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A71277	Athenæ Oxonienses. Vol. 2. an exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690 representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings : to which are added, the Fasti, or, Annals, of the said university, for the same time ...	Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.	1692 (1692)	Wing W3383A; ESTC R200957	1,495,232	926

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

person of Quality to his friend in the Country c. Lond. 1676. qu. Of which book and its author you may see in another intit An account of the growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England Lond. 1678. in a thin fol. p. 22. Written by Andr. Marvel Esq A second Pacquet of Advices c. occasion'd by several seditious Pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former Pacquet c. Lond. 1677. qu. This answers first a Pamphlet intit Some considerations upon the question whether the Parliament be dissolved by its prorogation for 15 months 2 Another intit The long Parliament dissolved written by Denzill L. Holles the author of which being sought after his Chaplain a Nonconformist named Cary or Carew own'd it to free his Lord whereupon he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London in the beginning of Feb. 1676. This Cary after his Lords death lived in Hatton Garden in Holborne and practised Physick 3 A letter from a person newly chosen to sit in this Parliament to a Bencher in the Temple with a pretended answer of the Bencher to the same 4 A narrative of the cause and manner of the imprisonment of the Lords now close prisoners in the Tower of London The said two Pacquets of Advices were written as 't is said by Nedham and he encouraged thereunto by Edm. Warcup a Justice of Peace and Thomas Earl of Danby Christianissimus Christianandus or reasons for the reduction of France to a more Christian state in Europe Lond. 1678. in 10 sh in qu. Besides all these he hath written several other small things which I have not yet seen He hath translated into English Mare clausum printed in fol. 1652 or thereabouts but he being then no way affected to Monarchy gave himself therefore the license to foist in the name of a Commonwealth instead of the Kings of England and also to suppress the Epist ded to the King He also added an Appendix to it concerning the Soveraignty of the Kings of Great Britaine on the sea intit Additional Evidences which he procured as 't was thought of Joh. Bradshaw All which besides treasonable Comments and false Glosses were done in the life time of the learned author Joh. Selden After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. the English copy was corrected perfected and restored by J. H. Gent. and pr. at London 1662. fol. He the said Nedham also hath written a Preface before the book intit A new idea of the practice of Physick written by Frane de le Boe Sylvius published in English at London in 1675. oct In which Pref. towards the latter end our author Nedham saith that he had then 1675 and before a purpose to publish some Essays to discover what may be done by able men towards an advancement of knowledge in the power of Plants by the examining their natures by the principles and operations of the Chymists also that he was about to form divers Treatises for publick view c. By the way it must be known that our author in the said Preface doth shew himself a great disliker of the common way of the first studying of Physick in the Universities and seems also to run down University promotions or degrees calling them in derision the doctoral confederates the scholastic family of a fine breed who come to town with the learned Cushion Cap and Scarlet The Apothecaries boys are able to tutour them in Town-practice They vaunt and make a noise with their anatomical rattle spend much time in Anatomy neglect the chymical way c. Several things are fathered also upon him of which he was not in the least the author as the publication of The Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Hen. Ireton and Joh. Bradshaw intended to have been spoken at their execution at Tyburne 30 Jan. 1660 c. Lond. 1660. in one sh and half in qu. said in the title to be published by Marcham Nedham and Payne Fisher Servants Poets and Pamphleteers to his infernal Highness At length this most seditious mutable and railing author M. Nedham died suddenly in the house of one Kidder in D'eureux Court near Temple bar London in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 29 of Novemb. being the Vigil of S. Andrew at the upper end of the body of the Church of S Clements Danes near the entrance into the chancel Soon after that Church being pull'd down and rebuilt and the letters on his grave taken away or defaced you shall have in their place this Epitaph made on him an 1647 printed at the end of Merc. Britanicus his welcome to hell Here lies Britanicus Hell's barking Cur That son of Belial who kept damned stir And every Munday spent his stock of spleen In venomous railing on the King and Queen Who though they both in goodness may forgive him Yet for his safety we 'll in hell receive him With this person may well be coupled Henry Care several times reflected upon by Rog. L'estrange in his Observators for a poor sniveling Fellow who after he had wrot several things in the behalf of the Church of England and the Presbyterians and had reflected on both the Universities in several of his Writings as popishly affected was at length prevail'd upon in the time of King Jam. 2. to write for the Rom. Catholicks against the Church which he before had eagerly defended where by it was made manifest that what he wrot was not for Religion or Conscience sake which he before did pretend but meerly for Interest After his death which hapned in Aug. 1688 was an Elegy written in his commendation printed on one side of a sheet of paper and a satyrical thing called Henry Cares last Will and Testament JOHN NEWTON son of Humphrey Newton of Oundle in Northamptonshire and he the second son of Joh Newt in Axmouth in Devo●sh was born in Northamptonshire became a Communer of S. Edm. Hall in Mich. term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1641 and in the year following was actually created Master of that faculty among several Esquires Gentlemen and Soldiers that belonged to the K. and Court then residing in this University At which time his genie being naturally inclined to Mathematicks and Astronomy he by continual industry made great proficiency in them which he found advantageous to him in the times of Usurpation After his Majesties return he was actually created Doct. of Div made one of the Kings Chaplains and Rector of Rosse in Herefordshire in the place I think of Mr. Joh. Tombes ejected which he kept to his dying day He hath written these things following mostly printed in qu. Astronomia Britannica Exhibiting the doctrine of the Sphere and theory of Planets decimally by Trigonometry and by Tables c. in 3 parts Lond. 1656. 57. qu. Help to calculation with tables of Declinat Ascensions c. Lond. 1657. qu. Trigonometria Britannica shewing the construction of the natural

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 quàm 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

Davenports perswasion Whereupon Best came out with The Churches plea for her right or a reply to an answer c. Amst 1635. qu and soon after our author Davenport with An Apolegetical reply to the answer of W. B. Roterd. 1636. qu. About the same time Davenport who took these matters very ill refused to joyn with the Ministers in their meetings took away many of their disciples such especially that had an esteem for his notable learning and singular parts and preached and prayed to them in private houses In the beginning of the rebellion he returned into England as other Nonconformists did and had a cure bestowed on him but finding matters not to go current with his humour he by the perswasive letters of Mr. John Cotton of New England who was esteemed the misleader of him and John Goodwin went into that Country and became Pastor of Newhaven there where he continued in great esteem with those of his perswasion to the time almost of his death His other writings are these Catechisme containing the chief heads of Christian religion Lond. 1659. oct Published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ at Newhaven in New England In this Catechisme one Will. Hook a teacher there had a hand I mean the same Will. Hook who was sometimes Minister of Axmouth in Devonshire author of 1 New Englands tears for old Englands fears c. Print 1640-1 qu. 2 The privileges of the saints on earth above those in heaven Pr. in oct 3 Sermon in New England in behalf of old England Pr. 1645. qu. and other Sermons He died in or near London 21. March 1677. aged 77 years and was committed to the earth in the burial place situated on the north side of the New Attillery-yard or Garden near to the said City See more of him in Jerom Turner an 1655. Several Sermons as 1 The Messiah is already come on Acts 2.36 Lond. 1653. qu. 2 Gods call to his people to turn unto him c. in two Sermons on two publick fasting days in N. England Lond. 1670. qu. 3 Saints Anchor-hold in all Storms and Tempests on Lam. 3.26 Printed 1661 in tw and others among which is his Sermon on 2. Sam. 1.18 Lond. 1629. qu. The power of congregational Churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. Jo. Paget entit The defence of Church government exercised in classes and synods Lond. 1672. oct He also had a considerable hand in writing The life of Mr. John Cotton before mention'd published by John Norton Minister of Boston in N. England and had formerly with Dr. Rich. Sibbs published certain works of Dr. John Preston viz. his New Covenants or Saints portion in 14. sermons with four other added an 1629. qu. c. At length he having lived beyond the age of man surrendred up his Soul to God at Boston in New England to which place he had removed from Newhaven in 1668 on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was inter'd there in the tomb of the said Mr. Cotton for whom in his life time he had an extraordinary respect He left behind him An Exposition on the Canticles contained in an 100 sheets in a small hand-writing Which being esteemed very fit for the press was recommended by Dr. Sam. Anely and Mr. Ed. Veal and accordingly proposals were made for the printing it to be sold for 7. sh in quires in Mich. term an 1687. But soon after the printing of it was stop'd and the merchant who design'd afterwards to publish it died so 't is question'd now whether ever it will see light JOHN MAYNARD esteemed by those of his perswasion an eminent and judicious Divine was born of a gentile family in Sussex at or near Riverfield became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 compounded for the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of that house and afterwards translated himself to Magd. Hall In 1622 he took the degree of Mast of Arts as a Compounder entred into holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Maighfield in his own Country But when the rebellion broke out he shew'd himself more a Puritan and preached with more liberty than he did before whereupon being appointed one of the Ass of Divines he took the Covenant held forth several times before the members of the Long Parliament had other preferments I presume bestowed upon him and in 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Sussex for the ejection of such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters His writings are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 26 Feb. 1644. on Prov. 23. ver 23. Lond. 1645. qu. 2 A shadow of the victory of Christ Fast●serm before the H. of C. 28. Oct. 1646. on Phil. 3.21 Lond. 1646. qu. c. The young mans remembrancer and old mans monitor Lond. 1669 oct The Law of God ratified by the Gospel of Christ or the harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded c. delivered in several sermons Lond. 1674. oct What became of this reverend author after his Majesties restauration I mean whether he conformed or was ejected I know not nor any thing else of him only that about 1670 he became a benefactor to Magd. Hall and that his Library was exposed to sale by way of auction several years after his death 13. June 1687. I find another John Maynard who published a book entit The XII wonders of the world set and composed for the Viol de Gambo the Lute and the voice to sing the verse c. Lond. 1661. fol. But this was no Divine but a most admired Lutenist at the famous School of S. Julians in Hertfordshire Another John Maynard who was an eminent Lawyer I shall mention hereafter under the year 1690. WILLIAM SEDGWICK son of Will. Sedgw. of Lond. Gent. was born in Bedfordshire became a Com. of Pemb. Coll. in Mich. term an 1624 aged 15 years Where being put under the tuition of George Hughes profited more in Div. than Philosophy After he had taken the degrees in Arts he entred into the sacred function and became Rector of Farnham in Essex where he behaved himself conformable to the Ch. of England but upon the turn of the times in 1●41 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been instructed in their principles by his Tutor put in a Curate into Farnham and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Sir Will. Constable a Parliamentarian Commander the same who was afterwards one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After the loyal Clergy had been ejected from their Livings he became the chief Preacher of the City of Ely and was commonly called The Apostle of the isle of Ely but what he enjoyed there and elsewhere for several years he lost after his Maj.

make him delightfully ventrous and frollicksome to the utmost degrees of riotous extravagancy they for some years heightned his spirits enflamed by wine into one almost interrupted fit of wantonness and intemperance Some time before his death were several copies of his verses printed besides what went in MS. from hand to hand among which were A Satyr against mankind Printed in one sheet in fol. in June 1679. Answer'd in another sheet in the next month by one Mr. Griffith a Minister Andr. Marvell who was a good Judge of wit did use to say that Rochester was the only man in England that had the true vein of Satyr On nothing a Poem Printed on one side of a sheet of paper in 2 columes But notwithstanding the strict charge which the Earl of Rochester gave on his death bed to those persons in whose custody his papers were to burn all his prophane and rude Writings as being only fit to promote Vice and Immorality by which he had so highly offended the Omnipotent and sham'd and blasphem'd that holy Religion into which he had been baptized yet no sooner was his breath out of his body but some person or persons who had made a collection of most of his Poetry in Manuscript did meerly for lucre sake as 't was conceived publish them under this title Poems on several occasions Antwerp alias Lond. 1680. oct Among which as those before mention'd are numbred so many of his composure are omitted and there is no doubt but that other mens Poems are mixed among them They are full of obscenity and prophaneness and are more fit tho excellent in their kind to be read by Bedlamites than pretenders to vertue and modesty and what are not so are libellous and satyrical Among them is a Poem intit A Ramble in S. James's Park p. 14 which I guess is the same with that which is meant and challenged in the preface to the Poems of Alex. Radcliff of Greys Inn intit The Ramble an anti-heroick Poem together with some terrestial Hymns and carnal Ejaculations Lond. 1682. oct as the true composure of the said Radcliff but being falsly and imperfectly published under the Earl's name is said there to be enlarged two thirds above what it was when before in print The Reader is to know also that a most wretched and obcene and scandalously infamous Play not wholly compleated passed some hands privately in MS under the name of Sodom and fathered upon the Earl as most of this kind were right or wrong which came out at any time after he had once obtained the name of an excellent smooth but withall a most lewd Poet as the true author of it but if that copy of verses inserted among his printed Poems before mention'd in pag. 129. wrot upon the author of the Play call'd Sodom be really his then questionless the writing of this vile piece is not to be laid to his charge unless we should suppose him to have turned the keenness and sharpness of his piercing Satyr for such is this upon himself He hath also written A Letter to Dr. Gilb. Burnet written on his death bed Lond. 1680. in one sh in fol. And that he was the author of it the Doctor himself acknowledgeth in the History of some passages of the life and death of John Earl of Rochester About the same time also was published a sheet in fol. intit The two noble Converts or the Earl of Marlborough and the Earl of Rochester their dying Requests to the Atheists and Debauchees of this age but this was faigned and meerly written by a Scribler to get a little money In Nov. 1684 was a Play of Joh. Fletchers published intit Valentinian a Tragedy as 't is altered by the late Earl of Rochester and acted at the Theatre-Royal Lond. 1685. qu. To which is put by a nameless Writer a large Preface concerning the Author and his Writings wherein among too many things and high●flown surfeiting Encomiums that are by him given of the said Count is this For sure there has not lived in many ages if ever so extraordinary and I think I may add so useful a person as most English men know my Lord to have been whether we consider the constant good sense and the agreeable mirth of his ordinary conversation or the vast reach and compass of his invention and the wonderful depths of his retired thoughts the uncommon graces of his fashion or the inimitable turns of his wit the becoming gentleness the bewitching softness of his civility or the force and fitness of his Satyr for as he was both the delight and wonder of Man the love and the dotage of Women so he was a continual curb to impertinence and the publick censor of folly c. In another place he saith thus He had a wit that was accompanied with an unaffected greatness of mind and a natural love to justice and truth a wit that was in perpetual war with knavery and ever attacking those kind of vices most whose malignity was like to be most diffusive such as tended more immediately to the prejudice of publick bodies and were of a common nusance to the happiness of humane kind Never was his pen drawn but on the side of good sense and usually imployed like the Arms of the ancient Heroes to stop the progress of arbitrary oppression and beat down the bruitishness of head-strong will to do his K. and Country justice upon such publick State-Thieves as would beggar a Kingdom to enrich themselves c. To pass by other characters which the said Anonymus too too fondly mentions of the Count I shall proceed and tell you that he hath also written Poems c. on several occasions with Valentinian a Tragedy Lond. 1691. oct They were published in the latter end of Feb. 1690. but the large Preface before mention'd is there omitted These Poems which are different from those that came out in 1680 have before them an admirable Pastoral on the death of the Earl of Roch. in imitation of the Greek of Moschus made by Oldham and among them songs and letters as also 1 A copy of English verses made on the Kings return in a book intit Britannia rediviva printed at Oxon. under the name of the University 1660. qu. 2 A Lat. and English copy on the death of Mary Princess of Orange in another book of verses published under the name of the said University at Oxon. the same year in qu. But these three copies were made as 't was then well known by Rob. Whitehall a Physitian of Mert. Coll who pretended to instruct the Count then 12 years of age in the art of Poetry and on whom he absolutely doted 3 The translation of the ninth Elegy in the second book of Ovids Amours which was published in a thing intit Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids love Elegies Odes of Horace c. by the most eminent hands Lond. 1684. oct At length after a short but

which was shortly after as I shall tell you anon So that whereas he was first a Presbyterian and afterwards a true Son of the Church of England he was then esteemed by the generallity especially when his Reasons for abrogating the Test were published very popishly enclined It was about that time said that he seemed very much to favour the Cath. Cause that he proposed in Council whether it was not expedient that at least one College in Oxford should be allowed Catholicks that they might not be forced to be at so much charges by going beyond the Seas to study The same Bishop inviting two Noblemen R. Cath. to a banquet drank the Kings health to an heretical Baron there wishing a happy success to all his affairs and he added that the Faith of the Protestants in England seemed to him but to be little better than that of Buda was before it was taken and that they were for the most part meer Atheists that defended it c. Thus a certain Jesuit of Liege to another at Friburg in a letter dat 2. Feb. 1687. And father Edm. Petre another Jesuit one of the Privy Council to K. Jam. 2. tells us in the same month that the Bishop of Oxon has not yet declared himself openly the great obstacle is his wife whom he cannot rid himself of his design being to continue Bishop and only change Communion as it is not doubted but the King will permit and our holy father confirm tho I do not see how he can be further useful to us in the Religion in which he is because he is suspected and of no esteem among the Hereticks of the English Church nor do I see that the example of his Conversion is like to draw many others after him because he declared himself so suddenly If he had believ'd my counsel which was to temporize for some longer time he would have done better but it is his temper or rather zeal that hurried him on c. But to let pass these and other matters which are related of him by that party the Roman Catholicks I shall proceed to give you an account of his published writings which are these Tentamina Physico-Theologica de Deo sive Theologia Scholastica c. lib. 2. Lond. 1665. qu. This book an account of which is in the Philosoph Transactions numb 18. is answer'd by N. Fairfax M. D. in his book entit Of the bulk and selvedge of the world These Tentamina are much enlarged in a book in a large quarto entit Disputationes de Deo c. as I shall tell you by and by A free and impartial censure of the Platonick Philosophy Lond. 1666. qu. Ox. 1667. oct At which time as his Adversary tells us he was proclaimed under the hand of another mascarade Divine The wonder of his age An account of the nature and extent of the divine dominion and goodness as they refer to the origenian hypothesis concerning the preexistence of soules c. This book which is printed with the Free and impartial censure is briefly reflected on by Anon. in a book entit Deus justificatus or the divine Goodness vindicated c. Ox. 1667. Lond. 1668. oct A discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity wherein the authority of the Civil Magistrate over the Consciences of subjects in matters of external Religion is asserted c. Lond. 1669. 79. oct Of which book hear what Mr. Baxter says I can shew you a Manuscript of one both impartial and truly judicious even the late Judge Hale expressing so great dislike of that Debate The Friendly Debate and Ecclesiastical Policy as tending to the injury of Religion it self that he wisheth the authors would openly profess that they would write for themselves and no more so abusively pretend it is for Religion c. A defence and continuation of the Eccles Politie c. against Dr. Owen Together with a Letter from the author of The Friendly Debate Lond. 1671. oct On the said book Ecclesiast Politie and Reproof to the Rehearsal a certain Scotchman named Rohert Ferguson a Divine of some note hath written reflections in a book entit A sober enquiry into the nature measure and principle of moral virtue c. Lond. 1673 oct A discourse in vindication of Bishop John Bramhall and the Clergy of the Church of England from the Fanatick charge of Popery together with some reflections upon the present state of affairs c. This discourse was published by way of Preface to a Treatise of the said Bishop Lond. 1672. and by it self in oct Lond. 1673. In the said Discourse or book is a great deal of rallery against Dr. Joh. Owen his doctrine and writings but more especially against some passages of his book of Evangelical Love Church peace c. and much said in defence of that sharper way which he took in his former answer to the Doctor and somewhat against Baxter's Grotian religion discovered Whereupon our author Parker being esteemed by the Nonconformists a forward proud ambitious and scornful person was taken to task purposely to clip his wings or take him shorter by their buffooning Champion Andr. Marvell somtimes one of John Miltons companions in a book which he published entit The Rehearsal transpros'd or animadversions upon a late book entit A Preface shewing c. Lond. 1672. oct Which title The Rehearsal c. was taken from a Comedy then lately published by George Duke of Buckingham called The Rehearsal wherein one Mr. Bayes acteth a part Afterwards our author Parker wrot an answer to Marvell who stiles him throughout his book Mr. Bayes entit A reproof to the Rehearsall transpros'd in a discourse to its author Lond. 1673 oct Besides which answer came out five more against Marvell viz. 1. Rosemary and Bayes or Animadversions upon a treatise called The Rehearsall transpros'd c. Lond. 1672 in 3. sh in qu. 2 The Transproser rehears'd or the fifth act of Mr. Bayes Play c. Oxon 1673 oct Written by Rich. Leigh somtimes Commoner of Qu. Coll. 3 Gregory Father-Greybeard with his vizard off or news from the Cabal in some reflections c. in a letter to our old friend R.L. from E.H. Lond. 1673. oct subscribed Edm. Hickeringhill 4 A common place book out of The Rehearsall transpros'd digested under these several heads c. Lond. 1673. oct 5 Stoo him Bayes or some animadversions upon the humour of writing Rehearsals transpros'd Oxon. 1673. oct All or most of which answers which were to the first part of The Rehearsall transpros'd were wrot in a buffooning burlesquing and ridiculing way and stile in which fashion of writing Marvell himself had led the way Besides Marvell's answer to the said Preface of Dr. Parker I find another small piece wrot against it partly entit The authority of the Magistrate about Religion discussed in a rebuke to the prefacer of the late book of Bish Bramhalls c. Lond. 1672. oct by J. H supposed to be Joh. Humphrey