest became a Colonel and if not of the Long yet of the Little Parliament which he helped to break About that time he became one of the Generals at Sea helped to set up his Brother in Law Protector for which he was made one of his Council Major General of divers Counties in the West one of the Lords of the Cinque-ports and of the other House c. Another Sister was married to Roger Whetstone an Officer in the Parliament Army but he dying before Oliver came to his greatness she was remarried to Joh. Jones a pretended Gent. of Wales a Recruiter of the Long Parliament and a Colonel afterwards one of the Kings Judges Governour of the Isle of Anglesie one of the Commissioners of Parliament for the government of Ireland in which office he acted tyrannically and one of the other House that is H. of Lords belonging to Cromwell c. He was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Charing-cross for having had a hand in the murder of his Prince on the 17. Oct. 1660. A third Sister was married to Valentine Walton of Stoughton in Huntingdonshire afterwards a Colonel in the Parliament Army and one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After her death he married the Daughter of one Pimm of Brill in Bucks Widow of Austen of the same place but upon the foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled from Justice to save his neck setled either in Flanders or the Low Countries and lived unknown for some time in the condition of a Gardiner with a certain Gentleman At length being sick and foreseeing he should die discovered himself to have been a man of fashion and desir'd that after his death his near relations in England might be acquainted with it His said second Wife retired after his Majesties restoration to Oxon and living in an obscure condition in Cat-street died meanly on the 14 Nov. 1662 and was buried in S. Mâ—ries Church A fourth Sister named Robina was married to Peter French D. D. and after his death to Dr. John Wilkins as I have told you elsewhere whereby she hung upon and was maintained by the revenues of the Church to her last Oliver Cromwell had several Uncles whose descendents taking not part with him only one or two they were not prefer'd by him He had also five Aunts the eldest of which named Joane was married to Francis Barrington whose Son Robert was countenanced by Oliver The second named Elizabeth was Wife of John Hamden of Hamden in Bucks Father of John Hamden one of the 5. members of Parliament excepted against by K. Ch. 1 and a Colonel for the Parliament in the beginning of the rebellion which John lost his life in their service in June 1643. By this match Oliver Cromwell came to be related to the Ingoldesbies and Goodwins of Bucks The third named Frances was the second Wife of Rich. Whalley of Kirton in Nottinghamshire Father to Edward Whalley a Colonel in the Parliament Army one of the Kings Judges Commissary General in Scotland one of Olivers Lords and a Major General He fled from justice upon the approach of the return of K. Ch. 2 and lived and died in a strange Land But now after these large digressions let 's return to the rest of the Creations this year Feb. 16. Joshua Cross lately of Linc. Coll and sen Proctor now Fellow of that of Magd and Natural Philosophy Reader of the University by the authority of the Committee and Visitors was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon Soon after he left his Fellowship because he took to him a Wife but keeping his Readers place till his Majesties return was then discharg'd of it by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for the regulation of the University He died in his house near Magd. Coll. 9. May 1676 aged 62 years and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. In a meeting of the Delegates of the University the same day just before the Convocation began wherein Cross was created it was consulted among them that some Academical honour should be confer'd on Hierome Zanchy the Proctor then a Colonel in Ireland for the service of the Parliament At length it was Concluded that he should be adorned with the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the beginning of the next year but whether it was done oâ— that he was diplomated it appears not Doct. of Phys June 13. Thomas Sclater M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was created by vertue of the Commendatory Letters of the Chancellour of the University which say that he was put upon this recommendation by Sir Thom. Widdrington c. This Thomas Sclater was Burgess for the University of Cambridge to serve in Richards Parliament an 1658. Feb. 16. John Wilkinson sometimes of Magd. Hall now one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates He was nephew to Dr. John Wilkinson President of Magd. Coll and Brother to Dr. Henry Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall lived afterwards at Doncaster in Yorkshire where he practiced among the Godly party and dying in 1655 was buried at Arksey near to that place I have made mention of two of both his names that were Writers in the Fasti of the first vol. pag. 816. 817 but this John the Physitian was no Writer Mar. 7. Will. Petty about this time Fellow of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates of the University who had received sufficient testimony of his rare qualities and gifts from L. Col. Kelsey the Deputy Governour of Oxford Garrison Doct. of Div. July 24. Daniel Greenwood Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Brasn Coll
say that he was natione Teutonicus fortunâ Batavus religione Calvinista c. His Father who was a sufficient Clothier of Newbury perceiving this his Son to have pregnant parts sent him to the College at Winchester where being elected a Child and soon made ripe for the University in the School there founded by Will of Wykeham was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. in the year 1596 and two years after having by that time shaken off his wild extravagancies was admitted Verus Socius after which he diligently applied himself to the Theological Faculty for 16 years together In 1604 he proceeded in Arts and about that time taking Holy Orders became a frequent and diligent Preacher in these parts noted to the Academians for his subtile wit exact judgment exemplary life and conversation and for the endowment of such qualities that were befitting men of his Function In 1614 he proceeded Doct. of Divinity and about that time went into Germany as Chaplain to Princess Elizabeth Daughter of King James I. and Consort of the Prince Palatine where continuing for some time did improve himself much by the conversation he had with German Divines After his return he exchanged the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks which the Society of New Coll. gave him before his departure beyond the Sea for Newbury near to the place of his Nativity with Dr. Nathan Giles Canon of Windsor where being setled he laid a foundation of his doctrine and the seeds of his zealous opinion tho not improved by his Auditors according to his wish His plain preaching was good his solid disputations were accounted by some better and his pious way of living by others especially the Puritans best of all yet some of New Coll. who knew the Man well have often said in my hearing that he was always hot-headed and restless The most learned men even those of his adverse party did confess that there was nothing extant more accurate exact and full touching the Arminian controversies than what was written by this our Author Twisse He also if any one as those of his persuasion say hath so cleared and vindicated the cause from the objected absurdities and calumnies of his Adversaries as that out of his labours not only the learned but also those that are best vers'd in Controversies may find enough whereby to disintangle themselves from the snares of Opposites The truth is there 's none almost that have written against Arminianism since the publishing any thing of our Author but have made very honourable mention of him and have acknowledged him to be the mightiest man in those Controversies that his age hath produced Besides Newbury he was offer'd several preferments as the Rectory of Benefield in Northamptonshire a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester the Wardenship of Wykehams Coll. there and a Professors place at Franeker in Frisland But the three last were absolutely refused and the first he would not accept unless he could obtain liberty of his Majesty in whose gift Newbury was and is to have had an able man to succeed him there Besides also upon conference with Dr. Davenant Bishop of Salisbury Ordinary of that place the King was well satisfied concerning Twisse that he was unwilling to let him go from Newbury In the beginning of the Civil War began by the Presbyterians an 1641. -2. he sided with them was chose one of the Assembly of Divines and at length Prolocutor of them Among whom speaking but little some interpreted it to his modesty as those of his persuasion say as always preferring penning before speaking and others to the decay of his intellectuals But polemical Divinity was his Faculty and in that he was accounted excellent While he was Prolocutor he was one of the three Lecturers in S. Andrews Church in Holborn near London which was given to him for his losses he sustained at Newbury being forced thence as his brethren said by the Royal Party He hath written Vindiciae gratiae potestatis ac providentiae dei Hoc est ad examen libelli Perkinsiani Gul. Perkins de praedestinationis modo ordine institutum à Jacobo Arminio responsio Sholastica tribus libris absoluta Una cum digressionibus ad singulas partes accommodatis c. Amstel 1632. 1648. fol. A discovery of Dr. Jacksons vanities c. Printed beyond the Sea 1631. qu. This was written against Dr. Tho. Jackson's Treatise of divine Essence and attributes but the Doctor made no reply Dissertatio de Scientiâ mediâ tribus libris absolutâ c. Arnhem 1639. fol. Wherein Gabr. Penots book intit Libertatis humanae propugnaculum and that of Franc. Suarez De Scientia dei are answer'd Digressiones Printed with the Dissertatio Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians delivered by way of answer to the Translator of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath Divided into two parts 1 An answer to the preface 2 A consideration of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture Lond. 1641. qu. Treatise of Reprobation in answer to Mr. Jo. Cotton Lond. 1646. qu. Animadversiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum Franc. Junio Joh. Arnold Corvin Amstel 1649. fol. published by Andr. Rivet The doubting conscience resolved in answer to a pretended perplexing question c. Wherein is evidently proved that the Holy Scriptures not the Pope is the foundation whereon the Church is built c. Lond. 1652. oct published by Sam. Hartlib The riches of Gods love unto the Vessels of Mercy consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the Vessels of Wrath Or an answer to a book intit Gods love to mankind manifested by disproving his absolute decree for their damnation in two books One against Mr. Sam. Hoard and the other against Mr. Hen. Mason Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft London Oxon. 1653. fol. Two tracts in answer Dr. to H. Hammond the one concerning Gods decree definite or indefinite the other about the object of predestination Printed with the former book The Synod of Dort and Ales reduced to practice with an answer thereunto The Scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of Faith made good against the Papists Lond. in tw Christian Sabbath defended against the crying evil in these times of the Antisabitarians of our age shewing that the morality of the Fourth Commandment is still in force to bind Christians unto the sanctification of the Sabbath day Lond. 165. qu. Fiveteen Letters to Mr. Joseph Mede See in the 4 book of the said Mr. Medes works Besides these and something upon the Commandments that are printed he left behind him many Manuscripts mostly compleat of his own composition which were carefully kept in the hands of his Son Rob. Twisse a Minister in Westminster but what became of them after his death which hapned in the latter end of the year 1674 I know not Among them are 1 Examen Historiae Pelag written by Ger. Jo. Vossius put after the Authors death into the
of it in the year 1612. Where being setled he did not only go over the harmony of the Gospels in less than 12 years making thereon above 600 Sermons but wrot also several books and laid the foundation of others All which in due time he would have published had he not been unadvisedly engaged for the debts of one very near related to him Which debts he being unable for the present to pay having before spent his small patrimony for the printing of his books remained in the Prison call'd Bocardo in Oxon and in the Kings bench and elsewhere till such time Sir Will. Boswell a great encourager of deserving men Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll. and if I am not mistaken Dr. Usher before mention'd had laid down the debt and released him Dr. Laud also Archb. of Canterbury did give his assistance upon the desire of Sir Hen. Marten for the delivery of him from prison but Selden who was desir'd and importun'd to contribute towards refused it for no other reason as 't is thought than that his Marmora Arundeliana could not stand uncontradicted by him and that instead of a most judicious he gave him only the name of an industrious Author for his labour 3 That about that time he put up a Petition to K. Ch. 1. wherein among several things that he desired was that his Majesty would give him leave to travel into foreign parts viz. into Turkey Ethiopia or the Abasen Emperors Country to search and find Copies especially of civil and ecclesiastical Histories to be published in print or whatsoever Copies may tend to the propagation or increase of good learning And farther also whereas he had Leiger-Embassadors and Agents with his Confederates Emperors Kings and Princes of other Countries they might in his Majesties name in behalf of Mr. Lydyat and his Assigns move their Highnesses to grant the like privilege to him and his Assigns c. What the effect of this Petition was I find not however from thence his noble intentions and publick spirit may be discover'd 4 That tho he was a person of small stature yet of great parts and of a publick soul and tho a poor and contemptible Priest to look upon for so he was held by the vulgar yet he not only puzled Christop Clavius and the whole College of Mathematicians but also that great Goliah of literature Joseph Scaliger who when he was worsted by our Authors Writings tho he would never acknowledge it howbeit great men particularly the famous Usher held it for granted he betook himself unmanly to his tongue by calling him in a scornful manner a beggarly beardless and gelt Priest 5 That as he was much esteemed by learned men at home among whom were Usher before mentioned Sir Adam Newton Secretary and Sir Tho. Chaloner Chamberlain to Pr. Henry Dr. Jo. Bainbridge Mr. Hen. Briggs Dr. Pet. Turner c. who were his great acquaintance so was he by the Virtuosi beyond the seas who were pleased and that worthily to rank him with the Lord Bacon of Verulam and Mr. Joseph Mede But when they heard that our Author and the said Mede were very poorly prefer'd they answer'd that the Englishmen deserved not to have such brave scholars among since they made no more of them 6. That in the civil War which began an 1642 he suffer'd much at his Rectory of Okerton before mention'd by the Parliament Party for in a letter written by him to Sir William Compton Kt. Governour of Banbury Castle dat 10 Dec. 1644 I find that he had been four times pillaged by the Parliament Forces of Compton house commonly called Compton in the hole in Warwickshire to the value of at least 70 l. and forced for a quarter of a year together to borrow a shirt to shift himself that also he had been twice carried away from his house once to Warwick and another time to Banbury To the first of which places being hurried away on a poor jade was infamously used by the Soldiers there and so sorely hurt that he was at the writing of the said letter not throughly whole and he doubted scarce ever should be c. The cause of all which ill usage was for that he had denied them money and had defended his books and papers and afterwards while a Prisoner in Warwick Castle had spoken much for the King and Bishops His Works are these Tractatus de variis annorum formis Lond. 1605. oct Praelectio Astronomica de naturâ caeli conditionibus elementorum Disquisitio physiologica de origine fontium The two last were printed and go always with the first Defensio tractatûs de variis annorum formis contra Josephi Scaligeri obtrectationem Lond. 1607. oct Examen Canonum Chronologiae Isagogicorum Printed with the Defensio Emendatio temporum ab initio mundi huc usque compendio facta contra Scaligerum alios Lond. 1609. oct Explicatio additamentum argumentorum in libello emendationis temporum compendio factae de nativitate Christi ministerio in terris Printed 1613. oct Solis Lunae periodus seu annus magnus Lond. 1620. oct c. De anni solaris mensurâ Epistola Astronomica ad Hen. Savilium Lond. 1620. 21. oct Numerus aureus melioribus lapillis insignitus factusque Gemmeus è thesauro anni magni sive solis lunae periodi octodesexcentenariae c. Lond. 1621. in one large sheet on one side Canones Chronologici ne◠non series summorum magistratuum triumphorum Romanorum Oxon. 1675. oct Published from a Ms in the library of Dr. Jo. Lamphire Letters to Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland Printed at the end of the said Usher's life 1686 published by Dr. Rich. Parr These I think are all the things that he hath extant As for those many Mss which he left behind him at the time of his death are mostly these Annotations upon that part of Mr. Edw. Breerwood's Treatise of the Sabbath wherein he denies the Christian Sabbath on the Lords day or the first day of the week to be established jure divino by Gods Commandment The beginning of this Mss is There was brought to me being Prisoner in the Kings Bench on Friday Evening 3 Dec. 1630. c. Annotations upon some controverted points of the chronical Canons The beg is Notwithstanding there be divers c. A few Annotations upon some places or passages of the second and third Chapters of the book intit Altare christianum The beg is There have been Christians ever since c. Treatise touching the setting up of Altars in Christian Churches and bowing in reverence to them or common Tables and bowing the knee or uncovering the head at the name or naming of Jesus occasionally made 1633. Written upon the desire of some London Ministers to declare his judgment therein dedicated to Archb. Laud in gratitude for his releasing him from prison In a postscript at the end of his discourse concerning bowing at the name of Jesus he
market Town in Glocestershire called Tewkesbury But being schismatically inclined he refused to conform to certain Ceremonies in the Church of England whereupon being silenced by Goodman his Diocesan he lived by the helps of the Brethren At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he was restored by the Committee of Religion to his said Cure where continuing till about 1645 became Preacher of the Word at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and in two years after or less at S. Faiths under Pauls in London At all which places he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian Perswasion He hath written and published these things following Several Sermons viz. 1 The downfal of Antichrist c. Sermon on 2 Thes 2.8 Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to John White Esq and the rest of the Committee for Religion 2 Judahs joy at the oath Covenant Serm. on 2 Cor. 15.15 Lond. 1641. qu. 3 The red horse or the bloodiness of war Serm. at Pauls 16 Jul. 1648. on Rev. 6.4 Lond. 1648. qu. c. Vindiciae voti or a Vindication of the true sense of the national Covenant in answer to the Protestation protested Lond. 1641. qu. Vindiciae Eccles Anglicanae or ten cases resolved which discover that tho there be need of Reformation in yet not of Separation from the Churches of Christ in England Lond. 1644. qu. ded to Mr. Rich. Capell sometimes of Magd. Coll. Proofs that the King may without impeachment of his Oath touching the Clergy at his Coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy and the Objections against it in two several Treatises printed at Oxon fully answered Lond. 1646. qu. in one sheet Or thus as 't is in another Title Case of Conscience resolved Wherein it is cleared that the King may without impeachment of his oath touching the Clergy at his Coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy Lond. 1646. qu. in one sh and half Astrologo-mastix The vanity of judicial Astrology Lond. 1646. qu. Vindiciae Paedo-Baptismi or a Vindication of Infant Baptism in a full answer to Mr. Tombes 12 Arguments alledged against it in his Exercitation c. Lond. 1646. quart Character of an old English Puritan or Nonconformist Lond. 1646. in 1 sh in qu. Vindiciae vindiciarum or a Vindication of his vindication of Infant Biptism from the Exceptions of Mr. Harrison in his Paedo-Baptisme oppugned and from the exceptions of Mr. Tombes c. Lond. 1647. qu. A Catechisme in brief questions and answers c. Lond. 1647. oct Touching Supremacy in Causes ecclesiastical shewing how that the Power civil and ecclesiastical may act without encroachment of each other Written 1647. printed in qu. An Exercise wherein the evil of Health-drinking is by clear and solid Arguments convinced Lond. 1648. in two sh in qu. The Sifters sieve broken or a Reply to Dr. Boughen's sisting his Case of Conscience c. touching the Kings Coronation Oath Lond. 1648. qu. Answer to Mr. John Goodwins Might and Right well met wherein is cleared that the action of the Army in secluding many Parliament men from the place of their discharge of trust and the imprisoning of some of them is neither defensible by the rules of solid reason nor religion Lond. 1649. qu. in 5 sheets Whereupon Jo. Goodwin came out with a Reply the same year intit Might overcoming Right c. What other things our Author Joh. Geree hath written I know not See more of him in Will. Pemble among these Writers in 1623. p. 405. All that I have more to say of him is that he died in his house in Ivey lane near to Pater-noster-row in London in the latter end of the year in Febr. as it seems sixteen hundred forty and eight but where buried unless in S. Faiths Church before mentioned I cannot tell The Minister who preached his funeral Sermon told the Auditory that he died poor whereupon there was a Collection of money made among the Brethren for his Children This is the same Mr. Geree a Minister whom a noted Author reports to have died with grief and trouble for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. ROBERT WELDON a man of parts during his stay in the University took the degrees in Arts as a Student of Ch. Ch. that of Master being compleated in 1615. Afterwards he became Rector of Stony-Stratford in Leicestershire wrot and published The Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the original of Dominion Wherein Gods perpetual propriety in the sovereignty of the whole earth and the Kings great charter for the administration thereof by authoritative Records in both the Testaments c. is jure divino Lond. 1648. qu. In which book the Author shews himself to be well read in various sorts of Learning and by some passages therein a Loyalist and a sufferer for the Kings cause GEORGE HAKEWILL son of John Hakewill of the City of Exeter Merchant was born in the parish of S. Mary Arches within the said City and educated in Grammar learning there became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in the beginning of the year 1595 and in that of his age 16 where he became so noted a Disputant and Orator that he was unanimously elected Fellow of Exeter Coll. at two years standing Afterwards he proceeded in Arts applyed himself to the deep researches in Philosophy and Divinity entred into the sacred function travelled beyond the seas and at his return became as noted for his Preaching and Disputes as before he was for Philosophy In 1610 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and the next year proceeded in Divinity Afterwards he became the first sworn Chaplain that attended Prince Charles by whose endeavours I presume he became Archdeacon of Surrey an 1616 which was the highest dignity that he enjoyed being hindred I presume from rising higher for his zealous opposing the match of the Infanta of Spain with his Master the Prince The story of which was this After he had with some pains written a small Tract against that match not without some Reflections on the Spaniard which could not be pleasing to the King he caused it to be fairly transcribed by another hand Which done he unknown to the King presented it to the Prince The Prince after he had perused it shew'd it to the King who being offended at it commanded Tho. Murrey the Princes Tutor and Secretary the Author Hakewill William his brother and all others who knew of or were consenting to it to be committed to custody in Aug. 1621 whence being soon after released our Author Hakewill was dismist from his attendance on the Prince So that tho his Learning was accounted by the generality polite his Philosophy subtile and Divinity profound yet in this particular he was esteemed very rash and imprudent A certain Author tells us that when he presented the said MS. to the Prince he should say Sir I beseech you make use of this by reading it your self but if you shew it to your Father I shall be undone for my
at Bridgnorth also and afterwards was Bishop of Cork Cloyne and Ross in the said Kingdom of Ireland who if I mistake not had received some of his Education in this University WILLIAM STAMPE son of Tim. St. of Brâ—wern-Abbey near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire Gent. was born in that County entred a Student in Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of the year 1626 and in that of his age 16. Afterwards being made Fellow of that House he proceeded in Arts entred into holy Orders and exercised his Function in S Aldates Church joyning to his Coll. in 1637. Some time before the Rebellion brake out he was made Vicar of Stepney near London where he was much resorted to by persons of orthodox principles for his edifying way of preaching But when the restless Presbyterians had brought all things into confusion he was violently thrust out imprison'd plunder'd and at length forced to get away and fly for the safety of his life At that time Oxford being the chief place of refuge for men of his condition he made shift to get there about the beginning of 1643 and his case being made known to the King then there this Order following was written by Lord Falkland his Secretary to the Vicechancellour of the University that he have the degree of Doctor of Div. confer'd on him The Kings Majesty taking into his princely consideration the great Sufferings of Mr. Will. Stampe who hath not only undergone a long and hard Imprisonment of 34 weeks but also is now outed of a very good Living and all this for preaching Loyalty and Obedience to a disaffected Congregation to the extream hazard of his life His Majesty being willing to repair these his Sufferings and to encourage his known Abilities for which by special favour and grace he is sworn Chaplain to his dearest son the Prince hath commanded me to signifie to you that you forthwith confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity c. In obedience to which order he was actually created Doctor of that Faculty in July the same year Afterwards upon the declining of the King and his Party he followed the Prince beyond the seas was afterwards made Chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia and became a frequent Preacher among the Protestants at Charenton near to Paris and a zealous Assertor of the English Liturgy His works are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Serm. preached before his Maj. at Ch. Ch. in Oxford 28 Apr. 1643 on Isa 59.1.2 Oxon. 1643. qu. 2 Spiritual Infatuation delivered in several Sermons on Isa 6.9 c. printed at the Hague 1650. in oct Vindication of the Liturgy of the Church of Engl. Whether printed I know not He died of a fever at the Hague in Holland about sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried in the Church of Loesdune near that Town or City as I have been informed by the most rev and learned Dr. Morley late Bishop of Winchester In the said Church at Loesdune is a Bason wherein according to the vulgar tradition were baptized as many Children as there be days in the year born at one birth of the body of Margaret Countess of Hennenberg LANCELOT DAWES was born at Barton-Kirk in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1597 aged 17 and two years after being made a poor serving child was when Bach. of Arts standing made Tabarder and in the year 1605 M. of Arts and Fellow While he continued there he became by a studious retiredness and a severe discipline a singular Ornament of that House But being thence called to the pastoral charge of that place which first welcom'd him into the world he was quickly taken notice of as worthy of a more eminent station in the Church that is a Prebendship in the Cath. Church of Carlile to which he was accordingly prefer'd to the general liking of all the knowing and pious Divines in his Diocess with whom for a comprehensive and orthodox judgment adorned with all variety of learning he was ever held in great estimation About that time he was made Doctor of Div. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland and Rector of Ashby in his own County His works are these Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1653. qu. divided into two parts The first containeth six Sermons under this general title Gods mercies and Jerusalems miseries The first is on Jer. 5.1 c. In this first part are contained Two Sermons preached at the Assize holden at Carlile touching sundry corruptions of these times Oxon. 1614. oct The first is on Math. 26.15 the other on Psal 82.6.7 The second part containeth six more Sermons under this tit The healing of the plague of the heart The first is on Luke 12.32 c. Before this last part Tho. Tully M. A. of Queens Coll. hath an Epist to the Reader in commendation of them This Dr. Dawes who had submitted to the men in Authority during the time of Rebellion died in the month of Febr. as it seems in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel belonging to the Church at Barton Kirk before mentioned Over his grave was afterwards a plain stone laid with an Inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was Pastor of the said Church 48 years and that he died in March 1654. Which last is false for in the Will Office near S. Pauls Cathedral I find that Letters of Administration were issued out to William his Brother dated the eleventh of March 1653 whereby he was impower'd to administer the Goods Debts Chattels of him the said Lanc. Dawes lately deceased Besides his Epitaph were made three copies of Verses viz. one in Greek by the said Tho. Tully another in Lat. and the third in English by Joseph Williamson and Clem. Ellis Bachelaurs of Arts of Qu. Coll. All which being fairly transcrib'd were put in a frame and fastned to the Wall over the grave of the Defunct near whom was his son of both his names buried 18 May 1655. EDMUND CHILMEAD was born at Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire became one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 and not long after was made one of the petty Canons or Chaplains of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Whence being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he was forced such were the then times to obtain a living by that which before was only a diversion to him I mean by a weekly musick meeting which he set up at the Black Horse in Aldersgatâ—street in London He was a choice Mathematician a noted Critick and one that understood several Tongues especially the Greek very well He hath written De musicâ antiquâ Graecâ Published at Oxon at the end of Oxford Edition of Aratus an 1672. oct Annotationes in Odas Dionysii Printed also there in the
that he was very confident that then would be great revolutions in the Kingdom of England THOMAS WIDDOWES Son of Thom. Wid. Brother I think to Giles mention'd under the year 1645. p. 44 was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire entred a Student in Gloc. Hall in 1626 aged 14 years where continuing about 8 Terms was made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Frewen President thereof Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he was by the endeavours of the same Person made Master of the College School at Glocester in the place of Joh. Langley an 1640. at which time Dr. Frewen was Dean of the Cath. Church there But Widdowes being soon after outed for his Loyalty he became Minister of Woodstock and Master of the School there founded by Rich. Cornwell Citizen and Skinner of Lond. 27. Eliz. dom 1585. where continuing for some time was removed to the Free school at Northleech in Glocestershire a place of more value He hath written The just Devil o◠Woodstock or a true narrative of the several apparitions the frights and punishments inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners sent thither to survey the Mannors and Houses belonging to his Majestie Lond. 1649. qu. It is a diary which was exactly kept by the Author for his own satisfaction intending not to print it But after his death the copy coming into the hands of another Person 't was printed in Dec. 1660 and had the year 1649 put in the bottom of the title as if it had been then printed The names of the Commissioners were Cockaine Hart Unton Croke Careless and Roe Captains Rich. Croke the Lawyer afterwards Recorder of Oxon. and Browne the surveyor The Book is very impartially written and therefore worth the reading by all especially the many Atheists of this age Our Author also hath written A short survey of Woodstock Taken from antient Authors and printed with the former He hath also written as I have been told certain matters pertaining to the faculty of Grammar for the use of his Scholars which I have not yet seen He was buried in the Church of Northleech beforemention'd on the 26. of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five In the year 1649 was printed in one sheet in qu. a Poem intit The Woodstock scuffle or most dreadful apparitions that were lately seen in the Mannor-house of Woodstock near Oxford c. the beginning of which is It were a wonder if one writes c. but who the Author of it was I cannot tell JOHN LATCH a Sommersetshire man born descended from a gentile family of his name living at Upper Langford near to Churchill in the said County was by the care of his Uncle Latch educated in Academical Learning in Oxon. particularly as I have been informed in S. Johns Coll where he made a considerable proficiency in Literature Afterwards he retired to the Middle Temple studied the municipal Laws but being very sickly lived a solitary and studious life and improved his natural talent as much as his abilities of body would permit He hath written Reports of divers causes adjudged in the three first years of K. Ch. 1. in the Court of the Kings bench Lond. 1662. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hayes as it seems in Middlesex in the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried in the Church there Some years before his death he had embraced the R. Cath. Religion partly if not altogether by the perswasion of one called Francis Harvey whose right Sirname was Hanmer a pretended Solicitor and a Broker for letting out money esteemed by the Fanatical Party of that time to be either a Rom. Priest or Jesuit for by his endeavours his estate came to the Soc. of Jesus Soon after fell out great controversies between Uncle Latch who pretended to be Executor to his Nephew and others entrusted by the R. Catholicks What the event of the matter was I know not only that Hanmer was committed to Newgate Prison for conveying away his Will and the matter it self was examined by the Protector in Sept. following FRANCIS GOLDSMITH or Gouldsmith Son and Heir of Franc. Golds of S. Giles in the Fields in Midd. Esq Son of Sir Franc. Goldsmith of Craford in Kent Knight was educated under Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Taylours School became a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of 1629 was soon after translated to S. Johns Coll. and after he had taken a degree in Arts to Greys Inn where he studied the common Law several years but other learning more and wrot Annotations on Hugh Grotius his Sophompaneus or Joseph a Tragedie Lond. 1652. oct Which Trag. was with annotations printed then in English He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his Consolatory Oration to his Father in verse and prose with Epitaphs and also his Catechism into English verse intit Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia c. which translations were printed with the annotations beforemention'd See more in Nich. Grey among these Writers under the year 1660. What other things Fr. Goldsmith hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Ashton in Northamptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and five was I presume buried there leaving then behind him a Daugh. named Catherine afterwards the Wife of Sir Hen. Dacres Knight His Father Francis Goldsmith died 16. of Decemb. 1634 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London beforemention'd TOBIE MATHEW the eldest Son of Dr. Tob. Math. Archb. of York by Frances his Wife Daugh. of Will. Barlow sometimes Bishop of Chichester was born as it seems in Oxon. while his Father was Dean of Ch. Church matriculated as a member of that house in the beginning of March 1589 being then eleven years of age and the year following had a Students place conferred on him By the benefit of a good Tutor and pregnant parts he became a noted Orator and Disputant and taking the degrees in Arts he afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas At his return he was esteem'd a well qualified Gentleman and to be one well vers'd in the affairs of other Nations At length leaving the Church of England by the perswasions of Fath. Parsons the Jesuit to the great grief of his Father he entred himself into the Society of Jesus but whether he took holy Orders is yet to me uncertain Afterwards growing famous for his eminency in the Politicks he came into England upon invitation in January 1621 to the end that the King might make use of his assistance in certain matters of State On the 10. of Octob. 1623 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Maj. then at Royston for his great zeal in carrying on the Spanish match to be had with Prince Charles at which time not only the King but the chief of the Nobility and others
of Ansley in Wiltshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1609 aged 19 years and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law became an Advocate of note in Doctors Commons In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law became the Kings Professor of that fac in the year following was chosen by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports a Burgess twice at least for Hyeth in Kent to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1 became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon Principal of S. Albans Hall in 1625 and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sate in the University he submitted to their power and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty tho he kept that honorable office but for a small time was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived He was an exact Artist a subtile Logician expert Historian and for the knowledge in and practice of the Civil Law the chief Person of his time as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas where several of them are reprinted partly testifie He was so well vers'd also in the statutes of the University and controversies between the members thereof and the City that none after Twynes death went beyond him As his birth was noble so was his behaviour and discourse and as personable and handsome so naturally sweet pleasing and affable The truth is there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement but the interruption of the times which silenc'd his profession would have given a stop to his rise had he been of another disposition His works are these The Dove or passages of Cosmography Lond. 1613. oct This is a Poem which he wrot in his younger days and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus regulis sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct 1636. qu. in 7. parts Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16o. Amstel 1681. in tw Descriptio Juris Judicii feudalis secundum consuetudines Mediolani Norman pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct Descript Jur. Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales Normanicos Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts Descript Juris Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canones constitutiones Anglicanas Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts This book with Desc Juris Judicii tempor c. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae Lond. 1683. oct Descr Juris Judicii sacri ad quam leges quae ad religionem piam causam respiciant referuntur Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. Amstel 1652. in 16o. Desc Jur. Jud. Militaris ad quam leges quae rem militarem ordinem personarum respiciunt referuntur Printed with the former Des Jur. Jud. Maritimi ad quam quae ad navigationem negotiationem maritimam respiciunt referuntur Printed also with the former Juris Judicii fecialis sive Juris inter gentes quaestionum de eodem explicato c. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law Oxon. 1652. oct In the year following was published a book entituled Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis cum designatione authorum Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it and therefore I cannot yet say 't was written by Dr. Zouche It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa Brother to the Portuguese Embassador having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm on the 22. of Nov. 1653 and thereupon imprisoned there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice and how Whereupon our Author Zouche who was then the living Pandict of the Law being sent for from Oxon he cleared their doubts whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ Law and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654 our Author thereupon wrot this book following Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente Oxon. 1657. oct Afterwards he published these books following Eruditionis ingenuae specimina scil Artium Logicae Dialecticae Rhetoricae nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus praeceptis sententiis illustrat Oxon. 1657. in tw Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria in 10 classes destributa Ox. 1660. oct Lond. 1682. in tw the third Edit The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edw. Cokes Articuli Admiralitatis in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts Lond. 1663 in a large oct published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of All 's Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctors Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine somtimes the Wife of William Powell alias Hinson Esquire He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num 150. HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name was born in Buckinghamshire became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161â— 1â— aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613 about which time he with Bevill Greenvill of Ex. Coll. also were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales in 1616 and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth being then noted for a Person well skill'd in the modern languages and a general Scholar the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion when by a forced retiredness he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake He hath extant these things following Speech in the H. of Peers 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English 1 Romulus and Tarquin or de principe tyranno Lond. 1637. in tw written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses in his Fragm aurea c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. 2 Historical relations of the united
world within the City of York was admitted Probationer fellow of Merton Coll. in 1620 aged 19 years or thereabouts and proceeded in Arts four years after His younger years were adorned with Oratory Poetry and witty fancies and his elder with quaint preaching and subtile disputes In 1631 he was one of the Proctors of the University and about that time Chaplain to Philip Earl of Pembroke who for his service and merits bestowed upon him the Rectory of Byshopston in Wilts Afterwards he was constituted Chaplain and Tutor to Charles Prince of Wales after Dr. Duppa was made Bishop of Salisbury was actually created Doct. of Div. in 1642 elected one of the Ass of Divines in the year following but refused to sit among them and Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury in the place of Will. Chillingworth deceased in the latter end of the same year 1643. Afterwards he suffered and was deprived of all he had for adhering to his Majesty K. Ch. 1 suffered in exile with his Son K. Ch. 2 whom after his defeat at Worcester he saluted at Roan upon his arrival in Normandy and thereupon was made his Chaplain and Clerk of the Closet After the Kings return he was made Dean of Westminster keeping his Clerkship still was consecrated Bishop of Worcester after the death of Dr. Gauden on the last of Novemb. S. Andrews day 1662 and at length was translated to the See of Salisbury 28. Sept. 1663 void by the translation thence to London of Dr. Humph. Henchman This Dr. Earl was a very gentile Man a contemner of the world religious and most worthy of the office of a Bishop He was a Person also of the sweetest and most obliging nature as one that knew him well tho of another perswasion saith that lived in our age and since Mr. Rich. Hooker died none have lived whom God had blest with more innocent wisdom more sanctified learning or a more pious peaceable primitive temper than he so that this excellent Person seem'd to be only like himself and venerable Mr. Hooker and only the fit man to make the learned of all nations happy in knowing what hath been too long confin'd to the language of our little Island I mean by his translation of the said Mr. Hooker's book called Eccles Politie as I shall tell you anon He hath written An Elegy upon Mr. Franc. Beaumont the Poet. Afterwards printed at the end of Beaumonts Poems Lond. 1640. qu. Put out with a poetical Epistle before them subscribed by Laur. Blaikâ—lock a Bookseller near Temple-bar afterwards an informer to the Committees of sequestration at Haberdashers and Goldsmiths-hall and a beggar defunct in Prison Micro-cosmography or a piece of the world characteriz'd in essays and characters Lond. 1628. c. in tw Published under the name of Edw. Blount He also translated from English into Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he entituled Imago Regis Caroli primi in aerâ—â—mnis solitudine Hag. com 1649 in tw and also The Laws of Eccles Polity in 8. books written by Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. This is in Ms and not yet printed Dr. Earl being esteemed a witty man while he continued in the University several copies of his ingenuity and poetry were greedily gathered up some of which I have seen particularly that Lat. Poem entit Hortus Mertonensis The beginning of which is Hortus delitiae domus politae c. He had also a hand in some of the Figures of which about 10 were published but which Figure or Figures claim him as Author I know not The Figure of six I have bearing this title The figure of six containing these six things wit mirth pleasure pretty observations new conceits and merry jests These Figures were not published all at once but at several times At length this worthy Bishop retiring to Oxon when the King Queen and their respective Courts setled there for a time to avoid the plague then raging in London and Westminster took up his quarters in University Coll. where dying on the 17. of Novemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five was buried near the high altar in Mert. Coll. Church on the 25 day of the said month being then accompanied to his grave from the publick Schools by an Herald at Arms and the principal persons of the Court and University In the See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Alexander Hyde sometimes Fellow of New Coll. of whom will be large mention made in his proper place GEORGE WILDE son of Hen. Wilde a Citizen of London was born in the County of Middlesex elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merchant Taylors School in 1628 aged 19 years entred on the Civ Law line took one degree in that fac 1634 became one of the Chaplains to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant who had an especial respect for him and would have prefer'd him above the Vicaridge of S. Giles Church in Reading had not the Civil distempers broke forth In the heat of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of his Majesty was an appointed Preacher before him and the Parliament in Oxon being then in great esteem for his eloquent preaching and therefore had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him Afterwards being turned out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he suffer'd much yet kept up a religious meeting for the Loyalists in Fleetstreet London After his Majesties restauration he was in requital for his loyalty made Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where he was highly valued for his publick spirit religious conversation and exemplary piety In his younger years he was accounted a Person of great ingenuity and in his elder a man of singular prudence a grace to the pulpit and when in Ireland as worthy of his function as any there He hath written The Hospital of Lovers or Loves Hospital a Comedy Acted in S. Johns Coll. publick refectory before the K. and Qu. 30. Aug. 1636 but 't was not as I conceive printed Hermophus a Com. written in Lat. and several times acted but not printed Sermon preached upon the 3. of March in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. before the House of Commons on Psal 122.8.9 Oxon. 1643. qu. and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life at Dublin on Friday 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in Christ Church there at which time Mr. George Seignior his Chaplain sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge preached his funeral Sermon to which I refer the Reader for his farther character being as 't is said made publick In London-Derry succeeded Dr. Rob. Mossom Dean of Ch. Ch. in Dublin THOMAS VAUGHAN who stiles himself in all or most of his writings which he published Eugenius Philalethes was the Son of Tho. Vaughan of Llansomfreid but born at Newton in the Parish of S. Bridget near Brecknock in Brecknockshire an 1621 educated in Grammar learning under one Matthew Herbert
unicâ felicissime temperavit Infelices sui seculi errores non effugit modo sed strenuè fugavit c. JEREMY TAYLOR tumbled out of his mothers womb into the lap of the muses at Cambridge was educated in Gonvill and Caius Coll. there till he was M. of A. Afterwards entring into holy orders he supplied for a time the Divinity Lecturers place in the Cath. of S. Paul in London where behaving himself with great credit and applause far above his years came to the cognisance of that great encourager of learning ingenuity and virtue Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. who thinking it for the advantage of the world that such mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement than a course or constant preaching would allow of he caused him to be elected Fellow of All 's Coll. an 1636 Where being setled love and admiration still waited upon him while he improved himself much in Books But this the Reader is to know that tho he came in meerly by the paramount interest of the said Archb yet it was done against the statutes of the Coll in these two respects First because he had exceeded the age with in which the said statutes make Candidates capable of being elected and secondly that he had not been of three years standing in the University of Oxon only a week or two before he was put in However he being a Person of most wonderful parts and like to be an ornament thereunto he was dispenced with and thereby obtained in that house much of that learning wherewith he was enabled to write casuistically About the same time he was in a ready way to be confirmed a member of the Church of Rome as many of that perswasion have said but upon a Sermon delivered in S. Maries Church in Oxon on the 5. of Nov. Gun-powder-treason day an 1638 wherein several things were put in against the Papists by the then Vicechanc he was afterwards rejected with scorn by those of that party particularly by Fr. à S. Clara his intimate acquaintance to whom afterwards he expressed some sorrow for those things he had said against them as the said S. Clara hath several times told me About that time he became one of the Chaplains to the said Archb. of Cant who bestowed upon him the rectory of Uppingham in Rutlandshire and other matters he would have done for him in order to his advance in the Church had not the rebellion unluckily broke out In the year 1642 he was with others by virtue of his Maj. letters sent to this University actually created D. of D. in that noted Convocation held on the first day of Nov. the same year he being then Chaplain in Ord. to his said Majesty and a frequent Preacher before him and the Court in Oxon. Afterwards he attended in his Majesties Army in the condition of a Chaplain where tho he had not a command of his time and books yet he laid the foundation of several Treatises in defence of Episcopacy the Liturgy Ministry and Church of England Upon the declining of the Kings cause he retired into Wales where he was suffer'd under the Loyal Earl of Carbury of the Golden Grove in Caermerthenshire to officiat and keep School to maintain him and his Children From which tho it continued but a few years were several youths most loyally educated and afterwards sent to the Universities In this solitude he began to write his excellent discourses which are enough of themselves to furnish a Library and will be famous to all succeeding generations for the exactness of wit profoundness of judgment richness of fancy clearness of expression copiousness of invention and general usefulness to all the purposes of a Christian By which he soon after got a great reputation among all Persons of judgment and indifferences and his name grew greater still as the world grew better and wiser When he had spent some years in this retirement in a private corner as 't were of the world his family was visited with sickness and thereby lost the dear pledges or Gods favour three sons of great hopes within the space of two or three months And tho he had learned a quiet submission unto the divine will yet the affliction touched him so sensibly that it made him desirous to leave the Country And going to London he there for a time officiated in a private Congregation of Loyalists to his great hazard and danger At length meeting with Edward Lord Conway a Person of great honour and generosity that Lord after he had understood his condition made him a kind profer which our author Taylor embracing it carried him over into Ireland and setled him at Portmore a place made for study and contemplation which he therefore dearly loved And there he wrot his Cases of conscience a book that is able alone to give its author immortality By this time the wheel of providence brought about the Kings happy restauration and out of a confused Chaos beauty and order began to appear Whereupon our loyal Author went over to congratulate the Prince and Peoples happiness and bear a part in the universal triumph It was not long after his sacred Majesty began the settlement of the Church and Dr. Taylor being resolved upon for the Bishoprick of Downe and Connor was consecrated thereunto at Dublin on the 27. of January 1660 and on the 21. of June 1661 he had the administration of the See of Dromore granted to him by his Majesty in consideration that he had been the Churches Champion and that he had suffer'd much in defence of its cause With what care and faithfulness he discharged his office all upon the place knew well and what good rules and directions he gave to his Clergy and how he taught them the practice of them by his own example Upon his being made Bishop he was constituted a Privy Counsellor and the University of Dublin gave him their testimony by recommending him for their Vicechancellor which honorable office he kept to his dying day He was esteemed by the generality of persons a compleat Artist accurate Logician exquisite quick and acute in his reasonings a Person of great fluency in his language and of prodigious readiness in his learning A noted Presbyterian also his Antagonist doth ingeniously confess that Dr. Taylor is a man of admirable wit great parts hath a quick and elegant pen is of abilities in critical learning and of profound skill in antiquity c. and another who knew him well tells us that he was a rare Humanist and hugely vers'd in all the polite parts of learning and had throughly concocted all the antient Moralists Greek and Roman Poets and Orators and was not unacquainted with the refined wits of the later ages whether French or Italian c. But he had not only the accomplishments of a Gentleman but so universal were his parts that they were proportion'd to every thing And tho his spirit and humour were
and sometimes at London he continued with that Count more than an year In which time he did translate one of Virgils Aeneids and burlesqu'd it but whether he ever publish'd it I know not K. Ch. 1. did grant to him the reversion of the place of Surveyor of his buildings after the decease of Inigo Jones Which place he entring upon at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660 for the said Jones died 21. July 1651 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London he enjoyed it to the time of his death and got by it 7000 l. In the year following he was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. and became much renown'd in the Court of that King for his ingenuity but upon some discontent arising from a second match he became craz'd for a time and so consequently contemptible among vain Fops Soon after being cured of his distemper he wrot excellent verses on the death of Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and some months after followed him The things that he hath written and translated have been many but those that are published are only these The Sophy a tragedy Lond. 1642. qu. and 1667. oct Coopers hill a poem Oxon 1643 in one sh and an half in qu. Printed again with additions at Lond. 1650 and 55 in qu. There again in 1667. 68. in oct A poem it is which for the Majesty of the stile is and ever will be the exact standard of good writing It was translated into Latin verse by Moses Pengrey as I shall elsewhere tell you An Essay against gaming Lond. in about 3 sh in oct This I have not yet seen Cato Major of old age a poem Lond. 1648. in tw in 4 parts c. The destruction of Troy or an Essay upon the second book of Virgils Aeneids Lond. 1656. in 4 sh and an half in qu written in the year 1636. Panegyrick on his excellency the Lord General George Monk Commander in chief c. Printed at Lond. in one sh in qu. in the month of Mar. 16â—â— â—â— Tho the name of John Denham is not set to it yet the frequent report was then among the Academians that he was the author of it Various poems and translations Lond. 1667 68. c. oct Among which is The Destruction of Troy Cato Major before mention'd and A Poem on Mr. Abr. Cowleys death and burial among the antient Poets Which last was a little before printed by it self in one sheet in fol. in Aug. 1667. Among them also as I remember is The Prologue to his Majesty at the first play presented at the Cock pit in Whitehall being part of that noble entertainment which their Majesties received Nov. 19. an 1660 from his Grace the D. of Albemarle Which Prologue was printed by it self at Lond. 1660. on one side of a broad sheet or paper A new version of the Psalmes of David This I have not yet seen only mention of it in an excellent copy of verses made in its commendation by Mr. Sam. Woodford sometimes of Wadham Coll in his Occasional compositions in English rimes Lond. 1668. p. 146. The true Presbyterian without disguise or a character of a Presbyterians way and actions Lond. 1680. in half a sh in fol. The name of Sir John Denham is set to this poem but then question'd by many whether ever he was the author of it See other works of his poetry in Sir Will. D'avenant before mention'd He died at his Office near to Whitehall which he before had built in March in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried on the 23 of the same month in the s cross isle or trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the graves of Jeffry Chaucer and Abr. Cowley In the year 1666 were printed by stealth in oct certain poems entit Directions to a painter in four copies or parts and each dedicated to K. Ch. 2 in verse They were very satyrically written against several persons engaged in the War against the Dutch an 1665 and at the end of the said four parts is a copy entit Clarindons house-warming Sir John Denhams name is set yet they were then thought by many to have been written by Andrew Marvell Esq and after that his epitaph both bitterly reflecting on Edw. E. of Clarendon his house called Clarendon house and his ways of scraping up wealth To which Directions tho The Printer that printed them being discovered stood in the pillory for the same GEORGE BATE a most noted Physitian of his time Son of John Bate of Burton or Bourton in Buckinghamshire was born at Maidsmorton near to Buckingham became one of the Clerks of New Coll. in the beginning of 1622 aged 14 years was thence translated to Qu. Coll. for a time and thence to S. Edm. Hall took the degrees in Arts as a member of the last entred on the Physick line and took a degree in that faculty 1629 at which time being licensed to practice exercised it in and near Oxon. for some years among precise and puritanical people he being then taken to be one of their number In 1637 he proceeded in his faculty and became thereupon more noted among men especially when K. Ch. 1. to whom he was chief Physitian and his Court kept their residence several years in Oxon in the time of the grand rebellion Afterwards when his Maj. and his cause declined he retired to London closed with the times for interest sake became Physitian to the Charter-house Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and at length chief Physitian to Oliver while he was General and afterwards when Protector and did not stick tho he pretended to be a concealed Royalist to flatter him in an high degree Upon the restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 he got in with the Royal party by his Friends report that he by a dose given to Oliver hastned him to his end was made chief Physitian to K. Ch. 2. and a member of the Royal Society His published works are these The Royal Apologie or the declaration of the Commons in Parliament 11. Feb. 1647. canvassed Printed 1648 in about 14 sh in qu. There was also a book entit The Regal Apologie printed as 't is said at Paris the same year in qu but who the author of it was I know not unless the King himself Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia simul ac Juris regii ac Parliamentarii brevis narratio Par. 1649. Franc. ad Maen 1650. 51. qu. Which being communicated to Dr. Pet. Heylyn before it went to the Press or else when the second part was joyned to it were by him made many observations on it which much tended to the honor of the King and Church This first part of Elenchus was translated into English by an unknown hand and printed at Lond. 1652 in oct The second part of the said Elenchus wherein the author was
being seconded with judgment and experience when he began to serve at the altar made him like a burning and shining light and to be looked upon as the most acute and eminent preacher of his age Much about the time that he took the degree of Bach. of Div. an 1612 he was called home into his own Country and succeeded his Father in the rectory of Luckham before mention'd and Will. Fleet in that of Selworthy adjoyning From which time till the rebellion broke out nothing occurs memorable of him only that about the year 1636 he became Prebendary of Exeter and when a Parliament afterwards was conven'd he was by the unanimous consent of the Clergy of the Diocess wherein he liv'd elected to be their Clerk in convocation In the beginning of the Civil War he was the first person that was seised on in the parts where he lived by Rob. Blake then a Captain of Dragoons afterwards General at Sea under Oliver from whom after some time of imprisonment making an escape he fled to the King at Oxon where among many Loyalists he was actually created Doct. of Divinity Before that time he had raised both men and horse for his Majesty and then or after had engaged his five Sons in that just quarrel of which four were Captains exposing all his estate whether spiritual or temporal which was not inconsiderable to rapine plunder and sequestration his children to distress and danger and himself to many grievous shifts and exigencies His wife and daughter also that were left at home were so much troubled by the Rebels that they endeavouring to avoid their cruelties by flight over the Sea into Wales were both drowned All these sufferings our author Dr. Byam patiently endured that he might keep a good conscience not out of any base or greedy desire of reward but meerly out of generous and religious principles When the Prince of Wales afterwards K. Ch. 2. fled from England this our author went with him first to the Island of Scilly and afterwards to that of Jersey where the Prince left him as his Chaplain to preach in his Chappel in the Castle called Elizabeth and there he remained till that garrison was taken by the Parliament forces From which time till the Kings return he lived in a poor and obscure condition but as soon as that glorious star appeared in the British firmament he was made Canon of Exeter and Prebendary of Wells And then when he might have obtained what he would have asked he contented himself only with what his Majesty was pleased freely to bestow upon him However had not his own modesty stood in the way 't is well known his Maj. bounty towards him had not rested here but he must have died a Bishop Which honorable function he really deserved not only for sanctity of life but for learning charity and loyalty scarce to be equall'd by any in the age he lived His works are these Thirteen Sermons most of them preached before his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in his exile Lond. 1675. in oct They were deliver'd before the K. in the Island of Scilly and Jersey at which time this worthy Dr. was Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty who was his constant Auditour admiring equally his learning and his loyalty Among them are these two lat sermons Osculum pacis concio ad clerum habita Exoniae in trien visitat D. Jos Hall Episc Exon in S. Marc. cap. 9. ver ult And Nativitus Christi conc in ad S. Mar. Ox. habita pro gradu an 1612 in Matth. cap. 1. ver 18. Also if I mistake not is his Sermon entit A return from Argier preached at Minhead in Somers 16. Mar. 1627 at the readmission of a relapsed Christian into our Ch. on Rev. 2. part of the 5. vers Lond. 1628. qu. All which 13 Sermons were published by Hamnet Ward M. D. Vicar of Sturmister-Newton-Castle in Dorsetshire He the said Dr. Byam hath other elaborate pieces that were fairly written with his own hand and ready for the press if the Executor will oblige posterity so far as to publish them but these I have not yet seen At length after he had lived to a great age and had seen many changes in the world concluded his last day on the 16. of June and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Luckham on the 29 of the same month in sixteen hundred sixty and nine On the wall near to his grave is a comely monument fastned with this inscription thereon made by Dr. Ward before mention'd Non procul hinc sub marmore congenito sepultum jacet corpus Henrici Byam ex antiquiss Byamorum familiâ oriundi SS Theologiae Doctoris insignissimi hujus ecclesiae proximae Selworthianae Rectoris Pastorisque vigilantissimi ecclesiae Cath. Exon. Canonic◠ecclesiaeque Wellensis Prebendarii sereniss Majestatis Car. II. Regis Capellani Concionatoris ordinarii necnon ejusdem saeviente illâ tyrannide semper execrandâ Phanaticorum rebellione terrâ marique comitis exulisque simul Ex meliore luto ejus constructum corpus post annos tandem octoginta novem an sal Millesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo nono morti non triumphanti quam invitanti placide cessit Sed extat adhuc viri hujus optimi celebrius multo hoc ornatius monumentum non marmore perituro sed typis exaratum perpetuis scripta scilicet ejus plane divina ubi animi vires summum ejus ingenii acumen intueberis simul miraberis Lugubrem hunc lapidem honoris reverentiae indicem posuit filius ejus obsequentiss Franciscus Byam RICHARD SAMWAIES son of Ric. Sam. was born at Illminster in Somersetshire of which his Father was Vicar was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 26. Mar. 1630 aged 16 years was afterwards Fellow M. of A. and in holy Orders In 1648 he was ejected his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliament and afterwards being a shiftless person suffer'd great misery and hardship for his loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by the Kings Commissioners was actually created Bach. of Div and on the death of Hen. Jackson became Rector of Meisey-Hampton in Glocestershire He hath written Englands faithful reprover and monitor under 9 heads directed first to the Church of England 2 to the inferior Ministers of the Gospel 3 to the Nobility and Gentry c. with a postscript Lond. 1653. in oct Besides which he had one or more books fitted for the press but were lost He died 21. Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meisey-Hampton near to the grave of his predecessor H. Jackson before mention'd Whereupon Will. Fulman succeeded him in that rectory as I shall tell you hereafter One Peter Samwaies hath written An exposition on Catechistical principles but whether he was related to the former or was of this University I cannot yet tell HENRY KING the eldest Son of Dr. John King whom I
on his hat when the Lords Prayer was repeating by the preacher see in Mr. Tho. Longs book intit No Protestant but Dissenters plot c. p. 167. 168. See also in Apologia pro Ministris in Anglia ejectis written as 't is said by Mr. Hen. Hickman who blames him also for it This action is denied by Dr. Owen that he ever did it in a letter to Dr. Lew. du Moulin but therein he doth err much for several now living in Oxon know it well enough A King and his Subjects unhappily fallen out and happily reconciled in a Serm. at Canterbury on Hosea 3. ver 4.5 Lond. 1660. qu. The question to whom it belonged antiently to preach and whether all Priests might or did Discussed out of antiquity as also what preaching is properly Lond. 1663. qu. Notae emendationes in Diog. Laertium de Vitis c. Philosophorum Lond. 1664. fol. Of the necessity of reformation in and before Luthers time occasioned by some virulent books written by Papists but especially by that entit Labarinthus Cantuariensis Lond. 1664. qu. Answer concerning the new way of infallibility lately devised to uphold the Rom. cause the holy Scriptures the antient Fathers and Councils laid aside against J. S. the author of Sure-footing his letter lately published Lond. 1665. qu. The said letter by J. S. that is Joh. Sargeant contained exceptions against some passages in the former book viz. Of the necessity c. which letter was printed at the end of Sure footing in Christianity and follows the four Appendixes relating to Dr. Tho. Pierce Dr. Dan. Whitby Dr. J. Stillingfleet and Dr. Jer. Taylor Printed 1664 in a large oct Notae in duas posteriores Terentii Comaedias Amstel 1669. in tw Letter to Dr. Pet. du Moulin D. D. and Prebendary of Canterb. concerning natural experimental Philosophy and some books lately set out about it Cambr. 1669 in 5. sh in qu. Of credulity and incredulity in things natural and civil c. in two parts The first was printed at London 1668. oct The second in Things divine and spiritual was printed at the same place also 1670. oct In this last part he takes a view of John Wagstaff's book entit The question of witchcraft debated Lond. 1669. oct But these two parts lying dead on the Booksellers hands they printed a new title to them running thus A Treatise proving Spirits Witches and supernatural operations by pregnant instances and evidences c. Lond. 1672. oct the Author being then dead Notae in Polybium Amstel 1670. oct in the third Vol published by Jac. Gronovius Notae emendationes in Hieroclis commentarium Lond. 1673. oct Variae Epistolae ad Ger. Joh. Vossium alios He also enlarged and amended the third edition of his Fathers Commentary on Aul. Persius his Satyrs Lond. 1647. oct And made fit for the press a book entit A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and some spirits c. Lond. 1659. fol. To which book M. Casaubon wrot a large preface confirming the reality as to the point of spirits in the said Relation At length after a life spent partly in adversity but mostly in prosperity he gave way to fate on the 14 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the south part of the first cross Isle joyning southward to Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Canterbury Over his grave was soon after erected a handsome monument the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon Lib. 2. p. 282. b. He had a design in his last days of writing his own life and would often confess that he thought himself obliged to do it out of gratitude to the divine providence which had preserv'd and delivered him from more hazardous occurrences than ever any man as he thought beside himself had encountred with particularly in his escape from a fire in the night time which hapned in the house where he lived while he was a boy in Geneva Also by his recovery from a sickness while of Ch. Ch. in Oxon when he was given over for a dead man Which recovery was made by a young Physitian that gave Chymical physick to him In his wonderful delivery from drowning when overset in a boat on the Thames near London the two Water-men being drowned and he bouyed up by the help of his priests coat In his bearing several abuses fines imprisonments c. laid upon him by the fanatical reformers in the time of his sequestration and other memorables But these things being by him deferred from time to time were at length hindred by death which seized on him sooner than he expected GILBERT IRONSIDE son of Ralph Ironside Bach. of Div. somtimes Fellow of Univ. Coll. afterwards Minister of Long Bridie by his wife dau of Will. Gilbert M. A. of Madg. Coll. and superior Beadle of Arts of the Univ. of Oxon was born at Hawksbury near to Sadbury in that County on the 25 of Nov. S Catherins day an 1588 admitted Scholar of Trin. Coll. 28 May 1605 Fellow 1613 being then M. of A and Bach. of Div. in 1619. At length he became Rector of Winterbourn Stepleton and Winterbourn Abbots joyning together in Dorsetshire both which he keeping till after the Kings restauration was made Preb. of Thokerington in the Church of York in Oct. 1660 about which time being nominated to the See of Bristow was consecrated thereunto being first created D. D. in S. Peters Church at Westm on the 6. of January 1660. That which I am to take notice of him further is that tho he was never Chaplain to any spiritual or temporal Lord or to any King or Prince or enjoyed any Dignity in the Church except the little Preb. beforemention'd yet being wealthy he was looked upon as the fittest person to enter upon that mean Bishoprick He hath written Seaven questions of the Sabbath Oxon. 1637. qu. Besides which and a Sermon printed in 1660 he had laid the foundation of other Theological treatises and had in some manner brought them to perfection but Civil Wars breaking forth and old age following the publication of them was hindred He died at Bristow on the 19. Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Cathedral there near to the entrance into the Bishops Stall as I have been enformed by his Son of both his names lately Bishop of that See See more in Joh. White among these writers an 1648. p. 61. FRANCIS DROPE a younger Son of Tho. Drope B. D. Vicar of Comnore near Abendon in Berks and Rector of Ardley near Bister in Oxfordshire was born in the Vicaridge House at Comnore made Demy of Madg. Coll. in 1645 and ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he assisted Mr. Will. Fuller in teaching a privat School at Twickenham or Twittenham in Middlesex where continuing till his Majesties return in 1660 was restored to
Scotch man born Son of Dr. Walter Whitford of Monkland Bishop of Brechen and of the house of Milneton was elected one of the Students of Ch. Ch from Westm School an 1642 aged 16 years bore Arms for his Majesty soon after within the Garrison of Oxon and elsewhere took one degree in Arts after the surrender of that garrison and in 1648 was thrown out of his Students place by the impetuous Visitors appointed by Parliament So that at present being out of all employ he adhered to the cause of K. Ch. 2 paid his obedience to him when in Scotland served him in the quality of an Officer at Worcester fight 1651 at which time he came to obtain his rights and inheritances then most unjustly usurped by Fanaticks was there wounded taken Prisoner brought to Oxon and thence among other Prisoners carried to London where by the importunity of friends he was released Afterwards he was relieved by Edw. Bysshe Esq K. of Arms and became Usher to James Shirley the Poet when he taught School in the White-fryers near Fleetstreet in London After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Students place was actually created Master of Arts and having had no preferment bestowed upon him for his Loyalty as hundreds of Cavaliers had not because poor and could not give bribes and rewards to great and hungry Officers he was taken into the service of John Earl afterwards Duke of Lauderdale and became his Chaplain I mean that Earl whose Sirname was Maitland who dying at Tunbridge Wells in Kent on S. Bartholomews day 1682 his body was conveyed by Sea to Scotland and there deposited in a Church of his own erection called Lauder Church where is the Mansion House and Seat of his Family The said Dav. Whitford who was always accounted an excellent Greecian and Philologist hath published with a translation in latin verse Musaei Moschi Bionis quae extant omnia London 1655. qu. in Gr. and Lat. Selectiora quaedam Theocriti Eidyllia in Gr. and Lat. Both dedicated to Bysshe before mention'd who is by Whitford stiled Asylum perfugium afflictis egenis He also translated into Latine the said Bysshe his notes an old authors that have written of Armes and Armory as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Person under the year 1679. He also wrot an Appendix to The compleat History of the Wars in Scotland under the conduct of James Marquess of Montrose or Montross as I have been credibly informed by those that knew him well which History was written by the learned and famous Geor. Wishart D.D. as I shall tell you elsewhere What other things this Mr. Whitford hath written published or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying suddenly in his Chamber in Ch Ch. in the morning of the 26. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and four at which time his Bedmaker found him dead lying on his bed with his wearing apparel on him was buried in the south trancept joyning to the Cathedral Church there near to the body of his elder Brother called Adam Whitford Bach. of Arts and sometimes Student of the said house who was buried 10. of Feb. 1646. There was another elder Brother a stout and desperate man called Colonel Walter Whitford who had a prime hand in dispatching that notorious Villain Is Dorislaw as I have told you before in Jo. L'isle pag. 228. Which Colonel was not executed in Scotland by the covenanting party there in June 1650 as a certain author tells us as having been one of the party under the illustrious and truly valiant Montross before mention'd but is still Sept. 1691. living in Edenburgh and in opinion a R. C. The said author tells us also that about the same time June 1650 one Spotswood another Officer Son of a Bishop was beheaded on the said account at which time was an acknowledgment made as he farther adds that he was one of those that murdered Dr. Dorislaus in Holland EDWARD HYDE son of Hen. Hyde of Pyrton in Wilts by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Edw. Langford of Trobridge in the same County third Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Mich. in Dors descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Northbury in Cheshire was born at Dinton near Hindon in Wilts on the 16. of Febr. or thereabouts an 1608 entred a Student of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622 went after he had taken one degree in Arts to the Middle Temple where he studied the Law In the beginning of the year 1640 he was chosen Burgess for Wotton Basset in his own Country to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. of Apr. the same year and again for Saltash in Cornwall to serve in that unhappy Parl. that began on the third of Nov. following and when the troubles began betwixt the King and Parliament he left the House of Commons and went with the King to York and afterwards to Oxford where he continued most of the time that that place was in the Kings hands was made Chancellour of the Exchequer a Privy-counsellor and a Knight At length upon the declining of the Kings cause he with the Lords Culpeper and Capel accompanying Prince Charles ship'd themselves at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall for the Isle of Scilley then for Jersey and afterwards for France From which time our author Hyde adhering closely to the said Prince and attending his motions in foreign parts he was by him when King sent Embassador into Spain made his Secretary of State and at length L. Chanc. of England at Bruges in Flanders 29. Jan. 1657. After the Kings restauration he was elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon made Baron of Hindon in Wilts Viscount Cornbury in Oxfordshire of which he was afterwards Lord Lieutenant and Earl of Clarendon near Salisbury After he had held the honourable Office of Lord Chancellour for seven years or more the Great Seal was taken from him 30. Aug. 1667 and about 4 months after retired into France where he remained seven years spending his time in several places there Under his name were these things following published Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the House of Lords concerning the Lord Presidents Court and Council in the North an 1640. 2 Sp. at a conference between both Houses 6. Jul. 1641 at the transmission of several impeachments against the Lord Chief Baron Davenport Baron Trevor and Baron Weston Lond. 1641. qu. c. besides several arguments and debates See in John Rushworths book called Historical Collections in the first vol. of the second part an 1640 and in the Impartial Collection c. of Dr. John Nalson A full answer to an infamous and traiterous Pamphlet intit A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled expressing their reasons and grounds of passing their late resolutions touching no further address or application to be made to the King Lond. 1648. qu.
and their better understanding they interrupted him and told him in plain terms they could not suffer his attendance any longer about the King With which proceedings and dismiss without acquainting him with the occasion 't was ill resented by the King who had Harrington in good esteem looking upon him as a Gentleman qualified with special parts and having found him trusty his service was the more acceptable yet blamed him nevertheless for not being more wary amongst men that were at such a time full of jealousies and very little obliging to his Majesty Being thus dismist and Herbert only left to attend the K. in his chamber I think he was never admitted again when the King was afterwards conveyed to Windsore and so to St. James's However he was with him on the Scaffold when he suffered death where or else a little before he received a pledge of his Majesties affection From that time always even when Oliver raigned he would speak of the said King with the greatest zeal and passion imaginable and would often say to his Companions that his death gave him so great grief that he contracted a disease by it and that never any thing went more near to him than the death of that most wise and pious Prince Before I go any farther with Harrington I will here make a little digression concerning the condition then of his Majesty Herbert was only then left to wait upon the K. in his Bed-chamber for the other two were before dismist who tho sickly and in an aguish condition yet he held out by his careful observing his Majesty's instructions without which as the times then were it had been impossible for him to have kept his station To this deplorable condition his Maj. being thus reduced he could not choose but have some melancholy apprehensions as indeed he had for accordingly about midnight there was an unusual noise in the said Hurst Castle that awakened him out of his sleep and was in some marvel to hear the Draw-bridg let down at that unseasonable hour and some Horsemen enter who being alighted the rest of the night was in a deep silence The King being desirous to know the matter he rung his silver bell long before break of day which with both his watches he usually laid upon a stool near the wax Lamp that was set near them in a large silver bason upon which call Herbert opened the Bed chamber door to know his Maj. pleasure The K. told him he would rise and as he was making ready he ask'd him if he heard the noise that was made about midnight Herbert answer'd he did as also the falling of the Draw-bridg but he being shut up in the back-stair room next to the Bed chamber and the door by the Governours order being bolted without he neither could nor would without his Maj. order adventure out at such a time of night The K. then bid him go and learn what the matter was which he did accordingly and knocking at the back-stair door the Soldiers unbolted it without so that entring into the next room he happily found Capt. Joh. Reynolds there alone by a fire and after some discourse he enquired of him who they were that came so very late into the Castle last night and their errand The Captain in a joking way bad him be wary in carrying news to the K. for he was among supercilious superintendants and his Comrade was served for an example Herbert thanked him for his friendly caution and at length got out of him who the Commander was that came so late into the Castle but would not discover what his business was Whereupon he returned to his Majesty and told him it was Major Tho. Harrison that came so late into the Castle Are you sure it was Major Harrison said the King May it please your Majesty said Herbert Captain Reynolds told me so the K. then making a little pause said then I believe it but did you see Major Harrison No Sir said Herb. Then the K. said Would not Capt. Reynolds tell you what the Major's business is Herbert then replied that he did what he could to be informed but all that he could then learn from the Captain was that the occasion of Harrisons coming would be known suddenly The King said no more but bad him attend in the next room and forthwith his Maj. went to his prayers In less than an hour the K. opened the Bed-chamber door and beckoned to Herbert to come in and make him ready Herbert was in some consternation to see his Maj. so much discomposed and wept which the K. observing asked him the meaning of it Herbert replied because I perceive your Maj. so much concerned at the news I brought said the K. thereupon I am not afraid but do you not know that this is the man Harrison who intendeth to assasianate me as by letter I was informed during the late Treaty To my knowledge I never saw the Major tho I have often heard of him nor ever did him injury The Commissioners indeed hearing of it represented it from Newport to the House of Lords what satisfaction he gave them I cannot tell this I can that I trust in God who is my helper I would not be surprised but this is a place fit for such a purpose Herbert I trust to your care go again and make farther enquiry into this business Immediately after Herbert went out and finding an opportunity to speak in private with Capt. Reynolds who being a Gent. well educated and at all essays ready to express civility towards the King with whom he most times walked upon a long narrow passage of stony ground joyning to the Castle and was always courteous to his servants he told him that the Major's business was to remove the King thenee to Windsore Castle within three days at farthest Herbert believing the King would be well pleased with the exchange by leaving the worst to enjoy the best Castle in England returned to his Majesty with a mirthful countenance little imagining God knows the sad consequence but as soon as the King heard Windsore named he seemed to rejoyce at it The Major tarried two nights at Hurst Castle and when it was dark having given orders for the Kings removal he departed to the place from whence he came and what passed between the King and him in his Majesties going from Hurst Castle to Windsore you shall have an account hereafter Now let 's return to our Author Harrington who when he thought that after the death of his Master Monarchy would never be restor'd he followed his own genie which chiefly laid towards the Politicks and Democratical Government He made several Essays in Poetry as in writing of Love verses and translating of Virgils Eclogues but his muse was rough and Harry Nevill an ingenious and well-bred Gentleman and a good but conceited Poet being his familiar and confident friend disswaded him from tampring with Poetry and to apply himself to the improvement of
After his Majesties restauration he was made one of his Advocates being then esteemed a learned man and as well read in Divinity as in his own faculty as may be seen in the books following of his writing The holy Limbeck or an extraction of the Spirit from the letter of certain eminent places in the holy scripture Lond. 1650. in tw Other copies have this title The holy Limbeck or a semicentury of spiritual extractions c. The holy arbour containing the whole body of Divinity or the sum and substance of Christian Religion Lond. 1651. in a thin fol. A view of the Admiral jurisdiction wherein the most material points concerning that jurisdiction are fairly and submissively discussed c. Lond. 1661. oct A Catalogue of such that have been dignified with the office of Lord high Admiral in this Kingdom c. Printed at the end of the said View and all or most taken from Sir Hen. Spelman's Glossary in the word Admiralius The Orphans legacy or a testamentary abridgment in three parts 1. Of last Wills and Testaments 2. Of Executors and Administrators 3. Of Legacies and Devises c. Lond. 1674. qu. c. Repertorium Canonicum or an abridgment of the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Realm consistent with the temporal wherein the most material points c. Lond. 1678. 80 c. qu. He also translated into English out of Garsias alias Ferrand An extract of the antient Laws of Oleron Lond. 1661 printed with The view of Admiral jurisdiction before mention'd to which translation he put marginal observations He died in or near Fleetstreet on the fourth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the north isle of Clarkenwell Church near London As for Ch. Geor. Cock before mentioned he was of the Inner Temple and a Counsellor there but whether he was ever of this Univ. I cannot tell However this I know of him that he being a great Antimonarchist was in some manner contributary to the death of K. Ch. 1 that he was one of those 21 persons that were appointed to be of a Committee to consult of a reformation of the Law in Jan. 1651 he being then living and residing in Norwych that he was one of the Commissioners of the Prerogative Court one of the High Court of Justice in Nov. 1653 and author of a canting whimsical and enthusiastical book intit English-Law or a summary survey of the houshold of God on earth and that both before and under the Law and that both of Moses and the Lord Jesus c. Lond. 1651. in a thin fol. To which is added Essay of Christian Government under the regiment of our Lord and King the one immortal invisible c. Prince of Peace Emanuel Written by the same hand THOMAS GOOD became scholar of Ball. Coll. in the latter end of 1624 aged 15 years Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Mich. term 1628 and on the 29 of Nov. the next year he was admitted probationer Fellow of that house ran thro all exercises of the Coll. and University till he was Bach. of Div. in 1639. Afterwards tho he was absent in the times of distraction yet he kept his Fellowship and submitted to the men of the interval At length having obtained a small Cure at Coerley in his native Country of Shropshire he resigned his Fellowship in 1658 and at the Kings restauration was as a Sufferer for the Kings Cause as 't is said in the Univ. Reg. of that year actually created D. of D. About that time he was made one of the Residentiaries of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford and Rector of Winstanstow in his own Country and at length on the death of Dr. Savage Master of Ball. Coll. He was in his younger years accounted a brisk Disputant and when resident in his Coll. a frequent Preacher yet always esteemed an honest and harmless Puritan A noted author of the Presbyterian perswasion tells us that he was one of the most peaceable moderate and honest Conformists of his acquaintance and subscribed the Worcestershire agreement for concord and joyned with the Presbyterians in their association and meetings at Kedirminster and was the man that drew the Catalogue of Questions for their disputations at their meetings and never talked then to them of what he afterwards wrot in his book called Dubitantius Firmianus which when published he lost his credit among them and was lesser esteemed by Mr. Baxter the pride and glory of that party He hath written and published Firmianus and Dubitantius Or certain Dialogues concerning Atheisme Infidelity Popery and other Heresies and Schismes c. Oxon. 1674. oct Animadverted upon by the said Mr. Baxter in a letter directed to him dat 10 Feb. 1673 in the Apologie here quoted from pag. 142 to 146. A brief English Tract of Logick Printed 1677. in a little oct of 2 sh and an half He had as I have been informed other things laying by him at his death fit for the press but of what subject they treated or in whose hands they are gotten I know not He died at Hereford on the ninth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Cathedral Church there On the 24 day of the same month was elected in his place of Master of Ball. Coll. John Venn M. A. and Fellow of that House BENJAMIN WELLS second son of John Wells the famous Mathematician of Deptford in Kent was born there or at least in that County became a Communer of S. Albans Hall in 1632 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and then being translated to that of S. Mary was admitted Master as a member thereof an 1639 and the next year was elected Probat Fellow of All 's College Afterwards entring on the Physick line he was admitted to practise that faculty in Dec. an 1650 having been about that time in some of the Western Plantations Afterwards he setled at Greenwich alias East Greenwich in his native County where he practised his faculty but being of a morose temper tho able in his profession was but little resorted to by Patients which was the reason he died very indigent He hath written A treatise of the Gout or Joint Evil. Lond. 1669. in tw and translated into English The Expert Physitian learnedly treating of all agues and feavers Lond. 1657. oct Written originally by Dr. Brice Bauderon This Mr. Wells died at East Greenwich before mentioned in April in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Church there on the 13 day of the same month John Wells Esq the father before mention'd was Store-keeper of the naval Arsenal at Deptford a charge of good credit and requiring extraordinary application was much valued for his mathematical sufficiencies by Briggs Gunter Gellibrand Oughtred c. and learnedly wrot Sciographia Or the art of Shadows plainly demonstrating out of the Sphaere how to project both great and small circles upon any place whatsoever with
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
night and perceiving him to be disturb'd in his sleep called again and bid him rise for said his Maj. I will get up having a great work to do this day and then asking Herbert what troubled him he told his Majesty he was dreaming I would know your dream said the King which being told his Majesty said it was remarkable Jan. 30. Tuesday Herbert saith the K. this is my second marriage day I will be as trim to day as may be for before night I hope to be espoused to my blessed Jesus He then appointed what cloaths he would wear Let me have a shirt more than ordinary said the K. by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake which some observers will imagine proceeds from fear I would have no such imputation I fear not death death is not terrible to me I bless God I am prepared Death indeed only sets men free from the misery of this world and breaks asunder the chains of bondage c. These or words to the same effect his Maj. spake to Mr. Herbert as he was making ready Soon after came Dr. Juxon B. of London precisely at the time his Maj. the night before had appointed him Mr. Herbert then falling upon his knees he humbly beg'd his Majesties pardon if he had at any time been negligent in his duty while he had the honour to serve him The King then gave him his hand to kiss having the day before been graciously pleased under his royal hand to give him a certificate expressing that the said Mr. Herbert was not imposed upon him but by his Maj. made choice of to attend him in his Bed-chamber and had served him with faithfulness and loyal affection At the same time his Maj. delivered to him his Bible in the margin whereof he had with his own hand wrot many annotations and quotations and charged him to give it to the Prince of Wales so soon as he returned repeating what he had enjoyned the Princess Elizabeth his daughter and that He the Prince would be dutiful and indulgent to the Queen his mother to whom his Maj. wrot two days before by Mr. Seymour affectionate to his brothers and sisters who also were to be observant and dutiful to him their Soveraigne And forasmuch as from his heart he had forgiven his enemies and in perfect charity with all men would leave this world he advised the Prince his son to exceed in mercy not in rigour c. And as to Episcopacy it was still his opinion that it is of apostolic institution and in his Kingdom exercised from the primitive times and therein as in all other his affairs he prayed God to vouchsafe both in reference to the Church and State a pious and discerning Spirit c. and that it was his last and earnest request that the Prince would read the Bible which in all the time of his affliction had been his best instructor and delight and to meditate upon what he read as also such other books as might improve his knowledge c. He likewise commanded Mr. Herbert to give his son the Duke of York his large Ring Sundial of silver a Jewel his Maj. much valued it was invented and made by Rich. Delamaine a very able Mathematician who projected it and in a little printed book did shew its excellent use in resolving many questions in Arithmetick and other rare operations to be wrought by it in the Mathematicks To the Princess Elizabeth he gave the Sermons of Dr. Lanc. Andrews sometimes B. of Winchester and Prelate of the Garter Archb. Laud's Conference between him and Joh. Fisher the Jesuit which book the K. said would ground her against Popery and Mr. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie He also gave him a paper to be delivered to the said Princ. Elizabeth to be printed in which his Maj. asserted Regal Government to have a divine right with proofs out of sundry authors civil and sacred To the Duke of Gloc. he gave K. James's Works and Dr. Hammonds Practical Catechisme He gave also to Mountague E. of Lindsey L. High Chamberlain Cassandra and his gold Watch to Mary Duchess of Richmond All which as opportunity served Mr. Herbert delivered His Maj. then bid him withdraw which being done his Maj. with the Bishop were in private together about an hour and then Mr. Herbert being call'd in the Bishop went to Prayer and reading the 27 chapt of the Gospel of S. Mathew which relates to the passion of our blessed Saviour the K. after the Service was done asked the Bishop If he had made choice of that Chapter being so applicable to his present condition the B. answered May it please your Maj. it is the proper lesson for the day as appears by the Kalendar Whereupon his Maj. was much affected with it as so aptly serving a seasonable preparation for his death that day His Maj. abandoned all thoughts of earthly concerns continued in prayer and meditation and concluded with a cheerful submission to the will and pleasure of the Almighty saying he was ready to resign himself into the hands of Christ Jesus and with the Kingly Prophet as 't is expressed in the 31 Psal ver 5. Into thy hands c. Col. Franc. Hacker then knocked easily at the Kings door but Mr. Herbert being within would not stir to ask who it was that knock'd At length the Col. knocking the second time a little louder the K. bade him go to the door he guess'd the business So Mr. Herbert demanding wherefore he knock'd the Col. said he would speak with the King the K. said Let him come in The Col. in a trembling manner came near and told his Majesty Sir it is time to go to Whitehall where you may have some further time to rest The K. bade him go forth and told him I will come presently Some time his Maj. was private and afterwards taking the good Bishop by the hand looking upon him with a cheerful countenance said Come let us go and bidding Mr. Herbert take with him the silver clock that hung by his bed-side said Open the door Hacker has given us a second warning The K. passed thro the Garden into the Park where making a stand asked Mr. Herbert the hour of the day and taking the clock into his hand and looking upon it gave it to him and said Keep this in memory of me which Mr. Herbert kept to his dying day The Park had several Companies of Foot drawn up who made a guard on each side as the K. passed and a guard of Halbertiers in company went some before and others followed the King The drums beat and the noise was so great as one could hardly hear what another spoke Upon the Kings right hand went the Bishop and on the left Col. Mathew Tomlinson with whom his Maj. had some discourse by the way Mr. Herbert was next behind the K and after him the Guards In this manner went the K. thro the Park and coming to the stairs
both express'd the greatness of their Founders and preserved the splendor of the Kingdom which might at the reformation have in some measure been kept up and converted to sundry pious uses Upon consideration thereof those Gent. declined it and pitch'd upon the Vault where K. Ed. 4. had been inter'd being on the north side of the Choire near the Altar that K. being one his late Maj. would oftentimes make honorable mention of and from whom his Maj. was lineally propagated That therefore induced Mr. Herbert to give order to N. Harrison and Hen. Jackson to have that Vault opened partly covered with a fair large stone of Touch raised within the Arch adjoyning having a range of iron bars gilt curiously cut according to Church work c. But as they were about this work some Noble-men came thither namely the Duke of Richmond the Marq. of Hertford the Earl of Lindsey and with them Dr. Juxon B. of London who had license from the Parliament to attend the Kings body to his grave Those Gent. therefore Herbert and Mildmay thinking fit to submit and leave the choice of the place of burial to those great persons they in like manner viewed the Tomb-house and the Choir and one of the Lords beating gently upon the Paâ—ement with his staff perceived a hollow sound and thereupon ordering the stones and earth to be removed they discovered a descent into a Vault where two Coffins were laid near one another the one very large of an antique form and the other little These they supposed to be the bodies of K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Jane Seymour his third wife as indeed they were The Velvet Palls that covered their Coffins seemed fresh tho they had laid there above 100 years The Lords agreeing that the Kings body should be in the said Vault inter'd being about the middle of the Choir over against the eleventh stall upon the Soveraigns side they gave order to have the Kings name and year he died cut in lead which whilst the Work-men were about the Lords went out and gave Puddifant the Sexton order to lock the Chappel door and not suffer any to stay therein till farther notice The Sexton did his best to clear the Chappel nevertheless Isaac the Sextons man said that a Foot Soldier had hid himself so as he was not discern'd and being greedy of prey crept into the Vault and cut so much of the Velvet Pall that covered the great body as he judged would hardly be missed and wimbled also a hole thro the said Coffin that was largest probably fancying that there was something well worth his adventure The Sexton at his opening the door espied the sacrilegious person who being searched a bone was found about him with which he said he would haâ—t a knife The Governour being therefore informed of he gave him his reward and the Lords and others present were convinc'd that a real body was in the said great Coffin which some before had scrupled The girdle or circumscription of capital letters of lead put about the Kings Coffin had only these words King Charles 1648. The Kings body was then brought from his Bed-chamber down into S. George's Hall whence after a little stay it was with a slow and solemn pace much sorrow in most faces being then discernable carried by Gentlemen of quality in mourning The Noblemen in mouring also held up the Pall and the Governour with several Gentlemen and Officers and Attendants came after It was then observed that at such time as the Kings body was brought out from S. George's Hall the sky was serene and clear but presently it began to snow and the snow fell so fast that by that time the corps came to the west end of the royal Chappel the black velvet Pall was all white the colour of innocency being thick covered over with snow The Body being by the Bearers set down near the place of burial the Bishop of London stood ready with the Service book in his hands to have performed his last duty to the K. his Master according to the order and form of burial of the Dead set forth in the book of Common Prayer which the Lords likewise desired but would not be suffer'd by Col. Whitchcot the Governour of the Castle by reason of the Directory to which said he he and others were to be conformable Thus went the White King to his grave in the 48 year of his age and 22 year and 10 month of his Reign To let pass Merlins Prophecy which some allude to the White Sattin his Maj. wore when he was crowned in Westm Abbey former Kings having on purple Robes at their Coronation I shall conclude this Narrative with the Kings own excellent expression running thus Crownes and Kingdoms are not so valuable as my honor and reputation Those must have a period with my life but these survive to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone a good name being the embalming of Princes and a sweet consecrating of them to an eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity MARTIN LLEWELLIN Lluellyn or Lluelyn so many ways I find him written the seventh son without any daughter between of Mart. Lluellyn was born in London on the 12 of Decemb. 1616 and on the 22 of the said month was baptized in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew near Smithfield In 1636 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 at which time he bore arms for his Majesty and was at length a Captain In 1648 he was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament so that afterward going to the great City he prosecuted then his genius as much to Physick as before it had to Poetry In 1653 he obtained the favour of the men in power then in the University to be admitted Doctor of Physick and so consequently took the Oaths that were then required and afterwards became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians In 1660 he was sworn Physitian to his Majesty at that time newly return'd to his Kingdoms and in the same year he was not only made Principal of the Hall of S. Mary the Virgin but one of the Commissioners appointed by the King for regulating the University of Oxon in which office he shew'd himself active enough In 1664 he left the University and setling with his wife and family in a market Town in Bucks called Great Wycombe practised his faculty there was made a Justice of the Peace for that County and in 1671 was elected Mayor of that Corporation in which offices he behaved himself severe against the Phanaticks He hath written Men-miracles A Poem Printed 1656. in oct Divers Poems Printed 1656. in oct Satyrs Printed 1656. in oct Elegies Printed 1656. in oct Divine Poems Printed 1656. in oct Among his Elegies is one upon Rob. Burton alias Democritus Junior of Ch. Ch another upon the eminent Poet and Orator Will. Cartwright a third upon Dr.
Oliver the Protector which with the Academy there being soon after dissolved he retired to Westbury and continued at that place till 1662 at which time being ejected for Nonconformity held notwithstanding afterwards Conventicles in the places where he lived He hath written A treatise of Monarchy containing two parts 1. Concerning Monarchy in general 2. Concerning this particular Monarchy c. Lond. 1643 qu. Answer'd by Dr. Hen. Ferne in his Reply to several Treatises c. and by Sir Rob. Filmer in a piece of his called The Anarchy of a limited and mixed monarchy Lond. 1646 qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1652 and 1679. oct This Sir Robert by the way must be known was son of Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Rich. Argall of the same place Esq and was as I conceive educated in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Our author Hunton hath also written A Vindication of the treatise of Monarchy Lond. 1644. qu. As for the said Treatise of Monarchy which hath been and is still in great vogue among many persons of Commonwealth and Levelling Principles was reprinted when the Press was open in 1680 when then the factious party endeavoured to carry on their designs upon account of the Popish Plot. But forasmuch as 't is said therein that the Soveraignity of England is in the three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons that proposition was condemned by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon in their Convocation held 21. July 1683 and the book it self wherein it is was then publickly burnt in the School-quadrangle Afterwards as soon as the Prince of Orange was come into England at which time the Nation was in a hurry it was again printed at Lond. in January 1688 qu. with the date of 1689 put to it Under our authors name goes also a book entit Jus Regum c. Lond. 1645. qu. But this I have not yet seen and therefore I can say nothing of it Nor no more of the author who was a man of parts only that he dying in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Church of Westbury in Wilts before mentioned having some years before married a widdow with a good joynture which maintained him and kept up his port THOMAS JONES son of John Williams was born and brought up in juvenile learning at Oswestrie in Shropshire entred into Jesus Coll. in the beginning of the grand rebellion left it soon after returned when Oxford garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parl an 1646 became fellow of Univ. Coll. by the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament in 1648 to whom he then submitted and acknowledg'd the use of the Covenant and in the year following he took a degree in Arts being at that time and after a zealous person for carrying on the righteous cause In 1652 he being then Master of his faculty he wrot Vita Edwardi Simsoni S. T. D. ex ipsius autographo excerpta which is set before the said Simsons Chronicon Catholicum printed at Oxon. 1652. fol. and in 1654 he took holy orders as 't is said from a Bishop About that time he became Rector of Castle in Montgomerieshire in the dioc of S. Asaph and learned the Welsh tongue purposely to serve those parts when the Orthodox Clergy were miserably consumed by an act of propagation From that place being ejected upon one Wynns's discovery of a dormant title he removed to the service of the Lord President and Council of Wales at Ludlow Castle an 1661 and thence to be domestick and naval Chaplain to James Duke of York in 1663 In whose service continuing till 1666 or after was then by the means of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester for some words spoken against him derogatory to his person and function dismiss'd thence So that soon after retiring to his rectory of Landurnog in the dioc of Bangor which he some time before had obtained found there but little quiet also from Dr. Morgan his Diocesan being as our author saith set on by the B. of Winchester In 1670 Winchester call'd him to an account for an action of slander at the Kings-bench for saying that he was a promoter of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England attested upon oath by Bangor and two of his Chaplains whereupon our author was fined 300 l. or mor and the Rectory of Landurnog was sequestred for the payment of it Which fine Winchester offer'd to remit wholly if he would confess he had spoken those words against him and ask forgiveness But when he would not the sequestration continued and 20 l. of it was sent to our author and some given for the repairing of the Cathedral of Bangor and the rest for other pious uses About the same time he was condemn'd and censur'd ab officio beneficio by his Diocesan occasioned by some controversie that hapned between them about a reading Pew in the Church at Landurnog the particulars of which you may read at large elsewhere So that being in a manner undone did much about the time of the breaking out of the Popish Plot publish Of the heart and its right Soveraigne and Rome no Mother-Church to England Or an historical account of the title of an English Church and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every County Lond. 1678 oct A remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above in the great question where is the true Mother Church of Christians Printed with the former book At that time the author taking part with Tit. Oates his old acquaintance Ez. Tongue Steph. Colledge c. and other factious people to gain their ends by making a disturbance in the nation by be Popish Plot he wrote and published Elymas the Sorcerer or a Memorial towards the discovery of the bottome of this Popish Plot c. Published upon occasion of a passage in the late Dutchess of Yorks declaration for changing her religion Lond. 1682 in 8. sh in fol. This book was written and published in Spleen against the Bishop of Winchester grounded upon a passage in The Historie of Calvinisme written by Monsieur Lewes Maimburgh a French Jesuit wherein he resolves the Dutchess of Yorks declaration for Popery into the seeming encouragement of two of the most learned Bishops in England One of these our author Jones doth endeavour to make the Reader to understand tho he nameth him not to be Winchester Notice of this book therefore comming to the said B. of Wint. he would have prosecuted the matter so far in his own vindication as to have the said Elymas the Sorcerer to be publickly burnt and the author to the further punished But before he could compass his design the author died However Winchester that he might not sit silent published his own vindication as to M. Maimburghs words in his preface to certain treatises that he published in 1683. Rich. Watson also D. D. of this
great a stranger to Covetousness that he hardly understood money which yet he took care to employ to the best uses His memory was prodigious in his younger years not only natural but acquired for he had studied and wrot of the Art of memory and improv'd it to great advantage He wrot several Treatises curious and learned which were designed to see the light but were all lost together with his great Library of many years collection and several Mss which he had brought from forreign Countries partly by the Irish and partly by the Protestant Army in the time of K. Will. 3. an 1689.90 He died in sixteen hundred seventy and one aged an hundred years and more being then as 't was computed the antientest Bishop in the world having been above 50 years a Bishop His death hapned at his Seat called Castle Lesley alias Glaslogh and was there buried in a Church of his own building which he had made the Parish Church by vertue of an Act of Parliament for that purpose in Ireland Which Church was consecrated to S. Salvator Sir James Ware in his Commentary of the Irish Bishops tells us that this Bishop Lesley was Doct. of Div. of Oxon and his Son named Charles Lesley a Minister in Ireland hath informed me that he was not only Doct. of Div. but of both the Laws of Oxford How true these things are I cannot tell sure I am that I cannot find his name in any of the registers of Congreg or Convocation or that he took any degree there GILBERT IRONSIDE sometimes Fell. of Trin. Coll was made B. of Bristow in the year 1660 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 357. In the said See succeeded Dr. Guy Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1685. WILLIAM NICOLSON sometimes one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll succeeded Dr. Godfrey Goodman in the See of Glocester an 1660 and died in the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 362. In the said See succeeded John Prichett as I shall tell you under the year 1680. GRIFFITH WILLIAMS sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards of the Univ. of Cambr. became Bishop of Ossory in 1641 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 363. In the said See succeeded Dr. John Parry as I have told you among the said Writers an 1677. p. 448. JOHN WILKINS sometimes of New Inn afterwards of Magdalen Hall was consecrated Bish of Chester an 1668 on the death of Dr. George Hall and died in Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers p. 370.371 In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creake in Norfolk bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631 commenced M. of A became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter Preb. of Sarum Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap and afterwards at S. Christophers in London In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey after it had laid void about eleven years being then D. of D. was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely Chapl. in ord to his Maj and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester was consecrated to that See with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells on the ninth day of Febr. an 1672 having before published an Exposition on the Creed c. After his death which I have mention'd elsewhere succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard born also at Creake bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646 was afterwards M. of A Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll and kept his Fellowship with it went out Doct. of the Civ and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669 he being then Under-keeper of his Maj. Library at S. James He was a most excellent Scholar a most admired Greecian and a great Traveller He died in the summer-time an 1670 being then as 't was vulgarly reported a Rom. Cath. FRANCIS DAVIES a Glamorganshire man born became a Student of Jes Coll. an 1628 aged 17 years took the degr in Arts and was made Fellow of the said House About that time entring into holy Orders he became beneficed in Wales and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards suffering much for the Kings Cause lived as opportunity served and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were But being restored to what he had lost after his Maj. restauration he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661 being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year and about that time was consecrated He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes Coll in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675 where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw he was translated to Peterborough and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforemention'd Franc. Davies was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted but before him in time author of A Catechism wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lords Prayer and Creed c. Lond. 1612. oct ded to Mr. Tho. Digges but whether he was of Oxford I cannot yet tell Qu. WILLIAM FULLER son of Tho. Fuller was born in London educated in the Coll. School at Westminster became a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1626 or thereabouts aged 18 years took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law six years after as a Member of S. Edm. Hall having translated himself thither some time before About that time he entred into holy Orders was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch and when the K. had taken up his head quarter at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion he became Chapl. to Edw. L. Littleton L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal there Afterwards upon the declension of the Kings Cause he suffer'd as others did taught a private School at Tâ—â—ttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean
excise for the pourveyance and Tenures c. Ibid. 1664. 7 A perspective glass or some reasons against the registring Reformation c. Ibid. 1669. 8 A reforming Registry or a representation of the very many mischiefs which will unavoidably happen by the needless chargable and destructive way of Registries proposed to be erected in every County of Engl. and Wales for the recording of all deeds evidences mortgages c. Ibid. 1671. qu. c. 9 Ligeantia lugens or Loyalty bewailing the want of pourveyance and tenures 10 Some reasons for the continuance of the process of arrest Ib. 1671. qu. 11 Regale necessarium or the legality reason and necessity of the rights and privileges justly claimed by the Kings Servants c. Ib. 1671. qu. 12 The antient legal fundamental and necessary rights of Courts of Justice in their writs of Capias arrests and process of outlawry and the illegality many mischiefs and inconveniences which may arrive to the People of England by the proposals tendred to his Majesty and high Court of Parl. for the abolishing of that old and better way and method of Justice and the establishing of a new by peremptory summons and citations in actions of debt Lond. 1676. 77. 13 Reasons against the taking away the process of arrest which would be a loss to the Kings revenue c. Ibid. 1675. 14 Necessary defence of the Presidentship and Council in the principality and marches of Wales in the necessary defence of England and Wales protecting each other 15 Ursa Major Minor Shewing that there is no such fear as is factiously pretended of popery and arbitrary power Lond. 1681. 16 Plea for the pardoning part of the Soveraignty of the Kings of England Ibid. 1682 17 Investigatio Jurium antiquorum rationalium regni sive Monarchiae Angliae c. The established government of England vindicated from popular and Reipublican principles and mistakes with a respect to the Laws of God Man Nature and Nations Lond. 1686. 87. fol. 18 Legale necessarium Or a true and faithful accompt of the antiquity and legality of his Majesties and our Kings and Princes rights of and unto fines and amerciaments imposed and forfeited in his Courts of Justice c. He hath also written Veritas inconcussa or that K. Ch. 1. was no man of blood but a martyr for his people Lond. 1660. oct and other things not yet printed At length having lived to a great age he surrendred up his Soul to God on the 17 of Nov. 1690 and was buried near to the body of his Wife in the south west part of the Church of Twyford near to Acton in Middlesex Some years before he died he made his own epitaph which begins thus Ms Fabiani Philipps Armigeri Medâ—â— Tempâ—i socii qui quosdam perfidos ingratos nimium amicos amando seipsum non uti potuit amavit curis librisque consenuit c. But whether it is put over his grave I know not An. Dom. 1642. An. 18. Car. 1. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pembroke c. sometimes a Nobleman of New Coll. Vicechanc. c. The year of Vicechancellourship of Dr. Prideaux Bishop of Worcester being ended and he about the feast of S. John Bapt. not only quitting all right therein without laying down the Ensigns of his office as the manner is but rather leaving the University abruptly as the advantage of time offer'd the office for some time laid void and nothing of it was done but by Deputies The which for what reason it so hapned is perhaps at this time too great a trouble for me to tell For now the University the mother of togated peace being affrighted with the unwonted rumours of a civil war the Muses deserted and the adorers of them every where dispersed knew not as if put between the anvil and the hammer which way to turn it self or seek rest The administration therefore of its government was successively according to the manner of our Predecessors committed to Deputies of whom the first was Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll who for his Loyalty in raising and setling the University Militia for the defence of it from the common incursions of the enemy and for endeavouring to make the Citizens provide also men and arms for the defence of their City they being then backward in so doing he was afterwards treacherously seized on at Aylesbury carried to Westminster and committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse there about the 12 of Sept. After him Dr. Tolson Provost of Oriel succeeded as Provicechancellour continuing in the said office none as I think intervening till the 7 of Feb. following a little before which time he being nominated by the Chancellours Letters sent to the University was on the same day in a Convocation then held sworn and admitted Vicechancellour by the consent of the Doctors and Masters then present Proct. Edw. Young of New Coll. Ap. 20. Tristiam Sugge of Wadham Coll. Ap. 20. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. Sam. Smith of S. John Coll. He is now or at least was lately Chaplain or Ordinary to the Prison called Newgate in London and hath certain things extant June 14. George Griffith of Magd. Hall This person who was a Mountgomeryshire man born I take to be the same who was afterwards a notorious Independent a frequent preacher before Oliver and the Parliaments in his time a publisher of certain Sermons preacher at the Charterhouse near London and the same who was silenced after his Majesties restauration for his high actings in the interval and I think for Nonconformity July 8. Will. Richardson of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters of Arts an 1645. Oct. 25. Will. Lloyd lately of Oriel now of Jes Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph and is now living Nov. 29. Arthur Bury of Exet. Coll. Nov. 29. Tho. Long. of Exet. Coll. These two who have published several books especially the last are hereafter to be numbred among the Writers Dec. 13. Bartholm Ashwood of Exet. Coll. Mar. 4. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. The first of these last two hath published several things and is now or at least lately living a Nonconformist Divine Adm. 135. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Two only were admitted this year viz. Barnaby Love of New Coll. June 9. and Donney Hodges of Ex. Coll. July 4. The others were by creation some of which I shall mention anon Mast of Arts. March 26. Christoph Love of New Inn. Apr. 23. Rich. Parr of Exet. Coll. 30. John Nelme of Magd. Hall He hath a Sermon extant on Psal 118. ver 21. to 26 printed 1660. qu. and perhaps others Quaere May 14. John Dale of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards known by the name of Analysis Dale See among the Writers under the year 1684. June 18. Tho. Willis of Ch. Ch. 28. Walt. Blandford of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 6. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. This person who was the son of Isaac Maudit of the City of Exeter was afterwards a Chaplain in the
Army raised by the Parl. againâ—t the King one of the Proctors of the University and published 1 The Christian Soldiers great Engine Sermon before the Lord General Fairfax at S. Maries in Oxon 20 May 1649. qu. 2 A letter to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monke containing the instrumental causes of the ruine of Government and Commonwealths c. This was printed at Lond. in Feb. 1659 in one sh in qu. What other things he hath published I know not sure I am that after the restauration of K. Ch 2. he left his Benefice in Devonsh to avoid Conformity and died soon after Adm. 112. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only created See among the Creations Bach. of Div. Jun. ... John Hillersden of C. C Coll. He was the only person that was admitted this year the others were created In 1671 he became Archdeacon of Buckingham on the death of Dr. Giles Thorne and dying Joh. Gery LL. D. was installed in his place 29 Nov. 16â—4 ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you shall have under the title of Creations Doct. of Phys Jun. 28. Hugh Barker of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rog. Puliston of Magd. Coll. 8. Thom. Duke of S. Maries Hall ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you may see under the title of Creations Incorporations May 20. Thom. Gifford Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland He had that degree confer'd upon him in the said Univ. in the month of May 1636. Oct. 10. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden He had that degree confer'd upon him there in the month of Apr. 1638. This person or one of both his names was incorporated in 1660. Jul. 8. Will Clegge M. A. of Dublin Jul. 8. Thom. Turner M. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Nov. 1. Charles Prince of Wales Mast of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards King of England c. by the name of K. Ch. 2. His Maj. Ch. 1. had then after his return from Edghill fight taken up his quarters in Oxon and on the same day was a great Creation in all faculties as I shall tell you by and by Dec. 7. Will. Harvey sometimes of Caies Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Padua and at his return into England of Cambridge was then incorporated Doctor of the said faculty in this University This person who was son of Tho. Harvey Gent. by Joan Halke his wife was born at Folksten in Kent on the second day of Apr. 1578 sent to a Grammar school in Canterbury at 10 years of age and at 14 to Gonvil and Caies Coll. in Cambr. At 19 years of age he travelled into France and Italy and at 23 he had for his Instructors in Medicine at Padua Eustac Radius Joh. Tho. Minadous and H. Faber ab Aquapend At 24 he became Doct. of Phys and Chirurgery and returning into England soon after he practised Phys in London and married At 25 or thereabouts he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London and at 37 Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery About which time which was in the year of our Lord 1615 he discovered the wonderful secret of the Bloods circular motion by which the anatomical part of Physick seemed then to be rising towards the Zenith of Perfection At 54 years of age he was made Physitian to K. Ch. 1 having as 't is said by some been Physitian to K. Jam. 1. and adhering to him in the beginning of the troubles he attended him at Edghill battel Thence going with him to Oxon was there incorporated as before 't is told you In 1645 he was elected Warden of Merton Coll. by vertue of the Kings letters sent to the Society of that house for that purpose but in the year following when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he left that office and retired to London In 1654 he was chosen President of the Coll. of Physitians but refused to accept of that honorable place And after he had lived to see his doctrine the circulation of the blood with much ado established being the only man as one saith that did so he surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the 30 of June an 1657. Soon after his body being lap'd up in lead it was conveyed to Hempsted in Essex and deposited in a Vault under part of the Church there Several monuments of his learning which have been and are received into the hands of all curious men as well abroad as at home are extant as the Oxford or Bodletan Catalogue will partly tell you besides his New Principles of Philosophy containing Philosophy in general Metaphysicks c. but more in MS. he hath left behind him the titles of which you may see in the Epist dedicat before An historical account of the Colleges Coll. of Phys Proceedings against Empricks c. Lond. 1684. qu. Written by Charles Goodall Doctor of Phys Feb. 1. Joh. Bathurst M. A. of Cambr. Feb. 1. Tho. Browning M. A. of Cambr. The first who was of Pembr Hall was afterwards Doctor of Phys a practitioner in London and a Burgess for Richmond in Yorksh. to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver an 1656 and for that called by Richard 1658. Feb. 11. Morgan Godwin Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Dublin Which degree was confer'd upon him there 5 Octob. 1637. He was originally of Ch. Ch afterwards of Pemb. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach of the Civil Law in this University an 1627 being about that time Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess confer'd upon him by his father Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford whose Annales rerum Anglicarum c. he translated into English as I have told you in the first vol. p. 497.498 What other things he hath translated or what written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Native of the Isle of Anglesie Feb. 21. Rob. Creygton D. D. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. He was incorporated M. of A. an 1628 as in the Fasti of that year in the first vol. p. 861. I have told you He wrot the Preface to Dr. Rich. Watsons book called Epistolaris Diatribe c. dated at Brussels 25 May 1658 which book was printed at Lond. 1661. in tw Francis Walsal D. D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day This person who was forced away from his benefices by the severity of the Presbyterians did now attend the King in Oxon and did afterwards participate of afflictions with other Royalists In 1660 after his Majesties return I find him Rector of Sandey in Bedfordshire Prebendary of Westminster and author of 1 The bowing of the heart of Subjects to their Soveraigne Sermon preached 24 May 1660 being a day of Thanksgiving for the
was choak'd by the Sands giving thereby a period to his vain hopes of being the grand Master of Malta having been a Roman Catholick several years before he died He left behind him a Widow not so rich but that she received relief upon her petition after his Majesties return from Kings Coll. in Cambridge and two Daughters who were of his religion one of which was afterwards Mistress to Prince Rupert as I have elsewhere told you He had also a Brother called Maximilian Bard a rich Milliner in London who was employed by the Long Parliament to buy for them Horses in the time of their rebellion This Brother as 't is supposed furnished him with money in his travels and high living being a great admirer of his accomplishments and as much despised by him Doct. of Phys May 9. Sir Henry St. George Knight Garter Principal K. of Arms was then actually created Doctor of Physick This person who was the eldest Son of Sir Rich. St. George Clarenceaux King of Armes was born of an antient family at Hadley St. George in Cambridgshire bred up to Heraldry and by the endeavours of his Father became first of all Rouge-Rose extraordinary in the Office or Coll. of Armes commonly called the Heralds Office afterwards Blewmantle and in the latter end of 1615 Richmond Herald of Armes In 1627 he was joynt Embassador with the Lord Spencer and Peter Yonge Gent. Usher and dayly waiter to K. Ch. 1 to invest the King of Sweden with the order of the Garter which being done that King not only knighted him and Pet. Yonge at Darsaw in Prussia but gave them the Armes of the King of Sweden to be used by them and their posterity for ever as an augmentation to their own Armes Afterwards he was Norroy King of Armes and at length Garter and dying in Brasnose Coll. 5. Nov. 1644 was buried in the north west corner of the west isle joyning to the north transcept of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon leaving then Issue behind him a Son named Thomas afterwards a Knight Norroy and now 1691 Garter Principal King of Armes Henry another Son afterwards Norroy a Knight and now 1691 Clarenceaux King of Armes and lastly a third named Richard an Esq who became Vlster King of Armes of the Realm of Ireland in the place of Will. Roberts of Lincolns Inn Esq and Doctor of the Civil Law of Dublin an 1660 which place he surrendring in 1683 was succeeded therein by Athlone Pursevant or Officer of Armes named Rich. Carney who before while he was Athlone had received the honor of Knighthood from the Earl of Arran and is the first King of Armes of that Kingdom that had that honour confer'd on him The said Sir H. S. George Garter King of Armes who died at Oxon hath published nothing only made collections of several matters relating to his profession particularly A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations as they were in 1628 c. Ms fol. It begins with George Villers Duke of Buckingham and ends with Sir Franc. Cottington Kt and Bt Lord Cottington of Hanworth This Cat. is involved in A new Catalogue of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons c. Lond. 1658. oct Collected and published by Tho. Walkley May 9. Thom. Johnson whom I have mention'd among the created Bachelaurs of Phys an 1642 was actually created also Doct. of Physick in consideration of the large Testimony of his industry before this year published He was born near Hull in Yorkshire bred an Apothecary in London and afterwards lived and kept a shop on Snow hill where by his unwearied pains advanced with good natural parts he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England His works as to his profession are 1 Mercurius Botanicus in duabus partibus c. Lond. 1634. oct 2 Thermae Bathonicae 3 His enlarging and amending Joh. Gerards Herball or general History of Plants Lond. 1636. fol. 4 His translation of Ambr. Parey his Works of Chirurgery Lond. 1634. fol. c. This Dr. Th. Johnson was now 1643 a Lieutenant Coll. in the Garrison of Basing house in Hampshire whence going with a party on the 14. of Sept. 1644 to succour certain of the Forces belonging to that house which went to the Town of Basing to fetch provision thence but beaten back by the enemy headed by that notorious Rebel Col. Rich. Norton he received a shot in his shoulder whereby contracting a feaver he died in a fortnight after in the said House At which time his worth did justly challenge funeral tears being then no less eminent in the garrison for his valor and conduct as a Sold than famous through the Kingdom for his excellency as an Herbarist and Physitian Nov. 18. Spencer Lucie a Colonel in the Kings Army Son of Sir Tho. Lucie of Charlcot in Warwickshire Knight Jan. 31. Henry Nisbett who had spent several years in the study of Physick in the University of Padua was then actually created Doctor of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University He was a Scot born or at least of Scotch extract but what he hath extant relating to his faculty I know not Feb. 27. Hen. Hanks His bare name only stands in the reg as created Doctor of Physick and therefore I can say no more of him Mar. 21. Will. Glanvill Esq He was Burgess for Cameilford in Cornwall to serve in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Novemb. 1640 but leaving it he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Evan Owen Bach. of Div. of Jes Coll. in Oxon was then created D. of D. May 29. Jeb Weeks Preb. of Bristow and Bach. of Div. of Cambr. above 20 years standing This Doctor a jocular person was now a Preacher in Oxon sometimes either before the King or Parliament and suffered much for the royal Cause Afterwards he was made Dean of S. Burian in Cornwal upon the promotion of Dr. Creighton to that of Wells and after his death the said Deanery was annex'd to the Bishoprick of Exeter June 15. Joseph Goulson Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Winchester was created in Congregation by vertue of the Kings Letters as Owen and Weeks were In his last Will and Test proved 3 Apr. 1674 he is said to be Nuper Decanus Ecclesiae Cath. S. Trinitatis Cicestrensis in Com. Sussex June 16. Matthew Griffith Priest sometimes of Brasn Coll afterwards of Gloc. Hall July 18. Will. Stampe of Pembr Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Langham Of him I know nothing Thom. Hyde Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum sometimes of Ball. Coll now as it seems of S. Edm. Hall was actually created the same day This person who was of the family of the Hydes of Wiltshire became not only Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the said Church of Salisbury but also Chauntor thereof in Nov. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Humph. Henchman to be Bishop
Lieut. Gen. to Oxon when they were invited thither by the then Members of the University to see what a Godly Reformation the Committee and Visitors had made therein May 19. Sir Hardress Waller Kt was the first that was presented by Zanchy the junior Proctor which being done he was conducted up to Cromwell just before presented to the degree of Dr. of the Civ Law sitting on the left hand of him that then held the Chancellours chair Dr. Chr. Rogers Deput Vicechanc. and with due Ceremony was seated on his left side This person was son and heir of George Waller of Groombridge in Kent Esq by Mary his wife daugh of Rich. Hardâ—ess Esq Relict of Sir Will. Ashenden Kt which George was elder brother to Sir Thom. Waller father of Sir Will. Waller lately one of the Parl. Generals mention'd among the Writers an 1668. p. 297. and marrying with the daugh and co-heir of Sir Joh. Dowdall or Dovedall of Limerick in Ireland Kt enjoyed fair inheritances by her and spent most of his time there In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he was a Royalist in opinion but with the more gainfuller times he turn'd Presbytâ—â—ian and at length a strong Independent and thereupon was made a Committee-man and afterwards a Colonel of Horse He had been lately one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1 and sate when Sentence past upon him for his decollation for which service he was afterwards made Major Gen. of the Army in Ireland Where continuing till the revolution of affairs brought Monarchy again into England he did upon the issuing out of the Kings Proclamation surrender himself to mercy Whereupon being brought to his trial for having a hand in the murther of his said Prince he shew'd very great reluctancy for what he had done and was thereupon conveyed from his prison in the Tower to the Isle of Wight there to continue during his life an 1660 aged 56 years Whither he was afterwards removed thence I cannot tell nor where he died May 19. Colonel Tho. Harrison was presented next by Zanchy and conducted by him on the other side This person who was the son of a Butcher or Grasier of Newcastle under Line in Staffordshire was after he had been educated in some Grammar Learning placed with one Hulke or Hulker an Attorney of Cliffords Inn and when out of his time became a kind of a Pettisogger as 't is said but finding little profit thence he betook himself from the pen to the sword in the Parliament Army when they first raised a Rebellion against their King and having a tongue well hung he did by his enthusiastical Preaching and great pretence to piety so far insinuate himself with the deluded Army that he pass'd from one Command to another till he attained to be a Major and a great Confident of Ol. Cromwell and so consequently his close friend in breaking the Presbyterian faction in both Houses in depriving them of their King and at length in bringing him to the block as by these particulars it doth appear First he was the person appointed by Oliver or at least the Adjutators of the Army to go to Hurst Castle where the King was Prisoner to the end that he should enform the Governour thereof that he deliver his Majesty up to a party of Horse that should be ready to receive him in order to his conveyance to Windsore Castle and so to Westminster to be tried This was by Harrison done about the 15 of Dec. 1648 for on the 21 following he was conveyed thence towards Windsore See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers an 1677. p. 438. Secondly that after his Majesty had left Hurst Castle and was conveyed from Milford three miles distant thence by a party of the Rebels Horse to Winchester and thence to Alton and so to Alresford this Major Harrison appeared in the head of another party between that place and Farnham to the end that he might bring up the rear His party was drawn up in good order by which his Maj. was to pass and the Major in the head of them gallantly mounted and armed with a Velvet Montier on his head and a new Buff-coat on his back with a Crimson silk Scarf about his waist richly fring'd The King as he passed by on horse-back with an easie pace as delighted to see men well hors'd and arm'd the Major gave the King a bow with his head Alla soldad which his Majesty requited This was the first time that the King saw the Major at which time Tho. Herbert Groom of the Bedchamber from whom I had this story riding a little behind the King his Majesty call'd him to come near and ask'd him who that Captain was and being by him told that it was Major Harrison the King viewed him more narrowly and fix'd his eyes so steadily upon him as made the Major abashed and fall back to his party sooner than probably he intended The K. said he looked like a Soldier and that his aspect was good and found him not such an one as was represented and that having judgment in faces if he had observed him so well before he should not have harbour'd that ill opinion of him for oft times the spirit and disposition may be discerned in the countenance That night the K. got to Farnham where he was lodged in a private Gentleman's house in the town the Castle there being then a Garrison for the Parliament and a little before supper his Majesty standing by the fire in a large wainscoted parlour and in discourse with the Mistress of the House the King notwithstanding the room was pretty full of Army Officers and Country People that crowded in to have a sight of him did at length see the Major at the farther end of the Parlour talking with another Officer Whereupon beckoning to him with his hand to come nearer he did so accordingly with due reverence And his Majesty taking him by the arm drew him aside towards the window where for half an hour or more they did discourse together Among other things the King minded him of the information that he had received concerning the murder that he intended on him in the Isle of Wight which if true rendred him an enemy in the worst sense to his person The Major in his vindication assured his Majesty that what was reported of him was not true yet he might report that the Law was equally obliging to great and small and that Justice had no respect to persons or words to that purpose which his Majesty finding affectedly spoken and to no good end he left off farther communication with him and went to supper being all the time very pleasant which was no small rejoycing to many there to see him so cheerful in that company and in such a dolorous condition Thirdly that when his Majesty went thence to Bagshot and there dined in the Lord Newburgh's house the said Major ordered Centries to be set at every door where he was and after
written I cannot tell Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Joh. Birkenhead or Berkenhead of All 's Coll. Jul. 3. Thom. Croft of All 's Coll. Sept. 12. Rob. Mathew of New Coll. Sept. 12. Christop Wren of All 's Coll. Sept. 12. Sam. Davies of Jes Coll. As for Christop Wren who had been Astron Prof. in Gresham Coll was now Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this Univ and a member of the Royal Society c. He is a most eminent Mathematician and is hereafter to be mention'd with all honour for his curious discoveries in Philosophy and Mathematicks as they stand recorded by the excellent pen of the ingenious author Dr. Thomas Sprat of The Hist of the Royal Society c. Nov. 6. Rich. Baylie of S. Joh. Coll. He was son of Dr. Rich. Baylie President of that Coll and dying at London where he was a Merchant in the latter end of 1675 his body was conveyed to Oxon and buried in a Vault under a little Chappel built by the said Doctor an 1662 joyning to that of S. Joh. Coll on the 15 of March the same year Dec. 11. David Budd The Coll. or Hall of which he was a member if of any is not set down in the Register Doct. of Phys May 9. Will. Jackson of Vniv Coll was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which tell us that his father was Doct. of Div. and sequestred in the late Rebellion from about 300 l. per an Also that this William was in the old Kings Service at Colchester and in the Service of this King That his near Kinsman Col. Rob. Levinz suffered and was executed by the bloody Rebels c. Jun. 18. Geffry Rishton M. A. of S. Maries Hall He was now a Parl. man for Preston in Lancashire Jul. 11. George Neale M. of A. of Ch. Ch. Sept. 12. Joh. Metford of S. Edm. Hall Sept. 12. Will. Bentley of Ball. Coll. Sept. 12. Freder Sagittary of Qu. Coll. Sept. 12. Rob. Peirce of Linc. Coll. Sept. 12. Walt. Pope of Ball. Coll. Sept. 12. Tho. Bedingfield of Ch. Ch. These were created while the Chanc. of the University was near Oxon. Metford and Sagittary were afterwards honorary Fellows of the Coll. of Phys and Dr. Pope who was uterine brother to Dr. Joh. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester is now Fellow of the Royal Society and Astron Prof. of Gresham Coll and hath spent much time in observing the motions and appearances of the Heavens the result of which he hath delivered in his Astronomical Lectures there read which 't is hoped he may be prevailed with to be made public hereafter and not publish vain and trivial things as he hath hitherto done among which must not be forgotten The Memoires of Mounsieur Du Vall containing the history of his life and death as also his Speech and Epitaph written out of a pique and printed at Lond. 1670. qu. Oct. 10. Will. Sparke of Magd. Coll. See in vol. 1. p. 740. at the bottom Doct. of Div. Apr. 1. Tho. Triplet M. of A. was then diplomated He was born in or near Oxon was educated a Student of Ch. Ch where and in the Univ he was always esteemed a great Wit and a good Greecian and Poet. In Oct. 1645 he became Preb. of Preston in the Ch. of Sarum at which time he was also beneficed but soon after being sequestred he taught School at Dublin in Ireland was there when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded and afterwards taught at Hayes in Middlesex After K. Ch. 2. was restored he was made Preb. of Westminster and of Fenton in the Church of York and dying 18 Jul. 1670 aged 70 years his body was buried in the south Transcopt or large south Isle joyning to the Choir of S. Peter's Church in Westminster Over his grave was soon after fastned to the west wall of the said Isle a fair monument in the very place where the monument of Tho. May the Poet once stood This worthy Doctor of whom you may see more in the first vol. p. 502 hath several Specimens of his Poetry extant in various books and some that yet go from hand to hand in MS. May 21. Franc. Davies of Jes Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Landaff Jun. 7. Joh. Fairclough commonly called Featley of All 's Coll. 12. Sam. Bolton of Linc. Coll. now one of the Kings Chaplains was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is a man of extraordinary abilities and great integrity and one who by his preaching in this City London is very serviceable to the interest of the K. and Church c. On the 15 of Jan. 1661 he and Dr. Br. Ryves preached before the H. of Commons at S. Margarets in Westm and were by them desired to print their Sermons but whether they were printed I know not for I have not yet seen either See more of this Dr. Bolton in the first vol. p. 481. Jun. 7. Edw. Drope of Magd. Coll. Jun. 7. Edm. Diggle of Magd. Coll. The first of these two who was esteemed a good Preacher and therefore put upon preaching before the K. and Parl. at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion and upon that account had the degree of Doctor confer'd upon him died in Magd. Coll. 13 Apr. 1683 aged 84 or thereabouts and was buried in the outer Chappel there The other who also had his degree confer'd upon him on the like account was then Canon of Lichfield which they call the Golden Prebend by the favour of Dr. Frewen Bishop thereof to whom he was Chaplain and afterwards became Preb. of Hustwait in the Church of York and Archdeacon of York or of the West Riding of Yorksh. in the place of Dr. Rich. Marsh deceased in which last dignity he was installed 19 Oct. 1663. He died at Slimbridge in Glocestershire of which he was Rector on the first of August anno 1688. Jul. 3. Cornelius Trigland a learned Theologist and Chapl. to the Prince of Aurange or Orange was diplomated by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is one of the Ministers at the Hague was very kind to the King Ch. 2. and his friends while they lived in those parts shewed himself kind to the Church of England entrusted by our King with a great share of the education of his Nephew the Prince of Orange c. There is mention made of this learned person in Dr. George Morley among the Writers an 1684. p. 585. Jul. 3. Rich. Mervin Bach of Div. of Exet. Coll. Jul. 3. Jam. Smith Bach of Div. of Linc. Coll. Jul. 3. Giles Thorne Bach of Div. of Ball. Coll. The first of these three was Chancellour of the Church of Exeter in which Dignity he was succeeded as it seems by Dr. Tho. Tomkins The second I have mention'd among the Writers p. 279 and the third was now 1661 Archdeacon of Bucks in the place of Rob. Newell who died in the time of the Civ War Jul. 9. David Michell Sanctandrianus as in the reg he
1674 and was there in some yard or burial place committed to the earth Doct. of Div. June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Nathan Bisbie of Ch Ch. The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes Physitian to Hen. Duke of Glocester afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society Physitian to the Queen Consort and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Creations June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk and a munificent Benefactor to this University by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Marshall of England an 1672 and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas who died distracted at Padua in the Dukedom of Norfolk This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January 1683 and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex He then left behind him a Widow which was his second Wife named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an antient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons Under this Duke of Norfolks name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna and from thence to Constantinople in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellour of State to his Imperial Majesty c. Lond. 1671. in tw Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mention'd was after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ Law created Master of Arts. On the 28 of January 1677 he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lords House and seated next before Will Lord Stourton by the name of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Fathers death Duke of Norfolk and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. See in the creations an 1684. After these two Henry Howards were created and seated one on the right and the other on the left hand of the Vicechancellour the publick Orator of the University stood up and in an excellent speech congratulated them especially the Father in the name of the University June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mention'd was then actually created Master of Arts This Thomas Howard who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created but was then absent was with his said Brother Henry Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury but they did not wear Gowns because both were then Rom. Catholicks The said Thomas afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptized became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq about the 12 of Mar. 1686 and afterwards upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine was sent Embassadour to Rome where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William Prince of Orange Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England but going thence about publick concerns to France in behalf of his Master the Ship wherein he was was cast away and he himself drowned about the beginning of the year 1690. June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch was created Mast of Arts He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory and is now Earl of Stamford c. Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll of 20 years standing was created M. of A. One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847 but whether this was I cannot yet tell Quaere In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library where improving himself much in Literature he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physick which he published An. Dom. 1669. An. 21. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University being never sworn thereunto or installed by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July the most high mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde Earl of Ossory and Brecknock L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold c. was unanimously elected Chancellour on the 4. of Aug having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ Law and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ Law and President of S. Johns Coll Sept. 23. Proct. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. Apr. 21. Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll but before he took the degree of Master he went to the Middle Temple and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683 and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased he was made Attorney to the Duke of York On the 16 of Oct. 1685 he was sworn L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and one of his Majesties K. Jam. 2. most honourable Privy Council whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Serjeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales his case Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answer'd by W. Atwood Barrester and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atkâ—ns Kt. of the Bath then late
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae Fâ—issingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae dâ—tionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii â—landriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored
oct Dedic to Sir Joh. Micklethwait President of the Coll. of Physitians a Yorkshire man born and bred in the same School with Dr. Wittie 4 Pyrologia Mimica or an answer to Hydrologia Chymica of Will Sympson in defence of Scarborough Spaw Wherein the five mineral principles of the said Spaw are defended against all his objections c. Lond. 1669. oct with which is printed 5 A vindication of the rational method and practice of Physick called Galenical and a reconciliation between that and Chimical As also 6 A further discourse about the original of Springs Besides the answer of Dr. Will. Sympson made to the aforesaid book called Scarborough Spaw came out another answer entit Scarborough Spaw spagirically anatomized together with a New years-gift for Dr. Wittie Lond. 1672. oct written by George Tonstall Doct. of Phys sometimes Bach. of Phys of Magd. Hall in Oxon as I have told you in these Fasti p. 741. Dr. Wittie hath also written 7 Gout raptures or an historical fiction of a War among the stars wherein are mention'd the 7 planets the 12 signs of the Zodiack and the 50 constellations of Heaven mention'd by the Antients c. Lond. 1677 oct written in vers 8 A survey of the Heavens a plain description of the admirable fabrick and motions of heavenly bodies as they are discovered to the eye by the Telescope and several eminent consequences illustrated thereby 1. The infinite wisdom c. of God in the Creation 2. The verifying c. Lond. 1680. 81. oct To which is added the Gout raptures in English Latine and Greek Lyrick verse by the author Dr. Wittie who hath also done another work mention'd in the first vol. of this book in the Fasti an 1628. p. 864. This Dr. Wittie who was always esteemed an ingenious and learned man was Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London had practised Physick for 18 years together with Dr. James Primerose at Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and after the said Primerose's death carried on his practice there and in the neighbourhood for several years after with good success At length retiring to Londâ—n in his old age died in Basingshaw-street about the latter end of Nov. 1684. The before mention'd Cambridge men viz. Steph. Kay N. Shute H. Hitch and R. Wittie were incorporated on the 13. of July Oct. 2. Adam Samuel Hartman Doct. of Div. of the University of Francfurt upon Oder Bishop of the reformed Churches through Great Poland and Prussia Oct. 19. Joh. Price Doct. of Div. of Cambr. This worthy Doctor was born in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire educated in Eaton School elected thence into Kings Coll. in Cambr. 1645 of which he was afterwards Fellow left it when he was Master of Arts and became Chaplain to George Monk when he was chief Governour or General of Scotland and afterwards was privy to all the secret passages and particularities in order to the restauration of K. Ch. 2 made by the said most noble and generous Monk At which time he came with him into England when he effected that matter and as a reward for his services done in that affair he had first confer'd upon him by the intercession of James Earl of Northampton a Fellowship in Eaton Coll. in the place of the learned Joh. Hales some years before dead a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury and the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex He hath published 1 A Serm. preached before the H. of Com. at S. Margarets in Westm 10. May 1660 on 1. Sam. 2. ver 9. Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The mystery and method of his Majesties happy restauration c Lond. 1680. oct and died in the beginning of the year in the month of May as it seems 1691. CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of certain noble Forreigners Bach. of Arts. May 21. Rich. Bulkley of Ch. Ch. Son of Sir Rich. Bulkley of the Kingdom of Ireland four years standing in the condition of Fellow Com. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin c. was actually created Bach. of Arts. Mast of Arts. Sept. 6. James Boteler Earl of Ossory of Ch. Ch. Son of Thom. late Earl of Ossory and Grandson to James Duke of Ormonde was presented by the Orator with a little speech to the Vicechancellour which done he was created M. A. He became after the death of his Grandfather Duke of Ormonde and Chancellour of this University Bach. of Div. June 14. Rich. Bravell of Exet. Coll Chaplain to the Garrison of Tangier within the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa where he had shew'd himself so useful to the publick that upon his desire of return the Bishop of Lond. and other eminent persons required his continuance there was diplomated Bach. of Div. Doct. of Law Charles the Electoral Prince Palatine being entertained at Oxon in Septemb. this year some of his retinue were created Doctors of Law viz. Sept. 9. Johan Philippus ab Adelsheim France-Germanus Master of the Horse to the Electoral Prince Fredericus Adolphus Hansen Lord in Grumbuy and Beulshubygard Gustavus Georgius D' Haleke of Brandeberg in Germany Paulus Hackenbergh of Westphalia in Germany Professor of Eloquence and Histories in the Univ. of Heidelberg The said four persons were created on the 9. of Sept. Feb. 25. George Lewes Duke of Brunswick and Lunenberg was then created with solemnity This person who was now commonly called Prince of Hannover and had come to Whitehall on the 16 of Decemb. going before purposely to pay his respects to the Lady Anne Daughter of James Duke of York was the day before he was created received in the University with solemnity at his coming thereunto and being lodg'd in Ch. Ch he with his retinue were conducted the next day by the Bishop Dr. Fell to the publick Schools and being habited in scarlet in the Apodyterium was thence conducted by three of the Beadles with the Kings professor of Law to the Theater where the Convocation was then held and coming near to the Vicechancellours seat the Professor presented him the Prince being then bare which done the Vicechancellour then standing bare as the Doctors and Masters did he created him Doctor of Law That also being done he went up to his chair of state provided for him on the right hand of the Vicechancellours seat and when three of his retinue were created Doctors as I am now about to tell you the Orator complemented him in a speech in the name of the University The next day he left the University at which time was presented to him in the name thereof Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon with the cuts belonging thereto The noble John free Baron of Reek of the retinue of the said Pr. of Hannover was created at the same time Doct. of Phys Sept. 9. The Electoral Prince Charles Count Palatine of the Rhine was with solemnity created Doctor of Phys This most noble person who was Son of Charles Lovys Count Pal. of the