notwithstanding not long before and I think then also he refused to subscribe the 39 Articles and so consequently did not desert the Religion of Rome out of desire of preferment or for temporal ends which the Author of The direction to N. N. objected to him by reason that this his refusal did incapacitate him for all places of benefit in England a previous subscription of the said 39 Articles being the only common door that here leads to any such This refusal was grounded on his scrupling the truth only of one or two Propositions contained in them and these his small doubts too were afterwards fully satisfied and removed before his advancement in the Church otherwise he could not have conscientiously subscribed the 39 Articles which is indispensibly required of all persons upon any ecclesiastical promotion But to return so it was that he finding not that satisfaction from the Jesuits concerning various points of Religion or as some say not that respect which he expected for the common report among his Contemporaries in Trin. Coll. was that the Jesuits to try his temper and exercise his obedience did put him upon servile duties far below him he left them in the year 1631 returned to the Church of England tho the Presbyterians said not but that he was always a Papist in his heart or as we now say in masquerade and was kindly received by his Godfather Dr. Laud then B. of London So that fixing himself for a time in his beloved Oxford he did in testimony of his reconcilement make a Recantation and afterwards wrot a book against the Papists as I shall anon tell you For which his service he was rewarded with the Chancellourship of the Church of Salisbury upon the promotion of Dr. Br. Duppa to the See of Chichester in the month of July 1638 and about the same time with the Mastership of Wygstans Hospital in the antient Borough of Leycester Both which and perhaps other preferments he kept to his dying day He was a most noted Philosopher and Orator and without doubt a Poet also otherwise Sir Joh. Suckling would not have brought him into his Poem called The session of Poets and had such an admirable faculty in reclaiming Schismaticks and confuting Papists that none in his time went beyond him He had also very great skill in Mathematicks and his aid and counsel was often used in making Fortifications for the Kings Garrisons especially those of the City of Glocester and Arundell Castle in Sussex He was a subtile and quick Disputant and would several times put the Kings Professor to a push Hobbes of Malmsbury would often say that he was like a lusty fighting fellow that did drive his Enemies before him but would often give his own party smart back-blows And 't was the current Opinion in this University that he and Lucius Lord Falkland had such extraordinary clear reason that if the great Turk or Devil were to be converted they were able to do it He was a man of little stature but of great soul which if times had been serene and life spared might have done incomparable service to the Church of England He wrot and published The Religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation or an answer to a book entit Mercy and truth or charity maintained by Catholicks which pretends to prove the contrary Oxon. 1636. 38. Lond. 1664. 74. c. All which impressions were in fol. In which book the Author made very much use of Joh. Daillé a learned French Divine as about the same time the L. Falkland did in his Writings who was wont to say it was worth a Voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him He calls him our Protestant Perron c. The book that The Religion of Protestants c. answer'd was written by Edw. Knott a Jesuit against Dr. Potters book entit Want of Charity c. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of him under the year 1645. Before the said Relig. of Protestants c. went to the press it was at the desire of Dr. Laud corrected and amended by Dr. Joh. Prideaux who afterwards among his friends would liken it to an unwholsome Lamprey by having a poysonous sting of Socinianism throughout it and tending in some places to plain infidelity and atheisme After it was published the general character given of its Author was that he had better luck in pulling down buildings than raising new ones and that he has managed his sword much more dexterous than his buckler c. yet the very same Author who reports this doth in a manner vindicate him elsewhere from being a Socinian which may in some sort confute the Jesuit Edw. Knott before mention'd It must be now known that our Author being of intimate acquaintance with Joh. Hales of Eaton he did use his assistance when he was in compiling his book of The Religion c. especially in that part wherein he vindicates the English Church from schism charged on her by Knott And that he might more clearly understand Hales he desired him that he would communicate his thoughts in writing concerning the nature of Schism Whereupon he wrot a Tract thereof as I shall tell you when I come to him out of which our Author Chillingworth urged some Arguments which as one thinks are the worst in all his book and so it is thought by many more However if not as some affirm yet they have caused ill reflections not only on the private reputation of Hales and Chillingworth but on the Church of England as if it did favour the Socinian Principles But as for an exact summary of the doctrines of his belief after what manner to be qualified and how little he favoured Socinianism which that he did in an high degree his adversaries of Rome and some of the sectarian party at home did constantly and malitiously suggest When the said book was in the press Dr. Potter of Qu. Coll. wrot to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. 15 Sept. 1637 that Knott the Jesuit was in Oxon and had the sheets thereof sent to him as they came from the press giving five shillings for every sheet but this doth otherwise appear from Knott's words elsewhere There was also another Jesuit called Will. Lacey then dwelling in Oxon who perusing the said book gave his opinion of it in a Treatise entit The judgment of an University-man on Mr. Chillingworth's book which I shall elsewhere mention Besides him were two or three more at least that answered it as J. H. in Christianity maintained or a discovery of sundry doctrines tending to the overthrow of Christian Religion contained in the answer to a book entit Mercy and truth c. printed 1638. qu the Author of The Church conquerant over humane wit c. printed the same year and E. Knott in his Infidelity unmask'd c. Our Author Chillingworth hath also written The apostolical institution of Episcopacy demonstrated Lond. 1660. qu. there again in 64 and 74. in fol. with The Religion of Protestants Nine sermons printed at Lond. 1664. and 74. in fol. with his Apost Institution
c. and The Religion of Protestants c. These I think are all the things he hath written except his Motives published by E. Knott which being answer'd by him as I have before told you were replyed upon by the Author of a book entit Motives maintained or a reply to Mr. Chillingworths answer to his own motives of his Conversion to Cath. Religion printed 1638 in three sh in qu. It must be now known that in the beginning of the civil distempers our Author Chillingworth suffer'd much for the Kings Cause and being forced to go from place to place for succour as opportunity served went at length to Arundell Castle in Sussex where he was in quality of an Engineer in that Garrison At length the Castle coming into the hands of the parliamentarian Forces on the sixth day of January 1643 he was by the endeavours of Mr. Franc. Cheynell about that time Rector of Petworth made to Sir Will. Waller the prime Governour of those forces conveyed to Chichester and there lodged in the Bishops house because that he being very sick could not go to London with the prisoners taken in the said Castle In the said house he remained to his dying day and tho civilly used yet he was much troubled with the impertinent discourses and disputes of the said Cheynell which the royal party of that City looked upon as a shortning of our Authors days He gave way to fate on the 24 of January or thereabouts in sixteen hundred forty and three and the next day his body being brought into the Cath. Church accompanied by the said royal party was certain service said but not common Prayer according to the Defuncts desire Afterwards his body being carried into the Cloyster adjoining Cheynell stood at the grave ready to receive it with the Authors book of The Religion of Protestants c. in his hand and when the company were all setled he spake before them a ridiculous speech concerning the Author Chillingworth and that book and in the conclusion throwing the book insultingly on the corps in the grave said thus Get thee gone then thou cursed book which hast seduced so many precious souls get thee gone thou corrupt rotten book earth to earth and dust to dust get thee gone into the place of rottenness that thou may'st rot with thy Author and see Corruption After the conclusion Cheynell went to the pulpit in the Cath. Church and preached a sermon on Luke 9.60 Let the dead bury the dead c. while the Malignants as he called them made a shift to perform some parts of the English Liturgy at his grave About the time of the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Oliver Whitby his great admirer sometimes M. A. of this University did put an inscription on the wall over his grave which being for the most part in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 297. b. should also have been here inserted but forasmuch as several faults are therein as that he was D. of Divinity Chauntor of Salisbury and that he died in 1642 I think it fit therefore to be omitted in this place In his Chancellourship of Salisbury succeeded the learned and godly Dr. Joh. Earl on the 10 of Feb. 1643 but who in the Mastership of Wygstans Hospital I cannot yet well tell By his Will dated 22 of Nov. 1643 he gave to the Mayor and Corporation of Oxon 400 l. to be paid by 50 l. per an in eight years And as it is paid he would have it lent to poor young Tradesmen by 50 l. a piece for ten years they giving good security to repay it at ten years end and to pay for it 40 s. per an consideration And the use and consideration so paid to be laid out in binding young poor Children boys or girls apprentices allowing 8 l. a piece to every one to bind him or her out c. HENRY FITZ-SIMON the most noted Jesuit of his time was matriculated as a member of Hart Hall 26 Apr. 1583 and in that of his age 14 said then and there in the matricula to be an Irishman born and the son of a Merchant in Dublin In Decemb. following I find one Henry Fitz-Simons to be elected Student of Ch. Ch. but whether he be the same with the former I dare not say it How long he continued in the University or whether he took a degree it no where appears Sure it is that he being in his mind then if not before a Rom. Catholick he went beyond the seas entred himself into the Society of Jesus and made so great a proficiency under the instruction of Leonard Lessius that he in short time became so eminent that he taught publickly among them Philosophy for several years At length retiring to his native Country he endeavoured to reconcile as many persons as he could to his Religion either by private conference or publick disputes with protestant Ministers In which work he persisted for two years without disturbance being esteem'd the chief Disputant among those of his party and so ready and quick that few or none would undertake to deal with him In fine he being apprehended for a dangerous person was committed to safe custody in Dublin Castle in the year 1599 where he continued about 5 years As soon as he was setled there which as 't is said he desired before that it might be so was several times heard to say That he being a Prisoner was like a beare tyed to a stake and wanted some to bait him which expressions being looked upon as a challenge Mr. Jam. Usher then 19 years of age did undertake and did dispute with him once or twice or more concerning Antichrist and was ready to have proceeded farther but our Author was as 't is said weary of it and him Afterwards at the term of the said five years being freed from prison upon condition that he would carry himself quietly and without disturbance to the K. and the Realm he went forthwith into voluntary exile into the Low Countries where he spent his time in performing Offices requisite to his Function and in writing books some of which have these titles A catholick confutation of Mr. Joh. Riders clayme of antiquity and a caulming comfort against his caveat Roan 1608. qu. Reply to Mr. Riders postscript and a discovery of puritan partiality in his behalf printed with the former book Answer to certain complaintive letters of afflicted Catholicks for Religion c. printed with the former also Justification and exposition of the sacrifice of the Mass in 2 books or more printed 1611. qu. Britannomachia Ministrorum in plerisque fidei fundamentis fidei articulis dissidentium Duac 1614. qu. See before in Franc. Mason p. 393 394. Catalogue of the Irish Saints This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell whether it
1621 which was printed that year In 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and in 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I yet know of him CALYBUTE DOWNING the eldest Son of Calyb Downing of Shennington in Gloucestershire near to Banbury in Oxfordshire Gent. Lord of the mannors of Sugarswell and Tysoe in Warwickshire became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1623 and in that of his age 17 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts compleated it by determination and then went as it seems to Cambridge or beyond the Seas where taking another degree he entred into orders was made Rector of Hickford in Bucks Doctor of the Laws and had as I have been informed by one that well knew him the Rectory of West-Ildesley in Berks bestowed on him About that time he being a competitor for the Wardenship of All 's Coll. when Dr. Gilb. Sheldon was elected but lost it did at length exchange W. Ildesley for the Rectory of Hackney near London and was a great suitor to be Chaplain to Tho. E. of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland thinking that employment the readiest way to be a Bishop And whilst he had hopes of that preferment he writ stoutly in justification of that calling and was ready ever and anon to maintain it in all Discourses But being a reputed weathercock that turns which way soever the wind of his own humour and ambition blew him did upon some discontent watch an opportunity to gain preferment let it come what way soever At length being esteemed by the Faction to be a Man fitted for any base employment and one that what ever he counterfeited ever looked awry on the Church in which being setled and in peace he could never hope to advance further than Rector of Hackney was by them sent to feel the pulse of the great City of London While therefore discontents did rise high in the North the Scots having in an hostile manner entred the Kingdom the people every where especially in London stirred up by some Agents to petition the King for that Parliament which began 3. Nov. 1640 our Author Downing did then viz. on the first of Sept. 1640 preach to the brotherhood of the Artillery Garden and positively affirmed that for defence of religion and reformation of the Church it was lawful to take up arms against the King He having thus kindled the fire in the City did for fear of being questioned for then it was not lawful to preach Treason retire privately to Little-Lees in Essex the house of Robert Earl of Warwick and common rendezvouze of all schismatical preachers in those parts while in the mean time his Sermon which did administer in every place matter of discourse was censur'd as people stood affected and in fine gave occasion to the Ringleaders of the Faction to enter upon serious examination and study of this case of Conscience And it seems that they consulting with the Jesuits on the one side and the rigid Puritan on the other or indeed because without admitting this doctrine all their former endeavours would vanish into smoak they stood doubtful no longer but closed with these two contrary parties yet shaking hands in this point of Rebellion and subscribing to the Doctrine of Downing as an evangelical truth Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after he became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Lord Roberts in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex where he preached and prayed continually against the King and his Cause In 1643 he shewed himself a grand Covenanter and thereupon was made one of the Assembly of Divines but leaving them soon after he sided with the Independents and preached so seditiously that he was commonly called Young Peters or Hugh Peters the second and often and bitterly preached against such Citizens of London that shew'd themselves zealous for an union or right understanding between the King and his Parliament But behold while he was in the height of these diabolical and rebellious actions he was suddenly and as I may say most justly cut off from the face of the earth and was no more seen His Works are these A discourse of the state Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom in relation to the Civil considered under three conclusions c. Oxon. 1633. c. A digression discussing some ordinary exceptions against Ecclesiastical Officers To these two discourses tho his name is put yet I have been informed by a certain D. of D. then living and well known to Downing that he the said C. Downing was not the Author of them Discourse of the false grounds the Bavarian party have laid to settle their own Faction and shake the peace of the Empire c. Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse upon the interest of England considered in the case of the deteinure of the Prince Elector Palatine his dignities and dominions printed with the former book next going before A discoursive conjecture upon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present Troubles of Great Britaine different from those of Lower Germany c. Lond. 1641. qu. c. Divers Sermons as 1 Serm. preached before the renowned Company of Artillery 1. Sept. 1â—40 on Deut. 25.17 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Fast Serm. before the H. of Commons 31. Aug. 1642 on 2. Thes 3. ver 2. whether printed I know not and others which I have not yet seen This person who had a hot and rambling Head laid it down very unwillingly and gave up the Ghost at Hackney about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and four to the great grief of his aged Father who died in Nov. following This Dr. Cal. Downing was Father to a Son of his own temper named George a sider with all times and changes well skil'd in the common Cant and a Preacher sometimes to boot a man of note in Olivers days as having been by him sent Resident to the Lords States General of the United Provinces a Soldier in Scotland and at length Scout Master General there and a Burgess for several Corporations in that Kingdom in Parliaments that began there in 1654 and 56. Upon a foresight of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. his Restauration he wheeled about took all opportunities to shew his Loyalty was elected Burgess for Morpeth in Northumb. to serve in that Parl. begun at Westm 8. May 1661 was about that time sent Envoy Extraordinary into Holland where to shew his zeal and love for his Majesty he seized on three Regicides at Delft named John Barkstead Joh. Okey and Miles Corbet whom he forthwith sent into England to receive the reward of the Gallows Afterwards being made Secretary to the Treasury and one of his Majesties Commissioners of the Customs was by the name of Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Cambridgeshire Knight created a Baronet on the first of July 1603. BRIAN TWYNE Son of Tho. Twyne mentioned before under the year 1613 p. 329 was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Surrey
the honor of the Protestant Religion and the English Nation insomuch as his many conflicts with and conquests of the learned Sorbonists in defence of the Protestants and opposition to the Papists caused even those his adversaries to give him this encomium that he was Featlaeus acutiss acerrimus Upon his return into England he repaired to his College took the degree of Bac. of Div. 1613 and soon after became Rector of Northill in Cornwall by the favour of Ezeck Arscot Esq one of his Pupils and a Cornish man born But before he was scarce warm there he was sent for from thence to be domestick Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury and by him was prefer'd soon after to the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey In 1617 he proceeded in Divinity and puzled Prideaux the Kings professor so much with his learned arguments that a quarrel thereupon being raised the Archbishop was in a manner forced to compose it for his Chaplains sake The Archb. of Spalato being also present at the disputation was so much taken with our Authors arguments that he forthwith gave him a Brothers-place in the Savoy Hospital near London he being then Master thereof About that time he had the Rectory of Alhallowes Church in Broadstreet within the City of London confer'd upon him by Canterbury which soon after he changed for the Rectory of Acton in Middlesex and at length became the third and last Provost of Chelsey Coll. In 1625 he left Canterburies service being then married and retiring to Kennington near Lambeth where his wife had a house laid aside his polemical Divinity wholly devoted himself to the study and practice of Piety and Charity and composed his Ancilla Pietatis which the next year was published From that time to the beginning of the Civil War may be many things here spoken of him worthy of memory as of his often disputes with persons of contrary Religion his writing of books against the Church of Rome c. which shall now for brevity sake he omitted In Nov. 1642 after the King had encountred the Parliament-Soldiers at Brentford some of the Rebels took up their quarters at Acton who after they had missed our Author Featley whom they took to be a Papist or at least that he had a Pope in his belly they drank and eat up his Provision burnt down a Barn of his full of Corn and two Stables the loss amounting to 211 l. and at the same time did not only greatly profane the Church there by their beastly actions but also burnt the rails pull'd down the Font broke the windows and I know not what In Feb. following the said Rebels sought after him in the Church at Lambeth on a Lords day to murder him but he having timely notice of their coming withdrew and saved himself In 1643 when the Bishops were altogether disinabled from performing their Office and thereupon the Assembly of Divines was constituted by the Blessed Parliament then by some so call'd our Author was appointed a member thereof shewing himself among them to have more of Calvin in him than before being as t is said a Calvinist always in his heart tho he shewed it not so openly till that time But so it was that our Author being a main stickler against the Covenant there which he was to take did in a letter to the learned Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland then at Oxon in the middle of Sept. the same year shew to him the reasons why he excepted against it A copy of which letter or else another which he about the same time wrot being treacherously gotten from him was first carried to the Close Committee and at length to the House of Commons Whereupon our Author being judged to be a Spye and a betrayer of the Parliaments cause was seised on committed Prisoner to the Lord Petre's house in Aldergatestreet on the 30 of the said month and his Rectories taken away that of Acton being bestowed on the infamous Independent Philip Nye and that of Lambeth on Joh. White of Dorchester the old instrument of sedition who afterwards got an order to obtain and keep his Library of books till such time that he could get his own back which had a little before been seised on at Dorchester by the command of Prince Rupert In the said Prison-house he continued till the beginning of March 1644 and then after much supplication made to the Parliament in his behalf he being then drawn very low and weak by the Dropsie he was remov'd for health sake to Chelsey Coll. of which he was then Provost where spinning out a short time in Piety and holy Exercise surrendred up his last breath to him that first gave it He was esteemed by the generality to be one of the most resolute and victorious Champions of the reformed Protestant Religion in his time a most smart scourge of the Church of Rome a Compendium of the learned Tongues and of all the liberal Arts and Sciences Also that though he was of small Stature yet he had a great soul and had all learning compacted in him He was most seriously and soundly pious and devout and tam studio quà m exercitio Theologus insignis c. as 't is express'd in his Epitaph What the Reader may further judg of him may be by his works the Catalogue of which follows The life and death of Jo. Jewell somtime B. of Salisbury 'T is an abridgment of the said Bishops life written by Laur. Humphrey D. D. drawn up by our Author whilst he was a Student in C. C. Coll. an 1609 at the command of Dr. Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury Which being by him concluded and sent to Lambeth was suddenly printed and prefix'd to the said Jewells works before he had time to revise it and to note the errata therein Most if not all of the said life is printed in English in a book intit Abel redivivus collected and written by Tho. Fuller Lond. 1651. qu. History of the life and manner of death of Dr. Joh. Rainolds President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxon. It was delivered in a Lat. Oration from a pew set in that Coll. quadrangle when the said Rainolds was to be inter'd in the Chappel there Most or all of the said life is remitted into the before mention'd Abel redivivus Life and death of Rob. Abbot D. D. somtimes Bishop of Salisbury Written in Latine also as it seems and remitted into Ab. rediv. in English The Romish Fisher caught and held in his own net Or a true relation of his conference with Joh. Fisher and Joh. Sweet Lond. 1624. qu. Appendix to the Fishers net with a description of the Romish wheel and circle Printed with the former book A defence of his proceedings in the conference together with a refutation of Mr. Fishers answer under the name of A. C. to a treatise intit The Fisher caught in his own net Lond. 1624. qu. The sum and substance of that which passed in a
said elaborate Treatises and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger tho more spiritual manchild did cost him his life They are and have been both taken into the hands of learned men and by them often quoted The Author is stiled by the head of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist and by others of moderate perswasion a most profound Clerk He died at Burton commonly called Burton place before mention'd on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church which Sir Will Goring denied because he left him not those Legacies he expected but in the body under the Readers seat Over his grave tho there be no monument with inscription on it which the Testator desir'd yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mention'd is fastned a Tablet of Free-stone with this written on it which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds with two hundred fourscore and four pounds whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton as is worth twenty pounds per an And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue according to a Decree in his Majesties Court of Chancery remain in the hands of the Church-wardens and other Officers of Hagborne the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity bounty or piety for the good of this Parish But he expresly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widdows burdned with many children toward their sustentation He died Decemb. 2. an dom 1652. Thus far the inscription He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalmes the History of Tobit in Hebrew with Rodolphus his Postills bound up with Lyra Clemens Romanus with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings JOHN DIGBY was born of an antient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire in the month of Febr. 1580 became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595 and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and returned a well-qualified Gentleman So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of his Majesties Carvers in the year 1605 being then newly created Master of Arts of this University On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honor of Knighthood and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain as he was afterwards again in 1614. In the beginning of January about the third day 1615 Sir Franc. Cottington was sent into Spain to call him home and about the middle of March following he returned into England On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was admitted one of the Kings Privy Council and Vicechamberlain of his Majesties Houshold in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope who was persuaded by the Kings Letters to give up that Office In July 1617 he was sent again into Spain and the next year upon his return he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nov. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in Octob. 1621 he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles who followed him in few months after and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristow After his return he shew'd himself right able to appear before the English Parliament where he worsted the greatest Minion Buckingham the Folly Love or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation As thro a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time tho they drove on if not contrary divers designs From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament we find no great matter of him when then he being found guilty of concealing some say of promoting a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent which was to be delivered to the Parliament he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause for which at length he suffer'd Exile and the loss of his Estate He hath extant these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spake another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges 2 Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords he thereupon spake 3 Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former and of accommodation Lond. 1642. in 1 sh in qu. Repr at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. 4 Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight and was reprinted at Lond. the same year Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion Oaths Laws Loyalty and Gratitude which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England Tract wherein he vindicateth his honor and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apologie Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract meaning his Motives and tyes of Religion with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited The said two Tracts with the Appendix
in many rhetorical strains bitterly scolded against his quondam Fellow Covenantiers he hath this angry and uncharitable passage That the projects of Presbyterians have froth in their heads and blood in their bottom as the water of those men that labour with the Stone and Strangury and have their wounds from within It pleased God within a few days after the publishing of this book to smite the Bishop with that tormenting distemper which he there makes use of to set off his false and scandalous impeachment of so considerable a part of the most conscientious and peaceable people in the Land He lay in a very great extremity of torture and by reason of the stopping of his water his life was in great hazard and so was forced to send for a Chyrurgeon who by making use of his Probe did help him to make water which was froth at the top and blood at the bottom And that the Lord might make him more sensible of it he repeated the stroke a second time after the same manner as we have been credibly informed from very eminent and considerable persons We could heartily wish that there were now alive another Mr. Rogers of Wethersfield who would deal effectually with the conscience of this proud Prelate that he might be blessed with a more sanctified use of the hand of the Lord in the visitation of the Strangury then of his broken leg in the former times c. Thus the nameless Author in his Mirabilis annus secundus The first of which years was published in Aug. 1661 the second in Aug. 1662 and the third in Dec. the same year but whether any more followed I find not They were published purposely to breed in the vulgar an ill opinion of the change of Government and Religion after the Kings Restoration A just invective against those of the Army and their Abetters who murthered K. Ch. 1. on the 30 of Jan. 1648 with some other poetick pieces in Latin referring to those tragical times written 10 Feb. 1648. Lond. 1662. Discourse of artificial beauty in point of conscience between two Ladies Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning publick Oaths and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings in order to answer the scruples of the Quakers Lond. 1649. Lat. ibid. 1662. English Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Lond. 1663. qu. Published then with other Prophecies of that subject written by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Cant. Rob. Sanderson Rich. Hooker c. The whole duty of a Communicant being rules and directions for a worthy receiving the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1681. c. in tw He hath written other things which I have not yet seen particularly a Tract about Tender Consciences which is answer'd by Sam. Fisher He gave way to fate in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester on the 20 of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and two aged 57 and was buried in the Chappel at the east end of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. there Over his grave was soon after erected a fair monument containing his Effigies to the middle in his episcopal habit with an inscription under it a copy of which is printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 328. a. What the disease was which took him out of this mortal life I know not Neither dare I say says one for all the world that the disease that befell him and of which he died befell him for his fierceness against the Presbyterians and it was the very disease unto which he had compar'd the Presbyterians sermons and it befell him not long after he had made that odious comparison c. EDWARD BAGSHAW a younger Son of a Gentleman descended from those of his name living in Derbysh was born in London became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Bolton in Mich. term an 1604 took one degree in Arts four years after setled in the Middle Temple studied the municipal Law and at length became a Bencher and a knowing man in his Profession In 15 Car. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader for that Society and beginning to read 24 Feb. did select for the argument of his discourse the Statute of 35 Ed. 3. cap. 7. wherein he laboured to suppress Episcopacy by lopping off the branches first and afterwards by laying the axe to the root of the tree But after he had read once Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterb had notice of it who forthwith acquainting the King he commanded the Lord Keeper Finch to prohibit him from proceeding any farther which accordingly was done So that Bagshaw being looked upon as a discontented and seditious person was the year following chose with Joh. White another Lawyer known afterwards by the name of Century White a Burgess for the Borough of Southwark to serve in that most wicked Convention that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640. But soon after perceiving full well what mad courses the Members thereof took he left them after he had expressed his envy among them against the Bishops went to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there called by his Majesty where continuing for some time was taken by the Rebells in Oxfordshire and sent to London to the House of Commons who forthwith committed him Prisoner to the Kings-bench in Southwark 29 June 1644 where he had been with great Shoutings and Acclamations elected Burgess of that place by the fiery Zealots for the Cause Afterwards he suffered in his Estate in Northamptonshire but what his requital was after the return of his Maj. 1660 about which time he was Treasurer of the Mid. Temple I know not Sure I am that he hath these things following going under his name The life and death of Mr. Rob. Bolton Lond. 1633. qu. Wherein the Author shews himself a Calvinist commends Calvin and Luther much and speaks against the Innovations in the Church then used with reference I presume to Laud whom he had no affection for Several Speeches as 1 Sp. in Parliament 7 Nov. 1640. Lond. 1640. qu. 2 Sp. in Parl. concerning Episcopacy and London Petition Lond. 1640 1. qu. c. Two Arguments in Parliament The first concerning the Canons the second concerning the Praemunire upon those Canons Lond. 1641. qu. Treatise defending the Revenues of the Church in Tithes and Glebe Lond. 1646. qu. Treatise maintaining the Doctrine Liturgy and Discipline of the Church of England These two last were written by their Author during his long imprisonment Short censure of the book of Will Prynne intit The University of Oxfords plea refuted Printed 1648. in 2 sh in qu. Just Vindication of the questioned part of his reading had in the Middle Temple Hall 24 Feb. 1639. Lond. 1660. qu. True narrative of the cause of silencing him by the Archb. of Cant. Printed with the Just vindication See Joh. Rushworths third volume of Collections pag. 990. The Rights of the Crown of England as it is established by Law Lond. 1660. oct Written by him also during
Aug. following it was voted by them that G. Wither author thereof should pay to the said Sir R. Onslow 500 l. for damages and that the book be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman at which time Withers was then in prison for it and continued there about an year Opobalsamum Anglicanum An English balm lately pressed out of a shrub and spread upon these papers for the cure of some scabs gangrenes and cancers endangering the body of this Commonweale c. Lond. 1646 in 3 sh and an half in qu. in verse Amygdala Britannica Almonds for Parrets A dish of stone-fruit partly shell'd and partly unshell'd which if crack'd pick'd and digested may be wholsom against those epidemick distempers of the brain now predominant c. Printed 1647 in qu. in double columes in tw sh in verse Carmen expostulatorium Printed 1647. This was written to prevent the engaging these nations into a second war when the dividing of the City and Army was then by some endeavoured A si quis or Quaeries with other verses annexed Printed 1648. Presented to the members of Parliament in their single capacities related to the Authors particular interest A petition and narrative to the Parl. Pr. 1648. The tired petitioner Printed in a single sheet in verse about the same time Carmen Eucharisticon A private Thank-oblation exhibited to the glory of the Lord of Hosts for the timely and wonderful deliverance vouchsafed to this Nation in the routing of a numerous army of Irish rebels before Dublin by Mich. Jones Lieut. Gen. for the Parl. of England Lond. 1649 in one largesh in qu. in double columns Of which poem and its author several things are said by the writer of Mercurius Elencticus numb 19. p. 152. published 3. Sept. 1649. Se defendendo Not said when printed 'T was an Apologie written by him in prose to vindicate himself from such aspersions as had been injuriously and without any probable cause cast upon him by malicious detractors A thankful retribution Lond. 1649 in vers The British appeal with Gods merciful replies on the behalf of the commonwealth of England contained in a brief commemorative Poem c. Lond. 1651. oct The dark lantern containing a dim discovery in riddles parables and semi-riddles intermix'd with cautions remembrances and predictions c. Lond. 1650 53 oct in vers Poem concerning a perpetual Parliament Printed with the Dark lantern A suddaine flash on the stile of Protector Printed in oct Westrow revived a funeral poem Pr. in oct Vaticinium casuale Printed 1655. Boni ominis votum Printed 1656. This poem was occasion'd by the summoning of extraordinary Grand Juries out of the eminent Baronets Knights Esquires Gentlemen to serve in their Counties at a Summer assize 1656. A cause allegorically stated Printed 1657 with an appeal therein to all impartial censurers Address to the members of Parl. in their single capacities Printed 1657. a poem Salt upon salt made out of certain ingenious verses upon the late storm and the death of his Highness c. by which occasion is taken to offer to consideration the probable near approaching of greater stormes and more sad consequences Lond. 1659. oct in vers A bitter-sweet passion of the Soul expressed in a Hymne to God Printed at the end of Salt upon salt Poetick frenzie occasion'd by Gen. Monks restoring the Parliament Printed in a large oct Speculum speculativum or a considering glass being an inspection into the present and late sad conditions of these nations c. Lond. 1660. oct poem Glimmerings discovered of what will probably ensue hereafter Printed with the former 'T is a Poem Postscript in answer to some cavilling objections made against the Author of this considering glass since the composing thereof Printed also with the former Fides Anglicana or a plea for the publick faith of these nations lately pawned forfeited and violated by some of their former Trustees to the rendring it as infamous as Fides punica was heretofore c. Lond. 1660. oct prose Triple paradox affixed to a counter-mure raised against the furious batteries of restraint slander and poverty c. Lond. 1661. oct poem Crums and scraps lately found in a Prisoners basket in Newgate Lond. 1661. oct poem Metrical paraphrase on the Lords Prayer Printed 1665. 1688. oct vers Memorandum to London occasion'd by the pestilence in the year 1665. Pr. in oct a poem Sigh for the pitchers with three private meditations Lond. 1666. oct Fragmenta prophetica or his remains being a collection of the several predictions dispersed throughout his works Lond. 1669 oct Before which is his picture in armour and his head bare adorn'd with a wreath of Laurel An interjection being a sudden ejaculation cast in at the collecting of Fragm proph Metrical paraphrase on the Creed Lond. 1688. oct vers 'T is at the end of the 2d edit of the Paraphrase on the 10 Com. before mention'd Besides all these which I have mostly seen and perused are many others which I have not seen only their trite and imperfect titles as they follow 1 The Scourge 2 The Mistress of Philarete 3 Vaticinium poeticum All these written in verse and the last reprinted in Fragm Proph. 4 Caveat Emptor in prose 5 Britains Genius Pr. in oct 6 Carm. Ternarium semicynium ver 7 Speech without door 8 His Disclaimer These two last are in prose 9 Know thy self ver 10 The Delinquents purgation prose 11 Sinners confession vers 12 A cordial confection c. prose 13 Verses to the individual members of Parliament 14 Epistolium vagum prosau-metricum 15 Furor poeticus 16 Three grains of Frankincense 17 The Protector The three last are in vers 18 Epistle to the three Nations 19 Epistle at random Pr. in qu. 20 Ecchoes from the sixth trumpet reverberated by a review of neglected remembrances Pr. in oct c. Besides these 20 pieces and others which were printed were many others of his composition which were not as 1 Exercises on the nine Psalmes next following the first These which he intended to add to the Exercises on the first psalme printed 1620 were lost and could never be recovered 2 Treatise of antient Hieroglyphicks with their various significations Lost 3 Persuit of happiness being a character of the extravagancy of the authors affections and passions in his youth Written in prose 4 Riddles Songs Epigrams 5 The Dutchess in vers 6 Domestick devotions prose 7 Funeral Elegie 8 Tract of usury c. prose 9 The confession of his faith both in fundamentals and in relation to most points controverted by men of several judgments in religion 10 Precatory meditation and soliloquy with God on the behalf of his children and their posterity if they have any 11 Discourse to a friend touching the consolations in close imprisonment 12 Familiar Epistles 13 The true state of the cause between the King and Parl. Wr. in prose 14 Declaration in the Person of Oliver Cromwell given into his own hand and tending to the
author It was printed at the end of a second Edition of the said Certain verses c. with Hero and Leander a mock Poem The first days entertainment at Rutland house by Declamations and Musick Lond. 1657. oct Published in Sept. 1656 notwithstanding the nicety of those times Play-house to be let containing the History of S. Franc. Drake and the cruelty of the Spaniards at Perue Com. News from Plymouth Com. Law against Lovers Co. The Distresses Tr. The Siege Co. or Tr. Co. Fair favourite Co. A Panegyrick to his excellency the Lord Gener. Monk Lond. 1659. On one side of a sheet of paper printed in the beginning of March the same year A Poem upon his Majesties most happy return to his dominions Lond. 1660 qu. The Siege of Rhodes Tr. Com. in two parts Lond. 1663 qu. c. Poem on the Kings most sacred Majestie Lond. 1663. qu. Man 's the Master Com. Lond. 1669. qu. Poems on several occasions The Tempest or the enchanted Island Com. Lond. 1676. qu. This play was originally Shakespears whom and his works D'avenant much admired as those that have seen his Sea Voyage may easily discern The seventh or last canto of the third book of Gondibert Lond. 1685. oct never before printed Most of which Comedies Tragedies Trag. Com. Masques and Poems were printed together in a large folio Lond. 1672. 3. with the authors picture before them adorned with a wreath of Lawrel and a notch in his nose as over the first letter of his sirname At length this noted and celebrated author having lived to about his grand climecterical year made his last exit in his house in Little Lincolns-inn Fields in the Parish of S. Clement Danes near London on the seventh day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was two days after buried in the s Cross Isle or south trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster without any Lawrel upon his Coffin which I presume was forgotten His body was deposited in the very place or near it where his Antagonist Tho. May the English Lucan had been buried of whom I shall speak more anon and in the mean time give you the Epitaph of Sir Will. D'avenant made on him soon after his death which runs thus Here lies a Subject of immortal praise Who did from Phoebus hand receive his bayes Admir'd by all envied alone by those Who for his glories made themselves his foes Such were his virtues that they could command A general applause from every hand His Exit then this on record shall have A Clap did usher D'avenant to his grave In the office of Poet Laureat succeeded Joh. Driden Son of Erasmus Driden of Tichmersh in Northamptonshire third Son of Erasm Driden of Canons Ashby in the same County Baronet which John was born at Oldwincle called by some Aldwincle near to Oundle in the same County being the very same place that gave breath to Dr. Tho. Fuller the Historian educated in Grammar learning in the College School in Westminster elected thence a Scholar of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an 1650 and is now highly celebrated among ingenious men for his poetry and other polite learning As for Tho. May before mentioned he was the Son of Tho. May of Mayfield in Sussex Knight by his Wife the Daughter of .... Rich of Hornden on the hill in Essex was educated in all kind of humane learning when he was a youth and in Academical in his manly years in Cambridge Afterwards his genie being chiefly enclined to Poetry he retired to and mostly lived in the City of Westminster where performing divers things for the honour of this nation never paralell'd by any English man before was graciously countenanced by K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort but he finding not that preferment from either which he expected grew discontented sided with the Presbyterians upon the turn of the times became a Debauchee ad omnia entertained ill principles as to Religion spoke often very slightly of the Holy Trinity kept beastly and atheistical company of whom Tho. Chaloner the Regecide was one and endeavour'd to his power to asperse and invalidate the King and his cause Among several things that he hath written and translated some are these 1 The Trag. of Antigone the Theban Princess Lond. 1631. oct ◠The Heir a Com. Acted 1620. Lond. 1633. qu. 3 The victorious raign of K. Ed. 3. in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct Written in verse by the special command of K. Ch. 1. 4 The raign of Hen. 2. Lond. in oct Written also in verse and dedicated to K. Ch. 1. 5 Trag. of Cleopatra Qu. of Aegypt Acted 1626. Lond. 1639. oct Dedic to Sir Ken. Digby 6 Trag. of Julia Agrippina Empress of Rome Acted 1628. Lond. 1639. oct 7 Supplementum Lucani lib. vii Lugd. Bat. 1640. oct Written in so lofty and happy Lat. Hexameter that he hath attained to much more reputation abroad than he hath lost at home 8 The old couple Com. Lond. in qu. 9 Historiae Parliamenti Angliae Breviarium tribus partibus explicitum Lond. 1649 or thereabout in oct It was afterwards translated into English by the Author with this title Breviary of the History of the Parliament of England in three parts c. Lond. 1655. oct see edit Before which is the picture of the author in a cloak with a wreath of Laurel over his head He hath also translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 Lucans Pharsalia or the civil wars of Rome between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar In 10 books Lond. 1635. oct third edit with annotations made by Th. May on each book 2 A continuation of the subject of Lucans Historical poem till the death of Julius Caesar in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct sec edition with annotations made by Tho. May on each book 3 Virgils Georgicks four books Lond. 1622. oct with annotations on each book 4 Selected Epigrams of Martial Lond. 1629. oct At length this Person Tho. May who had been favoured by the rebellious Parliament so much as to be made their Historian going well to bed was therein found next morning dead an 1650 occasion'd as some say by tying his night-cap too close under his fat chin and cheeks which choak'd him when he turned on the other side Afterwards his body being conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster was buried on the west side of the large south Isle or transcept there And soon after had a large monument of white marble set in the w. Wall over his grave with this inscription thereon made by March Nedham Quem Anglicana Respub habuit vindicem ornamentum literaria secli sui Vatum celeberrimus deliciae futuri Lucanus alter plusquam Romanus Historicus fidus Equitis aurati filius primogenitus Thomas Maius h. s e. Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae specimen usque adeo superaddidit ut à supremo Anglorum senatu ad annales suos conscribendos fuerit ascitus Tandem fide
and advantage of the said Coll. by the Rector and Fellows thereof with the advice of Dr. John Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. if he be then living WILLIAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller Knight Lieutenant or Constable of Dover Castle and chief Butler of England as he is sometimes stiled by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Sampson Lennard Lord Dacre was born at Knolle in Kent matriculated at his first coming to the University as a member of Magd. Hall in Mich. term an 1612 aged 15 years but making no long stay there was translated to Hart Hall where he spent most of his time during his abode in Oxon. Afterwards he went to Paris and in an Academy there he learn'd to fence and manage the great Horse Thence he went to the German Wars where he served in the Army of the confederate Princes against the Emperour After his return he was knighted at Wansted 20. June 1622 and took to Wife Jane Daughter and Heir of Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire Knight who dying at Bathe in the Month of May 1633 was buried in the south trancept of the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there over whose grave is a very fair monument erected and thereon the statua's of her and her husband lying at length Afterwards taking to him a second Wife he was elected a Burgess for Anâ—over in Hampshire to serve in that most unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he shew'd himself an active person against the prerogative and every thing that looked that way Soon after when the rebellion broke out he was for his great knowledge in martial affairs constituted tho little in person by the said Parliament one of their Generals to fight against their King an 1642 in which year and after he performed in the opinion of those of his perswasion many notable exploits yet not without great violation and injury to the Church and its orthodox members and therefore flatter'd and cajoul'd by the Parliament with several sums of money part of which was given as a largess to his soldiers the more to encourage them in their service About that time that he might shew his zeal for the beloved cause he took the Covenant twice in the H. of Commons meerly to put forward some that had not taken it before and was not wanting on all occasions to promote and carry on the War But being soon after very unfortunate by loosing two Armies in the service of the said Parliament caused a diminution of his former fame which was raised up near to a competition or emulation with Robert Earl of Essex the Captain General In Jan. 1646 when Winchester Castle was disgarrison'd it was given to him as part of a reward for his former service but the next year shewing himself active among the Presbyterians in the H. of Commons against the designs of the Independents was one of the eleven members impeached by the Army of high treason Whereupon absconding for a time returned and took his place but in the very next year 1648 he was with forty more members turned out of the House by the Army on the 6. of December and on the 11. of Jan. following he was committed Prisoner to S. James's house and afterwards to Windsore and Denbigh Castles and to the Tower of London during the raign of Oliver as many of his brethren the Presbyterians were least he and they should carry on plots for the bringing in of the King or at least cross the designs of the said Oliver So that all that time being esteemed by the generality of Royalists an honest man and a Patriot of his Country was committed to custody upon suspicion of being engaged in Sir George Booth's Insurrection in Aug. 1659 where continuing till the beginning of Nov. following gave then Bail for his farther appearance What he got by his sufferings at the Kings restauration an 1660 I know not sure I am he was no looser Under this Persons name were printed these things following Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the Parliament forces concerning a great victory obtained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts dated 23. March 1642. Lond. 1643. Mar. 28. in one sh in qu. Tho this victory was very inconsiderable scarce worthy to be taken notice of yet to encourage the party it was made a very bloody matter Full relation of the late proceedings victory and good success obtained by the Parl. Forces under his conduct at the taking of the Town and Castle of Arundell in Sussex Dec. 20. and Jan. 6. an 1643 Sent to Will. Lenthall Speaker of the H. of Com. and printed in one sh in qu. Narration of a great victory obtained by the Parl. forces under his conduct at Alton in Surrey 13. Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643. in 1. sh in qu. Letter of a great victory obtained against Col. Sir James Long High Sherriff of Wilts at the Devises Lond. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. or more It is dated 13. Mar. 1644. concerning these his victories tho little or inconsiderable yet they were highly cried up by the Godly Brethren See more in a book very partially written by a grand Presbyterian named Josiah Ricraft a Merchant of London entit A survey of Englands Champions and truths faithful Patriots Or a Chronological recitement of the principal proceedings of the most prosperous Armies raised for the preservation of Religion the Kings Majesties Person the priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject c. with a most exact narration of the several victories c. with the lively portraitures of the several commanders Lond. 1647. oct with the authors picture before it Divine meditations upon several occasions with a dayly directory Lond. 1680. oct They were written in his retirement from business and publick employ and hath set before them his picture engraven to the life He hath also written Vindication for his taking up Arms against the King This he left behind him in MS but whether publish'd I cannot tell In 1680. was published in one sh in folio Sir Will. Waller his vindication by a friend that understood his life and conversation Military discourse of the ordering of Soldiers This he also left behind him in MS. but whether printed I know not He departed this mortal life in his house at Osterley Park in Middlesex on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the new Chappel near the Chancel in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Whose funeral as to honour being then falsly managed by an Herald Painter without the advice of any of the Officers of the Coll. of Arms his atchievment helmet with a false crest banners c. which were hung over his grave by the said Painter were soon after plucked down by the aforemention'd Officers and thrown aside as false things He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll afterwards a Knight and Justice of Peace for the
on the â—â— of Sept. in the same year had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause 〈◊〉 his Majesty and the first book that he wrot in his 〈◊〉 against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum c. for which he was fetch'd away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton where the Committee that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there had the said book in their hands Afterwards he retired to Oxon and printed his Discovery of Mysteries and on that very day he was preaching at S. Maries before the House of Commons the Soldiers from Northampton went and plunder'd his House and all his Houshold-stuff at Apethorp where his Wife and Children then resided and sequestred his Lands for the use of the Parliament The next winter following he wrot his Jura Majestatis and according to his poor abilities out of the means he had in Wales he gave unto his Majestys own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power Upon the the declining of the Kings cause this our author being then brought very low the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament but he refused it as he did also the importunat invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose Soon after he retired into Wales where for 12 years together as he saith having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means nor 20 l. per an in all the world to maintain himself and servants of any temporal estate he was forced to live upon a little Tenement for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann to Sir Gr. Williams and 4 l. Land per ann besides of his own So that he lived worse than a poor Curat with oaten-bread barley-bread buttermilk and somtimes water being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lusters of years He went attir'd in very mean cloaths as he farther adds and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House Garden and Cattel And all this he did as he said rather than accept of means benevolence or maintenance from the Usurpers Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church He then also perswaded as he had done before some of the Earl of Pembrokes children who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty altho their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament but they refused Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland while his Father was Protector of England offer'd him as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann if he or they would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry but he scorn'd that motion also as he farther tells us After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick Deanery and Archdeaconry but rose no higher or was translated to any other place because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation paying a small Rent to the Usurpers and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruine but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor Afterwards he retired into Ireland lived as privately as might be obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishoprick to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto The Works that he hath written and published are these The delights of the Saints A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace c. Lond. 1622. oct Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion Lond. 1627. qu. The true Church shewed to all men that desire to be members of the same in 6. books Lond. 1629. fol. The best religion wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least which he had formerly preached and mostly published besides some treatises among which is The delights of the Saints before mention'd Vindiciae Regum or the grand rebellion that is a looking glass for Rebels whereby they may see how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the heighth of their design c. Oxon. 1643. qu. The discovery of Mysteries or the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion c. Printed 1643. qu. Jura Majestatis the rights of Kings both in Church and State granted 1. By God 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth Oxon. 1644. qu. The only way to preserve peace Sermon at the publick fast 8. March at S. Maries in Oxon before the H. of Commons on Amos 5.6 Oxon. 1644. qu. The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single Person nor the succession of any one Monarch or Tyrant in any policy but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture c. Lond. 1660. fol. Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days to prevent the seven last vials of Gods wrath that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel 16. c. Lond. 1661. fol. The declaration of the just judgment of God 1. Upon our late Kings friends 2. Upon the Kings enemies that rebell'd and warr'd against him c. This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises c. Four Treatises suffering of the Saints burning of Sodom c. Lond. 1667. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The happiness of Saints on Joh. 20.26 Printed 1657. qu. 2 Gods war with the wicked Rebels and Murtherers on Isa 57.21 3 The property and prerogative of true Saints on Joh. 10.27.28 4 The monstrous murther of the most holy Jesus parallel'd to the murther of Kings on Acts 7.32 5 The four chief duties of every Christian man on 1. Pet. 2.17 6 The chiefest cause why we should love God on 1. John 4.19 7 The lively picture of these hard times on Jer. 14.10 8 The grand rebellion c. Psal 106.16 9 The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King that was his Master on 2. Kings 9.31 All these Sermons except the first with others were printed in folio an 1662. Other Sermons as 1 Description of the four Beasts explained in 4 Sermons on Rev. 4.8 Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The ejection of four devils on Matth. 17.21 Lond. 1664. qu. 3 The saving Serpent on John 3.14 Ibid. 1664. qu. 4 The monstrous murther of two mighty Kings on 2. Cor. 24.23 Ibid. 1665. qu. 5
respected by the Queen that he was a person of excellent parts civil behaviour and of great complisance This acquaintance I presume had its original from our authors desire of having a book of his composition to be licensed for the Press through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell Chaplain to the said Archbishop who soon finding him to be a person of learning and great moderation did acquaint his grace of the man and his work Howsoever it was sure I am that when articles of impeachment were drawn up against Archb. Laud in the beginning of the Long Parliament 't is said in the seventh article that for the advancement of Popery and Superstition within this Realm the said Archb. hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers popish Priests and Jesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Davenport a dangerous person and Franciscan Frier who hath written a popish and seditious book entituled Deus natura gratia c. wherein the thirty nine articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament are much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while he was in writing the said book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Monsieur St. Giles a popish Priest at Oxon c. To which article the Archbishop made this answer I never saw that Franciscan Frier Sancta Clara in my life to the utmost of my memory above four times or five at most He was first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell I did fear he would never expound them the Articles so as the Ch. of England might have cause to thank him for it He never came to me after till he was almost ready to print another book to prove that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right and this was after these unhappy stirs began His desire was to have this book printed here but at his several addresses to me for this I still gave him this answer That I did not like the way which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy And howsoever I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist should be printed here And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling without calling in any aid from Rome and would so do when they saw cause and this is all the conference I ever had with him Our author S. Clara did at that time abscond and spend most of those years of trouble in obscurity sometimes beyond the Seas sometimes at London other times in the Country and now and then in Oxon at the publick Library where he was with great humanity received by Mr. Tho. Barlow Head keeper thereof as our author doth very gratefully acknowledge in one of his works At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 when a marriage was celebrated between him and Catherina of Portugal he became her Theologist or one of the chief Chaplains about her and was the third time chose Provincial Minister of his Order for the Province of England After the expiration of which for it lasts if I am not mistaken but for three years he was once or twice chosen again to that office before his death being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of his order and the onliest person to be consulted about the affairs thereof He was excellently well vers'd in School divinity the Fathers and Counsels Philosophers and in Ecclesiastical and Profane Histories He was a Person of very free discourse but Cressy was reserv'd of a vivacious and quick countenance the other clouded and melancholy and quick of apprehension but the other not or at least would not All which accomplishments made his company acceptable to great and worthy Persons As for the books which this noted author hath published mostly written in Latine are these Tract adversus judiciariam Astrologiam Duac 1626. oct This I have not yet seen nor is it printed among his Works Paraphrastica Expositio articulorum confessionis Anglicae This was printed first by it self and afterwards at the end of Tract de Praedest following This book was much talk'd against by the Jesuits who by all means would have it burnt but being soon after licensed in Rome gave a stop to any farther rumour of it However in Spain it was censur'd and how and why let the author tell you in his own words sent to me thus You told me that Mr. Leiburne shew'd you the Index Expurgatorius of Spain wherein was named the book of articles published by me There was here in London a Spanish Embassador under the Rebels named Alonso who had great malice to the last King and being informed by a knave that the book was dedicated to and accepted by the King whom he esteemed his enemy he surreptitiously procured in Spain to have it censured He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome but they answered as Pilate Non invenio causam and therefore it passed safe This man Alonso had been a Jesuit and was esteemed not only to have left them rudely but to have given himself over to get money c. In a letter also from Mr. Middleton to Archb. Laud dated at Venice in Dec. 1635 I find these passages that the book of S. Clara rellished not well with the Catholicks and that there was a consultation about it and some did extrema suadere and cried ad ignem Father Tho. Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter who talking with the Popes Nuntio at Paris about it he told him 't was the best course to let it dye of it self to which the Nuntio a moderate man was inclinable Tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis peccatorum remissione c. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu. In the year following the said book came out with this title Deus natura gratia sive tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis c. This book was dedicated to K. Ch. 1. to seduce him if you 'll believe Prynne to his religion and induce him to establish the Romish religion amongst us by his royal authority as he pretends to prove it from the dedicatory Epistle also that the whole scope of the book it self with the paraphrastical exposition of the articles at the end of it was to reconcile reduce both our King Church and the articles of our Religion which he comments upon to the Church of Rome He also endeavours to prove that St. Giles before mention'd living in the Venetian Embassadors house in London an 1635 was the author of that book and that it was printed at London but he is much mistaken and makes a confused story of the said two books which is needless now to tell you Systema fidei sive tractatus de concilio universali c. Leod. 1648. qu. Opusculum de definibilitate controversiae immaculatae conceptionis dei genetricis Tractatus de schismate speciatim Anglicano Fragmenta seu Historia minor
pleasant life this noble and beautiful Count paid his last debt to nature in the Rangers Lodge in Woodstock Park very early in the morn of the 26 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in a vault under the north Isle joyning to Spelsbury Church in Oxfordshire by the body of his Father Henry sometimes the generous loyal and valiant Earl of Rochester the same who had been Commissary General of the Army in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 under Thomas Earl of Arundel the General and had then a troop of horse under him and the same who had married Anne the Widow of Sir Harry Lee of Dichley before mention'd and Daughter of Sir John St. John of Wiltshire Which Henry Earl of Roch. dying beyond the Seas in his attendance on his Majesty on the 19 of Feb. 1657 aged 45 years was by leave obtained privately buried in the before mention'd Vault being the place of sepulture only for the family of Lee since honored with the title of Earl of Lichfield The said John E. of Rochester left behind him a son named Charles who dying on the 12 of Nov. 1681 was buried by his father on the 7 of Dec. following He also left behind him three daughters named Anne Elizabeth and Malet so that the male line ceasing his Majesty Ch. 2. confer'd the title of Rochester on Laurence Viscount Killingworth a younger son of Edward Earl of Clarendon STEPHEN CHARNOCK son of Rich. Charnock an Attorney or Solicitor descended from an antient family of his name living in Lancashire was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Creechurch in London educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge mostly under the tuition of Mr. Will. Sancroft spent afterwards some time in a private family and a little more in the exercise of his Ministry in Southwarke in the time of the Rebellion In 1649 or thereabouts he retired to Oxon purposely to obtain a Fellowship from the Visitors appointed by Parliament when they ejected scholars by whole shoales and in 1650 he obtained a Fellowship in New Coll. and thereby for several years did eat the bread of a worthy Loyallist In 1652 he was incorporated Master of Arts as he had stood in Cambridge and two years after he did undergo the office of Proctor of the University being then taken notice of by the godly Party for his singular gifts and had in reputation by the then most learned Presbyterians and therefore upon that account he was the more frequently put upon publick Works After he had discharged his office he received a call to go into Ireland where exercising his Ministry for about 4 or 5 years he was held in admiration by the Presbyterian and sometimes by the Independent and had the concurrent applause of some that were of different sentiments from him in matters of Religion and such also who did not love his opinion did notwithstanding commend him for his learning After the King was restored in 1660 he was ejected from his publick exercise being then as I conceive Bach. of Div. of Dublin returned into England and in and about London he did spend the greatest part of 15 years without any call to his own work whereby he took advantage to go now and then either into France or Holland In the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in private meetings in the great City gaining thereby infinite love and applause from the Brethren who held him to be a person of excellent parts strong reason great judgment and which do not often go together curious fancy They also esteemed him to be a man of high improvements and general learning that his chief talent was his preaching gift in which he had few equals that also he was good in the practice of physick in which he had arrived to a considerable measure of knowledge and lastly that he was a true son of the Church of England in that sound doctrine laid down in the articles of Religion and taught by our most famous antient Divines and Reformers c. As for his Writings they are many yet he published nothing while he lived However after his death his friends made extant these things following to prevent false copies which were then likely to creep abroad A Sermon of reconciliation to God in Christ on 2 Cor. 5.19 Lond. 1680. qu. Treatise of divine providence 1. In general 2. In particular as relating to the Church of God in the world Lond. 1680. oct Before which is an Epistle written by Rich. Adams and Edw. Veel who as I think published the said book This was afterwards involved in his Works His Works containing several discourses upon the excellence and attributes of God Lond. 1682. in a large fol. published by the said two persons R. Adams and E. Veele His Works vol. 2. containing several discourses upon various divine Subjects Lond. 1683. fol. with a Supplement He died in the house of one Rich. Tymms a Glazier in the Parish of White Chappel near London on the 27 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty aged 52 years or thereabouts whereupon his body being conveyed to Crosby house belonging to Sir Jo. Langham in which house Tho. Watson M. of A sometimes of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. Pastor of S. Stephens Church Walbrook in Lond. in the times of Usurpation and the author of The art of divine contemplation and of other things did hold forth by praying and preaching as our author Charnock did was thence accompanied by great numbers of the Brethren to S. Michaels Church on Cornhill in London where after John Johnson his contemporary in Emanuel and New Coll had held forth in a funeral Sermon wherein many things were spoken in praise of the defunct his body was committed to the earth on the 30 day of the same month at the bottom of the Tower under the Belfry I must now having a just opportunity laid before me tell the Reader that the name of Charnock is antient and in Lancashire is now or at least hath been lately Charnock of Charnock from whence was originally descended Thom. Charnock a noted Chymist and Rosacrucian of his time born at Feversham some say in the Isle of Thanet in Kent an 1526 and being very covetous of knowledge he travelled all England over to gain it fixed in Oxon for a considerable time where it hapned that he fell into such acquaintance that it proved his future comfort About that time he became known to Mr. James S. a spiritual man living in the Close at Salisbury who being a noted Chymist he entertained Charnock to be his Operator In 1554 he obtained the secret from his said Master Jam. S. who dying about that time left him inheritor of it but lost it by firing his Tabernacle on New years-day at noon an 1555. Soon after he learned the secret again but not of Will. Byrd sometimes Prior of Bathe who had bestowed a great deal of pains and money to obtain it but
talking about these Papers that I find him not a little angry with Dr. Joh. Hinckley barely for being so bold and daring as to pretend to write somthing relating to them for he himself saying that he believed no man then viz. 1671. living could give an account of them besides himself he judged questionless that the Doctor herein had too rudely invaded his sole Province Yet notwithstanding this together with a great deal of talk about their Sentiments and reception of his Majesties Declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs the reduction and model of Episcopacy made by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland and that other of Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwych subscribed to by Dr. Rich. Holdesworth either of which they would as he saith have willingly allowed of he with a great deal of confidence repeated in the preliminary introductions to most of his very many late most bitter pieces against the Church as if he could not otherwise by any means begin a treatise unless these hughly beloved relations did kindly usher the following very uneven unconcocted roving often repeated and medley stuff will hardly perswade us to believe that he hath been so little conversant with books especially such as have been wrot against his own party and himself as not to have very well known that Roger L'estrange in a book of his entit The relapsed Apostate c. published not long after those three Papers above mention'd had fully and at large answered his Petition for peace animadverted on many parts of the reformed Liturgy and that moreover he had in a Supplement to his Relapsed Apost refuted the Two papers of proposals concerning the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church together with a single sheet in form of petition to his Majesty and that the Papers compriz'd in The great debate c. were briefly also touched and reflected on in the same Supplement c. Mr. L'estrang taketh notice also of this unwarrantable boast and vaunt of Mr. Baxter concerning these Papers in a late preface to the third edit of The relapsed Apostate c. Lond. 1681. qu therein citing Baxters words to that purpose out of the Preface to his answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Charge of Separation c. Mr. Baxter indeed altho in some of his books he saith expresly that none of the above named Papers were ever answer'd by any confesseth that two small treatises one entit Pulpit conceptions popular deceptions or the grand debate resum'd in the point of Prayer viz in defence of prescribed forms c. Lond. 1662. qu. and the other Concerning Lent-Fast had been wrot against some single parts occurring in those three Papers above mention'd as also that L'estrange had said somthing against their Liturgy and that he had no more to say this last in his answer to a Letter of Dr. Hinckley yet mentions nothing even there of L'estranges answers to any of their other Papers But all this being spoken by the way lets now return to our author Morley and his other writings Epistola apologetica paraenetica ad Theologum quendam Belgam scripta Lond. 1663. in two sh and an half in qu written at Breda 7. Jun. 1659. This came out again with several of our authors treatises which I shall anon mention under this title Epistola ad virum clariss D. Cornelium Triglandium unum ex Pastoribus Hagiensibus Principi Auriaco à studiis conscripta in quâ agitur de sereniss regis Car. 2. erga reformatam religionem affectu c. Lond. 1683. qu. The author of this as writing to a Protestant who was a favourer of his Masters interest and with whom he had before held some correspondence by Letters fully clears K. Ch. 2. from all the least ground of suspicion of his enclining to Popery throughout his whole time of exile contrary to what some English men had reported either thro ignorance or hatred and which was by an easie credulity too greedily entertain'd by some foreigners After this he vehemently presseth the Dutch as desiring that this his Epistle might be communicated to other Dutchmen of the like perswasion with the person to whom it was immediatly directed with strong reasons drawn from the several perswasive heads vigorously to employ their speedy and utmost endeavours to restore his Majesty to his lawful throne and just rights The Summe of a short conference betwixt Fath. Darcey a Jesuit and Dr. Morley at Bruxells 23 June 1649. Stil Nov. Lond. 1683. qu. An argument drawne from the evidence and certainty of sense against the doctrine of Transubstantiation Vindication of the argument drawne from sense against Transubstantiation from a pretended answer to it by the author of a pamphlet called A treatise of the nature of Catholick faith and heresie Answer to Father Cressy's Letter This which is about religion and the Clergy of England was written in 1662. Sermon before the King at Whitehall 5. Nov. 1667 on 1. Cor. 14.33 Answer to a Letter written by a Rom. Priest 1676. Letter to Anne Duchess of York some few months before her death written 24 Jan. 1670. This Duchess who was dau of Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England afterwards E. of Clarendon was carefully principled in the doctrine of the Protestant faith by our author Morley while he continued at Antwerp in the family of her father yet died in the faith of the Rom. Church Ad clarissimum virum Janum Ulitium Epistolae duae de invocatione Sanctorum Written on the first of July 1659. The aforesaid Summe of a short conference c. with all the things that follow to these two Epistles were with the Epistle to Corn. Trigland c. printed together in one vol. in qu. an 1683. Soon after was published by L. W. a book entit A revision of Dr. Morley's Judgment in matters of religion or an answer to several treatises of his written on several occasions concerning the Church of Rome Which book was answer'd by another called The revision revised or a vindication of the right rev father in God George L. Bish of Winton against c. Lond. 1685. qu. Letter to the Earl of Anglesey of the meanes to keep out Popery and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof Lond. 1683 At the end of A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesey Printed in fol. Vindication of himself from divers false scandalous and injurious reflections made upon him by Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his writings Lond. 1683. qu. What else he hath published I know not unless A character of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. in one sheet in qu. then vulgarly reported to be by him written much about which time other Characters were published as that by Dr. Wall Charlton c. He made also an Epitaph on K. Jam. 1. an 1625 which was afterwards printed at the end of Dr. John Spotswood's Church Hist of Scotland At length after this most worthy and pious Bishop had
endeavours of some of his friends and fellow-sufferers to reduce the University to that manner and form as to Preaching Disputing Discipline Opinion c. as 't was while Dr. Laud was Chancellour thereof but because of the twenty years interval wherein a most strange liberty loosness in manners and religion had taken place they could not do it and I remember that many made it a ridiculous thing that he and they should in the least think of such a matter which a whole age could not do nor that also unless a succession of good Kings came that should be of the same mind and opinion with Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory He was a most excellent Disciplinarian kept up the exercise of his house severely was admirable in training up Youth of noble extraction had a faculty in it peculiar to him and was much delighted in it He would constantly on several mornings in the week take his rounds in his Coll go to the Chambers of Noblemen and Gent. Commoners and examine and see what progress they made in their studies He constantly frequented divine Service in public four times in a day and had besides Prayers twice every day in his own family He was a most zealous Favourer of the Ch. of England and none that I yet know of did go beyond him in the performance of the rules belonging thereunto He was a great encourager and promoter of Learning in the University and of all public works belonging thereunto witness not only the Edifices before mentioned but his sollicitation for the building of the publick Theater to the end that the house of God might be kept free for its own use He likewise advanced the learned Press and improv'd the Manufacture of Printing in Oxford in such manner as it had been designed before by that public spirited person Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and certainly it would have been by him effected as other matters of greater concern relating to Religion and Learning had not the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians prevented him He was also a person of a most generous spirit undervalued money and disburs'd it so freely upon learned pious and charitable uses that he left sometimes for himself and his private use little or nothing He was an eager defender and maintainer of the University and its Privileges especially while he executed the office of Vicechancellour against the Oppugners of them and always endeavour'd to advance its Liberties for which he often gained the ill opinions of the Citizens He was a bold and resolute man and did not value whaâ— the generality said or thought of him so that he could accomplish his just and generous designs which being too many to effect was the chief reason of shortning his days His charity was so great that he was a husband to the afflicted widow a father to the orphan and a tender parent to poor Children He constantly allowed an yearly pension to a poor man of S. Thomas in the Suburb of Oxon purposely that he should teach gratis 20 or 24 poor children of that Parish to read some of which he afterward bound Apprentices or made Scholars He was a person of great morals and vertues spent his time in celebacy of an unspotted life and unquestionable reputation On the 8 of Jan. 1675 he was elected Bishop of Oxon by the Chapter of Ch. Ch. by vertue of a Conge d'eslire sent to them from his Majesty and on the sixth of Febr. following being then Shrove Sunday he was consecrated in the Chappel of the Bishop of Winchester at Chelsey near London at which time liberty was given to him to keep his Deanery in commendam purposely to keep him in his Coll. that he might do farther good therein and in the University No sooner he was setled in his See but he betook himself to the rebuilding the Palace belonging thereunto at Cudesden near Oxon whereupon examining what had been done in order to it by any of his Predecessors which was no considerable matter he undertook and finished it as I have told you in the first vol. p. 634 yet enjoyed but a little time in it As for his Works pertaining to Learning they are these The life of the most learned Rev. and Pious Dr. Hen. Hammond Lond. 1661 c. oct Before which time he was supposed to be author of The interest of England stated or a faithful and just account of the aimes of all parties now pretending distinctly treating of the designments of the R. Cath Royalist Presbyterian Anabaptist c. Printed in 1659 in two sh in qu. but how true it is I cannot tell because I heard of it but very lately and that from no considerable hand It was answered by March Nedham as I have told you in my discourse of him The vanity of scoffing in a letter to a Gent. Lond. 1674 qu. No name is set to it only then generally reported to be his Responsio ad epistolam Thomae Hobbes Malmsburiensis See at the end of Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Several Sermons as 1 The Character of the last days preached before the King on 2. Pet. 3.3 Oxon. 1675. qu. 2 Serm. preached before the H. of Peers 22. Dec. 1680 being the day of solemn humiliation on Matth. 12.25 Oxon. 1680. qu. c. Account of Dr. Rich. Allestree's life This is in the preface before the said Doctors Forty Sermons published by our author Dr. Fell who also reviewed and illustrated with marginal notes the works of S. Cyprian which he published under this title Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Opera recognita illustrata per Johannem Episcopum Oxoniensem Pr. 1682 fol. in the printing house joyning on the east side of the Theater erected at the charge of the University of Oxon on the motion of Dr. Fell an 1674. To which book were added Annales Cyprianici by Dr. John Pearson Bishop of Chester He also translated into English Of the Unity of the Church Printed also in the same house 1681. qu. Written originally by S. Cyprian See more of his works in Pat. Young in the first vol. p. 794 and in Ger. Langbaine and Tho. Willis in this p. 141 and 403. Dr. Fell also published or reprinted every year while he was Dean of Ch. Ch viz. from 1661 to the time of his death a book commonly a classical author against New-years tide to distribute among the Students of his House To which books he either put an Epistle or running notes or corrections These I have endeavoured to recover that the titles might be known and here set down but in vain The first piece which he published of the incomparable author of The whole duty of man was The Ladies Calling before which he put an Epistle to the Reader giving an account after what a private manner the copy thereof accompanied with a letter was conveyed to his hands This Epistle is left out in the folio edit of that authors works as also Dr. Hammonds Epistle before The whole duty of man
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â—5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
illegal proceedings against S. Mary Magd. Coll. in Oxon c. Lond. 1689. qu. sec edit collected by a Fellow of that Coll will at large tell you At that time this Bishop making it his sole endeavours to be gracious with the then great and leading men and to shew himself in all publick assemblies particularly in those wherein the Rom. Cath. Bishops were consecrated he gained the ill will so much of the Sons of the Church of that when the Pr. of Aurange made his expedition into England he out of fear of suffering for what he had acted and of the insults of the rabble then committing great disorders in London and most parts of the Nation did withdraw himself in private sculk and in a disguise fled into France where repairing to his royal Master K. Jam. 2 then lately come thither to avoid imminent danger in England had by him upon the news of Dr. Wards death the Bishoprick of Salisbury confer'd on him and while he abode at S. Germains he did usually read the Liturgy of the Church of England in his Lodgings to such Protestants that came thither to him Afterwards he went with his said Master towards Ireland landed there on Tuesday the 12 of Mar. 1688 and on Sunday following being at Cork he received the Sacrament from the hands of the Bishop of that place On Palm Sunday Mar. 24 he went to Dublin with the King and on Easter-day and the Octaves of Easter 1689 he again received the Sacrament at Ch. Ch. there from the B. of Meath to which Ch. B. Cartwr went dayly to prayers Afterwards being overtaken with the Country disease called the Flux or Disentery he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Gods arraignment of Adam on Gen. 3.9 Lond. 1659. qu. 2 Serm. before the King at Whitehall on Jude 22.23 Lond. 1676. qu. 3 Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of S. Pet. in York before the Judges of Assize on Judges 17.6 Lond. 1677. qu. 4 Sermon preached at Holy-Rood house 30. Janu. 1681 before her highness the Lady Anne on Acts 7.60 Edinb and Lond. 1682 qu. The author was then with James Duke of York who with his Royal Consort and the Lady Anne his Daughter were retired to that place upon the command of his Majesty to put a stop to the fury of the Faction then driving on their designs upon prosecution of the Popish Plot. 5 Sermon preached to the Gentlemen of Yorkshire at Bow Church Lond 24 June 1684 on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1684. qu. 6 Sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the happy inauguration of K. Jam. 2 in the Collegiat Church of Rippon 6. Feb. 1685 on 1. Kings 8.66 Lond. 1686. qu. He hath also extant a Serm. on 2. Chron. 7.9.10 and another on Rev. 14.13 which I have not yet seen And there is also extant under his name A Sp. spoken to the Society of Magd. Coll 16. Nov. 1687 which much commended with several of his Discourses you may see in An impartial relation c. before mentioned At length after he had declared himself to be a member of the Communion of the Church of England in which he had always lived had taken the blessed Sacrament and the Churches absolution he surrendred up his Soul to God at Dublin on Munday morning 15 of April in sixteen hundred eighty and nine On the day before in the afternoon while the ven Minister that usually attended him was at Church the titular Bishop of Clogher and Dean of Ch. Ch. made his Lordship a visit and after the first civilities were past one of them in latine desired him to be mindful of eternity and to prepare for death His servant being present answer'd them that his Lordship had prepared himself already They afterwards told him in latine there was but one God one Faith one Church To which the Bishop replyed I believe so and hope that I have made my peace with God They again repeated There is but one God one Church intending as was supposed to enlarge upon that subject whereupon the Bishop answer'd somewhat short I know all this as well as you but I am not able to answer you for the failing of my spirits and therefore I desire you to forbear talking with me any more about this for I have done already what I hope is necessary for my salvation Hereupon they seeing they could not effect any thing with him nor engage him in a discourse took their leaves and they themselves gave out that the Bishop of Chester was dying and that he would dye a Protestant As soon as he was dead the said Bishops servant acquainted Will. Earl of Powis and Dr. Anth. Dopping Bishop of Meath with his death who with the Earl of Longford took care for his funeral after this manner On Tuesday Apr. 16 the body was carried early in ths morning from the house where he died to that of the B. of Meath which was near where several rooms were hung with black and that where the body lay was furnished with many Lights in sconces and eight large Tapers on stands about the Body which was covered with a fair Velvet Pall. In the afternoon all the Nobility Clergy Judges and Gentry of both Religions that were in Town among whom were the E. of Powis and the L. Chancellour came thither And about six in the evening his body was carried in a velvet Herse drawn with 6 horses cloathed in black and attended by the King at Armes the aforesaid company in near 30 Coaches and a multitude of common people to Christ Church in Dublin where the Sub-Dean and Choire met the Body at the Church door and sung it into the Choir which was very much crowded The Service was solemnly performed with several Anthems and the Body afterwards inter'd in the North-east end of the Choir by the Bishop of Meath in his Episcopal habit It was then commonly reported that K. Jam. 2. did nominate Dr. Jam. Arderne Dean of Chester to succeed Dr. Cartwright in his Bishoprick but how true I cannot tell Sure it is that K. Will. 3. being then in the Throne he nominated to that See Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph who thereupon was consecrated thereunto in the Bishop of Londons Chappel at Fulham near London on the 15 of Sept. 1689. JOHN SHAW a Ministers Son was born at Bedlington in the County Pal. of Durham educated in Grammar learning for the most part under Tho. Ingmethorp Rector of Great Stainton in the said County was at his first coming to the University entred a Student in Qu. Coll. but making little stay there he became a Batler of that of Brasnose 2. Apr. 1629 aged 15 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and retiring soon after to his native Country took holy Orders and exercised the Ministry for some years in the northern parts of England In 1645 he was instituted and inducted Rector of Whalton in Northumberland but not
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then â—n Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
Coll. Nov. 18. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch. 19. Will. Master of Mert. Coll. Feb. 17. Hen. Leigh of Magd. Hall See more of him in Edw. Leigh among the Writers an 1671. p. 352. Mar. 17. Josiah Lane of C. C. Coll. In 1664 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys at Leyden and published his Disputatio med inaug de cholera morbo the same year Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or man of note Bach. of Div. June .... Thom. Hall sometimes of Pembr Coll. had liberty allow'd him by the Delegates of the University to take the degree of Bach. of Div. See more among the Writers p. 234. But one besides him doth occurr really admitted Doct. of Law Jul. 6. Tobias Swinbourne of Linc. Coll. Dec. 6. Timothy Baldwin of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was a younger son of Charles Baldwin of Burwarton in Shropshire Gent became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in 1634 and Fellow of that of All 's in 1640 being then Bach. of Arts where continuing till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Principal of Hart Hall afterwards Chancellour of the diocesses of Hereford and Worcester in which last he succeeded James Littleton one of the Masters of the Chancery and a Knight in July 1670. being then of Stokecastle in Shropshire He hath published The privileges of an Embassador written by way of Letter to a Friend who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Embassador Printed in 1654 in one sh and an half in qu. See more of Tim. Baldwin in Edward Lord Herbert among the Writers of this second vol. p. 62 and in Dr. Rich. Zouche p. 167. where you 'll find the matter about the Portugal Emb brother who was beheaded and a book of Dr. Zouche which T. Baldwin published He had an elder Brother named Sam. Baldwin bred in Balliol Coll. also afterwards a Common Lawyer and by writ called to be Serjeant at Law an 1669 and in 1672. made the Kings Serjeant Doct. of Phys May 27. Henry Clerk of Magd. Coll who accumulated the degrees in Physick by vertue of the Chancellours Letters He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll of Physitians succeeded Dr. Pierce in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll and dying in the house of his Son-in-law Sir Rich. Shuttleworth called Gawthorp hall in Lancashire 24. March 1686. was buried in the Church at Willoughby in Warwickshire among the graves of his ancestors In his Presidentship was elected â—ch Hough Bach. of Div. 15. Apr. 1687. July 9. Petâ—r Eâ—ioâ— of S. Maries Hall sometimes Chapl. of C. C. Coll. and a Preacher He afterwards practised his faculty many years in and near Oxon and dying 5. Mar. 1681 was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. 20. Tim. Clarke of Ball. Coll. Doct. of Div. July 31. Henry Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall a Compounder On the 28. of Oct. following the Vicechancellour admitted him in Convocation as compleat Doctor and on the 3. of May 1676 his degree was confirm'd by a Diploma This person was usually called Deane Harry as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1690. p. 646. Incorporations April 8. Samuel Collins Doct. of Phys of Padua April 8. George Mede Doct. of Phys of Padua These two had been Travellers together and took their degree of Doct. of Phys in the said Univ. of Padua in Aug. 1651. See in the year 1659. June 24. Henr. Saltonstal a Knights Son Fellow of New Coll by the favour of the Visitors and Doct. of Physick of Padua was then incorporated The said degree he took at Padua in October 1649. 29. Tho. Janes or Jeanes Bach. of Arts of Cambr now of Magd. Coll. in this Univ was then incorporated He was adm Mast of that faculty 6. of Jul. this year See among the Doctors of Physick an 1659. Aug. 9. Thom. Horton D. of D. of Cambr. and Master of Queens Coll. therein was then incorporated in Convocation This person who was Son of Laur. Horton Citizen of London was born in that City bred in Emanuel Coll of which he became Fellow and a noted Tutor to young Presbyterian Scholars among whom John Wallis was one In 1637 he was constituted one of the publick Preachers of the Univ. of Cambr. and in 1638 or thereabouts he became Minister of S. Mary Cole church in the City of his nativity Afterwards he was preacher to the Society of Greys Inn Reader of Div. in Gresham Coll a holder forth sometimes before the Long Parliament Vicar of Great S. Helens in London and one of the Triers or Commissioners appointed for the approbation of publick Preachers an 1653. He was esteemed by those of the Presbyterian perswasion a sound and solid Divine a good Textuary and well skill'd in the original Languages Under his name hath been published 1 Forty six Sermons upon the whole eighth Chapter of the Epist of the Apost Paul to the Romans Lond. 1674. fol. 2 Choice and practical exposition on four select Psalms viz. the 4. Psalm in 8 Sermons the 42 Psal in 10 Sermons the 51. Psal in 20 Sermons the 63 Psal in 7 Sermons Lond. 1675. fol. 3 One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts fifty upon the Old Test and fifty on the New Lond. 1679. fol. He also with William Dillingham D. D. and Master of Emanuel Coll. did publish A chain of principles or an orderly concatenation of theological Aphorismes and Exercitations wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved Lond. 1660 written by John Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S. Johns and Trin. Coll. successively and the Kings Professor of Div. in the University of Cambridge Published since his death according to his own Manuscript This Dr. Horton died in 1673 and was I presume buried in the Church of S. Helen before mention'd leaving then behind him a relict called Dorothy who administred 28. Aug. the same year Nov. 19. Steph. Charnock M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. now Fellow of New Coll. by the favor of the Visitors Dec. 6. Tho. Croyden Doct. of Phys of Padua The same degree he took at Pad 30. Oct. 1648. Jan. 14. Will. Harrington Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr. 16. Will. Squire lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Hall in Cambr. 27. Gabriel de Beauvoir of the Isle of Guernsey Doct. of Physick of Padua This person who was the Son of Charles de Beauvoir took the said degree at Pad in the latter end of Octob. 1648. Creations June 17. Jonathan Maud a Student in Phys 17 years was then actually created Doctor of that fac by vertue first of an order from the Committee and secondly by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the Univ. dated 29. May 1650 rather 51 which say that his conversation is pious and sober and that he hath been a constant friend to the Parliament c. July 9. Thomas Danson of Magd. Coll. was
Treasurer to the King of Poland by his Wife Catherine Gordon Daughter of the Marquess of Huntley in Scotland was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law This noble person was entit in his presentation thus Illustriss Dom. Michael Morstin Comes Castrovillanus Tucoliensis Radziminensis Marchio Aquensis Baro Giensis Orgensis Curcelotensis Dominus Montis rubri aliorum Locorum He was now Envoy from Poland to the Crown of England Sept. 9. James Le Prez lately one of the Professors of Divinity in the University of Samur and Warden of the Coll. there before it was suppress'd was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent in his behalf This learned Theologist was one of those eminent Divines that were forced to leave their native Country upon account of religion by the present King of France And his worth and eminence being well known to the Marquess of Ruvigney he was by that most noble person recommended to the Chancellour of this University to have the degree of Doctor confer'd on him Oct. 10. Thom. Musgrave of Qu. Coll. was actually created Doct. of Div. This Divine who was Son of Sir Philip Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmorland Bt a person of known Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. the Martyr became Archdeacon of Carlile in the place of Dr. Tho. Peachell of Cambridge resigning an 1669 was installed Prebendary of Durham 12 of July 1675 Preb. of Chichester 10. Nov. 1681 and at length Dean of Carlile upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Smith to the Episcopal See thereof in July an 1684. He died in the beginning of Apr. 1686 and was succeeded in his Deanery by Will. Graham M. A. of Ch. Ch. as I shall tell you among the Creations an 1686. Oct. 26. Sir Jonathan Trelawny Bt M. of A. of Ch. Ch. the nominated Bishop of Bristow was diplomated Doct. of Div. He was consecrated B. of Bristow on the 8 of Nov. following Philip Bennet of Exet. Coll. was diplomated Bach. of Div. the same day being then in his Majesties Service at Jamaica Dec. 29 Joh. Haslewood M. A. of Oriel Coll. Chapl. to Henry Earl of Clarendon L. Lieutenant of Ireland was diplomated or as 't is said in the register created Simpliciter Doct. of Div. Mar. 9. Nathan Wilson M. A. of Magd. Hall Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Dean of Raphoe in Ireland was diplomated or as 't is said in the reg created Simpliciter Doct. of Div. He was afterwards Bish of Limerick c. An. Dom. 1686. An. 2. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. John Venn D. D. Master of Ball. Coll. Sept. 30. Proct. Edw. Hopkins of Linc. Coll. Apr. 14. Joh. Walrond of All 's Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 15. George Smalridge of Ch. Ch. Jun. 15. Edw. Hannes of Ch. Ch. Adm. 178. Bach. of Law Eight were admitted among whom Will. Beaw of Magd. Coll. was one Oct. 20 who a little before was made Chanc. of the Dioc. of Landaff by his Father the Bishop thereof on the death of Sir Rich. Lloyd Mast of Arts. Apr. 28. Thom. Armestead of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards author of A Dialogue between two Friends wherein the Church of England is vindicated in joyning with the Prince of Orange in his descent into England Printed in A ninth collection of Papers relating to the present juncture of affairs in England c. published in the beginning of March at Lond. 1688 with the date at the bottom of the title of 1689. June 15. Joh. Smyth of Magd. Coll. He hath written and published a Comedy called Win her and take her c. Lond. 1691. qu. Dedic by the author to Peregrine Earl of Danby under the name of Cave Vnderhill an Actor of playes Mr. Smyth hath published one or more things besides and therefore he is her easter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers July 7. Peter Lancaster of Ball. Coll. He hath translated from Greek into English A discourse of envy and hatred in the first vol. of Plutarchs Morals Lond. 1684. oct As also How a man may praise himself without envy which is in the second vol. of the said Morals Mar. 19. Francis Lee of S. Joh. Coll. He is author of Horologium Christianum and other things Adm. 96. Bach. of Phys Apr. 27. Thom. Hoy of S. Joh. Coll. Beside him were four more admitted Bach. of Div. Mar. 10. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Preb. of Worcester Besides him were six more admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or Bishop Doct. of Law July 8. Thomas Lane of Mert. Coll. 12. Charles Aldworth of Magd. Coll. Both these were Accumulators and the last was elected Camdens Professor of History in the place of the learned Mr. Henry Dodwell a Non-Juror on the 19 of Nov. 1691. Oct. 29. Brian Broughton of All 's Coll. Nov. 23. Laurence Smith of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Phys Jan. 18. Samuel Derham of Magd. Hall Doct. of Div. June 8. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. July 7. Ralph Tayler of Trin. Coll. 10. George Bull of Exeter Coll. This learned Divine who is not yet mention'd in these Fasti because he took no degree in Arts or in any other faculty hath published several books of Div. and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Dec. 1. Jonathan Edwards of Jesus Coll. On the 2 of Nov. going before he was elected Principal of his Coll. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Lloyd to the See of S. David Mar. 4. Joh. Hearne of Exet. Coll. Incorporations The Act being put off this year no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only one in the degree of Bac. of Arts Jul. 5. Creations June 14. William Graham M. A. of Ch. Ch. and Chaplain to her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Denmark was diplomated Doct. of Div. or as 't is said in the reg was created Simpliciter This Divine who is younger Brother to Richard Visc Preston was installed Preb. of Durham 26. Aug. 1684 and Dean of Carlile on the death of Dr. Tho. Musgrave in Apr. or May 1686. Nov. 18. Rene Bertheau late Minister of the reformed Church in the University of Montpelier in France was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University who had a little before received Letters of recommendation in his behalf from the L. High Treasurer of England as a man of great reputation in his own Country and very eminent both for learning and piety c. Mar. 8. James D' Allemagne a French Minister of the Protestant Church lately retired into England upon account of religion was actually created D. of D. without the paying of fees An. Dom. 1687. An. 3. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Gilbert Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll. Aug. 16. Proct. Tho. Benet of Vniv Coll. Apr. 6. Joh. Harris of Exet. Coll. Apr. 6. Bach. of Arts. May 28. Jam. Harrington of
Ch. Ch. May 28. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. Dec. 9. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. See among the Masters in 1690. Adm. 143. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Thom. Wood of New Coll. Besides him were five more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 11. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who is Son of a Father of both his names mention'd among the Writers p. 648 hath written and published Daphnis A pastoral Elegy on the death of that hopeful Gent Mr. Franc. Wollaston Oxon. 1685. c. Apr. 20. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Adm. 84. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Nov. 24. Will. Hallifax of C. C. C. He hath translated from French into English The Elements of Euclid explain'd in a new but most easie method Oxon. 1685. oct Written by F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales of the Society of Jesus Feb. 18. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law June 25. Rich. Parsons of New Coll. 30. Will. Rimes of New Coll. The first of these two is now Chanc. of the Dioc. of Glocester June 30. Joseph Woodward of Or. Coll. July 2. George Gardiner of All 's Coll. The first of these two accumulated July 7. Rich. Aldworth of S. Joh. Coll. 8. Philip Forster of Oriel Coll. 8. Lew. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these last three was a Compounder and the last an Accumulator Doct. of Phys June 30. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. July 2. Will. Gould of Wadh. Coll. July 2. Will. Coward of Mert. Coll. The last of these two translated into Lat. heroick verse the English Poem called Absalom and Achitophel Oxon. 1682 in 5. sh in qu. Written by Joh. Driden Esq Poet Laureat to K. Ch. 2. It was also about the same time translated by Franc. Atterbury and Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. July 8. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. July 8. Joh. Foley of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was incorporated Bach. of Phys of this University as he before had stood at Dublin 20 of April this year Doct. of Div. June 22. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. On the 15 of Apr. 1687 he was elected President of his Coll in the place of Dr. Hen. Clerk deceased and on the 22 of June following being the day of his admission to the degree of D. D. he was removed thence by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sitting at Westm to make room for Dr. Parker Bishop of Oxon whom the K. had nominated appointed and commanded to succeed Dr. Clerk upon the laying aside of Anth. Farmer See more in Sam. Parker among the Writers p 617. At length the Prince of Orange being about to come into England to take upon him the government thereof he was restored to his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winch. commission'd for that purpose by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 on the 25 of Octob. 1688 after Dr. Parker had enjoyed it during his natural life and after the removal thence of his Successor Bonaventure Gifford by his Majesties command Afterwards Dr. Hough succeeded Tim. Hall in the See of Oxon with liberty allowed him to keep the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. in Commendam with it July 2. Edward Winford of All 's Coll. 8. Thom. Bayley of New Inn. 8. Sam. Eyre of Linc. Coll. The first of these two was admitted Principal of his Inn or Hall on the resignation of Mr. Will. Stone 12 of Aug. 1684. The other was afterwards Preb. of Durham Incorporations The Act being put off again no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only a Bach. of Law from Dublin July 6. Creations In a Convocation held 15 Dec. were Letters read from the Chanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel born aâ— Rochelle partly bred under his Father an eminent Physitian and two years or more in the University of Samur to be created Bach. of the Civ Law but whether he was created or admitted it appears not He and his Father were French Protestants and were lately come into England to enjoy the liberty of their religion which they could not do in France because of their expulsion thence by the King of that Country Tho his Maj. K. Jam. 2. was entertained by the University in the beginning of Sept. this year yet there was no creation made in any faculty which was expected and gaped after by many An. Dom. 1688. An. 4. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he dying at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on the 21. of July his Grandson James lately a Noble man of Ch. Ch. Son of his eldest Son Thom. Earl of Ossory was unanimously elected into his place in a Convocation held at 10. in the morning of the 23 of the same month The next day came a Mandat from his Majesty for George Lord Jeffreys L. Chanc. of England to be elected Chanc. of the University but the former election being not in a possibility to be revoked there were Letters sent to satisfie his Majesty concerning that matter The said James Duke of Ormonde was installed in his house in S. James's Square within the liberty of Westminster on the 23 of Aug. following which being concluded followed an entertainment for his noble Friends acquaintance and the Academians equal to if not beyond any that had been made by the present King or his Predecessor Vicechanc. Gilb. Ironside D. D. Sept. 19. Proct. Thom. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 26. Will. Christmas of New Coll. Apr. 26. The 25 of Apr. being S. Marks day and the first day of the Term their admission was not till the next Bach. of Arts. June 19. Samuel Westley of Exeter Coll. This person hath written and published Maggots or Poems on several subjects never before handled Lond. 1685. oct Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Mast of Arts. June 19. Will. Nicholls of Mert. Coll. He hath written An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel c. July 6. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. Comp. July 6. William King of Ch. Ch. Comp. Adm. 89. Bach. of Physick Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Five were admitted but not one as yet a Writer or Dignitary Doct. of Law Mar. 23. Charles Finch of All 's Coll a younger Son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Ballard of New Coll. Doct. of Div. July 6. Henry Hill of C. C. Coll. 7. Thom. Houghton of New Coll. The last of which was an Accumulator and Compounder 7. Roger Mander of Ball. Coll. 7. Peter Birch of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was elected Master of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Venn deceased 23 Oct. 1687. The other who is now Preb. of Westminster hath published A Sermon before the H. of Commons on John 26.3 Printed at the Savoy 1689 qu. Incorporations The Act being now the fourth time put off not one Cambridge Master was incorporated
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
c. Lond. 1677. oct c. 2 The common interest of King and people shewing the original antiquity and excellency of Monarchy compared with Aristocracy and Democracy and particularly of our English Monarchy and that absolute Papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative property and liberty Lond. 1678 oct 3 A true copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the trial of K. Ch. 1. as it was read in the H. of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps Clerk to that infamous court Lond. 1684. fol. With a large introduction by the said Nalson He hath also translated into Engl. The History of the Crusade or the expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land Lond. 1685 fol. Written originally in French by the fam'd Monsieur Maimbourgh What other things he hath written or translated I know not as yet or any thing else of him only that he died at or near the City of Ely on the 19. of March or thereabouts according to the English accompt an 1685. to the great loss of the true Sons of the Church of England of which he had been a zealous Member Our author Rushworth hath also written The History of the Civil War of England This which is the fift vol. is in MS and not yet published Several Letters to the Parliament and to particular Members thereof These he wrote while the War continued and were subscribed by himself and not by Gen. Fairfax as the printed copies shew What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he spent the six last years or thereabouts of his life in the Prison called the Kings bench in Southwark where being reduced to his second childship for his memory was quite decayed by taking too much Brandy to keep up his spirits he quietly gave up the Ghost in his lodging in a certain Alley there call'd Rules Court on Munday the twelfth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 83 years or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried on Wednesday following behind the Pulpit in the Church of S. George within the said Borough of Southwark He had no son only daughters virtuous women of which one was married to Sir Franc. Vane of the North. HENRY WILKINSON junior commonly called Dean Harry son of Will. Wilk of Adwick or Adwickstreet in the West Riding of Yorkshire Priest was born there an 1616 instructed mostly in Grammar learning in Edw. Sylvesters School in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon entred a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1631 took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in and moderator or Dean of his House At length upon the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 he left the University adher'd to the Parliament party took the Covenant and became a forward and frequent preacher among them After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred to the Parliament Forces he returned to the University and by the authority of the then dominant party he was created Bach of Divinity made Principal of his Hall and Moral Philosophy Reader of the University Afterwards we find him one of the most frequent and active preachers among the Presbyterians in the University whether at S. Maries S. Martin commonly called Carfax S. Pet. in the East c. being then Doct. of Divinity and took all the ways imaginable to make his House flourish with young Students At length the Act of Conformity being published in 1662 he rather than conform left his Principallity tho perswaded to the contrary by some of the Heads of the University purposely to keep him there because he was a good Disciplinarian and lived for some time in these parts Afterwards upon the receipt of a Call he lived by the help of the Brethren at Buckminster in Leycestershire where he exercised his gifts in Conventicles as he did afterwards at Gosfield in Essex and in 1673 and after at Sybill-Hennyngham near to that place and a length at Great Connard near Sudbury in Suffolke at which last place he finished this mortal life as I shall tell you by and by having before suffered by imprisonments mulcts and loss of his Goods and Books for preaching in Conventicles against the Act. He was a zealous person in the way he professed but oversway'd more by the Principles of education than reason He was very courteous in speech and carriage communicative of his knowledge generous and charitable to the poor and so publick spirited a rare thing in a Presbyterian that he alwaies minded the common good more than his own concerns His works as to learning are these Conciones tres apud Academicos Oxonii nuper habitae Oxon. 1654. oct The first is on Psal 119.9 The second on Eccles 2.1 and the third on 1. Pet. 4.11 Brevis tractatus de jure divino diei dominici Ibid. 1654. 58. oct Conciones sex ad Academicos Oxonienses Ib. 1658. oct Among which are the former three De impotentia liberi arbitrii ad bonum spiritale Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Epistolarum decas Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Oratio habita in schola moralis philosophiae Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Conc. duae ap Ox. nuper habitae Ibid. 1659. qu. Both on 1. Cor. 16.22 Concio de brevitate opportuni temporis Oxon habita ad Bac. die Cinerum 7. Mar. 1659. Ib. 1660. qu preached on 1. Cor. 7.29 Several English Sermons as 1 Sermon at Haseley in the County of Oxon at the funeral of Margaret late wife of Dr. Edw. Corbet Pastor of Hasely on Col. 1.27 Ox. 1657. oct 2 Three decads of Sermons lately preached to the University in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Ox. 1660. qu. 3 Several Sermons concerning Gods All-Sufficiency and Christs preciousness Lond. 1681. oct c. Catalogus librorum in Bibl. Aul. Madg. Oxon. Ox. 1661. oct The doctrine of contentment briefly explained and practically applied in a Treatise on 1. Tim. 6.8 Lond. 1671. oct Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the word of God Lond. 1674. oct Two treatises concerning 1 Gods All-Sufficiency 2 Christs Preciousness Being the substance of some Sermons long since preached in the Univ. of Ox. Lond. 1681. oct These two treatises are the same with the Several Sermons before mention'd with some alterations in and additions to them purposely to please his friend and favourer one of his perswasion called Joh. Clark of S. Edm. Bury Esq by a dedication to him set before them Praelectiones Morales MS. in Magd. Hall Libr. They are his Lectures that he read in the Moral Philosophy School while he was public Reader of that Lecture At length after the latter part of the life of this zealous Theologist had been spent in trouble and adversity for the cause he professed he very devoutly surrendred up his soul to God at Great Connard before mention'd on the 13 day