Rebellion lived poorly and therefore for that his Loyalty he was not only restored to what he had lost upon the King's restauration but also was actually created Doct. of Div. He was accounted a witty man and a good Poet in his younger years and in his elder a good Preacher and sober Divine He hath published The souls conflict c. portrayed in eight several sermons six whereof were preached before the King at Oxon. Lond. 1657. c. oct and other sermons which I have not yet seen He died 29 May in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried under the Communion-table at the east end of the Chancel of the Church of Swerford before mention'd Tho. Pope E. of Downe who was his Patron died in S. Maries Parish in Oxon 28 Dec. 1660 aged 38 years leaving behind him one only daughter named Elizab. begotten on the body of Elizab. his wife dau and one of the heirs of Will. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq Which said Elizab. his daughter was first married to Henry Francis Lea of Dichley in Oxfordshire and afterwards to Robert Earl of Lindsey The Earldom of Downe went after the death of the said Thomas to Thom. Pope Esq his Uncle whose male issue also dying the Estate went away among three daughters the eldest of which was married to Sir Francis North afterwards L. North of Guilford Both the said Earls were buried at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordsh among the graves of their Ancestors HENRY WILKINSON Senior commonly called Long Harry son of Hen. Wilk mentioned before under the year 1647 was born at Waddesdon in Bucks became a Com. of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622. aged 13. years where making great proficiency in his studies took the degrees in Arts became a noted Tutor Master of the Schools and Divinity Reader in his House In the year 1638 he was admitted Bach. of Div preached frequently in and near Oxon yet not without girds against the actions and certain men of the times On the 6. of Sept. 1640. he preached in his turn in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon on Rev. 3.16 So then because thou art luke-warm c. Which Sermon being very bitter against some ceremonies of the Church very base also and factious and intended meerly to make a party for the Scots was summon'd the same day to make his recantation in a form then prescrib'd for him But he obstinatly refusing to do it was suspended from all execution of his Priestly Function within the University and Precincts thereof according to the Statute till he should make his Palinody Soon after when that unhappy Parliament called the Long Parl began he complained to the Members about the latter end of Nov. of the usage he had received from the Vicechancellour Whereupon according to the command of the Committee of Religion in the H. of Com. the Vicehanc sent up a copy of his sermon with his exceptions against it which being received from the hands of Dr. Rich. Baylie Dec. 9. was by them perused but they finding nothing as they said that might make him guilty of punishment they released him from his suspension and gave order that his sermon should be printed which accordingly was done Upon this our author Wilkinson grew very bold preach'd and discours'd what he pleas'd setled afterwards in London to carry on the Cause was made Minister of S. Faith under Paules one of the Ass of Divines became a frequent Preacher before the Members of Parliament and Rector of S. Dunstans in the West about 1645. At which time being esteemed a grand zealot for promoting the designs then on foot he was constituted by the said Members one of the six Ministers to go to Oxon in 1646 after the surrender of the Garrison there to draw off by their preaching the Scholars from their Orthodox Principles to the Presbyterian persuasion and soon after one of the Visitors to break open turn out and take possession For which service he was not only rewarded with a senior Fellowship of Madg. Coll. which he kept till he took to wife a holy woman call'd the Lady Carr but also with a Canonry of Ch. Church a Doctorship of Divinity and after Cheynells departure with the Margaret professorship of the University After his Majesty was restored he was ejected and thereupon went to London continued a Non-conformist lived and had his meetings at Clapham in Surrey near London especially when the Kings toleration was published in the latter end of 1671 whereby he gained from the Brethren a considerable maintenance He was a good Scholar always a close Student an excellent Preacher tho his voice was shrill and whining yet his Sermons were commonly full of dire and confusion especially while the rebellion continued Under his name were these things following published viz. Several Sermons as 1 Sermon against Lukewarmness in religion on Rev. 3.16 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Babylons ruin Jerusalem's rising Fast serm before the House of Com. 25 Oct. 1643. on Zech. 1.18.19.20.21 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 The gainfull cost Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 27. Nov. 1644. on 1. Chron. 21.24 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Miranda Stupenda Or the wonderful and astonishing mercies which the Lord hath wrought for England in subduing and captivating the pride power and policy of his Enemies Thanks-giving Serm. before the H. of Com. for the surrender of Oxon preached 21. Jul. 1646 on Numb 23.23 Lond. 1646. qu. In his Epist ded to the H. of Com. he doth seriously exhort them to think of a sudden reformation of that University and perhaps he had thoughts then of being a Visitor and to get what might be obtained while the Sun shined 5 Serm. on Luk. 17.27.28 Published in The morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1661. qu. 6 Serm. on 2. Thes 2. from ver 3. to 10. Published in The morning exercise against popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 7 How we must do all in the name of Christ on Col. 3.17 Publ. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. What other things are published under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Clapham before mention'd in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five his body was thereupon conveyed to Drapers Hall in Lond and thence conducted with solemnity by hundreds of the Brethren to the Church of S. Dunstan in Fleetstreet before mention'd where it was inâ—eâ—'d I shall make mention of another Henry Wilkinson under the year 1690 who for distinction sake was commonly called Deane Harry THOMAS HOLYOAKE or Holyoke son of Francis Hol. mention'd under the year 1653 was born at Stony Thorp near to Southam in Warwickshire educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. White at Coventry became a student in Queens Coll. in Michaelm term 1632. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts made Chaplain of the said Coll. and in the beginning of the Civil War when Oxford became the Seat of
their Vault at Felsted adjacent 9 Sept. following on Sam. 3.38 Lond. 1673. qu. 3 The virtuous Woman found her loss bewailed and character preached at Felsted in Essex 30. Apr. 1678 at the funeral of Mary Countess-Dowager of Warwick c. with so large additions which may be stiled the life of that noble Lady Lond. 1678. oct To which are annexed some of her Pious and useful meditations This book was afterwards reprinted twice at least in tw 4 Say on or a seasonable plea for a full hearing between man and man preached at Chelmsford in Essex at the general Assize holden for that County 8. July 1678. Lond. 1678. oct 5 Serm. at the Black-fryers before the Company of Apothecaries 8. Sept. 1681. Lond. 1681. 82. qu. 6 The true interest of nations impartially stated preached at the lent Assizes at Chelmsford in Essex 2. March 1690 proving that the c. Lond. 1691. qu. He hath also written and published The great evil of procrastination or the sinfulness and danger of deferring repentance in several discourses Lond. 1681 in tw And was as it seems the author of The holy life of Mrs. Eliz. Walker late Wife of him A. W.D. D. c. giving a modest and short account of her exemplary piety and charity c. Lond. 1680. oct with some Vseful papers and letters written by her on several occasions He hath other things extant which I have not seen as Serm. on 2. Chron. 23.11 printed 1660. qu. c. Joh. Dillingham Bach. of Div. of Sidney Coll. Joh. Browne Doct. of Phys of Camb. .... Bernard D. of D. of the fame Univ. The Christian name of this Doctor is not registred and therefore I do not know to the contrary but that he may be Nich. Bernard of whom I have spoken in the Fasti 1628. Qu. All which Cambridge men viz. Joh. and Edw. Stillingfleet Thomas White R. Cumberland M. Poole J. Meriton W. Williams A. Walker J. Diliingham Jo. Browne and ... Bernard were incorporated on the 14. of July There were 34 Masters of that University incorporated on the same day among whom besides those before mention'd was Tho. Wilson of Clare Hall one of both whose names was Rector of Arrow in Warwickshire after his Majesties restauration a Writer against the Quakers as Will. Pen G. Fox G. Whitehead c. an 1678 and author of Sermons in 1679. 83 c. whether the same I cannot tell One Will. Johnson also of the said Hall of Clare was then incorporated but not to be taken with one of both his names who was D. of D Chaplain and Sub-Almoner to K. Ch. 2 author of Deus nobiscum A narrative of a great deliverance at Sea Lond. 1659 c. oct and of other things He died 4. March 1666 aged 54 years and was buried in the north trancept or isle joyning on the north side of the choire of S. Peters Ch. in Westminster Creations July 9. Edw. Davenport of Vniv Coll. was created Bach. of Phys by dispensation from the Delegates I find this person to be admitted to the said degree 15 June 1661 and the same day admitted to practice his faculty July 29. Richard Cromwell Chanc. elected of the University of Oxon was actually created Mast of Arts in a Convocation of certain Doctors and Masters of the University held in Whitehall within the liberty of Westm and soon after in the same Convocation he was installed Chancellour of the said University which was the first publick honour done unto him in the nation He was the eldest Son of Oliver L. Protector and had no other breeding than in hawking hunting horse-racing c. He was a boon companion and had done no service in the Parliament Army unless it was the often drinking his Fathers Landlords K. Ch. 2. health His abilities in praying and preaching and love to the Sectaries was much like those of his cousin Rich. Ingoldesby mention'd among the Creations of M. of A. under the year 1649. However he being designed to be his Fathers successor in tne Protectorate was about the time that this honour was done to him sworn a Privy Counsellour made a Colonel in the Army when fighting was over to the end that he might have an interest in parties and parts of the Body politique and the first Lord of the Other House About that time he was commonly called the most noble Lord Richard and rife discourses there were of Richard the fourth but they proved no more than the story of Queen Dick. On the 4 of Sept. 1658 he was proclaimed Lord Protector his Father dying the day before at the usual places in London where Kings use to be and soon after had addresses flew to him at Whitehall from all parts of the three Nations to salute and magnifie his assumption to the Soveraignty wherein he was celebrated for his excellency of his wisdom and nobleness of mind for the lovely composition of his body c. as if he had been another Titus Deliciae Gentis Dominii Britanici c. In the latter end of Apr. 1659 he was as a pitiful thing laid aside and deposed Whereupon withdrawing to Hursley in Hampshire absconded there for a time He had before taken to Wife Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Rich. Maijor or Mager of Hursley before mention'd Son of Joh. Maijor sometimes Mayor and Alderman of Southampton by whom he had issue Oliver Cromwell and other Children The other Daughter and Coheir named Anne was married to John Dunch of Pusey in Berks Son of Sam. Dunch of North Baddisley in Hampshire Esq by whom he had a Son named Major or Maijor Dunch and other Children This Rich. Cromwell who was born in the antient Borough of Huntingdon has gone through no death as yet only a political one His younger Brother formerly called Lord Harry L. Lieut. of Ireland was born also at Hunt and died and was buried some years since at Wickhen in Cambridgshire Sept. 5. Robert Whitehall M. of A. of Mert. Coll. was created Bac. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of R. Cromwell Chanc. of the University Nov. 11. Jos Williamson of Qu. Coll now in France was diplomated M. of A. Dec. 2. Abraham Cowley the great ornament of our Nation as well by the candor of his life as the excellency of his writings was created Doctor of Phys This Gentleman who is justly characterized to be Anglorum Pindarus Flaccus Maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui was born in Fleetstreet near to the end of Chancery-lane in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London an 1618. His Father who was a Grocer dying before the Son was born the Mother by her endeavours and friends got him to be a Kings Scholar at Westminster where in the year 1633 being then going into the sixteenth year of his age he composed a book called Poetical Blossomes whereby the great pregnancy of his parts was discovered Soon after having obtained the Greek and Rom. Languages he was removed to Trin.
Physicâ Metaphysica inter authores celebriores repertae Oxon. 1680. qu. published by Joh. Lamphire Principal of Hart Hall Poemata Latina Gesta Vicecancellariatus sui 'T is a MS. containing the Acts and Gests of his Vicechancellourship of the University from 26. July 1634. to 22. Jul. 1636. It is written in a little thin fol. containing 80 pages and hath therein several of his speeches spoken in convocation Which book I had the liberty to peruse when I was composing the Hist Antiq. of Univ. of Oxon and may be useful to curious men in other respects if given to a publick place many things being therein that are not entred into the publick registers of the University He died much lamented by the members of his Coll. because he had been a vigilant faithful and publick spirited Governour by the poor of the City of Oxon because he had been a constant benefactor to them by the Orphans to whom he had been a Father and generally by all who knew the great vertues piety and learning of the Person on the second day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven Whereupon his body was buried in the outer Chappel belonging to New Coll. between the pulpit and the screen leaving then behind him certain matters fit for the press In 1677 Dr. Ralph Bridoake Bishop of Chichester who had in his younger years been patroniz'd by the said Dr. Pink erected out of gratitude a comely monument for him on the W. wall of the outer Chappel at some distance from his grave WILLIAM SLATYER a Sommersetshire man born was matriculated as a Gentlemans Son of that County and a member of St. Maries Hall in Lent time an 1600. aged 13 years Whence translating himself to Brasn Coll. was entred there as a plebeians Son of the same County in July 1607. The next year he took a degree in Arts was made Fellow of the said Coll proceeded in that faculty 1611. entred into holy Orders was soon after beneficed and in 1623 took the degrees in Divinity being then in good esteem for his knowledge in English History and his excellent vein in Lat. and English Poetry His works are these Palae-Albion or the Historie of Great Britaine from the first peopling of this Island to the Raign of K. James Lond. 1621. fol. in Lat. and Engl. verse the Lat. on one side and the English on the other with various marginal notes on the English side relating to English History and Antiquity Psalmes or Songs of Sion turn'd into the language and set to the tunes of a strange land Printed at London but when I know not because not set down in the title Psalmes in four languages and in four parts set to the tunes of our Church Printed at Lond. in tw engraven on copper Genealogia Regis Jacobi Lond. 1630. 'T is in a thin fol. in lat and Engl. and the Genealogie is derived from Adam What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate at Otterden in Kent where he was then or before as I presume beneficed in the month of Oct. or Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and seven was there buried leaving behind him a Widow named Sarah The Reader may be pleased now to know that one Will. Sclater a Bedfordsh man born was elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1593 was afterwards Vicar of Pitminster in Sommersetshire and a publisher of several Sermons and Theological Tracts as you may see in Oxford or Bodleys Catalogue of books but this Person whose Sirname differs from him that was the Poet before-mention'd must not to be taken to be the same with him as some to my knowledge have done He died in 1626 and left behind him a Son of both his names who was born at Pitminster was Fellow of Kings Coll. also and afterwards Minister of Columpton in Devon Prebendary of Exeter and Doct. of Div. He hath several Sermons in print of which one is entit Papisto-Mastix or Deborahs prayer against Gods enemies on Judges 5.31 Lond. 1642. qu. and hath published An exposition with notes on the fourth chap. of the Rom. Lond. 1650. qu. written by his Father c. HENRY WILKINSON was born within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire 9. Octob. 1566 made his first entrie into the University in Lent term 1581 elected Probationer-fellow of Merton Coll. by the favour of his Kinsman Mr. H. Savile the Warden in the year 1586 proceeded in Arts applyed his mind to the sacred faculty of which he was Bachelaur and at length 1601 became Pastor of Waddesdon in Bucks He hath written and published A Catechisme for the use of the congregation of Waddesdon in Bucks This hath been several times printed in oct and the fourth impression came out at Lond. 1637. The Debt-book or a treatise upon 13 Rom. ver 8. wherein is handled the civil debt of money or goods Lond. 1625. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This Person being an old Puritan was elected one of the Assembly of Divines in 1643 and dying on the 19 of March in sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried in the Church at Waddesdon before-mentioned having had issue by his Wife Sarah the only daughter of Arthur Wake of whom I have made mention in Isaac Wake an 1632. p. 491. three daughters and six sons of which number Henry Wilkinson Senior commonly called Long Harry was one of whom shall be large mention made hereafter MICHAEL HUDSON a Westmorland man born became a poor serving child of Queens Coll. in the year 1621. and in that of his age 16 afterwards Tabarder and in the year 1630 Fellow of that House he being then Master of Arts. About that time he took holy Orders married Capt ..... Pollards daughter of Newnham Courtney in Oxfordshire and was beneficed in Lincolnshire But when his Maj. K. Ch. 1. set up his standard he left his Benefice adhered to him and after Edghill battle retiring to Oxon was in Feb. 1642. actually created Doctor of Divinity and made Chaplain to his Majesty About that time he being esteemed an understanding and sober Person and of great fidelity was made Scoutmaster General to the Army in the north parts of England under the command of William Marquess of Newcastle whereby he did wonderfully advantage himself in the ways and passes of those parts In that employment he continued some years with very good success At length his Maj. who usually called him his plain dealing Chaplain because he told him his mind when others would or durst not having an especial respect for his signal loyalty and courage entrusted him and John Ashbournham one of the Groomes of his Bedchamber with his Person at what time he left Oxon in a disguise 27. Apr. 1646 in order to surrender himself into the hands of the Scots then besieging Newark on Trent Afterwards his Maj. being setled for a time in Newcastle a Serjeant at Arms or his
the same time was such a great party of that Faction present that Oliver being suspicious of some mischief that might arise sent Maj. General Joh. Bridges with eight Troops of Horse to those parts who taking up his quarters at Wallingford many of his men attended in and near Abendon during the time of Praying Preaching and Burying After the burial were tumults raised by Preaching which would have ended in blows had not the Soldiers intercepted and sent them home SIMON BIRCKBEK son of Tho. Birck Esq was born at Hornbie in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the year 1600 and that of his age 16 where he was successively a poor serving child Tabarder or poor child and at length Fellow being then Master of Arts. About which time viz. 1607. entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts was esteem'd a good Disputant and well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen In 1616 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and the year after became Vicar of the Church of Gilling and of the Chappel of Forcet near Richmond in Yorksh by the favour of his Kinsman Humph. Wharton Esq Receiver general of his Majesties Revenues within the Archd. of Richmond the Bishoprick of Durham and County of Northumberland In which place being setled he was much esteemed by the Clergy and Laity of the Neighbourhood for his exemplary life and conversation He hath written The Protestants evidence shewing that for 1500 years next after Christ divers guides of Gods Church have in sundry points of Religion taught as the Church of England now doth Lond. 1634. 35. qu. There again with many additions in fol. an 1657. This book was valued by Selden and other learned men because therein the Author had taken great and worthy pains in producing out of every Century Witnesses to attest the Doctrine of the Ch. of Engl. in the points by him produced against the contrary doctrine of the Trent Council and Church of Rome Answer to a Romish Antidotist Lond. 1657. at the end of the former book printed in fol. Treatise of Death Judgment Hell and Heaven He was buried in the Chappel of Forcet before mention'd on the 14 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six near to the Font there Over his grave was soon after a grey marble stone laid with an Inscription thereon engraven which for brevity sake I shall now pass by and only tell you that this our Author Birckbek submitted to the men in power in the times of Usurpation and therefore kept his Benefice without fear of Sequestration RICHARD CAPEL was born of good Parentage within the City of Glocester educated in Grammar Learning there became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the beginning of the year 1601 and in that of his age 17 elected Demy of Magd. Coll. soon after and in the year 1609 he was made perpetual Fellow of that House being then Mast of Arts which was the highest degree he took in this University While he continued there his eminency was great was resorted to by noted men especially of the Calvinian Party had many Pupils put to his charge of whom divers became afterwards noted for their Learning as Accepted Frewen Archb. of York Will. Pemble c. Afterwards leaving the Coll. upon the obtaining of the Rectory of Eastington in his own Country became eminent there among the puritannical Party for his painful and practical way of preaching his exemplary life and conversation and in doing many good offices for those of his function When the book concerning Sports on the Lords day was ordered to be read in all Churches an 1633 he refused to do it and thereupon willingly resigning his Rectory obtained licence to practice Physick from the Bishop of Glocester so that setling at Pitchcomb near to Strowd in the said County where he had a temporal Estate was resorted to especially by those of his opinion for his success in that faculty In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians was made one of the Ass of Divines but refused to sit among them and was as I conceive restored to his Benefice or else had a better confer'd on him He was esteemed by those of his opinion an excellent Preacher and one that kept close to the footings of Jo. Dod Rob. Cleaver Arth. Hildersham and Jo. Rainolds of the last of whom he would often say that He was as learned a man as any in the world as godly also as learned and as humble as godly He hath written God's valuation of mans soul in two sermons on Mark 8.36 Lond. 1632. qu. Tentations their nature danger and cure in four parts Lond. 1650. oct c. Each part came out by it self before that time Brief dispute touching restitution in the case of usury Printed with the Tentations This Brief dispute with the Short discourse of Usury by Rob. Bolton and the Usurer cast by Chr. Jellinger M. A. are replyed upon by T. P. Lond. 1679. Apology in defence of some Exceptions against some particulars in the book of Tentations Lond. 1659. oct Remaines being an useful Appendix to his excellent Treatise of Tentations c. Lond. 1658. oct He paid his last debt to nature at Pitchcomb before mention'd on the 21 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was buried within the Precincts of the Church there His Fathers name was Christopher Capel a stout Alderman of the City of Glocester and a good friend to such Ministers that had suffer'd for Nonconformity He was born at Hoo-capel in Herefordshire and by Grace his Wife daughter of Rich. Hands had issue Rich. Capel before mention'd EDMUND WINGATE son of Roger Windg of Bornend and Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire Esq was born in 1593 became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in 1610 and took one degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he retired to Greys Inn where he had entred himself before that time a Student for the obtaining knowledge in the municipal Laws But his genie being more bent to the noble study of Mathematicks which had before been promoted and encouraged in Queens Coll. did at length arrive to great eminence in that faculty and was admired by those few in London that then professed it In 1624 he transported into France the Rule of Proportion having a little before been invented by Edm. Gunter of Gresham Coll and communicated it to most of the chiefest Mathematicians then residing in Paris who apprehending the great benefit that might accrue thereby importun'd him to express the use thereof in the French Tongue Which being performed accordingly he was advised by Mounsier Alleawne the Kings chief Engineer to dedicate his book to Mounsier the Kings only Brother since Duke of Orleance Nevertheless the said work coming forth as an Abortive the publishing thereof being somewhat hastned by reason an Advocate of Diion in Burgundy began to print some uses thereof which Wingate had in a friendly way communicated
restauration for want of conformity He was a conceited whimsical person and one very unsetled in his opinions sometimes he was a Presbyterian sometimes an Independent and at other times an Anabaptist Sometimes he was a Prophet and would pretend to foretel matters in the pulpit to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people At other times having received revelations as he pretended he would forewarn people of their sins in publick discourses and upon pretence of a vision that Doomesday was at hand he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgshire whose daughter Henry the son of great Oliv. Cromwell had married and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowles called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomesday would be some day the next week At which the Gentlemen being well pleased they and others always after called him Doomesday Sedgwick and the rather for this reason that there were others of his sirname that pretended to prophecy also He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Zions deliverance and her friends duty or the grounds of expecting and means of procuring Jerusalems restauration Preached at a publick Fast 29. June 1642 before the House of Commons on Isaiah 62.7 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Some flashes of Lightning in the Son of man in eleven Sermons Lond. 1648. oct These Sermons seem to have been preached on Luke 17.20.21.22 c. The Leaves of the tree of Life for the healing of the nations opening all wounds of this Kingdom and of every party and applying a remedy to them c. Lond. 1648 qu. This book as soon as 't was published which was in the latter end of 1647 the author went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight and desired the Governours leave to address himself to K. Ch. 1. then a Prisoner there Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesties perusal which as he said if his Majesty would please to read might as he imagined be of much advantage to him and comfort in that his disconsolate condition The King thereupon came forth and Sedgwick in decent manner gave his Maj. the book After he had read some part thereof he returned it to the author with this short admonition and judgment By what I have read in this book I believe the author stands in some need of sleep These words being taken by the author in the best sense he departed with seeming satisfaction The next day came one John Harrington Esq Son of Sir John Harrington and Epigrammatist in the time of Queen Eliz. and K. James 1. and being admitted into the Castle upon the like charitable account desired to have some discourse with his Majesty but his Maj. having heard some odd things of him from Jam. Harrington before mention'd that he was a canting and prophetical Presbyterian thanked him likewise for his good intentions without discoursing with him upon any point Whereupon Harrington wishing his Maj. much happiness withdrew Justice upon the Army-remonstrance or a rebuke of that evil spirit that leads them in their Councils and actions With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their ways c. Lond. 1649 qu. A second view of the Army-remonstrance or justice done to the Army wherein their principles are new model'd brought out of obscurity into clearer light c. Lond. 1649. in 5. sh in qu. This last seems somewhat to contradict the former but in such a canting fashion that I know not what to make of it unless the Author meant to claw with them in their own way Animadversions on a letter and paper first sent to his Highness Oliv. Cromwell by certain Gentlemen and others in Wales And since printed and published to the world by some of the subscribers c. Lond. 1656 qu. Animadversions upon a book intit Inquisition for the blood of our Soveraign Lond. 1661. oct What other things this our author hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after the return of K. Ch. 2. he lived mostly at Leusham in Kent but leaving that place about 1668 retired to London where he soon after died I have been several times promised an account of his death and burial but my friend Dr. S. C. of Gr. in Kent stands not to his word NATHANIEL HARDY son of Anth. Hard. was born in the Old Baylie in the Parish of S. Martin Ludgate in London on the 14 of Sept. 1618 became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1632 where continuing several years under the course of a severe discipline went thence to Hart Hall for a time and took the degree of Mast of Arts an 1638 and in the next year he was admitted into full Orders Afterwards he retired to the great City became a florid and very ready Preacher and at the turn of the times was insnared with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian party but at the treaty at Uxbridge between the Commissioners appointed by the King and those by the Parliament to treat about Peace an 1644 he was present and being desirous to be impartially informed in the truth of that Controversie he was fully convinced of his error chiefly by the Arguments of Dr. Hen. Hammond So that then being in the 26 year of his age he immediately as 't is said upon his return to London preached a Recantation Sermon and ever after even in the worst of times he attested his loyalty to the King and conformity to the Church in discipline as well as in doctrine in his ministerial function Of these matters I have been informed by his friend but this must be known that in all or most of the times of usurpation he was Minister of S. Dionyse Back-Church in London and tho frequented by some Loyalists yet by more Presbyterians His said friend also hath informed me that he kept up a Lecture in the said Church which was called The Loyal Lecture whereby many of the then suffering Clergy were relieved Also that that year on which the King was beheaded and ever after till near the time of the return of K. Ch. 2 he preached his funeral Sermon In the year 1660 he by his forward endeavours got to be one of those Ministers that went with the Commissioners appointed by the City of London to the Hague in order to his Majesties restauration And being there on a Sunday 20. May he with great confidence preached a Sermon before his Majesty on the 29 verse of the 26. chapter of Isaiah wherein he applied his discourse to the then present Estate of affairs in England so pathetically and learnedly that there was not any one present but admired his elegancy and learning and
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
by his wife daughter and heir of Rob. Sapcote of Elton in Huntingdonshire Esq younger brother to John Lord Harrington sons of Sir Jam. Harrington Kt. by Lucie his wife daughter of Sir Will. Sydney Kt. son of Sir Jo. Harrington Knight who was Treasurer of the Army to K. Hen. 8. Now as for Mr. Rogers before mention'd whom our author Harrington answered in his Parallel of the Spirit c. as 't is before told you his Christian name was John a notorious fifth Monarchy man and Anabaptist living in Aldersgatestreet in London and the title of his book which was answered runs thus A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne Mr. Baxter and Mr. Harrington for the true cause of the Commonwealth c. Lond. 1659. This Mr. Rogers was a busie pragmatical man and very zealous to promote a quarrel between his party and Oliver Cromwell for his seemingly running with them till he had got the reins of Government into his own hands and then to leave them with scorn He with Christop Feake as impudent and forward as himself were the Coryphaei of their party as Love in his time was of the Presbyterians and were not wanting upon all occasions to raise a commotion Wherefore it being thought requisite to secure Oliver caused them to be imprison'd at Lambeth and to debar their party to have access to them in Dec. or thereabouts 1654. Rogers being then of S. Thomas the Apostles in Southwark After they had remained there for some time Rogers had prevailed so far with his party as to present an Address which he himself had drawn up to the said Oliver for his enlargment Whereupon on the 7 of Feb. the same year Rogers was brought before the Protectors Council sitting at Whitehall who told him what a high charge there was against him and that he was not a Prisoner for the cause of Christ but suffered as a busie body and an evil-doer c. At length it being desired by his friends that the cause might be debated between his Highness the Protector and himself it was with his Highness his consent granted Whereupon in the evening of the said day Rogers with some of his friends were admitted into his Highness's presence where being told of an high charge exhibited against him Rogers charged them that brought it in to be Drunkards and Swearers The Protector asked him which of them was so that brought it in but he could name none of them that he knew The Protector pressed him for Scripture for his actings He said the Scripture was positive and privative And being asked which of those evil Kings that he mention'd that God destroyed he would parallel to this present State he gave no positive but privitive answer Whereupon the Protector shewed what a disproportion there was those being such as laboured to destroy the people of God but his work speaking of himself was to preserve them from destroying one another and if the sole power was in the Presbyterians they would force all to their way and they the Fifth Monarchy men would do the like and so the re-baptized persons also And his work was to keep all the Godly of several judgments in peace c. And when Rogers cried down the national Ministry and national Church mention'd to be antichristian the Protector told him that it was not so for that was to force all to one form that was national which was then done as he said in this Commonwealth c. Afterward Maj. Gen. Tho. Harrison Col. Charles Rich and some others made an address to the Protector to desire the release of him Feake and others or to try them The Protector shewed how he kept them from tryal out of mercy because if they were tried the Law would take away their lives So he was remitted to his Prison and Feake and the rest were there to continue On the 30 of March 1655 Oliver and his Council ordered that the said Rogers should be removed to Windsor Castle whereupon the next day he was carried there and his wife rode after him RICHARD ATKYNS whose birth was neither glorious nor contemtible as having been descended from Gentry on his fathers side and Nobility on that of his mother His father was son and heir of Rich. Atkyns of Tuffleigh in Glocestershire Esq at which place this our author as I conceive was born chief Justice of West Wales and of Qu. Elizabeths Council of the Marches of Wales and brother to Sir Edward Atkyns of Lincolns Inn one of the Barons of the Exchecquer His mother was second daughter of Sir Edwyn Sandys of Latimer in Bucks Baronet by his wife the Lady Elizab. Sandys dau and heir of Will Lord Sandys of the Vine near Basingstoke in Hampshire descended from the Bray's Barons After he had been partly educated in English and Grammar learning under two bad Masters he was sent to the College School at Glocester where being compleated for the University he was at 14 years of age sent to Balliol Coll an 1629 and continued there at least two years in the quality of a Gent. Commoner studying the Zegardines Philosophy more than that of Aristotle or Ramus Thence he went to Lincolns Inn and soon after travelled into France with the son of the Lord Arundel of Wardour by a second venture but that son dying there before they went farther he returned improv'd himself with the accomplishments of a Courtier and then married which towards his latte◠end proved his ruin Afterwards upon the breaking out of the Civil Wars in England he raised a Troop of Horse at his own charge for the King and did him good service for which afterwards he suffered much in his estate After his Majesties restauration he was made being then a Colonel one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Glocestershire where and in that capacity he expressed himself not only loyal upon all occasions but an affectionate son of the Church of England He was an ingenious and observing man and saw the vanity of this world sooner than others tho of elder years which fitted him the better for another He hath written and published The original and growth of Printing c. Lond. 1664· in 4. sh in qu. His Vindication Lond. 1669. qu. Relation of several passages in the western War of England wherein he was concerned Sighs and Ejaculations These two last were printed with the Vindication At length being committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark for debt died there on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and two days after was buried without any publick solemnity in the Parish Church of S. George the Martyr within the said Borough of Southwark by the care and appointment of Sir Rob. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas and Edw. Atkyns Esq afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer both nearly related to the defunct WILLIAM LUCY descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Charlcote in Warwickshire was
party He also left behind him at his death unfinished 1 Canonis Chronici liber quintus sive Imperium Persicum 2 De Provinciis Legionibus Romanis 3 De re nummaria c. At length departing this mortal life at Bushy hall in Hertfordshire on the 25. of May in sixteen hundred eighty and five his body was thereupon conveyed to Cuxton near Rochester in Kent where he had an Estate and buried in the Church there He left issue behind him begotten on the body of Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Will. Hammond of S. Albans in East Kent two Sons viz. Sir John Marsham now of Cuxton Baronet who is writing The History of England much more exact as 't is said than any yet extant and Sir Robert of Bushy hall Knight who succeeded his Father in the place of Six Clerk In the possession of the first of these two is Sir Johns Library which tho diminished by the fire that hapned in London 1666 yet it is considerable and highly to be valued for the exquisite remarks in the margin of most of the books and in the possession of the other is his Cabinet of Greek Medals as curious as any private collection whatsoever ANDREW ALLAM the son of a sufficient Plebeian of both his names by Bridget Derling his Wife was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon in Apr. 1655 and baptized there on the 23 of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School at Denton in the Parish of Cudesdon near to his native place under a noted Master named Will. Wildgoose M. of Arts of Brasn Coll. much fam'd for his dexterity in Pedagogy became a Batler of S. Edmunds Hall in Easter term 1671 where had it not been his misfortune to fall under the tuition of a careless and crazed person he might have prov'd a prodigy in several sorts of learning After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a Tutor Moderator a Lecturer in the Chappel and at length Vice-principal of his House In all which offices he behaved himself much to the credit honor and flourishing thereof In 1680 at Whitsontide he entred into holy Orders and in 83 he was one of the Masters of the Schools which last place he executed with very great judgment and prudence He was a person of eminent virtues was sober temperate moderate and modest even to example He understood the controversial writings between Conformâ—sts and Nonconformists Protestants and Papists far beyond his years which was advanc'd by a great and happy memory And I am perswaded had he not been taken off by the said Offices he would have gone beyond all of his time and age in those matters and might have proved an useful and signal member to the Church of England for which he had most zealous respect He understood the world of men well authors better and nothing but years and experience were wanting in to make him a compleat walking Library His works that are extant are 1 The learned Preface or Epistle to the Reader with a dedicatory Epist in the Printers name set before The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor c. to the Covenanters of Scotland c. Oxon. 1684. 2 The Epistle with the account therein of Dr. Rich. Cosins's life set before the said Cosins's book entit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia in tabulas digesta Oxon 1684. in a thin fol. The ded Epist to Sir Leolin Jenkins in the Printers name was written by Christoph Wase superior Beadle of Law in the Univ. of Oxon. 3 The Epistle before with a review and correction of the book entit Some plain discourses on the Lords Supper c. Written by Dr. George Griffith B. of S. Asaph Oxon. 1684. oct 4 Five or six sheets of his own hand writing and composure containing corrections in and addit to a book entit Angliae Notitia or the present state of England c. written by one who had been also of S. Edm. Hall They were made by Mr. Allam in the edit of that book printed at Lond. 1684. and were all as I presume inserted in that edition which came out at that place in 1687 but without any acknowledgment with shame be it spoken from the author of that Notitia who neither returned those thanks that he ought out of common civility to have done or granted him his company or acquaintance when he went to Lond to desire it purposely to communicate such things by word of mouth which he could not without great trouble by his Pen concerning various matters in that book 5 He also began and made divers additions in Helvicus his Historical and Chronological Theatre as occasion required and would have quite finished the supplement at the end from 1660 to 1685 had he not been cut off by cruel death These things were printed with that author at Lond. 1687 fol But the Reader is to understand that whereas there was a colom in that book of the said editi-of 1687 made to contain the names of the famous Jesuits from the first foundation of their order to the year 1685 which was not in any of the Latine editions 't was not done by Allam but by a busie body nor that passage under the year 1678 which runs thus Titus Oates discovers a pretended Popish Plot. 6 He had laid the foundation of a Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae wherein he would have spoken of the foundation of all Cathedrals with a touch of their Statutes and Customs Which done to set down the names of the present Bishop Dean Archdeacon Cannons and Officers of each Cathedral but death also prevented the finishing this He also many times lent his assisting hand to the author of this present work especially as to the Notitia of certain modern writers of our Nation while the said author was day and night drudging after those more antient For the truth is which hath been a wonder to him since his death he understood well what he wanted and what would be fit for him to be brought into this work which none else in the University could as he and the author knew full well to their great reluctancy or would give any assistance or encouragement Further it must not be forgotten that he translated into English The Life of Iphicrates written in Lat. by Corn. Nepos and remitted into the book of Lives of that author translated by several Oxford hands Oxon. 1684. oct p. 99 c. At length after a great deal of fear of and avoidance from the disease called the Small pox he was in unseasonable weather overtaken by it so that being not able to overcome its encounters he did surrender up his spotless soul being too worthy for this world and the people he lived with and was wedded to his Saviour Jesus Ch. on the 17. of June about noon in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was buried the same day late at night at the west end of the Church of S.
great effects if ever it shall be retrieved upon the publick stock of the Nation c. A model of it tho lost was given by the inventor thereof to the Royal Society made with his own hand and it is at this day kept in the repository at Gresham College To conclude he was a person of an admirable inventive head of a prodigious working wit and of so great worth and learning that he was both fit for and an honour to the highest preferment He hath written Advice concerning the education of youth c. Lond. 1647. qu. Written to Mr. Sam. Hartlib under the two letters of W. P. Advice for the advancement of some particular parts of learning Lond 1648. written to Sam. Hartlib This title which I have received from a second hand may be for I have not yet seen it the same with the Advice before mentioned A brief of proceedings between Sir Hierom Zanchy and him with the state of the controversie between them Lond. 1659. in 2 or 3. sh in fol. The articles then put up against him relating to his actions in Ireland were 1 That he the said Doctor Petty had received great bribes 2 That he had made a trade of buying debenters in vast numbers against the statute 3 That he had gotten vast summs of money and scopes of land by fraud 4 That he had used many foul practices as Surveyor and Commissioner for setting out lands 5 That he and his fellow Commissioners had placed some debenters in better places than they could claim denying right to others 6 That he and his fellow Commissioners had totally disposed of the Armies security the debt still remaining chargeable on the state All which were according to the said Brief of proceedings cleared by Petty what the event of the matter was I cannot have Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland by letters to and from him Doct. Petty with Sir Hierom Zanchy's speech in Parliament Lond. 1660. oct written mostly against his busie and envious Antagonist Zanchy of whom I shall speak elsewhere A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of Crown-lands assessments customs poll-moneys lotteries benevolence c. Lond. 1662 and 67. in about 10. sh in qu. Discourse made before the Royal society 26. Nov. 1674 concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars Lond. 1674 in tw See in the Philosoph Transact nu 109. p. 209. A new Hypothesis of springing or elastique motions Printed at the end of the said Discourse An apparatus to the history of the common practices of Dying See in The Hist of the Royal Society written by Tho. Sprat Lond. 1667. qu. part 2. p. 284. c. Treatise or discourse about the building of Ships It was presented by the author in MS to the R. Society about 1665 contained in about a quire of paper of his own writing but William Lord Brounker President of the Council pertaining to that Society took it away and kept it in his possession till 1682 and after perhaps to the time of his death saying it was too great an Arcanum of state to be commonly perused The author tho he had no copy of it by him yet Dr. Rob. Wood who lived in Ireland had one Colloquium Davidis cum anima sua accinente paraphrasim in 104 psalmum de magnalibus dei Lond. 1679 in two sh in fol. This thing which is in latin Hexameter was composed by the author 25 of March 1678 under the name of Cassid Aureus Minutius Political Arithmetick or a discourse concerning the extent and value of land people buildings husbandry manufacture commerce fishery artizans seamen soldiers publick revenues c. as the same relates to every County in general and more particularly to the territories of his Majesty of Great Britain and his neighbours of Holland and France This was presented in MS by the author to his Majesty Ch. 2 and Sir Joseph Williamson had a copy of it but was not printed till Mich. term 1690 'T is in oct as the other volumes of Pol. Arithm. are Another Essay in political Arithmetick concerning the growth of the City of London with the measures periods causes and consequences thereof an 1682. Lond. 1683. 86 in 3 sh in oct Observations upon the Dublin-bills of mortality 1681. and the state of that City Lond. 1683 in 3. sh in oct He had also long before assisted or put into a way John Graunt in his writing of Nat. and Pol. Observations of the bills of mortality of Lond. Maps of Ireland being his actual survey of that whole kingdom These were printed in fol. 1685. and were then valued at 2 l. 10 s. in quires Essay concerning the multiplication of mankind Lond. 1686. oct With this was printed the second edit of Another Essay in Pol. Arith. c. Further observations upon the Dublin bills or accompts of the houses hearths baptismes and burials of the City Lond. 1686. oct Two Essays in Political Arithmetick concerning the people housing hospitals of London and Paris with observations on the Cities of London and Rome Lond. 1686. 7. oct Five Essays in political Arithmetick viz. 1. Objections from the City of Rey in Persia and from Monsieur Aurout against two former Essays answer'd and that London hath as many people as Paris Rome and Rouen put together 2. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars 3. Proofs that in London within its 134. Parishes in the bills of mortality there live about six hundred ninety six thousand People 4. An estimate of the people c. Lond. 1687. oct A treatise of taxes and contributions particularly fitted for the state of Ireland Lond. 1691. qu. Printed in a book entit A Collection of three state Tracts c. Treatise of naval philosophy c. Lond. 1691 oct Qu. whether the same with the Treatise or disc about building of Ships before mention'd The Political Anatomy of Ireland c. Lond. 1691. oct Verbum Sapienti or an account of the wealth and expence of England c. Ibid. 1691. oct This is animadverted upon in a pamph intit A letter from a Gent. in the Country to his friend in the City c. Lond. 1692. qu. This learned Vertuoso Sir Will. Petty died in his house in Piccadilly-street almost opposite to S. James's Church within the liberty of Westminster of a Gangreen in his foot occasion'd by the swelling of the Gout on the sixteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was carried to Rumsey the place of his nativity and buried in the Church there near the bodies of his father and mother By his wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Hardress Waller Kt and Relict of Sir Maurice Fenton he had issue two sons viz. Charles created Baron of Shelborne in Ireland soon after his fathers death and Henry and a daughter named Anne He had also a natural daughter more like to him than any other of his children who was an
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
10. Peter Vasson was created Bach. of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours O. Cromwell Letters dat 25 Mar. this year which say that he the said Chanc. had received very good satisfaction from several hands touching Mr. Vasson as to his suffering for his Religion in his own Nation his service in the late Wars to the Commonwealth his skill in the faculty he professeth and success through the blessing of God in the practice of it together with the unblameableness of his conversation c. 25. Oliver Pocklington M. of A. of Cambr. now a practitioner of Physick at Nottingham was created Doct. of Physick by vertue of the said Chancellours Letters written in his behalf May 6. Thom. Tiszaebetsi or Tizabetsi a Transylvanian Hungario Transylvanus was created M. of A. Dec. 29. Faustus Morsteyn a Noble man of the Greater Poland was created M. of A. by vertue of a Dispens from the Delegates He was a Student or Sojourner in the Univ. several years purposely to obtain learning from the publ Libr. Jan. 29. Abrah Conyard of Roan in Normandy who had studied Divinity several years in Academies in France and Switzerland was created Bach. of Div. by the decree of the Members of Convocation who were well satisfied with his Letters testimonial under the hands of the Pastors of the reformed Church of Roan written in his behalf In the beginning of this year studied in Ox. in the condition of a Sojourner Henry Oldenburg who wrot himself sometimes Grubendole and in the month of June he was entred a Student by the name and title of Henricus Oldenburg Bremensis nobilis Saxo at which time he was Tutor to a young Irish Noble man called Henry ô Bryen then a Student also there He had been Consul for his Country-men in the Duchy of Breme in Lower Saxony to reside in Lond in the time of the Long Parl. and Oliver and acted for his Country men in that Office for some years At length being quitted of that Employment he continued in Engl was Tutor to L. O Bryen before mention'd and afterwards to Will. L. Cavendish and at length upon the foundation of the Royal Society Fellow and Secretary thereof He hath written Philosophical Transactions commencing from 6 March 1664 and carried on to Numb 136 dated 25 June 1677 all in qu. By which work he rendred himself a great benefactor to mankind by his affectionate care and indefatigable diligence and endeavours in the maintaining philosophical intelligence and promoting the designs and interests of profitable and general Philosophy And translated into English 1 The prodromus to a dissertation concerning Solids naturally contained within Solids c. Lond 1671. oct Written by Nich. S. Steno 2 A genuine explication of the book of Revelation full of sundry new christian considerations c. Lond. 1671. oct Written by the learned and pious A. B. Peganius 3 The life of the Duchess of Mazarine Printed in oct and other things which I have not yet seen This Mr. Oldenburg died at Charlton near Greenwich in Kent in Aug. 1678 and was buried there leaving then behind him issue by his wife the dau and only child of the learned Joh. Dury a Scot by whom he had an Estate of 60 l. per an in the Marshes of Kent a son named Rupert God-son to Pr. Rupert and a daughter called Sophia As for Henry Lord O Bryen before mention'd he was the eldest son of Henry Earl of Thomond and was afterwards one of his Majesties Privy Council in Irel. He died in Aug. 1678 to the very great grief of his Relations Whereupon his widow Catherine Baroness Clifton Sister and Heiress to Charles sometimes Duke of Richmond was married to Sir Joseph Williamson one of the principal Secretaries of State in Decemb. following By which match tho he lost his place of Secretary by the endeavours of Tho. Earl of Danby who intended her for one of his sons yet he obtained large possessions in Kent and elsewhere and the hereditary High Stewardship of Gravesend in the said County An. Dom. 1657. An. 9 Car. 2. An. 4 5 Oliv. Prot. Chanc. the same viz. Oliver Cromwell c. but he resigning on the 3 of July his eldest son commonly called Lord Rich. Cromwell was elected into his place on the 18 and installed at Whitehall the 29 of the said month Vicechanc. Joh. Conant Doct. of Div. Rector of Exeter Coll. Oct. 9. Proct. Sam. Byfield of C. C. Coll. Apr. 8. Sam. Conant of Exet. Coll. Apr. 8. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. May 28. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll. The first of these two was afterward a celebrated Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred Of the other you may see among the Bach. of Div. 1669. Jun. 8. Joseph Guillim of Brasn Coll. 12. Jenkin Christopher of Jes Coll. Of the first of these two who was originally of Mert. Coll you may see among the Bach. of Div. 1669 and of the other among the Masters of Arts 1660. Jul. 7. Rich. Griffith of Vniv Coll. He was lately Censor of the Coll. of Phys and hath published one or more things of his faculty See among the Masters an 1660. Oct. 10. Joh. Quick of Exet. Coll. This person who was a Servitour of that House and afterwards beneficed in the West parts of England I take to be the same Joh. Quick who published The Test of true godliness Sermon preached at the Funeral of Philip Harris late of Alston in the County of Devon Esq 10 Aug. 1681. Lond. 1681. 2. qu. Oct. 15. Tho. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll. Oct. 15. George Vernon of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more under the tit of Doct. of Phys 1668. The other is now living in Glocestersh and hath published several things 24. Philip Marinel of Pemb. Coll. 24. Capell Wiseman of Qu. Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Masters 1660. The other who was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll is now Bishop of Dromore in Ireland Dec. 17. Edm. Thorne of Or. Coll. Jan. 15. Tim. Hall of Pemb. Coll. Of the first of these two you may see among the Masters an 1661. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ. was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. Jan. 28. Franc. Vernon of Ch. Ch. Feb. 4. Nath. Bisby of Ch. Ch. The last of these two did afterwards publish several Sermons and is now I suppose living and beneficed near Sudbury in Suffolk 9. Tho. Marsden of Brasn Coll. See among the Masters in 1661. 12. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll. 12. Narcissus Marsh of Magd. Hall The first hath published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The last was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll Principal of S. Alb. Hall Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin and at length Archb. of Cashells in Ireland He hath written and published certain matters and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Writers and Bishops Feb. 19. Tim. 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sixteen hundred forty and two was buried in a Vault pertaining to his Family situated and being under part of the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet wherein his Father E. Crisp Alderman who died in his Shrivalty of London 13. Nov. 1625. was buried Dr. Crisp left behind him many children begotten on the body of his wife the daughâ—er of Rowl Wilson Alderman and Sheriff of London one of the Members of the Long Parliament and of the Council of State 1648-9 See more in Obad. Sedgwick THOMAS GODWIN second Son of Anthony Godw. of Wookey in Somersetshire and he the second Son of Will. Godw. of the City of Wells was born in that County became a Student in Magd. hall in the beginning of the year 1602. and in that of his age 15. Four years after he was made Demie of Magd. Coll where following the studies of Philology and the Tongues with unwearied industry became at length after he was Master of Arts chief Master of Abendon School in Berks Where by his sedulous endeavours were many educated that were afterwards eminent in the Church and State In the year 1616 being then and some years before Chaplain to Dr. Montague Bishop of Bathe and Wells he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1636 was licensed to proceed in Divinity Before which time he being as 't were broken or wearied out with the drudgery of a School had the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day He was a person of a grave and reverend aspect was a grace to his Profession was most learned also in Latin Greek and Hebrew antiquity and admirably well versed in all those matters trequisite for the accomplishment of a Rector of an Academy He hath transmitted to Posterity Romanae Historiae Anthologia An English exposition of the Roman antiquities wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel'd and divers obscure phrases explained In 3 books Oxon 1613 c. qu. Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad explicationem utriusque Testamenti valde necessaria c. lib 3. Oxon. 1616. c. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Jam. Montague B. of B. and Wells and Dean of his Majesties Chappel Moses and Aaron Civil and Ecclesiastical rites used by the ancient Hebrews observed and at large opened for the clearing of many obscure texts throughout the whole Scripture in six books Printed 1625. in qu. Florilegium Phrasicon Or a Survey of the Latine Tongue When this book was first printed I know not for I do not remember that I ever yet have seen the first edition Three arguments to prove Election upon foresight of Faith which coming in Ms into the hands of Twisse of Newbury were by him answered Soon after that answer being sent to our Author Godwin he made a Reply which was confuted by the Rejoynder of Twisse The Presbyterian writers say that tho Dr. Godwin was a very learned Man in the antiquities of the Hebrews Greeks and Latines yet he was fitter to instruct Grammarians than deal with Logicians and had more power as Master of a School at Abendon than as a Doctor of Divinity They further add also that Twisse did by his writings and disputes whip this old Schoolmaster and wrested that Ferula out of his hands which he had enough used with pride and expos'd him to be derided by boyes Dr. Godwin after he had for some years enjoyed himself in great repose in requital of his many labours surrendred up his soul to God 20. March in sixteen hundred forty and two and was buried in the Chancel belonging to his Church of Brightwell before-mention'd He then left behind him a wife named Philippa Tesdale of Abendon who at her own charge caused a Marble stone to be laid over his grave the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 201. a. JAMES MABBE was born of gentile Parents in the County of Surrey and Dioc. of Winchester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. in Lent term an 1586 7 aged 16 years made Demie of that house in 87 perpetual Fellow in 95 Mast of Arts in 98 one of the Proctors of the University in 1606 and three years after supplicated the ven congreg of Regents that whereas he had studied the Civil Law for six years together he might have the favour to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty but whether he was really admitted it appears not At length he was taken into the service of Sir Joh. Digby Knight afterwards Earl of Bristow and was by him made his Secretary when he went Embassadour into Spaine where remaining with him several years improved himself in various sorts of Learning and in the Customs and Manners of that and other Countries After his return into England he was made one of the Lay-prebendaries of the Cath. Ch. of Wells being then in orders was esteemed a learned man good Orator and a facetious conceited Wit He hath translated from Spanish into English under the name of Don Diego Puede-Ser that is James may be 1 The Spanish bawd represented in Celestina or the tragick comedy of Calisto and Melibea c. Lond. 1631. fol. 2 The Rogue or the life of Guzman de Alfarache Lond. 1634. fol. 3d edit Written in Span. by Matth. Aleman 3 Devout contemplations expressd in 42 Sermons upon all the Quadragesimal Gospels Lond. 1629. fol. Originally written by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca 4 The Exemplarie Novels of Mich. de Cervantes Saavedra in six books Lond. 1640. fol. There was another book of the said Cervantes entit Delight in several Shapes c. in six pleasant Histories Lond. 1654. fol. but who translated that into English I cannot tell nor the name of him who translated his Second part of the History of Don Quixot Lond. 1620. qu. As for our Translator Mabbe he was living in sixteen hundred forty and two at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire in the family of Sir John Strangewaies and dying about that time was buried in the Church belonging to that place as I have been informed by one of that name and family lately fellow of Wadham College in Oxon. DAVID PRIMEROSE second Son of Gilb. Primerose a Scot and D. D. mention'd in the Fasti an 1624. was born in the City of S. Jean d' Angely within the Province of Xantoigne in France educated in Philosophical learning in the University of Bordeaux made an Excursion to this University of Oxon in his younger years for the sake of the Bodleian Library and conversation of protestant Theologists returned to Bordeaux where he proceeded Master of Arts and visited other places of learning Afterwards he went to Oxon again to improve his knowledge and studies by the learning and doctrine of Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity entred himself a Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in 1623 was incorporated Mr. of Arts in the latter end of that year and soon after performed the
it seems at Llanymodyfri in Caermarthenshire and being educated in those parts he was sent to Jesus Coll. in 1597 aged 18 years or thereabouts ordained Priest at Wittham or Wytham in Essex by John Suffragan Bishop of Colchester on Sunday 25. Apr. 1602 took the degree of Bach. of Arts in June following and on the sixth of Aug. the same year had the Vicaridge of Llanymodyfri before mentioned commonly called Landovery collated on him by Anthony Bishop of S. David On the 19. of Nov. 1613 he was instituted Rector of Llamedy in the dioc of S. David presented thereunto by the King which he held with the other Living by dispensation from the Archb. 28. Oct. 1613 confirmed by the great Seal on the 29 of the same month and qualified by being Chaplain to Robert Earl of Essex In 1614. May 17. he was made Prebendary of the Collegiat Church of Brecknock by the aforesaid Anthony Bishop of S. David and by the Title of Master of Arts which degree he was persuaded to take by Dr. Laud his diocesan he was made Chancellour of S. David to which the Prebend of Llowhadden is annex'd on the 14. of Sept. 1626 upon the resignation of Rich. Baylie Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. In Wales is a book of his composition that is common among the people there and bears this Title Gwaith Mr Rees Prichard Gynt Ficcer c. The works of Mr. Rees Prichard sometimes Vicar of Landovery in Caermarthenshire printed before in 3 Books but now printed together in one book c. with an addition in many things out of Mss not seen before by the publisher besides a fourth part now the first time imprinted Lond. 1672 in a thick 8â— It contains four parts and the whole consist of several Poems and pious Carols in Welsh which some of the Authors Countrymen commit to memory and are wont to sing He also translated divers Books into Welsh and wrot somthing upon the 39 Artiticles which whether printed I know not some of it I have seen in Ms He dyed at Llanymodifri about the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was as I presume buried in the Church there In his life time he gave Lands worth 20 l. per ann for the setling a Free School at Llanymodifri together with an House to keep it in Afterwards the House was possessed by four School-Masters successively and the mony paid to them At length Tho. Manwaring Son of Roger sometimes Bishop of St. David who married Elizab. the only daugh of Samuel Son of the said Rees Prichard did retain as I have been informed by letters thence and seise upon the said Lands under pretence of paying the School-Master in mony which accordingly was done for an year or two But not long after as my informer tells me the River Towry breaking into the House carried it away and the Lands belonging thereunto are occupied at this time 1682 by Rog. Manwaring Son and Heir of Thomas before mentined so that the School is in a manner quite forgotten WILLIAM LAUD Son of Will. Laud by Lucia his Wife widdow of Joh. Robinson of Reading in Berks and daugh of Joh. Webbe of the same place was born in S. Laurence Parish in the said borough of Reading on the 7. of Octob. 1573 educated in the Free-School there elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1590 where going thro with great diligence the usual forms of Logic and Philosophy under the tuition of Dr. John Buckeridge was made Fellow in 1594 and four years after Mast of Arts at which time he was esteemed by all those that knew him a very forward and zealous person About that time entring into the Sacred Function he read the Divinity Lecture newly set up in the Coll and maintained by one Mrs. ... May. In 1â—03 he was elected one of the Proctors of the University and became Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire which proved his happiness and gave him hopes of greater preferment In 1604 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1607 he became Vicar of Stanford in Northamptonshire In the year following he proceeded D. of Div. and was made Chaplain to Dr. Neile Bishop of Rochester In 1609 he became Rector of West-Tilbury in Essex for which he exchanged his Advowson of North-Kilworth in Leicestershire The next year his Patron the Bishop of Rochester gave him the Rectory of Kuckstone in Kent but that place proving unhealthful to him he left it and was inducted into Norton by proxy The same year viz. 1610 he resign'd his Fellowship and the year following he was elected President of his College In 1614 his Patron then Bishop of Lincoln gave him a Prebendship in that Church and after that the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon an 1615 on the death of Matthew Gifford Master of Arts. In the year 1616 the King gave him the Deanery of Glocester after the death of Dr. Rich. Field and in the year following he became Rector of Ibstock in Leicestershire In 1620 Jan. 22. he was installed Canon or Prebendary of the eighth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of Edw. Buckley D. D. who had succeeded Will. Latymer in that dignity 1582. and the next year after his Majesty who upon his own confession had given to him nothing but the Deanery of Glocester which he well knew was a shell without a kernel gave him the grant of the Bishoprick of S. David and withal leave to hold his Presidentship of S. Jo. Coll. in commendam with it as also the Rectory of Ibstock before mentionâ—d and Creek in Northamptonshire In Sept. 1626 he was translated to B. and Wells and about that time made Dean of the Royal Chappel In 1627 Apr. 29. he was sworn privy Counsellor with Dr. Neile then B. of Durham and on the 15 of Jul. 1628 he was translated to London Much about which time his antient acquaintance Sir Jam. Whitlock a Judge used to say of our Author Dr. Laud that he was too full of fire though a just and a good man and that his want of experience in state matters and his too much zeal for the Church and heat if he proceeded in the way he was then in would set this Nation on fire In 1630 he was elected Chancellour of the Univ. of Oxon and in 1633 Sept. 19. he was translated to Canterbury which high preferment drew upon him such envy that by the puritan party he was afterwards in the beginning of the Long Parliament impeached of high Treason He was a person of an heroick spirit pious life and exemplary conversation He was an encourager of Learning a stiff maintainer of the rights of the Church and Clergy and one that lived to do honour to his Mother the University and his Country Such a liberal benefactor also he was towards the advancement of learning that he left himself little or nothing for his own use and by what his intentions were we may guess that if
and are printed in a book intit Gerard. Jo. Vossii clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paul Colomesius I have seen and perused a Ms transcrib'd under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead containing all the passages which concern the University of Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the Chancellourship of the said University It commences 12 Apr. 1630 and ends 14 Dec. 1640 bound up in a vellam cover in fol. and endorsed thus Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Ms was communicated to me when I was composing the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews President of S. Johns Coll. wherein finding many useful things for my purpose which another may do for his and therefore it escap'd Prynn's hands I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here as I could do of many other things under his hand which I have seen reserved in private custody as choice monuments but time calls me away and I must hasten Yet I cannot but let the Reader know that there is a fol. Ms going from hand to hand entit Wholsome Queries resolved by Dr. Laud manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Principle for Protestants c. sed caveat lector At length in the beginning of the civil Distempers this worthy Archbishop was upon suspicion of introducing Popery into the Nation arbitrary Government and I know not what aggravated in an high degree committed Prisoner first to the Black-rod and afterwards to the Tower where remaining about four years was at length by the Votes of a slender house beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in sixteen hundred forty and â—our Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had consecrated remained there entire till July 1663 at which time being removed to Oxon was on the 24 day of the same month deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel Thus died and buried was this most reverend renowned and religious Arch-prelate when he had lived 71 years 13 weeks and four days if at least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue always not only in the minds of men but in the Annals of succeeding ages with renown and fame RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. by Cath. his wife daug of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt. a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent particularly as I have been informed by his daughter at Sissingherst before mention'd entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584 and was matriculated in Mich. term that year as a Kentish man born and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age at which time several of the family of the Scots before mention'd studied then in the said Hall After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties he went to one of the Inns of Court afterwards beyond the seas and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplish'd person In 1594 after the celebration of a most solemn Act he was with other persons of quality actually created Master of Arts and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds at which time this our Author who lived at Highgate near London was esteem'd a most compleat and learned person the benefit of which he reaped in his old age when his considerable estate was thro suretiship very much impaired In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire being then Lord of Middle Aston and of other lands therein and if I mistake not a Justice of the Peace He was a person tall and comely of a good disposition and admirable discourse religious and well read in various Faculties especially in Div. and Hist as it may appear by these books following which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions Cato variegatus Or Catoes moral disticks varied Lond. 1636. 'T is a Poem Meditations and disquisitions on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit qu. A copy of this book in Ms being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press he returned this testimony of it I much admire the very character of your stile which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Austins age full of sweet raptures and of researching conceits nothing borrowed nothing vulgar and yet all flowing from you I know not how with a certain equal facility Med. and disq on the three last Psalmes of David Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the 50 Psal Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the seven penitent Psalmes Lond. 1639. qu. Med. and disq on the first Psal Lond. 1640. qu. Med. and disq on the seven consolatorie Psalmes of David namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103 and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu. Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same I suppose with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity Lond. 1641. in tw Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer printed with the Apology A solliloquy of the soul or a pillar of Thoughts c. Lond. 1641. in tw Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government unto the death of K. James c. Lond. 1641. c. fol. Which Chronicle as the Author saith was collected with so great care and diligence that if all other of our Chronicles were lost this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known c. However the Reader must know that it being reduced to method and not according to time purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices many chief things to be observed therein as name time c. are egregiously false and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser especially if he be curious or critical There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58 in which last was added The history of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps sometimes a student of Magd. Hall Afterwards in 1671 if I mistake not came out another edit in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle extracted from his Excellencies papers c. which as I have been informed were for the most part
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Estiâ—nne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
his last will and testament He was an humble man of plain and downright behaviour careless of money and imprudent in worldly matters All that knew him esteem'd him a noted Artist a plentiful fountain of all sorts of learning an excellent Linguist a Person of a prodigious memory and so profound a Divine that they have been pleased to entitle him Columna fidei orthodoxae and Malleus Heresecus Patrum Pater and ingens Scholae Academiae oraculum In him also as an ingenious Author saith the heroical wits of Jewell Rainolds and Hooker as united into one seem'd to triumph anew and to have threatned a fatal blow to the Babylonish Hierarchy Insomuch that he might have justly challenged to himself that glory which sometimes Ovid speaking of his own Country Mantua Virgilium laudet Verona Catullum Romanae gent is gloria dicar ego As his learning was admired by forreigners Sext. Amama Rivet and others so were his books especially those written in Latine a cat of which and of the English follow Tabulae ad Grammaticam Graecam introductoriae c. Oxon. 1608. 1629. 39. c. qu. Tyrocinium ad Syllogismum legitimum contexendum Heptades Logicae sive monita ad ampliores tractatus introductoria These two last are printed and go with the Tabulae c. Castigatio cujusdem circulatoris qui R. P. Andream Eudaemon Johannem Cydonium E Soc. Jesu seipsum nuncupat Opposita ipsius calumniis in Epistolam Isaaci Casauboni ad Frontonem Ducaeum Oxon. 1614. oct Alloquium sereniss Reg. Jacobo Woodstochiae habitum 24. Aug. 1624. pr. in one sh in qu. Orationes novem inaugurales de totidem Theologiae apicibus prout in promotione Doctorum Oxoniae publicè proponebantur in Comitiis Oxon. 1626. qu. Lectiones decem de totidem religionis capitibus praecipuè hoc tempore controversis prout publicè habebantur Oxoniae in vesperiis Oxon. 1625. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the consecration of Exeter Coll. Chap. on Luke 19.46 Oxon. 1625. qu. 2 Purez Uzzah Serm. before the K. at Woodstock on 2. Sam. 6. ver 6.7 Oxon. 1625. qu. 3 Concio ad Art Baccalaureos pro more habita in ecclesia B. Mariae Oxon. in die cinerum in Act. 2.22 an 1616. Oxon. 1626. Twenty Sermons Oxon. 1636. qu. The two first of which are entit Christs counsell for ending law cases Among them are the Consecration Serm. and Perez-Uzzah beforementioned Nine Sermons on several occasions Oxon. 1641. qu. Lectiones XXII Orationes XIII Conciones VI Oratio ad Jacobum Regem Oxon. 1648 fol. Among which are contained the former Lections Orations and Speech to the K. Jam. at Woodst Fasciculus controversiarum ad Juniorum aut occupatorum captum collegatus c. Oxon. 1649. 51. 52. qu. Theologiae Scholasticae Syntagma Mnemonicum Oxon 1651. Conciliorum Synopsis Printed with the Syntagma before-mentioned Published in English at the end of An easie and compendious introduction c. mentioned before in Mathias Prideaux Historie of successions in states countries or families c. Oxon. 1653. c. Epistola de Episcopatu fol. a fragment of which I have seen in one folio sh Euchologia or the doctrine of practical praying being a legacy left to his daughters in private directing them to such manifold uses of our Common-prayer-book as may satisfie upon all occasions without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes Lond. 1655. 56. oct c. Dedicated to his daughters Sarah Hodges and Elizabeth Sutton The doctrine of conscience framed according to the form in the Common-prayer left as a legacy to his Wife Printed in tw Manuductio ad Theologiam polemicam Oxon. 1657. oct Published by Mr. Tho. Barlow with an Epistle before it in the name of the printer Hypomnemata Logica Rhetorica Phys Metaphys c. Oxon. in oct Sacred eloquence or the art of Rhetorick as it is laid down in Scripture Lond. 1659. oct What other things are published under his name I know not unless a Comment on the Church Catechisme pr. 1656. in oct and therefore I am to add that he departing this mortal life of a Feaver at Bredon in Worcestershire in the house of Dr. Hen. Sutton Son of Will. Sutton D. D. Chanc. of Glocester and Rector of Bredon who married his daughter Elizabeth on the twentieth day of July in sixteen hundred and fifty was accompanied to his grave in the Chancel of the Church there by many Persons of quality in the neighbourhood of that place on the 16. of August following Over his grave was a plain stone soon after laid with an Epitaph composed by himself the day and year of his death excepted engraven on a brass plate fixed thereunto the copy of which is already printed wherein you 'll find that he was sometimes Chaplain to Pr. Henry and afterwards to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. Before I go any farther I shall take leave upon the hint before-mentioned of Dr. Prideaux's making his College florish to set down the names of such Outlanders that have retired to Exeter Coll. for his sake have had Chambers there and diet purposely to improve themselves by his company his instruction and direction for course of studies Some of them have been Divines of note and others meer Lay-men that have been eminent in their respective Countries wherein afterwards they have lived most of them are these Joh. Combachius the Philosopher Phil. Cluver the Geographer Sixt. Amama Linguist Nichol Vignier and Dav. Primerose two learned Frenchmen All whom are already mentioned among these Writers Christian Rumphius an eminent Physician see in the Fasti an 1613. Jacobus Dorvilius commonly called D'Orville a Gentlemans Son of Heidelberg in Germany matriculated as a member of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term 1615 and in that of his age 19. Joh. Schermarius a learned German who occurs a member of Ex. Coll. 1613 in which year he had certain lat verses published at Oxon. Jacobus Aretius and Frederick Dorvilius two other Germans who are mentioned in the Fasti an 1613. and 15. Joh. Rodolphus Stuckius of Zurick in Helvetia was a Sojournour of the said Coll. in Mich. term 1615 and afterwards published some of Pet. Martyrs works as I have before told you Joh. Waserus a Native of the same place entred Soj. in the same term and year and afterwards the writer of Elementale Chaldaicum and other things Caesar Calendrinus entred into the said Coll. in the beginning of 1616. see in the Fasti 1620. Imanius Young or de Junge a Zelander in Mich. term 1619. Paul Amaraut or Amarant a Germ. matriculated among the Exonians 1619 aged 18. Christian Son of Herman Julius Viceroy to the K. of Denmark in the Isle of Gotland Gregory and Errick Sons of Pet. Julius Lord of Alsted Linberg c. in Denmark Which three young men were instructed in Logick and Philosophy by Dr. Prideaux Ovenius Julius elder brother to the said Christian was also a Student in the said Coll. under Prideaux who
and Church for a long time after But being a man of parts and eminent in the retired Walks of Learning he was looked upon as a person worth the gaining Whereupon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. took upon him to do and at last effected it and to shew what great esteem his Maj. and the Archb. had for the book then lately published Sir Will. Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council was sent with a copy of it to the Barons of the Exchequer in the open Court an 1636 to be by them laid up as a most inestimable Jewel among the choice Records which concerned the Crown In this book he did not only assert the Sovereignty or dominion of the British Seas to the Crown of England but clearly proved by constant and continual practice that the Kings of England used to levy money from the Subjects without help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other Necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty which did of right belong unto them This he brings home to the time of King Hen. 2. and might have brought it nearer to his own times had he been so pleased and thereby paved a plain way to the payment of Ship-money but then he must have thwarted the proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament going before wherein he had been a great Stickler voting down under a kind of Anathema the Kings pretensions of right to all help from the Subject either in Tonage or Poundage or any other ways whatsoever the Parliament not co-operating and contributing towards it But howsoever it was the Service was as grateful as the Author acceptable from thenceforth both a frequent and welcome guest at Lambeth house where he was grown into such esteem with the Archbishop that he might have chose his own preferment in the Court as it was then generally believed had he not undervalued all other Employments in respect of his Studies But possibly there might be some other reason as my Author saith for his declining such Employments as the Court might offer He had not yet forgotten the Affronts which were put upon him about the Hist of Tithes for in the notion of Affronts he beheld them always and therefore he did but make fair weather for the time till he could have an opportunity to revenge himself on the Church and Churchmen the King being took into the reckoning For no sooner did the Archb. begin to sink in power and credit under the first pressures of the Long Parliament but he published a book in Greek and Lat. by the name of Eutychius with some notes upon it in which he made it his chief business to prove that Bishops did not otherwise differ from the rest of the Presbyterrs than doth a Master of a College from the Fellows thereof and so by consequence that they differ'd only in degree not order And afterwards when his Majesty began to decline in the love of the Parliament and that the heats grew strong between them he was affirmed to have written An answer to his Majesties Declaration about the Commission of Array which in effect proved a plain putting of the sword into the hands of the people So hard it is for any one to discern the hearts of men by their outward actions but the God that made them But now let 's proceed to the other books that our learned Author hath written De successionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum leges Hebraeorum Lond. 1631. 36. Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct Franc. ad Oderam 1673. qu. De successione in Pontificatum Hebraeorum lib. duo This is printed and goes with the former book De jure naturali gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. Argentor 1665. qu. Brief discourse concerning the power of Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature Lond. 1640. in two sh in qu. Written either by Selden or by Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Baronet Answer to Harbottle Grimston's Argument concerning Bishops Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects in a conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses an 1628. Lond. 1642. in qu. Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament Lond. 1642. in oct Versio comment ad Eutychii Ecclesiae Alexandrinae Origines Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are added the said Eutychius his Annals with Comments thereon by Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Oxon. De anno civili calendario judaico Lond. 1644. qu. Lugd. Bat. 1683. oct Uxor Hebraica sive de nuptiis ac divortiis lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc. ad od 1673. qu. Fleta seu comment juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus Lond. 1647. qu. Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agendi excipiendique formulis Dissertatio historica ad Fletam These two last are printed and go with Fleta Prefatio ad Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem Lond. 1652. fol. De Synedriis Praefecturis veterum Hebraeorum lib. 3. Lond. 1650. qu. Amst 1679. qu. Which last Edition had divers corrections made to purge out the errors of the former by reason of the many languages 20 in number therein Vindiciae secundum integritatem existimationis suae per convitium de scriptione Maris clausi Lond. 1653. qu. In which are many things said of himself God made man A Tract proving the Nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25 of December Lond. 1661. oct with the Authors picture before it This posthumous book was answer'd in the first Postscript after a book intit A brief but true account of the certain year month day and minute of the birth of Jesus Christ Lond. 1671. oct written by John Butler Bach. of Div. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormond and Rector of Liechborow in the dioc of Peterborough The second Postscript is against Mich. Seneschal D. D. his tract on the same subject This Butler whom I take to be a Cambridge man is a great Pretender to Astrology and hath lately some sharp debates in print in reference thereunto with Dr. Hen. More of the same University Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Lond. 167â— fol. To which is added W. Dugdales Cat. of Lord Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Norman Conquest De nummis c. Lond. 1675. qu. Bibl. nummaria Lond. 1675. qu. Both which are dedicated to that sometimes curious Antiquary for Coynes Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies which he professed and therefore much respected by our Author Selden I shall say these things following of him viz. 1 That he was born at Coxden the inheritance of his Mother near to Chardstock in Dorsetshire on the 18 of Decemb. 1602 according to the Julian Accompt 2 That he was son of Paul D'ewes Esq one of the six Clerks in Chancery by Cecilia his Wife daughter and heir of Rich. Symonds of Coxden before mentioned Which Paul was son of Gerard D'ewes of
Monuments c. in Staffordshire Shropshire and Chester which coming into the hands of John son of Augustine Vincent Windsore Herald were by him intit Chaloners Collections for Staffordshire Salop and Chester marked with J. C. What became of them after his death which hapned in Drewry-lane in January 1671 I know not In Mar. or Apr. in sixteen hundred and sixty were Messengers sent from the superior Power then in being to take into their custody the said James Chaloner and to secure his Castle for the use of his Majesty but he having received timely notice of their coming he dispatched away himself by poyson taken as 't is said in a Posset made by his Concubine whom he there for several years had kept leaving then behind him a son named Edmund of about 19 years of age begotten on the body of his lawful wife named Ursula daughter of Sir Will. Fairfax of Steeton in Yorkshire EDWARD GEE Son as I conceive of Edward Gee mentioned among the Writers in the first Vol. under the year 1618. p. 377 was born at a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Banbury an 1613 bred in Newton School in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire became a Communer of Brasn Coll. in Mich. term an 1626 took one degree in Arts and left the University for a time At length entring into the sacred Function he proceeded Master in the said faculty 1636 being about that time Chaplain to Dr. R. Parr Bishop of the Isle of Man and a Minister in Lancashire Afterwards when the Rebellion broke out he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and for his great activity in prosecuting the holy cause he became Rector of the rich Church of Eccleston in the said County in the place of Dr. Parr before mentioned and an active man while he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 an 2 Oliv. Protect called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written A Treatise of Prayer and of divine Providence Lond. 1653. 61. oct The divine right and original of the civil Magistrate from God grounded on Rom. 13.1 Lond. 1658. in a large oct Soon after was another part of this put out concerning the Oath of Allegiance which I have not yet seen He died 26 of May in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Parish Church of Eccleston before mentioned NICHOLAS GREY was born in London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the College School at Westminster in the year 1606 aged 16 years where making great proficiency in learning under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Fell took the degrees in Arts and being noted for a pure Latinist and Greecian was made the first Master of Charter house or Suttons Hospital School After he had taught there some years he married against the Statute of that School and Hospital so that thereby being made uncapable of the place the Governours thereof gave him a Benefice Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire I think where for some time he lived as 't were out of his Element On the 29 of January 1624 he was admitted chief Master of Merchant Taylors School where continuing till 1631 he was then or soon after made chief Master of the School at Eaton Coll and at length Fellow of that house but whether he proceeded D. of D. in the Univ. of Oxon which degree was confer'd on him about that time I know not for it appears not so in the publick Register In the time of the Rebellion he was turned out from his Fellowship and Parsonage by the Presbyterians was put to difficult shifts and with much ado rub'd out for some years At length obtaining the Mastership of Tunbridge School in Kent in or before the Reign of Oliver in the place of Tho. Horne made Master of Eaton School continued there till the Kings return and then being restored to his Parsonage and Fellowship was in hopes to spend his old age in peace retiredness and plenty but he died soon after as I shall anon tell you His works are these Dictionary in English and Latine Lat. and English Several times printed at London but when first of all published I know not This Dict. mostly taken from that of Rider had many additions put to it by Grey but a second or third edit of Holyok's Dict. coming out prevented as 't is said the publication of them He also published Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia ad Hugonis Grotii baptizatorum puerorum institutionem Lond. 1647. 50. 55. c. oct Which Catechism was written by Hug. Grotius in Latine Verse turned into Gr. Verse by Christ Wase B. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge since superior Beadle of Law in Oxon and into Engl. Verse by Franc. Goldsmith of Greys Inn Esq This book is dedicated to John Hales Fellow of Eaton Coll. by Dr. Grey who hath also published Parabolae Evangelicae lat redditae Carmine paraphrastico varii generis in usum scholae Tunbrigiensis Lond. in oct when printed I know not for 't is not put down in the tit or at the end He gave way to fate in a poor condition at Eaton in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Choire of the Church or Chappel there near to the stairs that go up to the Organ loft on the fifth day of October as I have been informed by the letters of John Rosewell B. D. sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll. in Oxon afterwards School-master of Eaton Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton College EDWARD TERRY was born at Leigh near Penshurst in Kent educated in Grammar in the Free School at Rochester entred into Ch. Church in 1607 and in the year after was elected Student thereof where with incredible industry going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1614. In the year following he took a Voyage with certain Merchants into East India where after his arrival he was sent for by Sir Tho. Roe Embassador from the King of England to the Great Mogul with whom he lived as Chaplain in the Court of that mighty Emperor for more than two years At his return he retired to his College and having some small Cure bestowed on him became at length Rector of Great Greenford in Middlesex which he enjoyed about 30 years and submitted to the men that bore sway in the time of Rebellion He was an ingenious and polite man of a pious and exemplary conversation a good Preacher and much respected by the Neighbourhood where he lived He hath written and published Several sermons as 1 Lawless liberty preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond. in the Cath. of S. Paul on Psal 2.3 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving preached 6 Sept. 1649 to the East India Company upon a late return of their Ships on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1649. qu. and other Sermons published in
of Ansley in Wiltshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1609 aged 19 years and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law became an Advocate of note in Doctors Commons In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law became the Kings Professor of that fac in the year following was chosen by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports a Burgess twice at least for Hyeth in Kent to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1 became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon Principal of S. Albans Hall in 1625 and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sate in the University he submitted to their power and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty tho he kept that honorable office but for a small time was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived He was an exact Artist a subtile Logician expert Historian and for the knowledge in and practice of the Civil Law the chief Person of his time as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas where several of them are reprinted partly testifie He was so well vers'd also in the statutes of the University and controversies between the members thereof and the City that none after Twynes death went beyond him As his birth was noble so was his behaviour and discourse and as personable and handsome so naturally sweet pleasing and affable The truth is there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement but the interruption of the times which silenc'd his profession would have given a stop to his rise had he been of another disposition His works are these The Dove or passages of Cosmography Lond. 1613. oct This is a Poem which he wrot in his younger days and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus regulis sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct 1636. qu. in 7. parts Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16o. Amstel 1681. in tw Descriptio Juris Judicii feudalis secundum consuetudines Mediolani Norman pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct Descript Jur. Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales Normanicos Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts Descript Juris Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canones constitutiones Anglicanas Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts This book with Desc Juris Judicii tempor c. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae Lond. 1683. oct Descr Juris Judicii sacri ad quam leges quae ad religionem piam causam respiciant referuntur Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. Amstel 1652. in 16o. Desc Jur. Jud. Militaris ad quam leges quae rem militarem ordinem personarum respiciunt referuntur Printed with the former Des Jur. Jud. Maritimi ad quam quae ad navigationem negotiationem maritimam respiciunt referuntur Printed also with the former Juris Judicii fecialis sive Juris inter gentes quaestionum de eodem explicato c. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law Oxon. 1652. oct In the year following was published a book entituled Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis cum designatione authorum Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it and therefore I cannot yet say 't was written by Dr. Zouche It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa Brother to the Portuguese Embassador having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm on the 22. of Nov. 1653 and thereupon imprisoned there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice and how Whereupon our Author Zouche who was then the living Pandict of the Law being sent for from Oxon he cleared their doubts whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ Law and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654 our Author thereupon wrot this book following Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente Oxon. 1657. oct Afterwards he published these books following Eruditionis ingenuae specimina scil Artium Logicae Dialecticae Rhetoricae nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus praeceptis sententiis illustrat Oxon. 1657. in tw Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria in 10 classes destributa Ox. 1660. oct Lond. 1682. in tw the third Edit The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edw. Cokes Articuli Admiralitatis in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts Lond. 1663 in a large oct published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of All 's Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctors Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine somtimes the Wife of William Powell alias Hinson Esquire He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num 150. HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name was born in Buckinghamshire became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161â— 1â— aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613 about which time he with Bevill Greenvill of Ex. Coll. also were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales in 1616 and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth being then noted for a Person well skill'd in the modern languages and a general Scholar the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion when by a forced retiredness he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake He hath extant these things following Speech in the H. of Peers 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English 1 Romulus and Tarquin or de principe tyranno Lond. 1637. in tw written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses in his Fragm aurea c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. 2 Historical relations of the united
true which he delivers Duppa an Englishman cannot be the Author yet Quaere He surrendred up his pious soul to the great God that first gave it on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred sixty and two having the day before been visited by his Maj. out of his wonted piety and goodness He died as he lived honoured and beloved of all that knew him a person of so clear and eminent candor that he left not the least spot upon his life or function maugre the busie sedition of those Brethren who then as before black'd the very Surplice and made the Liturgy profane He had a more than ordinary affection to live at Richmond where he privately resided several years in the late broken times as I have before told you but especially because it was the place where first he conveyed the Principles into the Prince Afterwards his body being conveyed to York-house in the Strand where it laid in state for some time was decently conveyed thence on the 24 of April following to the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster where it was buried in the Area on the North side of the Chappel of S. Edward the Confessor At which time Dr. Hen. King B. of Chichester a most admirable and florid Preacher in his younger days preached a Sermon to the great content of the Auditory containing many Elogiums of the Defunct which as also his monuments of piety and charity I shall for brevity sake now pass by Soon after was a fair mon. mostly of white marble fastned to the Wall over his grave with an inscription thereon In the Church Register of Lewsham in Kent I find one Brian Son of Jeffry Duppa to be baptized there 18 March 1580 having been born in the Vicaridge-house of that place Which Jeffry Duppa who was Vicar I take to be Father of Dr. Duppa and Brian to be his elder brother deceased HAMLETT PULESTON was born at Old Ailresford in Hampshire admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 20 Aug. 1647 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then was made Fellow of Jesus Coll. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a Preacher in these parts He hath written a book intit Monarchiae Britannicae singularis protectio or a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial Providence over the British Monarchy c. Lond. 1660. qu. He died at London in a poor condition and in an obscure house in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two but where buried I cannot tell His Father Rich. Puleston was a learned Doct. of Div. was Parson of Abbotsworthy in Hampshire and tho born at Bircot in the Parish of Dorchester in Oxfordshire yet he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Pulestons commonly called Pilstons in Flintshire WILLIAM FIENNES was the nearest Kinsman to William of Wykeham Founder of New Coll as being lineally descended from William Lord Say killed in the battle at Barnet 2 Ed. 4. Dom. 1471 by his Wife Margaret dau and heir of Will. de Wykeham Lord of the Mannour of Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire Son of Sir Tho. de Wykeham Knight Son of Will. Perot by Alice his Wife Daughter of Will. Champneis by Agnes his Wife Sister to Will of Wykeham B. of Winton and Founder of New Coll. before mention'd This person Will. Fiennes whom we are farther to mention was born at Broughton aforesaid being the eldest Son of Sir Rich. Fiennes to whom King Jam. 1. in the first year of his Reign had recognized and confirmed the dignity and honour of the Baron Say and Sele was trained up in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Fellow Commoner of New Coll. at about 14 years of age in 1596 where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals was called home for a time Afterwards he travelled beyond the seas and at his return being invested in a fair Estate did some years after give and obtain a vast sum of money towards the Waâ— in the Palatinate which was very pleasing to his â— â— K. Jam. 1. yet shewing kindness to his neighbours by leaving it to their pleasure to pay towards that War what they thought fit he was on notice given to his Majesty committed to custody in the month of June 1â—22 whence being soon after released he was on the 7 of July 22 Jac. 1. Dom. 1624. advanced from a Baron â—o be Viscount Say and Sele at which time he stood up 〈◊〉 the Privileges of Magna Charta but after the grand Rebellion broke out he looked upon it as a ridiculous 〈◊〉 such was the mutability of the man The truth is he being ill natur'd cholerick severe and rigid and withal highly conceited of his own worth did expect great matters at Court but they failing he sided therefore with the discontented party the Puritan and took all occasions cunningly to promote a Rebellion For so it was that several years before the Civil War began he being looked upon at that time the Godfather of that Party had meetings of them in his house at Broughton where was a room and passage thereunto which his Servants were prohibited to come near and when they were of a compleat number there would be great noises and talkings heard among them to the admiration of those that lived in the house yet could they never discern their Lords Companions At other times he would be present at their meetings in the house of Knightley at Fawsley in Northamptonshire where as at other places in the Kingdom they had their Council Chambers and chief Speakers And what Embryo's were conceived in the Country were shaped in Greys-Inn-Lane near London where the Undertakers for the Isle of Providence did meet brought them to pass and put them out to Nurse in London In 1639 he was a great Favourer of the Scotch Covenant and had much correspondence with the Scotch Commissioners and when the Long Parliament began in 1640 for the continuance of which he perswaded as 't is said his Majesty to consent shewed himself soon after so active therein as in others before that he with Pym Hamden and Strode three of the five Members were esteemed Parliament-drivers or Swayers of all the Parliaments wherein they sat Whereupon his Majesty being fully satisfied that he was discontented as indeed he was for want of Offices he had ran himself much into debt he confer'd upon him the Mastership of the Court of Wards 17 May 1641 in the place of Francis Lord Cottington who some months before had given it up to please a new Favourite and admitted him to be one of his Privy Council But all this satisfying not he grew more active in the House when it was to be continued and when the King was forced from his Parliament to take up Arms in his own defence then did he cause his House at Broughton to be fortified for the use of the Parliament shewed himself an enemy to Prelacy to Archb. Laud an incliner to
H. N. O. J. Oxon. which whether meant by Henry HickmaN I know not as yet Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the life and death of Will Laud Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1668. and 71. fol. Aërius redivivus or the Hist of the Presbyterians c. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol. Historical and miscellaneous Tracts Lond. 1681. fol. Several of these are mention'd before as 1 Eccl. Vindicata 2 Hist of the Sabbath in 2 parts 3 Hist Quinqu articularis 4 Stumbling block c. 5 Tract de jure paritatis c. with Dr. Heylyn's life before them written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire sometimes one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll. Which life being alter'd and mangled before it went to the Press by the B. of Linc. T. Barlow and the Bookseller that printed it Hen. Heylyn son of Dr. Heylyn made a protestation against it and Dr. Joh. Barnard who married Dr. Heylyn's daughter wrot his life to rectifie that of Vernon which was alter'd and Vernon wrot another published in oct Our Author Heylyn also composed A discourse of the African Schisme and in 1637 did upon Dr. Laud's desire draw up The judgment of Writers on those texts of Scripture on which the Jesuits found the Popedome and the Authority of the Rom. Church Both which things the said Dr. Laud intended as materials towards his large Answer to Fisher the Jesuit which came out the year following He also I mean Heylyn did translate from Lat. into Engl. Dr. Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath as I have before told you and put the Scotch Liturgy into Latine an 1639 partly that all the world might more clearly see upon what grounds the tumults in Scotland that then before brake out had been raised At length after our Author Heylyn had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in adversity paid his last debt to nature on Ascension day May 8. in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being buried before the Sub-deans stall within the choire of S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster had a monument soon after set up for him on the north wall of the Alley joyning on the north side of the said choire a copy of the inscription on which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 205. JOHN LEY was born in the antient Borough of Warwick on the 4 of Feb. an 1583 but descended from the Leys of Cheshire educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school in the said Borough became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1601 where continuing for some time after he was Master of Arts was presented by the Dean and Canons to the Vicaridge of Great Budworth in Cheshire and there continued several years a constant Preacher Afterwards he was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Chester Sub-dean thereof 1605 a weekly Lecturer on Friday in S. Peters Church in the said City and Clerk of the Convocation of the Clergy once or twice But he having always been puritanically inclined he sided with the Presbyterians upon the defection of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1641 took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines Examiner in Latine to the said Assembly Rector of Ashfield in Cheshire and for a time Rector of Astbury or Estbury in the said County Chairman of the Committee for the examination of Ministers and of the Committee for Printing one of the Ordainers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way c. President of Sion Coll. about 1645 and afterwards when Dr. Ed. Hyde was ejected from his rich Parsonage of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks he was appointed to succeed him by the Committee which if I mistake not he kept with other Benefices for a time In 1653 he was appointed one of the Tryers for the approbation of publick Ministers and in the year following an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks. for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Soon after upon pretence that he could enjoy but little peace or hope of settlement for after times at Brightwell for the truth is he was much hated while he lived there he obtained the rich Rectory of Solyhull in Warwickshire from the Patron thereof Sir Sim. Archer of Umberslade near Tamworth Knight before the year 1656 where he continued for some time At length breaking a vein within him by overstraining himself in speaking became very weak thereupon So that being not able to go on in the Ministry he resigned Solyhull upon some consideration given and went to Sutton Colfield in the said County where after he had lived privately for a short time gave up the ghost in a fair age He was esteemed in his time a man of note especially by those of the Presbyterian perswasion well vers'd in various Authors and a ready Preacher His works are these An Apology in defence of the Geneva Notes on the Bible which were in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon publickly and severely reflected on by Dr. Joh. Howson When printed I know not 'T was written about 1612 and submitted to the judgment of Bish Usher who did well approve of it Pattern of piety or the religious life and death of Mrs. Jane Ratcliff widow and Citizen of Chester Lond. 1640. oct Several sermons as 1 Serm. on Ruth 3.11 Lond. 1640. oct 2 A monitor of mortality in two funeral sermons occasion'd by the death of Joh. Archer son and heir of Sir Sim. Archer of Warwicksh Knight and of Mrs. Harper of Chester and her daughter Phebe of 12 years old The first on Jam. 4.14 and the other on Gen. 44.3 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Fury of war and folly of sin Fast serm before the H. of Com. on Jer. 4.21.22 Lond. 1643. qu. c. Sunday a sabbath or a preparative discourse for discussion of sabbatarie doubts Lond. 1641. qu. Assisted in this work by the MSS. and advice of Archb. Usher The Christian Sabbath maintained in answer to a book of Dr. Pocklington stiled Sunday no Sabbath Defensive doubts hopes and reasons for refusal of the Oath imposed by the sixth Canon of the Synod Lond. 1641. qu. Letter against the erection of an Altar written 29 June 1635 to John Bishop of Chester Case of conscience concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper These two last things were printed and go with Defensive doubts Comparison of the parliamentary protestation with the late canonical Oath and the difference between them as also the opposition between the doctrine of the Ch. of England and that of Rome c. Lond. 1641. quar Further discussion of the case of conscience touching receiving of the Sacrament Printed with the Comparison Examination of John Saltmarsh's new Query and determination upon it published to retard the establishment of the Presbyterial Government c. Lond. 1646. qu. Censure of what Mr. Saltmarsh hath produced to the same purpose in his other and
and near Oxon. Afterwards he was Lecturer of Allhallows Church in Breadstreet within the City of London took the degree of Bach. of Div. in the year 1633 and about that time became Vicar of S. Andrews Church in the then factious town of Plymouth in Devon where continuing in great liking among the godly party did for benefit and interest sake side with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the most wicked rebellion raised by them was a zealous and forward man against the King his Party and Bishops took all oaths that followed was an enemy to the Orthodox Clergy and in 1654 was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon to eject such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters In 1662 when the Act of conformity took place he left his cure in Plymouth lived there and exercising his function in private that is in Conventicles among the Brethren contrary to the Act was with Tho. Martin the late Lecturer of that Church a Conventicler also conveyed into S. Nicholas Island near Plymouth an 1665 where they remained about 9 Months In which time our author Hughes wrot an answer to Joh. Serjeants book entit Sure-footing At length his health being much impaired as the Brethren reported and his legs black and swoln he was offer'd his liberty upon condition of giving security of a 1000 l not to live within 20 miles of Plymouth Which being accordingly effected by the Brethren without his knowledge he retired to Kingsbridge in Devonsh found entertainment in the house of one Daniel Elley a Brother and was much frequented to the last by the fanatical party He was the most noted Presbyterian if not Independent of his time in Devonshire and a most eager defender of his against the prelatical party and ceremonies of the Church of England His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Fun Sermon on 2. Kings 13.14 Printed 1632. qu. 3 Fun. Sermon on Psal 16.10 Pr. 1642. qu. 4 Drie rod blossoming printed 1644. qu. 5 Vae-eugae-tuba or the Wo-joy-trumpet c. Fast serm before the H. of Commons 26. May 1647. on Rev. 11.15 Lond. 1647. qu. c. Exposition on the small prophets Lond. 1657. fol. Sure footing in Christianity examined Lond. 1668. oct Exposition on the book of Job Lond. 1669. fol. Aphorismes or select propositions of the Scripture truly determining the doctrine of the Sabbath Printed 1670. 71. oct Exposition on Genesis and on 23 Chapters of Exodus Amsterd 1672. fol. and other things which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature in the house of D. Elley of Kingsbridge before mention'd in the beginning of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Church there near to the Pulpit Over his grave is this inscription fastned to a pillar just opposite to the Pulpit In memoriam suaveolentem aeternùm colendam viri desideratissimi Georgii Hughes SS Th. B. Plymudensium nuper pastoris vigilantissimi sacrae sensus paginae penitiores eruere homines concione flectere precibus Deum mirè edocti Qui solis aemulum ab oriente auspicatus cursum ortu Londinâs occidentale dehinc sidus diu claruit lucem in vitâ spargens undique moriens luctum Vitaeque verè vitalis curriculo in an lxiv perducto optima perfunctus perpessus mala requiem tandem invenit animo quidem in caelis corpori verò in subjacente tumulo ipsis Julii nonis an salutis MDCLXVII Symmistae longè charissimi Georgii Geofridi A. M. cujus exuviae ante ter-novem annos ibidem sitae nunc primum in cineres solvuntur novis miscendos Nacta sacros cineres servata fideliter urna Haec uterum satio tibi foecundabit inertem O faelix tumuli matrix de morte renatos Olim tam claros hosce enixura Gemellos Posuit honoris amoris ergô Thomas Crispinus Exoniensis The said Tho. Crispin a rich Fuller of Exeter and founder of a Free-school in Kingsbridge about the year 1670. was at the charge of setting up the said marble monument and Mr. Joh. Howe who married Hughes his daughter drew up the inscription as I have been informed by a neighbouring Minister of that place RICHARD HEYRICK a younger Son of Sir Will. Heyrick of Beaumannour in Leycestershire Kt who fined for Alderman of London and died about 1653 was born in London educated in Merchant Taylors School became Commoner of S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617 aged 17 took the degrees in Arts was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1624 and about that time entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was beneficed in Norfolk made Warden of Christs Coll. in Manchester in Lancashire sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the rebellion took the Covenant was made one of the Ass of Divines carried on the cause with great zeal was in the plot for which Christop Love suffered and afterwards became an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lancashire for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Upon the approach of his Majesties restauration he seemed to be zealous for it and turning about as many of his party did kept his Wardenship to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Three sermons preached in the collegiat Church of Manchester the first on Psal 122.6 the second 2. Thes 2.15 and the third on Gen. 49.5.6.7 Lond. 1641. in oct 2 Qu. Esthers resolve or a Christian pattern for heaven born resolution Fast Sermon before the House of Com. on Esther 4.16 Lond. 1646. qu. Besides others which I have not yet seen among which is A Sermon on 2. of Kings 11. ver 12. Lond. 1661. qu. He departed this mortal life on the sixth day of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 67 and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Manchester Soon after was a comely monument put over his grave at the charge of Anna-Maria his Relict with a large inscription thereon made by his antient and entire friend Mr. Tho. Case a London Minister who had been intimately acquainted with him while he was a student in the University of Oxon part of it runs thus Siste viator morae pretium est sub eodem cippo cum venerabili Huntingdono primo hujus collegii Custode jacet decimus quartus ab eo successor Ricardus Heyrick Gulielmi Heyrick equitis Aurati filius Collegii Om. Animarum apud Oxonienses socius olim studiosissimus ecclesiae de North-Reps in agro Norfolciensi deinde pastor fidissimus hujusce denique collegii per triginta duos annos multa alia ultro sibi oblata Beneficia aversatus hâc solâ dignitate contentus Custos sive Guardianus vigilantissimus Qui judicium solidum cum ingenio acutissimo singularem zelum cum prudentia eximia gravitatem summam cum egregia morum suavitate generis nobilitatem nominis celebritatem quaecunque minores animas inflare solent cum humilitate
and educated in Gram. learning in the Free-school there In 1609 May 17 he was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 and in the year 1616 Jan. 4. he was admitted Rector of Ubley alias Obley near to Pensford in Somersetshire by the free and unsolicited bounty of Th. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor of England This person Will. Thomas being always a Puritan closed with the Presbyterians when they raised a Rebellion against his Majesty 1642 was a frequent preacher against his Cause and Followers and was esteemed one of the chief Ministers in his time of that perswasion in the neighbourhood where he lived He afterwards took the Engagement as before he had the Covenant and in 1654 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to Olivers Commissioners for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he ran thro the remaining part of the changes and took the Oaths again after his Maj. return of Allegiance and Supremacy His works are these The dead speaking or the living names of two deceased Ministers of Christ viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver Pastor of Wells and Mr. Sam. Croke c. containing two several speeches delivered at the funerals of them Lond. 1653 qu. With them is printed a Sermon preached at the funeral of Sam. Oliver by Joh. Chetwind sometimes of Exeter Coll. then a godly brother and after the Kings return Prebendary of Bristow Rayling rebuked or a defence of the Ministers of this Nation by way of answer to the unparalelled calumnies cast upon them in an Epistle lately published by Tho. Speed Merchant of Bristow unhappily became the Quakers Advocate c. Lond. 1656. qu. Answer'd by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 237. c. The Protestants practice or the compleat Christian being a true and perfect way to the celestial Canaan Lond. 1656. in tw A vindication of Scripture and Ministry in a rejoynder to a reply not long since published by Tho. Speed formerly but unsutably Merchant in the City of Bristol and a Preacher lately but more sadly Merchant and Quaker c. Lond. 1657. qu. Answer'd also by G. Fox in the aforesaid book p. 104 105. c. A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of Religion that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of Godliness c. Lond. 1662. qu. Exposition on Ruth Lond. 166 ... in tw The Countries sense of Londons sufferings in the late most lamentable fire discovered in the opening and improving the lamentation of Jeremiah Lond. 1667. oct Scriptures opened and sundry cases of conscience resolved in plain and practical answers to several questions upon the Proverbs of Salomon Jerem. Lam. Ezeck and Daniel Lond. 1675 and 83. oct He died at Ubley before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was soon after a Mon. put up by his son Mr. Sam. Thomas with this inscription following Hic jacet Gulielmus Thomas ecclesiae hujus Rector plus quà m quadragenarius qui populum docuit publicè domatim sermone exemplo Quem non tam mors rapuit quà m ille mortem munere scilicet priùs cedere coactus quà m mundo vitam quam pro grege diutius insumere ut Pastor non potuit avidissimè summo pastori reddidit Nov. 15. an dom 1667. aetat 74. I shall make mention of another William Thomas under the year 1689. WILLIAM HILL son of Blackleech Hill was born at Cudworth in Warwickshire at which time his father who in his younger years had been a petty Attorney was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred which is one of the four hundreds in Warwickshire and the largest by which employment gaining a considerable subsistance lived in a fashionable condition and bred up his children very well This William being trained up in Grammar in his own Country became a Student in Merton Coll. about the beginning of Mich. term 1634 aged 15 years being then esteemed a sober and ingenious youth and soon after was made one of the Postmasters of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he was a Candidate for a Fellowship of that house and shewing himself a most excellent proficient in Greek Latine and Physicks was elected Prob. Fell. an 1639. But soon after the time that he was admitted Bach. Fellow he was prefer'd to be Master of the Free-school at Sutton Colfield in his own Country and soon after to a rich Wife tho the Daughter of a plain country man which school he brought into great credit during his abode there In 1641 he proceeded in Arts and having not long after buried his wife he removed to London where having obtained a considerable practice in Physick he married a young lass daughter of one Mr. Burges a Physitian son of Dr. Joh. Burges sometimes Parson of Sutton Colfield before mention'd who brought him forth a child that lived within the seventh month after marriage In 1649 and 52 he had leave from the Delegates of the University to accumulate the degrees in Physick but whether he did so it doth not appear in our Registers Afterwards as before being a man of those times and a sider with factious people he was prefer'd to be chief Master of the great school at Dublin in Ireland where continuing till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 was then as it seems forced to leave that place So that removing to Finglass a Village near to that City taught there privately to the time of his death He hath writen Dionysii orbis descriptio Graec. Lat. commentario critico geographico in quo controversiae pluraeque quae in veteri Geographia occurrunt explicantur obscura plurima elucidantur ac tabulis illustrata Lond. 1658. 59. 1663. 1679. c. in a large oct used in many schools and by most Juniors of the University of Oxon. He hath also epitomized some of the works of Laz. Riverius a Physitian which I have not yet seen nor a certain MS. of his which he wrot to justifie his lawful begetting of the aforesaid child by himself which MS. he shewed to two Physitians for their approbation before it went to the press but they looking upon the work as done by a meer scholar unknowing in the world returned it with seeming content and afterwards jeer'd him behind his back for an antidated Cuckold He died of a pestilential fever which took away most of his family in the month of November in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 29 of the said month just before the Ministers seat in the Church at Finglas before mentioned I find another Will. Hill of Merton Coll. also the son of a Committee-man a notorious Schismatick of Herefordshire who
a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines alias Fenys alias Fienes but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations he was pardoned and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March Nedham he was justified for what he had done as to that matter See more in the Works of W. Prynne Afterwards tho he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter yet he became an active man in the Parliament and was made a Commissioner in several matters But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them whereof he was one by Col. Tho. Pride he struck in with the Independents took the Engagement became great with Oliver a Member of all or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2 was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal after Oliver was installed L. Protector one of his Privy Council Lord Privy Seal in June 1655 a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords and tho before he had shew'd himself an Antimonarchist yet then when he saw what Oliver aimed at became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy purposely to gain honor and riches for the establishing a family which he and the rest of the godly party aimed at His Works are these Several Speeches in Parliament as 1 Speech in the House of Commons in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of Londons petition spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641 in 4 sh in qu. The beginning is Mr. Speaker two things have fallen into debate this day c. 2 Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subjects liberty against the late Canons and the new oath Lond. 1641. in tw sh and an half in qu. 3 Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland Lond. 1641. qu. 4 Speech containing unparallel'd reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mention'd and shews that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy 5 Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow 5 Aug. 1643 with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear Lond. 1643 in 3 sh and an half in qu. This was answer'd by Clem. Walker True and exact relation of both the â—â—ttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh the other at Worcester by Col. Browne Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others c. Lond. Nov. 9. an 1642. in two sh in qu. Letter to the Lord General Essex concerning Bristoll Lond. 1643. in 1 sh in qu. Reply to a Pamphlet intit An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes's relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. Other Speeches in Parl. as 1 Speech before his Highness Ol. Protector and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657 being the first day of their sitting Lond. 1657. in 3 sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament c. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an author a Legend or Romance intit Anglia rediviva being the Hist of the motions actions and successes of the Army c under Sir Tho. Fairfax c. published by Joshua Sprigge as I shall elsewhere tell you but how true that report is I cannot tell At length our Author Fiennes retiring after his Majesties return to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife Frances daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire continued there to the time of his death which hapning on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth who both died in the flower of their age This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John who was a Colonel for the Parliament and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords and tho a Sectary yet he was no great stickler notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel but more by old subtilty the Father Another there was who was the fourth brother named Richard of whom I know no great matter only that he had a daughter named Mary who was married to William the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes which Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676 was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry son of Sir Dav. Foulis of an antient family in Scotland Baronets was born at Ingleby Mannour in Clievland in Yorkshire educated in Grammar learning and in the Presbyterian way within the City of York became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully 6 June 1654 aged 16 years and thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1659 and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entring into holy orders he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclin'd to the study of certain parts of History he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty The products of which do evidently shew him to have been a true son of the Church of England a hater of Popery Presbytery and Sectarism He was endowed with a most happy memory understood books and the ordering of them so well that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius He had also in him a most generous and public spirit a carelesness of the world and things thereof as most bookish men have a most becoming honesty in his dealings a just observance of collegiate discipline and a hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time He hath written and published The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints the Presbyterians c. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674 both in fol. Which book tho full of notable girds against that party yet it hath been
prospect of Qu. Cath. the Royal Consort of K. Ch. 2 she found means to have it pluck'd down Some time after his Majesties restauration he invented a new way of farthings of which he made demonstration to the King and Council so plainly that they were satisfied that they could not possibly be counterfeited and that one farthing could not be like another but that they should differ in some little thing And having then a design to get a patent for the making of them for England was put aside by Pr. Rupert and at length was content with one only for Ireland To which place taking a journey soon after died there before he could effect his design He hath written and published A design for bringing a river from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire to S. Giles in the Fields near London The benefits of it declared and the objections against it answerâ—d Lond. 1641. in 5. or 6. sh in qu. Experimental proposals how the K. may have money to pay and maintain his Fleets with ease to the people London may be rebuilt and all proprietors satisfied money may be lent at 6 l. per cent on pawns and the fishing trade set up and all without straining or thwarting any of our laws and customs Lond. 1666. qu. Defence of Bill-credit Printed at the end of the former pamphlet About the year 1663 he printed an ingenious proposal for the raising of money by bills of exchange which should pass current instead of money to prevent robbery but this I have not yet seen He died in Ireland on the 3. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and seventy and his body being brought into England was buried in the Church at Harting by its Ancestors He was a great Virtuoso of his time yet none of the Royal Society and might have done greater matters if that he had not been disincouraged for those things he had done before HENRY YELVERTON Baronet was born of an antient and gentile family at Easton Manduit or Mauduit in Northamptonshire baptized there 6 of July 1633 educated in Grammar learning in S. Pauls School in London admitted a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1650 where he made as great proficiency in several sorts of learning as his age was capable of and became so exact a Latinist and Greecian that none of his time went beyond him He hath written A short discourse of the truth and reasonableness of the religion delivered by Jesus Christ Wherein the several arguments for Christianity are briefly handled the miracles done by our Saviour Apostles and Christians c. Lond. 1662. oct To which is added A disquisition touching the Sybils and Sybilline writings c. Written by John Twysden Broth. to Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent both the Uncles of Sir H. Yelverton who hath also written something in vindication of the Church of England against Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. which I have not yet seen and a preface to a book of Dr. Tho. Morton Bish of Durham entit The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical from the authority of the Primitive Church c. Pr. in oct Which Bishop Sir Hen. had kept in his family several years in the time of that Bishops persecution and was as tender of him as of his parent shewing thereby as indeed he was a true Son of the Church of England He died in the flower of his age on the 3. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried at Easton Manduit among the graves of his relations leaving then behind him by Susan his wife sole daughter and heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen Charles his eldest Son afterwards a Noble-man of Ch. Ch. and called up to the House of Lords where he took his place as Lord Grey of Ruthen He died of the small pox unmarried in his Lodgings in the Pall-mall within the liberty of Westm on the 17. of May 1679 and was as I suppose buried at Easton Manduit CHRISTOPHER AIRAY was born at Clifton in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1621 where going through the servile offices was made Fellow when Master of Arts About which time entring into holy Orders according to the statutes of that House he became a Preacher was actually created Bac. of Div. in 1642 and afterwards made Vicar of Milford in Hampshire He hath written Fasciculus Praeceptorum Logicalium in gratiam juventutis Academiae Oxon compositus Oxon. 1660. sec edit in oct and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died on S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Milford before mention'd· Over his grave was soon after put this epitaph Memoriae sacrum Christopheri Airay S. T. Bac. olim Coll. Reg. Oxon. socii hujus ecclesiae Vicarii vigilantissimi viri summae integritatis judicii acerrimi ingenii literarum omnium capacis qui deficillimo seculo inter aestuantes rerum fluctus clavum rectum tenuit Mortalitati tandem exuit 18. Oct. annos natus 69. c. SAMUEL KEME or Kem was born according to the Matricula in the City of London became a Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Act term 1621 aged 16 years but how long he continued there I know not Sure I am that a certain author tells us that for those few weeks he wore a gown in Magd. Hall he obtained the title of a most notorious lyer that ever wore long ears In 1624 he was elected Demie of Magd. Coll at which time he said that he was born in Surrey and that he was in the nineteenth year of his age In that House he continued till after he was Bach. of Arts and then taking holy Orders he had a cure bestowed on him In 1636 the King being then in Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Divinity about which time he became Rector of the Church at Oldbury commonly called Albury near Ricot in Oxfordshire and a retainer if I mistake not to the family of Edward Wray of Ricot Esq Patron of the said Church by virtue of his marriage with Elizabeth the dau and heir of Francis L. Norris Earl of Berks. At the turn of the times in 1641 he put a Curate into his Living sided with the Rebels took the Covenant was made Chaplain to and Captain of a Troop of Horse in the Regiment of Basil Earl of Denbigh prayed and preached often to encourage the Soldiers to fight laid open to them the righteousness of their cause preached against the K. and his followers and endeavoured to make them believe that all that were about him were Papists or at least popishly affected When any Officer of the Regiment was kill'd he was ready to preach his funeral Sermon particularly that of Major Pinkney slain in the beginning of July 1644 and was ready at all hours to do the like provided the party died not a natural death When he
THURMAN the Son if I mistake not of Edw. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex who had been thrown out of his living by the Committee of Religion for a scandalous and malignant Priest an 1643 was educated in Westminster School and thence elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and keeping pace with the Presbyterian discipline became a Preacher some years before his Majesties restauration but when he saw how matters were like to be carried upon his return he became very vehement in his preachings and discourses against the Presbyterians and Independents So that gaining the name of one of the Royal party had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex He hath written A defence of humane learning in the Ministry Or a treatise proving that it is necessary a Minister or Preacher should be skill'd in humane learning Oxon. 1660. oct Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich Canon of Ch. Ch. with a flattering Epistle before it for which he was then rewarded but not altogether to his mind This book being published in Mich. term 1659 was look'd upon as a seasonable piece of service because the Universities and Ministry did then lay at stake and had certainly gone to the pot had not Monk come opportunely out of Scotland for their relief This Mr. Thurman died about sixteen hundred and seventy in Sussex as one or two of his contemporaries in Ch. Ch have informed me but where buried they could not further add CORBET OWEN son of Will. Owen of Pontsbury in Shropshire Minister was born at Hinton in that County an 1646 educated in the first rudiments of Grammar in a private School in Shrewsbury under one Scofield a loyal Parson emulated by the Town Free-school under the government of the Saints where he profited very much and more might he have done had not his friends sent him into France and thence into Flanders to be touched by the then exil'd King for the cure of the Kings Evil of which he was once so lame that he went upon crutches In the month of May 1658 he made his first entry into Westminster School and in the year following he was elected one of the Kings Scholars there where 't was usual with him to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses ex tempore in little more than half an hour In 1664 he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and in short time was well vers'd in the most crabbed subtilities of Philosophy After he was Bach. of Arts he applied himself to the study of Physick in which he made so wonderful a progress that had he lived he would have gone beyond all of his time in that faculty In 1670 he proceeded M. of A. and had there been an Act celebrated that year which was put off because of the death of the Duchess of Orleance he would have performed the exercise belonging to the Senior of that solemnity and thereby would as 't is probable have shew'd himself as excellent for Oratory as he had the year before done for his poetry He was the most forward person of his age in the University for his polite learning He was enriched with a great and happy memory a most accurate judgment and with a clear and quick wit He hath written Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in solennibus magnifici operis Encaeniis Oxon. 1669 in 4. sh in qu. Divers poems MS. with translations of Poetry particularly the Otho of Monsieur de Corneille often acted on the French stage which he rendred into English vers He died to the great reluctancy of all those who were well acquainted with the wonderful pregnancy of his parts about the 18. day of January in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church at Cundore in Shropshire Soon after was a large epitaph made for by one that intirely loved him but whether it was put over his grave I know not The beginning is this Siste viator irrita naturae virtutisque molimina vel risu vel lachrymis prosequere c. JOHN MENNES the third Son of Andr. Mennes Esq by Jane his second Wife Daughter of John Blechendon Esq Son of Matthew Mennes was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Sandwich in Kent on the eleventh of May 1598 and was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there In the 17th year of his age or thereabouts he became a Com. of Corp. Ch. Coll. where continuing for some years did advance himself much in several sortâ— of learning especially in Humanity and Poetry and somthing in History Afterwards he became a great Traveller a most noted Sea-man and as well skil'd in marine affairs in building of Ships and all belonging thereunto as any man of his time In the raign of K. Jam. 1 he had a place in the Navy-Office and in the raign of K. Ch. 1. he was made Controller of it In 1636 I find him a Militia-Captain and in 1639 he was Captain of a Troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots In 1641 I find him a Vice-Admiral and by that title did he receive the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty at Dover in the month of Feb. the same year Afterwards upon the breaking out of the rebellion he closely adhered to the cause of his Majesty and in 1642 I find him Captain of a Ship called the Rainbow for his Maj. service while Robert Earl of Warwick was Vice-Admiral but how long he continued in that employment I cannot tell sure I am that when his Majesties cause declined he left the nation and for a time adheered to Pr. Rupert while he roved on the Seas against the Usurpers in England who being successless he retired to K. Ch. 2 in Exile took his fortune as other Royalists did yet always in a gay cheerful and merry condition After the return of his Majesty from his Exile he had the place of chief Controller of the Navy conferred on him which he kept to his dying day being accounted by all that knew him to be an honest and stout man generous and religious and well skill'd in Physick and Chimistry This Person who was always poetically given and therefore his company was delightful to all ingenious and witty men was author of the greater part of a book intit Musarum dilitiae or the Muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656. oct 2d edit James Smith whom I have mentioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in that book that he is esteemed the author almost of half of it Sir John Mennes hath also written Epsom Wells a poem Printed in qu. and divers other poems scattered in other mens works He hath also extant a mock poem on Sir Will. D'avenant and his Gondibert and did assist as I have been credibly informed Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his Poetry on whom and his Fine Troop of Horse that ran away when they were to engage with the enemy
Scotch man born Son of Dr. Walter Whitford of Monkland Bishop of Brechen and of the house of Milneton was elected one of the Students of Ch. Ch from Westm School an 1642 aged 16 years bore Arms for his Majesty soon after within the Garrison of Oxon and elsewhere took one degree in Arts after the surrender of that garrison and in 1648 was thrown out of his Students place by the impetuous Visitors appointed by Parliament So that at present being out of all employ he adhered to the cause of K. Ch. 2 paid his obedience to him when in Scotland served him in the quality of an Officer at Worcester fight 1651 at which time he came to obtain his rights and inheritances then most unjustly usurped by Fanaticks was there wounded taken Prisoner brought to Oxon and thence among other Prisoners carried to London where by the importunity of friends he was released Afterwards he was relieved by Edw. Bysshe Esq K. of Arms and became Usher to James Shirley the Poet when he taught School in the White-fryers near Fleetstreet in London After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Students place was actually created Master of Arts and having had no preferment bestowed upon him for his Loyalty as hundreds of Cavaliers had not because poor and could not give bribes and rewards to great and hungry Officers he was taken into the service of John Earl afterwards Duke of Lauderdale and became his Chaplain I mean that Earl whose Sirname was Maitland who dying at Tunbridge Wells in Kent on S. Bartholomews day 1682 his body was conveyed by Sea to Scotland and there deposited in a Church of his own erection called Lauder Church where is the Mansion House and Seat of his Family The said Dav. Whitford who was always accounted an excellent Greecian and Philologist hath published with a translation in latin verse Musaei Moschi Bionis quae extant omnia London 1655. qu. in Gr. and Lat. Selectiora quaedam Theocriti Eidyllia in Gr. and Lat. Both dedicated to Bysshe before mention'd who is by Whitford stiled Asylum perfugium afflictis egenis He also translated into Latine the said Bysshe his notes an old authors that have written of Armes and Armory as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Person under the year 1679. He also wrot an Appendix to The compleat History of the Wars in Scotland under the conduct of James Marquess of Montrose or Montross as I have been credibly informed by those that knew him well which History was written by the learned and famous Geor. Wishart D.D. as I shall tell you elsewhere What other things this Mr. Whitford hath written published or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying suddenly in his Chamber in Ch Ch. in the morning of the 26. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and four at which time his Bedmaker found him dead lying on his bed with his wearing apparel on him was buried in the south trancept joyning to the Cathedral Church there near to the body of his elder Brother called Adam Whitford Bach. of Arts and sometimes Student of the said house who was buried 10. of Feb. 1646. There was another elder Brother a stout and desperate man called Colonel Walter Whitford who had a prime hand in dispatching that notorious Villain Is Dorislaw as I have told you before in Jo. L'isle pag. 228. Which Colonel was not executed in Scotland by the covenanting party there in June 1650 as a certain author tells us as having been one of the party under the illustrious and truly valiant Montross before mention'd but is still Sept. 1691. living in Edenburgh and in opinion a R. C. The said author tells us also that about the same time June 1650 one Spotswood another Officer Son of a Bishop was beheaded on the said account at which time was an acknowledgment made as he farther adds that he was one of those that murdered Dr. Dorislaus in Holland EDWARD HYDE son of Hen. Hyde of Pyrton in Wilts by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Edw. Langford of Trobridge in the same County third Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Mich. in Dors descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Northbury in Cheshire was born at Dinton near Hindon in Wilts on the 16. of Febr. or thereabouts an 1608 entred a Student of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622 went after he had taken one degree in Arts to the Middle Temple where he studied the Law In the beginning of the year 1640 he was chosen Burgess for Wotton Basset in his own Country to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. of Apr. the same year and again for Saltash in Cornwall to serve in that unhappy Parl. that began on the third of Nov. following and when the troubles began betwixt the King and Parliament he left the House of Commons and went with the King to York and afterwards to Oxford where he continued most of the time that that place was in the Kings hands was made Chancellour of the Exchequer a Privy-counsellor and a Knight At length upon the declining of the Kings cause he with the Lords Culpeper and Capel accompanying Prince Charles ship'd themselves at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall for the Isle of Scilley then for Jersey and afterwards for France From which time our author Hyde adhering closely to the said Prince and attending his motions in foreign parts he was by him when King sent Embassador into Spain made his Secretary of State and at length L. Chanc. of England at Bruges in Flanders 29. Jan. 1657. After the Kings restauration he was elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon made Baron of Hindon in Wilts Viscount Cornbury in Oxfordshire of which he was afterwards Lord Lieutenant and Earl of Clarendon near Salisbury After he had held the honourable Office of Lord Chancellour for seven years or more the Great Seal was taken from him 30. Aug. 1667 and about 4 months after retired into France where he remained seven years spending his time in several places there Under his name were these things following published Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the House of Lords concerning the Lord Presidents Court and Council in the North an 1640. 2 Sp. at a conference between both Houses 6. Jul. 1641 at the transmission of several impeachments against the Lord Chief Baron Davenport Baron Trevor and Baron Weston Lond. 1641. qu. c. besides several arguments and debates See in John Rushworths book called Historical Collections in the first vol. of the second part an 1640 and in the Impartial Collection c. of Dr. John Nalson A full answer to an infamous and traiterous Pamphlet intit A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled expressing their reasons and grounds of passing their late resolutions touching no further address or application to be made to the King Lond. 1648. qu.
having received a call he went to New England where he finished his course This Person was composed of a strange hodg-podg of opinions not easily to be described was of a roving and rambling head spent much and I think died but in a mean condition And tho he was a great pretender to Saintship and had vowed an eternal love to his Wife before mention'd who died 22. Apr. 1655 yet before he had remained a Widower an year he married a religious Virgin named Frances the only Daughter of Hezekiah Woodward the scismatical Vicar of Bray near Windsore who dying also in the first year of her Marriage in Childbed I think aged 25 years he took soon after as I have been told a third Wife according to the fleshly custom of the Saints of that time He hath written A double Watchword or the duty of watching and watching to duty both echoed from Revel 16.5 and Jer. 50.4.5 Lond. 1661. oct and perhaps other things He died at Boston in New England in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried there In the Church or Chappel belonging to Eaton Coll. was a monument with a large canting inscription set up by this D. Oxenbridge for his first Wife Jane Butler wherein 't is said that while he preached abroad she would preach and hold forth in the House But the said inscript or Epitaph giving great offence to the Royallists at the restauration of K. Ch. 2 they caused it to be daub'd or covered over with paint There was also a Monument and Inscription set up for his second Wife the contents of which and the other I have but this last is not defaced JONATHAN GODDARD son of Henry Goddard a Ship-carpenter of Deptford was born at Greenwich in Kent became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 15 years where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he then left that House and went as I presume beyond the Seas On the 20 of Jan. 1642 he was created Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Cambridge at which time he was a practitioner of that faculty in London afterwards in the Army raised by the Parliament and at length to Oliver Cromwell with whom he went as his great confident into Ireland and into Scotland after the murder of K. Ch. 1. In 1651 he by the said Olivers power became Warden of Mert. Coll. and in January the same year he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University Afterwards he was elected Burgess for the University to serve in the Little Parliament an 1653 and made one of the Council of State in the same year About that time he became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London afterwards of the Royal Society and Professor of Physick in Gresham Coll. When he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. which was in 1660 he lived mostly in that of Gresham where being an admirable Chymist he had a Laboratory to prepare all Medicines that he used on his Patients besides what he operated for his own satisfaction He was also a zealous member of the Royal Society for the improvement of natural knowledg among them and when any curious experiment was to be done they made him their Drudg till they could obtain to the bottom of it He hath written A discourse concerning Physick and the many abuses thereof by the Apothecaries Lond. 1668. oct An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions num 41. He is said to have written of this matter of the Abuse of Physick more warily and with greater prudence than Christ Merret Discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of Physick in London c. Lond. 166. qu. Proposal for making wine See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Experiments of the Stone called Oculus mundi See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Some observations of a Camelion See in the Philosophical Transactions nu 137. p. 930. c. Experiments of refining gold with Antimony See there also nu 139. p. 953. c. And left behind him at his death Lectures read at Chirurgeons Hall and other matters in 2 vol. in qu. fit as 't is said for the press He had also laying by him at his death Arcana medicinalia Published at the end of the second Edit of Pharmacopoeia Bateana by Ja. Shipton an Apothecary Lond. 1691. oct He died suddenly of an apoplexy at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside in his going home from the Crown Tavern in Bloomsbury where a club of Virtuosi sometimes met to his Lodgings in Gresham Coll. about eleven of the clock in the night of the 24. of Mar. in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was the third day after buried in the middle of the Chancel of Great S. Helens Church in London He was Master of a most curious Library of books well and richly bound which he intended to bestow on the Library belonging to the Royal Society but he dying intestate it came into the hands of the next Heir viz. his Sisters Son a Scholar of Caies Coll. in Cambridge I find an excellent character of this our author Dr. Goddard given by Dr. Seth Ward in his Epist dedic before Praelectio de Cometis inquisit in Bullialdi Astronom Philolaicae fundamenta and in the Epist ded before Delphi Phoenicizantes c. published by Edmund Dickenson of Mert. Coll. To both which I refer the reader if he be curious to know farther of him RICHARD SMITH the Son of a Clergy man named Richard Smith a Native of Abendon by Martha his Wife Daughter of Paul Darrel or Dayrell of Lillingston Darrel in Bucks Esq Son of Richard Son of another Ric. Smith of Abendon in Berks. sometimes Gent. Usher to Qu. Elizabeth was born at Lillingston Darrel before mention'd an 1590 and after the beginning of the raign of King James 1. was sent to the Univ. of Oxon where his stay being short he was not matriculated and therefore I cannot positively tell you of what Coll. or Hall he was a member Thence he was taken away by his Parents and put a Clerk to an Attorney belonging to the City of London but his mind hanging after learning he spent all the time he could obtain from his employment in Books At riper years he became Secondary of the Poultry Compter within the City of London a place of good reputation and profit being in his time worth about 700 l. per an which he executed many years but upon the death of his Son an 1655 begotten on the body of his Wife Elizab. Daughter of George Deane of Stepney to whom he intended to resign his place he immediatly sold it and betook himself wholly to a private life two thirds of which at least he spent in his Library He was a person infinitely curious in and inquisitive after books and suffered nothing considerable to escape him that fell within the compass of
stayed an year longer or more would have destroyed all that were to be saved by falling upon them for he was a great Dilapidator suffered some of the Offices Stable and Wood-house to fall made Hey-lofts of the Chambers and suffered one side of the Hall the assembling room to drop down Insomuch that Dr. Edw. Fulham who succeeded him at the Kings restauration was forced to build it up in the first month he had it and Mr. Fr. Carswell in short time succeeding Dr. Fulham spent about 150 l. to make the house habitable He received his maintenance out of the then Augmentation Court neglecting his tithes and put whims into the peoples heads that they were Romish and Antichristian and only pleased himself in taking presents of the peoples free will offering as most becoming the Gospel By these courses he had almost ruined a good Vicaridge for there are but few there now but what are so principled as they think it a piece of service to the establish'd Religion to cheat or rob the Church and an age is scarce able to repair that mischief which he hath done there as other Saints elsewhere I have been informed from that place by a very good hand that he was a man very censorious and ready to damn all those that did not comply with him in his fancies also that he always denied to pay and cheated the wife of Mr. Faringdon his Predecessor in the Vicaridge of her fifths or fifth part of the revenews of the said Vicaridge which he by Law was to pay and she to receive and he thought it a sin to pay her being the wife of one of the Antichristian Crew of the Ch. of England tho she lived near him and he knew full well that she had five or six small Children ready to starve and her Husband a learned man He would not administer the Sacrament in the Church to his Parishioners nor baptize their Children unless they were of his private Church and would not so much as keep company with or come near those that were not of his mind He hath left an ill name behind him and none there have any esteem for his memory only Anabaptists Quakers or such that tend that way In this course he continued till his Majesties Restauration an 1660 and then leaving the place to prevent Ejection he retired to Uxbridge where he carried on the trade among the Brethren either more or less to the time of his death His printed works are these Gate to Sciences Written when he was a Schoolmaster The Childs patrimony laid out upon the good nurture or tilling over the whole man In two parts Lond. 1640. qu. c. This came out afterwards again with the title alter'd Vestibulum or a manuduction towards a fair Edifice by their hands who are designed to open the way thereunto Printed with The Childs Patrimony The Churches Thanksgiving to God her King c. Lond. 1642. qu. The Covenant cleared to the Consciences of all men c. Ibid. 1643. qu. Three Kingdoms made one by the Covenant c. Pr. 1643. Cause use and cure of fear c. Pr. 1643. The Kings Chronicle in two sections Wherein we have the acts of the wicked and good Kings of Judah fully declared with the ordering of their militia and grave observations thereupon c. Lond. 1643. qu. Dedicated to the high court of Parliam and written purposely to point out the bad actions of his Majesty who then stood in his own defence against the inveterate Presbyterians and tumultuous factions in London The Sons patrimony and daughters portion c. Lond. 1643. qu. Inquiries into the causes of our miseries c. Lond. 1644. qu. Written partly against a book entit An antidote against the contagious air of Independency c. by D. P. P. Lond. 1644. qu. Short Letter intreating a friends judgment upon Mr. Edwards book call'd Antipologia with a large but modest answer thereunto c. Lond. 1644. qu. Lords-day the Saints holy-day Christmas an Idol-day c. Lond. 1648. qu. About which time came out Christmas-day the old Heathens feasting-day in honor to Satan their Idol-God c. Whether written by Woodward quaere A just account in truth and peace by Brethren lovers of and fellow-helpers to both why they must open themselves to the view of the world speaking to them as the house top c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Appeal to the Churches of Christ for their righteous judgment in matters of Christ the concernments of all his glory over whom there is a defence whether Christs way be not poured forth in scripture to be traced by the footsteps of his near ones Pr. at Lond. in qu. Conference of some Christians in Church fellowship about the way of Christ with his people and the result therefrom c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Infant baptism and the first quere thereupon Whether all Parents how notorious soever for wickedness are priviledged upon account of their own baptism to present their infants thereunto The negative maintained Pr. at Lond. in qu. An inoffensive answer to remove offences taken from some passages in a printed book other some from report which are cleared to be wholly mistaken by the Author of the Dialogue concerning the practical use of Infant baptisme in his Postscript to his scond part p. 103. c. Lond. 1657. qu. He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen and had others fit for the press lying by him at the time of his death which hapning at Uxbridge in Middlesex 29 of March in sixteen hundred seventy and five aged 87 years or thereabouts his body was carried to Eaton near Windsore and buried in the Churchyard there near the grave of his sometimes wife Frances Woodward who was as I have been told inter'd some years before him in the said yard He had one only daughter named Frances who became the second wife of John Oxenbridge Fellow of Eaton Coll. and dying in child-bed in the 25 year of her age was buried in the Chappel there and hath a monument over her grave as I have before told you HENRY BEESLEY son of Rob. Beesl Chaplain of Merton Coll was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in the City of Oxon 22 Jul. 1605 and in Mich. term 1621 was made either Clerk or Portionist of the said College where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts retired to S. Albans Hall took the degree of Master as a member thereof and was for his ingenuity made one of the Terrae filii in the Act following Soon after he became Tutor in the Country to Tho. Pope the young Earl of Downe whose Guardian Joh. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq did for the great care he took on his Pupil bestow on him the Rectory of Swerford near to Châ—pping-Norton in Oxfordshire which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed to his dying day Afterwards he became a sufferer in the time of the
a new conceit of the reflecting of the Sun beams upon a Dial c. Lond. 1635. oct He married Catherine daughter of Thom. Wallenger Esq by Benedicta Gonson his wife who dying 5 Jul. 1634 aged 47 was buried in the Church at Deptford Afterwards Joh. Wells went into Hampshire and lived and died at Brembridge as 't is said leaving a son of both his names to succeed him in his office at Deptford FRANCIS POTTER was born in the Vicaridge house at Meyre in Wilts on Trinity Sunday an 1594 educated in Grammar learning in the Kings school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright became a Communer of Trin. Coll under the tuition of his elder brother Hannibal Potter in the latter end of the year 1609 took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity and continued in the Coll. a close Student till his father died an 1637 and then succeeding him in the Rectory of Kilmanton sometimes called Kilmington and Culmington left the University for altogether retired to that place led a single and monkish life without the conversation of ingenious men till the day of his death He was from a boy given to drawing and painting and the Founders picture that hangs in the Refectory of Trin. Coll. is of his copying His genie laid most of all in the Mechanicks had an admirable mechanical invention and excellent notions for the raising of water and making Water-engins many of which inventions being presented to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection were highly approved by them and forthwith the members thereof admitted him one of their number About the year 1640 he entertained the notion of curing diseases by transfusion of blood out of one man into another the hint whereof came into his head from Ovid's story of Medea and Jason Which matter he communicating to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection was entred into their books But this way of transfusion having as 't is said been mention'd long before by Andr. Libavius our author Potter who I dare say never saw that Writer is not to be esteemed the first inventer of that notion nor Dr. Rich. Lower but rather an Advancer He hath written and published An interpretation of the number 666. Wherein not only the manner how this number ought to be interpreted is clearly proved and demonstrated but it is also shewed that this number is an exquisite and perfect character truly exactly and essentially describing that state of government to which all other notes of Antichrist do agree Oxon. 1642. qu. Which book as one saith is the happiest that ever yet came into the world and such as cannot be read save of those persons that will not believe it without much admiration c. A book also called The key of the Scripture written by a London Divine wherein being large upon the Revelations he prefers the said Interpretation before all others It was afterwards translated into French Dutch and Latine the last of which was done by several hands and severally printed One copy was all or mostly performed by Tho. Gilbert of S. Edm. Hall printed at Amsterd 1677. oct And that or the other was partly remitted into Matth. Poole's Synopsis Critic in the second part of the fourth volume on the Revelations What answers were made to the said Interpretation that were printed I think there were none sure I am that one Lambert Morehouse Minister of Pertwood about 6 miles from Kilmanton accounted by some a learned man and a good Mathematician did write against it and seemed to be angry with the Author that 25 is not the true but the propinque root To which the Author replied with some sharpness The MS. of this controversie Morehouse gave to Dr. Seth Ward B. of Salisbury an 1668 before which time he was prefer'd by Dr. Henchman then B. of that place to the spiritual Cure of Little Langford in Wilts where he died about 1672. He was a Westmorland man by birth was educated I think in Clare Hall in Cambridge and wrot other things but are not printed As for our author Potter he lived to a good old age died perfectly blind at Kilmanton between Easter and Whitsuntide in the month of Apr. I think in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the chancel of the Church there His memory is preserved in Trin. Coll. by a Dial that he made and set up on the north side of the old Quadrangle where it doth yet remain His fathers name was Rich. Potter an Oxfordshire man born sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity and afterwards Vicar of a little mercate Town in Wilts and Rector of Kilmington or Kilmanton in Somersetshire before mention'd ABRAHAM WOODHEAD son of Joh. Woodh of Thornhill in Yorks was born at Maltham in the Parish of Albonsbury alias Ambury in the said County entred a Student in Univ. Coll. under the tuition of Jonas Radcliff an 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts and soon after was made Scholar Afterwards going thro the several classes of Logick and Philosophy with very great industry he took the degrees in Arts became Fellow in 1633 entred into holy Orders passed a course in Divinity and in 1641 was elected one of the Proctors of the University which office being quitted not without trouble occasion'd by the denying of the Grace of Franc. Cheynell of which he complained to the Long Parliament he travelled into France with a Gent. Com. of his House called Thomas Radcliff son of Sir Geor. Radcl and afterwards with Thom. Culpeper and Thom. Strode both of the same House At length setling for a time in Rome he was entertained by George Duke of Buckingham whom he instructed in Mathematicks and was much respected by him After his return into England being depriv'd of his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliam for absence and non-appearance an 1648. he lived for some time in York house in the Strand near London by the appointment of the said Duke but Arthur Lord Capell being informed of the great merits of the person he entertained and learned of him the Mathematical Sciences In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by his Maj. Commissioners and remained in his Coll. for a time But his opinion as to Religion being then alter'd as it had been since he was at Rome which he always very warily conceal'd got leave of the Master and Society to be absent as intending again to travel with the allowance of 20 l. per an So that retiring to London he afterwards setled at Hoxton alias Hogsden near to that City where he lived very obscurely and retiredly upon that allowance that the College made to him as a Traveller all therein except one knowing not to the contrary but that he was beyond the seas There I say being setled he not only caused Youths to be trained up in the R. Cath. Religion of which certain members of Parliament did openly make mention in the House after
Daughter named Bethiah and a Brother called Nehemiah Holmes of Machin in Hertfordshire Clerk GILES COLLIER son of Giles Collier of Pershore in Worcestershire was born there or at least in that County became either a Batler or Servitour of New inn in Lent term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts and departed for a time closing then with the Presbyterians In 1648 when the Parliamentarian Visitors were in Oxon he proceeded in Arts took the Covenant and afterwards became Vicar of Blockley near Evesham and Shipson in Worcestershire and a busie man when he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such whom the Godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654 and after At his Majesties restauration he continued in Blockley and when the Act of uniformity was published he conformed not without the regret of some Loyallists in the neighbourhood whom he had much displeased in the interval He hath written Vindiciae thesium de sabbato or a vindication of certain passages in a sermon of the morality of the Sabbath from the exceptions of which they are subjected by Edw. Fisher Esq in his book called A Christian Caveat c. Lond. 1653. 56. qu. Appendix wherein is briefly examined this bold assertion of Edw. Fisher viz. There is an equal authority and equal antiquity for the observation of the 25 of Dec. as for the Lords day Answer to 15 questions lately published by Edw. Fisher Esq and the suggestions therein delivered against suspending ignorant and scandalous persons from the Lords Supper These two last things were printed with the Vindiciae thesium Fun. Sermon on Isaiah 57.1 Printed 1661. qu. He died at Blockley in the latter end of July in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 30. day of the same month in the Church there In the said Vicaridge succeeded Sam. Scattergood of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge as I shall elsewhere tell you BENJAMIN PARRY younger Brother to Joh. Parry before mention'd was born as I conceive in Dublin admitted in Arts in Trin. Coll. there on the 5. of Decemb. 1648 came with his Brother to Jesus Coll. in this University took the degrees in Arts and after his Majesties restauration he was by the favour of his Commissioners appointed to visit this University made Greek Reader and so consequently Fellow of C. C. Coll. In 1663 Feb. 26 he was installed Preb. of Knaresbergh in the Church of York he being then Bach. of Div. upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Mossom which Dignity he resigning upon his going into his own Country was succeeded therein by Dr. Will. Asshton in Feb. 1673. On the first of May 1674 he was made Dean of Kilkenny and thence was translated to the Deanery of S. Patrick at Dublin on the 24 of March following On the 27. of Jan. 1677 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in the place of his Brother deceased which he kept to his dying day that shortly after followed He hath written Chymia Caelestis Drops from heaven or pious meditations on several places of Scripture Lond. 1659 73 in tw And also made fit for the press and published Holy rules and helps to devotion c. Lond. 1674. in tw Written by Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winton This Dr. Parry who I suppose hath published no other things died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight having a little before been married but not to his content and was buried near to the graves of his Brother and Father in S. Audoens Church in Dublin In the See of Ossory succeeded Dr. Mich. Ward Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin and soon after he was translated to London-Derry PETER LEYCESTER son of Pet. Leycest Esq was born at Nether Tabley in Cheshire 3. March 1613 became a Gent. Com. of Brasn Coll. 13. Oct. 1629 but leaving that house without a degree he went I presume to the Inns of Court Afterwards he retired to his patrimony where besides the pleasures of a Country life he exercised himself much in the study of History and Antiquities After the restauration of his Majesty an 1660 for whose cause he before had suffer'd he was created a Baronet and probably had he sought he might have had beneficial places confer'd on him but such was the love he had to his native Country that postponing all matters of profit he studied and laboured to revive its antiquities that had almost been buried in oblivion which he afterwards published with this title Historical antiquities in two books The first treating in general of Great Britaine and Ireland the other containing particular remarks of Cheshire and chiefly of Bucklow hundred Lond. 1673 fol. But therein having made Amicia Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester a Bastard was as to that matter answer'd in a book intit A defence of Amicia c. by Sir Tho. Manwaring of Peover in Cheshire Bt who with this our author Pet. Leyc were descended from her Whereupon Sir Peter came out with An answer to Sir Tho. Manwarings book entit A defence of Amicia c. Lond. 1673. oct Addenda or some things to be added to the former answer to Sir Thomas Manwarings book to be placed immediatly after pag. 90. Lond. 1673. oct He also wrot A reply to Sir Tho. Manwarings answer to Sir Pet. Leycesters Addenda Lond. 1674. oct and Sir Tho. Manwarings Law cases mistaken and the antient Law misunderstood and the new law misapplied c. Lond. 1674. oct There was a waggish and merry Ballad that went from hand to hand in Ms concerning these petite controversies between the two Baronets and great sport there was made among idle and vain Gentlemen concerning the punctilio's and minute things they insisted on but at length at an Assize held at Chester 1675 their controversies were decided by the Justices Itinerant who as I have heard adjudged the right of the matter to Manwaring As for our author Sir Peter he dyed at Nether-Tabley on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried by his Ancestors in our Ladies Chappel on the north side of the Church at Great Budworth in Cheshire Over his grave was soon after set up a comly monument for him and his Lady who died 26. of Jan. following aged 59 years the inscription whereof being large I shall now for brevity sake omit THOMAS VINCENT second son of John Vincent sometimes a Gent of Lincolns Inn and afterwards a Minister was born in the antient Borough of Hertford in the month of May 1634 educated partly in Grammar learning in Westminster school and partly in that at Felsted in Essex and in 1648 became a Student of Ch. Ch. by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors then and there sitting In 1654 he proceeded in Arts at which time the Governour of his house had so great opinion of him that he chose him Catechist which usually belongs
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in â—â— a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street Coventâ—Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of Eastâ—Lavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hyghâ—Wycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on thâ— ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years choâ—e probationerâ—fellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
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
of Com. 3. Aug. 1659 This I have not yet seen and therefore know not the Text. The summ of other Sermons do here follow A divine discovery of sincerity according to its proper and peculiar nature c. Lond. 1643. oct delivered in three Sermons on 2. Cor. 11.12 Baulme for bleeding England and Ireland or seasonable instructions for persecuted Christians c. Lond. 1643. 49. oct contained in the sum or substance of 20 Sermons on Colos 1.11.12 England faithfully watcht with in her wounds or Christ as a father sitting up with her Children in their sowning state Lond. 1646. qu painfully preached on Colos 1. Christ communion with his Church Militant Lond. 1647. oct and 1672 which is the fifth edition First preached and afterwards published for the good of Gods Church in general The said fifth edit which is in oct also hath the authors picture before it in a cloak with 4 verses engraven under it The two first of which run thus Note well the substance of this shade so bright Lo 't is a burning and a shining light An olive leaf or a bud of the spring viz. Christs resurrection and its end viz. the correction of sinners and a Christians compleat relief Lond. 1650 oct A Stone cut out of the mountain A lecture sermon preached at Edenburgh concerning the matter of visible Church Printed in tw Refuted by Jam. Wood a Scotch man in his Pamphlet published 1654. qu. I mean the same James Wood who was afterwards Professor of Div. and Provost of S. Salvators Coll. in the University of St. Andrew who died about the year 1664. Whether he be the same Jam. Wood who was Chaplain to and a constant companion with the most noble James Marquess of Montross when he made his first war against the Covenanteers in Scotland and accompanied him when he left that Nation after his Maj. K. Ch. 1 had commanded him to lay down his armes and disband I know not Quaere Spiritual inspection or a review of the heart needful for this loose and lascivious season Pr. in oct The young mans call and duty Pr. in a small oct Useful instructions for the People of God in these evil times Lond. 1656. oct Delivered in 22 Sermons A memorial of Gods judgments spiritual and temporal or sermons to call to remembrance c. Lond. 1671. oct First preached in six sermons and then published for publick use What other things he hath published I cannot tell nor do I know any thing else of him only that he spending his last days at Woodford in Essex where he kept or at least frequented Conventicles died a wealthy man on the 13. of March or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried some days after in the Church of S. Mary of Mountfallon commonly called Whitechappel near London leaving then behind him two Daughters called Abigail and Elizabeth NATHANAEL HEIGHMORE son of a Father of both his names sometimes Rector of Candel-purse or Cundel-purse in Dorsetshire was born in the Parish of Fordingbridge in Hampshire elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. in 1632 took the degrees in Arts studied Physick admitted Bach. of that fac in 1641 and in the latter end of the next year was actually created Doctor thereof Afterwards retiring into the Country setled at length at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire where and in the neighbourhood he became famous for the happy practice in his faculty and for the great love that he expressed to the Clergy of those parts from whom as 't is said he never took a fee tho much employed by that party This person whose memory is celebrated by divers authors hath written Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica Hag. Com. 1651. fol. To which he afterwards added an Appendix but before he could perfect it to his mind he died The History of generation with a general relation of the manner of generation as well in plants as Animals Lond. 1651. oct Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy Pr. with The Hist of Gen. De histerica passione de affectione hypochondriaca theses duae Oxon. Amstel 1660. oct De histerica hypochondrica passione responsio Epistolaris ad Doctorem Willis medicum Londinensem celeberrimum Lond. 1670. qu. He also discovered a new Ductus in the Testicles but whether published in a book by it self I know not He died on the 21. of March in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Candel purse before mentioned near the body as I suppose of his Father Afterwards was laid a plain marble stone over his grave with this inscription thereon Positae sunt hic reliquiae viri admodum docti Nathanaelis Heighmore in Med. Doctoris in spem resurrectionis ad vitam aeternam Qui obiit Martii 21. An. Dom. 1684. Aetatis suae 71. ROBERT WOOD was born in the Parish of Pepperharrow near Godalming in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in the School at Eaton near Windsore was made one of the Eaton Postmasters of Merton Coll. in 1642 took the degree of Master of Arts seven years after having a little before submitted to the authority of the Parliamentarian Visitors elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. by their order dated 19. Sept. 1650 in the place of Thankful Owen made President of S. Johns Coll went afterwards with the leave of his Society into Ireland and became a Retainer to Henry Cromwell L. Lieutenant of that Kingdom who sent him as a spye into Scotland to give him an account how affairs stood there Afterwards he returned into England became one of the first Fellows of the Coll. at Durham founded by Oliver Protector an 1657 a great Commonwealths man and a frequenter of the Rota-Club of Jam. Harrington After his Majesties restauration he was turn'd out of his Fellowship of Linc. Coll by the Kings Commissioners and thereupon going into Ireland again he for lucre sake for he was a covetous Person expressed his Loyalty so much that he became Doctor of Phys there and of the Law as I have heard and Chancellour of two Diocesses whereof Meath was one So that purchasing an Estate in that Country which he afterwards sold to buy one at Sherwill in Essex he setled for a time in England and became Teacher of the Blew-coated-children in Ch. Ch. Hospital in London in the Art of Mathematicks and Navigation At length giving up that place he went again into Ireland and was made one of the Commissioners of his Majesties revenue and at length Accomptant-general to the Commissioners of the said revenue there which he held at the time of his death being then one of the Royal Society in England Will. Oughtred the famous Mathematician saith of this Dr. Wood who had been sometimes his Scholar that he is Philosophiae atque Medicinae studiosus vir optimus atque doctissimus qui non calamo solum scriptorum examinatione nâ—quid forte mihi in computationibus erroris exciderit amicum
S. James's street near to S. James's house within the liberty of Westminster on the 27 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said house of S. James's He had several Sons among whom Lionel Sheldon a Benedictine Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Anne Duchess of York after she had changed her religion for that of Rome was one and Dominick Sheldon another lately a Colonel of Horse of prudent and couragious conduct in Ireland in the Army of K. Jam. 2. against that of K. Will. 3. Among his daughters were Mary one of the Dressers belonging to Queen Catherine Wife of Sir Sam. Tuke of Cressing-Temple in Essex Kt and Bt a person sometimes of compleat honour and ingenuity a Colonel in the Army of his Majesty K. Ch. 1. and one of the prime Officers in that noble and generous expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 for which he had like to have lost his life afterwards a sufferer for his religion and loyalty author of that celebrated Trag. Com. called The adventures of five hours Lond. 1662 64 and 1671 qu. He died in his house in the Parish of S. Mary le Savoy in the Strand near London in May or June 1674 but where buried unless in the Church of that Parish or in the Chap. at Somerset-house I know not He the said Mr. Sheldon had another Dau. named Frances who was one of the Maids of honour to Qu. Catherine before mention'd and was Uncle to Ralph Sheldon of Beoley Esq commonly called Great Sheldon THOMAS WASHBOURNE a younger Son of Joh. Washbourne of Wychenford in Worcestershire Esq was born there entred a Communer of Balliol Coll in the beginning of the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts being then esteemed a tolerable Poet holy Orders and in 1636 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences In the time of the rebellion he had a Prebendship in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester confer'd upon him and suffer'd for the Royal cause but when his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was restor'd he was setled and installed in it actually created Doctor of Divinity and became Rector of Dumbleton in Glocestershire He hath written and published Divine Poems Lond. 1654. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the funeral of Charles Cocks Esq on Psal 90.9.10 Lond. 1655. qu. 2 The repairer of the breach preached in the Cathedral of Glocester 29 May 1661 being the anniversary of his Majesties birth day and happy entrance into his imperial City of London on Isa 58.12 Lond. 1661. qu. c. He died on the sixth day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in our Ladies Chappel within the Cathedral Church of Glocester Soon after was a little monument set up on the wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was Theologus vere Christianus vere primitivus per annos 44 Eccl. Cath. Gloc. Prebendarius and that he desired to have this written on his mon. that he was primus Peccatorum minimus Ministrorum Dei c. EDMUND HALL was born and educated in Grammar learning within the City of Worcester entred into Pemb. Coll. in 1636 aged 16 left the Univ. before he took a degree sided afterwards with the forces raised by the Parliament against his Majesty K. Ch. 1 took the Covenant and at length became a Captain among them When the Kings cause declined and the war ceased he retired to his Coll was made Fellow thereof and in 1649 he took the degree of Master of Arts much about which time he express'd himself an Enemy to Oliver for his diabolical proceedings and was thereupon committed to custody as I shall tell you anon About that time he became tho a Calvinist a conceited and affected preacher several years in these parts kept pace with the leading men during the Interval complemented with the times at his Majesties restauration and endeavoured to express his loyalty yet could not endure to be called Captain Afterwards he became Minister of a Market Town in Oxfordsh named Chipping-Norton where being much frequented by the neighbourhood obtained the character from some of a fantastical and from others of an edifying preacher About the latter end of 1680 the rectory of Great Risington near North Leech in Glocestershire falling void it was conferr'd upon him by Sir Edm. Bray Knight and soon after he took to him in his elderly years a fair and comely Wife His Sermons preached before the University of Oxon had in them many odd light and whimsical passages altogether unbecoming the gravity of the Pulpit And his gestures being very antick and mimmical did usually excite somewhat of laughter in the more youthful part of the auditory His works are these Lazarus's soares lick'd Written against Dr. Lazarus Seamon who affirmed in a book published about 1648 that an Usurper ought to be submitted to proving it from Christs paying tribute money to Caesar Lingua Testium Manus Test Digitus Test These three pamphlets the titles of which at large I could never get from the author were wrot by him against Oliver to shew that he had slain the Witnesses was very Antichrist and impossible for him to raign above three years and an half Whereupon being imprison'd by the Council of state continued there twelve months and then with much ado upon good Bail given he obtained his liberty A scriptural discourse of the Apostacy and the Antichrist by way of comment upon the twelve first verses of 2. Thes 2. c. in 4 parts Printed 1653. in about 20 sh in qu. with a Preface to it of about four Discourse of slaying the Witnesses and the immediat effects thereof Printed with the former These two last he wrot while he was a Prisoner Sermon at Staunton Harcourt Church in the County of Oxon at the funeral of the Lady Anne Harcourt who deceased 23. Aug. 1664 on Ezek. 24.16 Oxon. 1664. oct A funeral speech at her grave Printed with the Sermon This Lady Anne Harcourt Daughter of Sir Will. Waller sometimes a General of one of the Parliaments Armies was the Wife of Sir Philip Harcourt Knight son and heir of Sir Simon Which Philip dying at or near London was buried by her about the 12 of Apr. 1688 leaving then a son behind him named Simon Recorder of Abendon Our author Mr. Hall died in the month of August or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Great Risington before mention'd His elder Brother Thomas Hall I have at large mention'd already among these Writers under the year 1665. p. 233. WILLIAM PETTY son of Anthony Petty a Clothier was born in a little haven Town in Hampshire called Rumsey on the 26 of May 1623 and while a boy he took very great delight in spending his time among Artificers there as Smiths Carpenters Joyners c. whose trades in
endured many miseries on the first day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Brecknock near to the high altar leaving then behind him some things fit for the press as I have been informed by one of his near Relations It is said that he was much resolved on three things 1. The redemption of Captives 2. The conversion of Recusants 3. The undeceiving of seduced Sectaries and that he kept three diaries one for the transactions of his own life another for the publick affairs of the Church and Kingdom and a third for the remarkable passages of providence that hapned in the World The see of S. David continuing void till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 it was then supplied by Dr. Will. Lucy as I shall tell you under the year 1677. GEORGE SINGE alias Millington sometimes a Com. of Balliol Coll was consecrated Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland an 1638 and dying in sixteen hundred fifty and three was buried at Bridgnorth in Shropshire He is characterized to be Vir gravis admodum doctus praesertim in Polemicae Theologiae juris utriusque scientia procerioris praeterea staturae formae decorae generosae conversationis c. See more of him among the Writers p. 97. THOMAS WINNIFF a grave learned and moderate Divine was born as 't is said at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire admitted a Batler or Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term an 1593 aged 18 years elected Prob. fellow thereof 30 June 1595 admitted Master of Arts in 1601 and about that time entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher and a Tutour In 1609 he left the College because he had an Ecclesiastical Benefice confer'd on him but the name of it I know not unless Lambourne in Essex which he enjoyed many years and at length bought the advowson thereof of Rob. Taverner Gent which he afterwards by his will gave to his Nephew Peter Mews About that time he was Chaplain to Pr. Henry and afterwards to Pr. Charles which last he much displeased in two matters first that in a certain harangue which he occasionally delivered in the beginning of Apr. 1622 he compared Frederick King of Bohemia to a Lamb and Count Spinola to a bloody Wolf which also displeased the King and secondly that in some little particulars he expressed himself an enemy to his marriage with the Infanta of Spain For these matters he had like to have lost his Spiritualities had not his Maj. K. Jam. 1. highly valued him for his learning In 1624 Nov. 10. he was installed Dean of Glocester in the place of Dr. Rich. Senhouse promoted to the See of Carlile and after the said Kings death being made Chaplain to his Successor Ch. 1. had the Deanery of S. Pauls Cathedral confer'd on him an 1631. Afterwards upon the translation of Dr. Williams to York in 1641 he was nominated by the King Bishop of Lincoln purposely to please the Puritan and was soon after consecrated But the rebellion breaking out the next year occasion'd by a prevalent party in both Houses of Parliament who silenced the Bishops and caused their Lands to be sold this holy Bishop received little or no profit from the Lands belonging to his See only trouble and vexation as a Bishop Afterwards he retired to Lambourne spent there for the most part the remainder of his days and justly obtained this character from a learned Bishop that none was more mild modest and humble yet learned eloquent and honest than Bishop Winniffe He died in the summer time in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in the Church at Lambourne Soon after was erected a comly monument over his grave on which 't is said that he was made Bishop of Lincoln 1642 Ex eorum numero Episcoporum quibus incumbebat nutantis episcopatus molem pietatis ac probitatis suae fulcimine sustentare c. RICHARD SMITH sometimes a Student in Trinity College was made Bishop of Chalcedon by Pope Urban 8 an 1624 or thereabouts and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred fifty and four under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 114. HENRY TILSON a Yorkshire man born was entred a Student in Balliol Coll. in the beginning of the year 1593 took one degree in Arts as a member of that house four years after tho in the Fasti 1596 I have said by an errour of Univ. Coll and soon after was elected one of Skyrlawes Fellows of the said Coll. of University and took the degree of Master as a member of that house In Oct. 1615 he was made Vicar of Rachdale in Yorkshire by the death of R. Kenion and afterwards being made known to that most generous Count Thomas Earl of Strafford he became his Chaplain went with him in that quality to Ireland when that Count was made L. Lieutenant thereof Soon after he was by him made Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity commonly called Ch. Ch. in Dublin where continuing in good esteem for his learning and piety had the See of Elphine confer'd on him to which being consecrated on the 23. of Sept. 1639 endured soon after great misery by the rebellion that broke out in Ireland 1641. Afterwards he retired to his native Country setled at Southill hall in Yorkshire spent there the chief part of his time and dying in peace 31. of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five aged 80 years or thereabouts was buried in the Chancel of the neighbouring Church of Dewsbury In the said See of Elphine succeeded John Parker D. D. in the latter end of the year 1660. NICHOLAS MONKE or Le Moyne third Son of Sir Tho. Monke of Potheridge in Devonshire Knight Son of Tho. Monke of the said place Gent by Frances his Wife Widow of Joh. Basset of Umbersley in the said County Esq Daughter of Arthur Plantagenet natural Son of K. Edw. 4 by Elizabeth Lucy as is suppos'd his Concubine was born in Devonshire either at Potheridge or at Marton at the last of which places his Father lived when this Nich. Monke came first to Wadham Coll an 1626 aged 17 years or thereabouts After he had spent several years in that house in the condition of a Commoner he proceeded in Arts in 1634 entred into holy Orders was beneficed in his own Country and suffered in the time of the rebellion as other Loyallists did Afterwards he was permitted to keep some little cure by the endeavours of his Brother George while he was chief Commander under Oliver Cromwell in Scotland was persecuted as 't is said by the Triers appointed by Oliver but at length had the Rectory of Kilkhampton in Cornwall worth 300 l. per an bestowed on him by his kinsman Sir John Greenvill afterwards Earl of Bathe which he freely gave him without symony purposely to oblige him to serve the publick when ever he had occasion to make
Parliament called by the faction the blessed Parliament he lived retiredly on a considerable estate of his own sometimes at Cudesden near Oxon and married a second Wife which is well known to all the neighbourhood there yet the said Mr. Prynne would needs perswade us that he was reduced to such extremity that in November 1655 he went to an honorable Knight of his acquaintance in Westminster and complained to him that he had not bread for him and his to put in their mouthes intreating his favour to procure any Lect. or Curates place for him tho never so mean which he by all the friends he had could no where obtain to keep him from starving Whereupon the Knight minded him of his former speeches and cruelty towards other Lecturers and Ministers whom as he added he reduced to extreme poverty wishing him to take special notice how God had justly requited him in his own kind so as himself would now turn Lecturer or the meanest Curate under others in his old age to get but a meer subsistence and yet none would entertain him as himself confessed in any place So as the judgment threatned against Ely his posterity 1. Sam. 2.36 was then actually fallen on that great Prelate c. In 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick and by the great fines and renewings that then came in he was rewarded in some degree for his sufferings but his said second Wife too young and cunning for him got what she could from the children he had by his first Wife and wheedling him to Walthamstow in Essex got thousands of pounds and his plate from him as the common report at Wells is which of right should have gone to his said Children He died at that place in the month of Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was privately buried in the Parochial Church there by the care of his said Wife He hath two Sermons in print preached during his restraint in the Tower with other Bishops that were committed thither by the Parliament an 1641 both on 2. Cor. 12.8.9 Lond. 1642. qu. He left behind him a Son of both his names actually created D. of D. an 1661 tho of lesser merit than sufferings and another called John Piers who being a Lay-man had a Lay-prebendship in the Church of Wells bestowed on him by his Father He lived mostly at Denton in the Parish of Cudesden near Oxon where his Father had setled an estate on him and dying 28. Nov. 1670 was buried in the Church at Cudesden whereupon his Prebendship was converted to the use of a Clergy-man ROBERT SKINNER second Son of Edm. Skinner Rector of Pitchford or Pisford in Northamptonshire by Bridget his Wife Daughter of Humph. Radcliff of Warwickshire Son of Thomas Skinner of the Parish of Ledbury in Herefordshire and he the Son of Stephen was born at Pisford educated in Grammar learning in a School at Brixworth near to that place admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll an 1607 aged 16 years and six years after Fellow he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he took holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in the Coll and some of his Pupils proved afterwards men of note as Will. Chillingworth Rich. Newdigale a Judge c. In 1621 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and afterwards going to London was unexpectedly chose Preacher of S. Gregories Church near S. Pauls Cathedral where preaching twice every Sunday for nine years obtained love honour and applause especially from the Puritans When Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he caused him to be sworn Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and endeavoured to take him off from the principles that he then professed was made Rector of Launton near Bister in Oxfordshire and Minister of Greensnorton In the month of July or thereabouts an 1636 he being elected Bishop of Bristow was as Bishop elect of that place diplomated Doctor of Div. of this University on the 13 of August the same year and having the temporalities thereof given to him on the 20 of January following had liberty allowed to him to keep Launton and Greensnorton in Commendam with the said See In the beginning of 1641 he was translated to the See of Oxon on the death of Dr. Bancroft and soon after being one of the twelve Bishops that subscribed a Protestation in behalf of themselves against the immoderate Proceedings of the Parl. then sitting was impeached by the members thereof of High Treason and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where continuing 18 weeks to his great charge was upon bail released Whereupon retiring to his Rectory of Launton which he kept also in commendam with Oxon lived there retiredly and submitted so much to the men of those times that he kept the said Rectory when the rest of his Spiritualities were lost meerly as 't was supposed for the bare maintenance of himself and children in which time he did usually as 't is said read the Common Prayer and confer Orders according to the Ch. of Engl. After his Maj. return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick became one of his Maj. Commissioners of the Univ. of Ox. for the visiting and rectifying it then much out of order but was not translated to a richer See which he much expected occasion'd by a great and potent enemy at Court who maligned him because of his submission in some part to the Usurpers In the month of Oct. 1663 he was translated to the See of Worcester upon the removal of Dr. Earle to that of Sarum where he became esteemed more by his many Tenants than family or friends because of his goodness as a Landlord He died in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in a Chappel at the east end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester Over his grave was soon after laid a flat marble stone with this inscription engraven thereon H. I. E. Rev. in Ch. Pater ac Dom. Robertus Skinner Coll. S. Trinitatis Oxon Socius Carolo primo Britanniarum Monarchae à sacris Doctoratum in SS Theologiâ almae Matris diplomate oblatum sine ambitu cepit A Rectoriâ Launton Dioeceseos Oxon ad Episcopatum Bristoliensem evocatus tantus ecclesiae filius meruit cito fieri parens mox ad sedem Oxoniensem translatus Turre Londinensi à Perduellibus diu incarceratus tam sine culpâ quam examine exivit A Carolo II. ad sedem Vigorniensem promotus postquam Presbyteris sanciendis assuetam dextram sufficiendis Praesulibus mutuam dedisset eorumque quinque à suo collegio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnibus ante sacrilegam usurpationem Episcopus superstes Junii 14. A. D. 1670 Octogenarius ad summam animarum Episcopum ascendit prius gratiâ nunc gloriâ consecratus While he lived in the times of Usurpation he was supposed to be the sole Bish that confer'd Orders and after his Majesties return an hundred and three persons did at once take holy Orders from
raising up his Excellency the L. Gen. Monke c. to deliver this Nation from thraldome and slavery on 2 Sam. 19.14 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Cordifragium or the sacrifice of a broken heart Serm. at S. Pauls in Lond. 25 Nov. 1660 on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1661. qu. and of other things CREATIONS After the battel at Edghill in Warwickshire between his Majesties Forces and those belonging to the Parliament the King retired to Oxon and setling for a time in Ch. Ch. it was his pleasure that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had either done him service in the said battel or had retired to him at Oxon for shelter to avoid the barbarities of the Presbyterians then very frequent throughout the Nation Some called this Creation the Caroline Creation Bach. of Arts. From the first of Nov. to the 16 of Jan. were about 35 young Students actually created Bachelaurs of Arts in the head of whom was Tho. Wood or à Wood of Ch. Ch. Nov. 1. This person when he heard that the Forces belonging to the King and Parliament were drawing up to fight each other at Edghill threw off his gown ran thither did his Majesty good Service return'd on horseback well accoutred and afterwards was made an Officer See more among the Creations in 1647. The next that follow are these Mathew Skinner of Trin. Coll. son of Dr. Rob. Skinner Bishop of Oxon. He was afterwards Doctor of Phys Will. Slater Hen. Dudley c. Dec. 20. Conway Whitterne of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards Captain of a Foot Company in his Maj. Service Jan. 16. Hen. Berkley of Or. Coll a younger son of Sir Hen. Berkley of Yarlington in Somersetshire Knight Will. Norrys of Pemb. Coll. was created about that time He was afterwards a Corner in the Lord Hoptous Army c. Bach. of Law From the 1 of Nov. to the 16 of January were actually created 15 Bachelaurs at least of the Civil Law of whom John Sutton George Walker Will. Birkenhead and Rich. Blome son of Joh. Blome of Brecknockshire Gent. were of the number Which last I here set down not that he was a man of note but only to distinguish him from one of both his names who was originally a Ruler of Paper and now a Scribler of books See in the first vol. p. 389.390 I find also to be created Bach. of the Civ Law an Inhabitant of S. Aldates Parish in Oxon called John Holloway Official to the Archdeacon and Registrary of Berkshire which John was father to Rich. Halloway sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards a Counsellor of the Inner Temple and a person for several years well reputed in these parts for his upright dealing in his profession To which I must add that in 1677 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1683 he was knighted and made one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the place of Just Thom. Raymond In thâ— beginning of July 1688 he and Sir Joh. Powell another Just of the same Bench did receive their Quietus from K. Jam. 2 because they had a little before given in their minds and opinions to the Jury in the Court of the Kings Bench at Westm at which time they were two of the four Judges in the Proceedings and Tryal in the case of William Archb. of Cant and six Bishops that the Petition of the said Archb. and Bishops to his Maj wherein they shewed the great averseness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for liberty of Conscience c. was not libellous or seditious as Sir Rob. Wright L. Ch. Justice and Just Rich. Allebâ—ne the other two Judges did Which act of Justice Holloway being much applauded by the true sons of the Church of England yet for other matters he was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of Indemnity or Pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary dated 23 May 1690. Mast of Arts. From the first day of Nov. to the 21 of Feb were more than an hundred and forty Masters actually created of which number were these following Nov. 1. James Duke of York He was afterwards King of England by the name of K. James the 2. Dom. Henr. Howard Tho. Bosvile or Boswell a Kentish man of Aynsford I think and a Colonel in the Kings Army One Tho. Boswell who had been knighted by his Maj. at Durham in the beginning of May 1642 was buried in S Maries Church in Oxford 25 Oct. 1643. Whether he was the same who was created Master of Arts or the same Sir Tho. Boswell who had a daughter named Isabel the wife of Tho. Gifford Doctor of Physick before mentioned I cannot justly tell George Manwaring an Officer in the Kings Army Will. Dugdale one of the Officers of Arms called Rougecroix now 1642 lodging in Hart Hall This noted person who was son of John Dugdale son of James Dugdale of Cletherâ—w in Lancashire Gent was born at Shustock in the County of Warwick on the 12 of Sept. 1605 3 Jac. 1. at which time was a swarm of Bees in his fathers garden then esteemed by some a happy presage on the behalf of the Babe This accident being many years after related by Mr. Will. Dugdale to the famous Figure-flinger Will. Lilly he thereupon very readily told him that that swarm of bees did foretell that the Infant should in time prove a prodigy of industry c. But the Reader is to know that the said Lilly told him the said Will. Dugdale so after most of his industry was made public His first education in Grammar learning was under one Thom. Sibley Curat at Nether Whitacre near to Shustock before mentioned with whom continuing till he came to ten years of age or more was afterwards sent to the Free-school at Coventry then presided by one James Cranford father of James Cranford mentioned among the Writers pag. 133. After he had continued in the said School till almost he was 15 years of age he was taken home by his father from whom he received instructions in reading that noted Law-book called Littletons Tenures and some others of that profession besides History In all which he soon after by his indefatigable industry became well vers'd In the latter end of 1622 his father being then grown infirm he took to him a wife and in 1625 1 Car. 1. his said father being then dead he purchased the Mannour of Blythe in the Parish of â—hustock At which place setling soon after he composed most of his Books particularly that of The Anâ—iquities of Warwickshere illustrated His natural inclination tending then chiefly to the study of Antiquities and History he was not a little encouraged thereto by one Sam. Roper a Barrester of Lincolns Inn much esteemed for his knowledge and abilities in those studies with whom by reason he was Cosin-German to Rich. Seawell who had married his sister he had
his proceedings James Baron lately made Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. by the Com. and Visitors was created the same day He was Son of George Baron of Plymouth in Devons had been puritanically educated in Exeter Coll and closing with the dominant party in the time of the rebellion got besides his Readers place to be Minister of one of the Hendreths in Berks and by the name of Mr. James Baron of Hendreth he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom the Saints called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Orthodox and Loyal Clergy After his Majesties restauration he retired to London and lived a Nonconformist mostly at or near Bunhill He hath published under the name of Jacobus Baronius a little thing printed on one side of a sheet entit Quaestiones Theologicae in usum Coll. Magd Oxon. Oxon. 1657 And with Thankful Owen did gather and publish the works of Thom. Goodwin in two vol. in fol. and set before them a canting preface He died in the beginning of the year 1683 and was buried as I have been informed near the graves of the Goodwin and Owen in the fanatical burial place near Bunhill-fields and the New Artillery-yard John Dale of Magd. Coll was created the same day June 8. As for Joshua Cross he was not created Bach. of Div. but Doct. of the Civil Law as I shall anon tell you Febr. 16. Sim. Ford of Ch. Ch. was created by dispensation of the Delegates On the 12. of Jan. going before the said Delegates decreed that the said Mr. Ford. sometimes of Magd. Hall who had been expelled the Vniversity with great injury as they said should be restored with all Academical honour imaginable and that his Grace be proposed for Bach. of Divinity c. He proceeded Doct. of Div. in 1665. Mar. 14. Will. Durham sometimes of New Inn now Chaplain to Will. Lenthall Master of the Rolls was created in Convocation by dispensation of the Delegates Doct. of Law May 19. Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Camerone in Scotland Generalissimo of all the Parliament Forces in England and Constable of the Tower of London was created Doctor of the Civil Law being then in Oxford and entertained by the members thereof as Cromwell and divers prime Officers were The ceremony of the Creation was thus After he had been adorned with a scarlet gown in the Apoditerium or Vestry belonging to the Convocation but without hood or cap the new Beadles who had not yet got their silver staves from those that were lately ejected conducted him with Cromwell towards the upper end of the Convocation House the members thereof then standing up bare whereupon Hierom Zanchy one of the Proctors rising from his seat which pro tempore was supplied by a Master and going to and standing on his left side took him by the right hand and presented him in a most humble posture to the Vicechanc. and Proctors standing with a short flattering Lat. speech such as 't was Which being done and he who then held the Chancellours Chair Dr. Chr. Rogers admitting him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him up to the next place on the right hand of the Chancellours Chair This person who made a great noise in his time not only in England but throughout a great part of the world was Son and Heir of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax a busie and forward man in Yorkshire in raising men and maintaining the Parliament cause against his Majesty by the Lady Mary his Wife Daughter of Edmund Lord Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave which Ferdinando dying 13. March 1647 aged 64 years was buried in the Church of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire As for his Son Thomas whom we are farther to mention he was born at Denton in the Parish of Otlay in the same County in January 1611 9. Jac. 1. and was baptized at Denton on the 25 of the said month After he had spent some time in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which afterwards in his latter days he was a benefactor he went beyond the Seas and spent the rest of his youth in martial discipline under the command of Horatio Lord Vere among whose forces he trailed a Pike in the Low Countries was at the considerable action of the taking of Busse in Flanders but had no command while he was there Afterwards he retired to his Fathers house and took to Wife Anne the Daughter and Coheir of the said Lord Vere by whom he had issue Mary born 3. July 1636 and Elizabeth The first of which was married to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham 19. Nov. 1657. In the beginning of the rebellion in 1642 when his Majesty was forced to raise a Guard at York for the defence of his Person this Sir Thomas Fairfax who was entrusted by his Country to prefer a petition to his Majesty the scope whereof was to beseech him to hearken to his Parliament and not raise Forces he did accordingly deliver it but his Majesty refusing it as a Parliamentarian Writer tells us he press'd it with that instance and intention following the King so close therewith in the Field call'd Heyworth-moor in the presence of near a hundred thousand People of the County the like appearance was ever hardly seen in Yorkshire that he at last did tender the same upon the pomel of his saddle But finding no propitiatory as the said author tells us and seeing a War could not be avoided he early paid the vows of his martial education and as soon as the unhappy troubles brake forth he took a Commission under his Father Ferdinando before mention'd whose timely appearance and performances for the Rebels in the North deserves a story of it self He had not served the Parliament in lower commands long but that the great Masters at Westminster did vote him their General 31. Dec. 1644 at which time they cashier'd Robert Earl of Essex of that high command with whom they had sworn 12. July 1642 to live and dye This making of a new General was done when the Parliament ordered their Army to be new modell'd So that victory in a manner being prepared to his hand he vigorously proceeded and what he did in a short time for the blessed cause which is too much here to be set down let the author of Englands recovery c. tell you who tho in the latter end of that book p. 321. he doth highly characterize him especially for his religion but little for policy yet a severe Presbyterian will tell you that he was a Gentleman of an irrational and brutish valour fitter to follow another mans counsel than his own and obnoxious to Cromwell and the Independent faction upon whose bottom he stood for his preferment it having been no dishonour to him to become the property of another mans faction c. adding these matters but what will not a fool in
Cleypole a Gent. of Nâ—rthamptonshire made by Oliver Master of the Horse one of his House of Lords and a Knight and Baronet 16. of July 1657 he being then Clerk of the Hamper The said Elizabeth died 7. Aug. 1658 and was buried in Henry the Sevenths Chap. at Westm in a Vault made on purpose 5 Mary the second Wife of Thom. Bellasyse Vicount Fauconberg or Fauconbridge married to him with a great deal of state at Hampton-Court on the 18 of Nov. 1657 much about which time he was made one of Olivers Lords Several years after his Majesties restauration he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners 6 Frances the youngest Daughter was married to Mr. Rob. Rich the only Son of Robert Lord Rich Son of Robert Earl of Warwick on the 11 of Nov. 1657 and about the same time was made one of Olivers Lords or of the Other House This Mr. R. Rich died 16. of Feb. 1657 his Father on the 29. of May 1659 and his Grandfather on the 18 of Apr. 1658. Oliver Cromwell had also four Sisters one of which was married to John Desborow a Yeoman and a great lubberly Clown who by Olivers interest became a Colonel and if not of the Long yet of the Little Parliament which he helped to break About that time he became one of the Generals at Sea helped to set up his Brother in Law Protector for which he was made one of his Council Major General of divers Counties in the West one of the Lords of the Cinque-ports and of the other House c. Another Sister was married to Roger Whetstone an Officer in the Parliament Army but he dying before Oliver came to his greatness she was remarried to Joh. Jones a pretended Gent. of Wales a Recruiter of the Long Parliament and a Colonel afterwards one of the Kings Judges Governour of the Isle of Anglesie one of the Commissioners of Parliament for the government of Ireland in which office he acted tyrannically and one of the other House that is H. of Lords belonging to Cromwell c. He was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Charing-cross for having had a hand in the murder of his Prince on the 17. Oct. 1660. A third Sister was married to Valentine Walton of Stoughton in Huntingdonshire afterwards a Colonel in the Parliament Army and one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After her death he married the Daughter of one Pimm of Brill in Bucks Widow of Austen of the same place but upon the foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled from Justice to save his neck setled either in Flanders or the Low Countries and lived unknown for some time in the condition of a Gardiner with a certain Gentleman At length being sick and foreseeing he should die discovered himself to have been a man of fashion and desir'd that after his death his near relations in England might be acquainted with it His said second Wife retired after his Majesties restoration to Oxon and living in an obscure condition in Cat-street died meanly on the 14 Nov. 1662 and was buried in S. Mâ—ries Church A fourth Sister named Robina was married to Peter French D. D. and after his death to Dr. John Wilkins as I have told you elsewhere whereby she hung upon and was maintained by the revenues of the Church to her last Oliver Cromwell had several Uncles whose descendents taking not part with him only one or two they were not prefer'd by him He had also five Aunts the eldest of which named Joane was married to Francis Barrington whose Son Robert was countenanced by Oliver The second named Elizabeth was Wife of John Hamden of Hamden in Bucks Father of John Hamden one of the 5. members of Parliament excepted against by K. Ch. 1 and a Colonel for the Parliament in the beginning of the rebellion which John lost his life in their service in June 1643. By this match Oliver Cromwell came to be related to the Ingoldesbies and Goodwins of Bucks The third named Frances was the second Wife of Rich. Whalley of Kirton in Nottinghamshire Father to Edward Whalley a Colonel in the Parliament Army one of the Kings Judges Commissary General in Scotland one of Olivers Lords and a Major General He fled from justice upon the approach of the return of K. Ch. 2 and lived and died in a strange Land But now after these large digressions let 's return to the rest of the Creations this year Feb. 16. Joshua Cross lately of Linc. Coll and sen Proctor now Fellow of that of Magd and Natural Philosophy Reader of the University by the authority of the Committee and Visitors was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon Soon after he left his Fellowship because he took to him a Wife but keeping his Readers place till his Majesties return was then discharg'd of it by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for the regulation of the University He died in his house near Magd. Coll. 9. May 1676 aged 62 years and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. In a meeting of the Delegates of the University the same day just before the Convocation began wherein Cross was created it was consulted among them that some Academical honour should be confer'd on Hierome Zanchy the Proctor then a Colonel in Ireland for the service of the Parliament At length it was Concluded that he should be adorned with the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the beginning of the next year but whether it was done oâ— that he was diplomated it appears not Doct. of Phys June 13. Thomas Sclater M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was created by vertue of the Commendatory Letters of the Chancellour of the University which say that he was put upon this recommendation by Sir Thom. Widdrington c. This Thomas Sclater was Burgess for the University of Cambridge to serve in Richards Parliament an 1658. Feb. 16. John Wilkinson sometimes of Magd. Hall now one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates He was nephew to Dr. John Wilkinson President of Magd. Coll and Brother to Dr. Henry Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall lived afterwards at Doncaster in Yorkshire where he practiced among the Godly party and dying in 1655 was buried at Arksey near to that place I have made mention of two of both his names that were Writers in the Fasti of the first vol. pag. 816. 817 but this John the Physitian was no Writer Mar. 7. Will. Petty about this time Fellow of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates of the University who had received sufficient testimony of his rare qualities and gifts from L. Col. Kelsey the Deputy Governour of Oxford Garrison Doct. of Div. July 24. Daniel Greenwood Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Brasn Coll
Dr. Alex. Hyde in the beginning of Aug. 1661 and at length Preb. of Winchester Rich. Owen B. D. of Oriel Coll. Tho. Good B. D. of Ball. Coll. Thomas Powell M. A. of Jes Coll. Will. Thomas M. A. of Jes Coll. The first of these two had performed his exercise for Bach. of Div. 20 years before this time The other was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say thus of him I have heard of the great worth and deserts of him as well in respect of his learning and orthodox judgment as of his most exemplary life and conversation who for divers years together hath lived in S. Wales c. He was afterwards B. of St. Dav. and Worc. successively These four last Doctors I have mention'd at large among the Writers in their respective places Byrom Eaton of Brasn Coll. He was soon after Principal of Gloc. Hall and when Dr. Barlow became Bish of Linc. he gave him first the Archdeaconry of Stow and afterwards that of Leycester in which last he was installed 8. Sept. 1683. All the said Doctors before mention'd from Guy Carleton to Byr. Eaton were created on the 2. of Aug. At the same time were letters from the Chancellor read for George Jay of Ch. Ch. to be created D. of D but being not present he was to be admitted when he made his appearance The said Letters speak thus of him He continued a Student of Ch. Ch. for the space of 20 years and upwards and in the year 1614 he proceeded M. of A and was first made Grammar Reader then Terrae filius at the publick Act and afterwards was made Chaplain to the Earl of Anglesie and after to the Duke of Bucks and then to Dr. White B. of Ely lately deceased And now his Majesty taking special notice of Mr. Jayes worth and abilities as also of his services done to him and his sufferings for him hath been graciously pleased without any privity or seeking of his own to give unto him an eminent preferment in the Church By reason of the late troubles he was forced beyond the Seas to save his life c. This Mr. Jay who was born of gentile parents in Dorsetshire but not admitted Doctor hath several Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Aug. 7. Raphael Throckmorton of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Linc. was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings for us and the Church c. He was installed Archdeacon of Linc. in the place of Morgan Wynne deceased an 1645 and dying on the second day of Febr. 1666 was buried in S. Andrews Church in Holbourne near London Aug. 7. Tho. Pierce M. A. of Magd. Coll. Aug. 7. Will. Creed B. D. of S. Joh. Coll. Aug. 7. Will. Owen of Mert. Coll. Aug. 7. Joh. Priaulx of Mert. Coll. The former of these two last was Treasurer of the Cathedral Ch. of S. David afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan and died in 1680. The other who was fourth Son of Peter Priaulx of Southampton and born and educated in Grammar there was admitted Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. of Merton an 1635 proceeded in Arts and soon after entred into the sacred function In the time of the rebellion he left the College sided with the men that were uppermost became Rector of Fovant in Wilts and afterwards Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians and Independents called ignorant scandalous and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654. After his Majesties restauration he became Preb. of Netherbury in terra in the Church of Salisbury D. of D. as before 't is said and being then esteem'd an excellent Theologist the Kings Professorship of Divinity was offer'd to him upon Dr. Sandersons promotion to the See of Linc but he modestly refusing it it was confer'd on Dr. William Creed In May 1671 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury in the place of Joh. Sherman deceased and dying at Salisbury on the second day of June 1674 was buried in the Cathedral Church there whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Thomas Lambert on the 12 day of the said month of June This Dr. Priaulx hath written Confirmation confirmed and recommended from Scripture antiquity and reason in a Sermon preached in the Cathedral Ch. of S. Mary in Salisbury at a solemn confirmation there administred by Humph. B. of Sarum on Acts 8.17 Lond. 1662 qu. Aug. 10. Jam. Lamb M. A. of S. Maries Hall 16 Thomas Washbourne Bac. of Div. of Ball. Coll. He was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is a learned pious and orthodox person Sept. 11. Matthew Smalwood B. D. of Brasn Coll. 20 Edw. Pocock B. D. Can. of Ch. Ch. 20 Rob. Townsend M. A. of New Coll. The last was installed Preb. of Bedford Minor in the Church of Linc. 9. Nov. 1660. Oct. 3. Joh. Fell M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. Oct. 3. Rich. Allestry M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. Oct. 3. Joh. Dolben M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. 10. Joh. Arthur a noted Theologist was diplomated by vertue of the Kings Letters written to the University in his behalf and unknown to him This Diploma was to pass because Mr. Arthurs great age would not permit him to take a journey to Oxon to be there presented in person He was Son if I mistake not of Laur. Arthur of Springfield in Essex and had been mostly educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge but ejected from his living at Capham in Surrey for Nonconformity an 1662. 17. Mirth Waferer of S. Alb. Hall Oct. 19. Joh. Doughtie B. D. of Mert. Coll. Preb. of Westm Oct. 19. Walter Jones B. D. of Ch. Ch. Preb. of Westm Oct. 19. Rich. Busby M. A. of Ch. Ch. Preb. of Westm The last of these is now living in the Coll. at Westminster and is an author and therefore he is hereafter to have a place among the Oxford Writers 30. Rich. Parr of Ex. Coll. In the month of Octob. were the Kings Letters dated 27 of Sept read in behalf of one Herbert Astley to be Doct. of Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not He was afterwards Dr. of Law of Cambridge as it seems Preb. and at length Dean of Norwich in which last Dignity he was installed on the second day of Sept. 1670 in the place of Dr. Joh. Croft deceased This person who was Son of Herb. Astley or Ashley rather of Plymouth in Devonshire was upon his accidental coming into Nâ—rfolk taken into the patronage of Sir Jac. and Sir Isaac Astley and by them who took him to be their kinsman was prefer'd to several Livings in those parts and marrying with a Hobart he was by the endeavours of that family promoted to the said Deanery He died in the month of May as it seems in 1681 and was inter'd in the Cath Ch. at Norwych near to the monument of Sir Hen. Hobart Nov. 9. Walter Dayrel or Darrell M.
there and I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same Franc. Fuller M. A. who published 1 A treatise of faith and repentance Lond 1684. 85. oct 2 Words to give to the young man knowledg and discretion or the law of kindness in the tongue of a Father to his Son Lond. 1685. oct c. These six last Masters were of the number of 31 Masters of Cambr. who were incorporated the next day after the conclusion of the Act July 14. Sept. 28. James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Visc Doncaster c. was incorporated M. A. as he had stood at Cambridge at which time the King Queen and their respective Courts were in Oxon He was presented by the University Orator with a flattering speech and in the plague year 1665 when the said King and Queen were at Oxon he was entred as a member in C. C. Coll. there This person who was the eldest natural Son of K. Ch. 2 was begotten on the body Mrs. Lucy Walters alias Barlow of Pembrokeshire as I have heard who as a spy was by Oliver imprisoned in the Tower of London in the beginning of 1656 but released thence in July the same year He was born at Roterdam in 1649 and for some time nurs'd there but when his Father K. Ch. 2. went into Scotland to be there crown'd by the Presbyterians he was being then known by the name of James Crofts committed to the care of his Grandmother Hen. Maria the Queen Mother of England then in France And what became of him afterwards a book written by S. T. a Novice and an unskilful author will tell you in his book entit An Historical Account of the heroick life and magnanimous actions of James Duke of Monmouth c. Lond. 1683. oct Which book câ—ming out in his life time I shall only add this that for raising a rebellion in the West parts of England in the beginning of K. Jam. 2 against whom he had acted several times very unworthily while he was Duke of York in order to the disinheriting him of the imperial Crown was taken carried to London committed to the Tower and at length on the 15 of July 1685 was beheaded on Tower-hill whereupon his body was buried in the Church or Chappel there dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula Having now this just opportunity laid before me I shall give you the names of all or most of the natural Children of the said K. Ch. 2. but before I begin with them you are to know that the said Mrs. Walters gave out that the said King did beget on her body a Daughter but because he would not own her I shall not number her among the Children She was first married to a Gentleman of Ireland and afterwards to Will. Fanshaw one of the Masters of the Requests The second was Charlott begotten on the body of ... Boyle Vicountess Shannon Sister to Tho. Killigrew Groom of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2 who was first married to .... Howard the only Son of Tho. Howard a younger Brother to the Earl of Suffolk and after his death to Will. Paston Son and Heir to Robert Vicount Yarmouth She died in her house in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westm 28. July 1684 and was buried without any Armes of her own because the King had not assign'd her any in the Abbey Church at Westminster 3 Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos Earl of Plymouth begotten on the body of Mrs. Catherine Pegge of Leycestershire afterwards the Wife of Sir Edw. Green of Essex Bt. This Ch. Fitz-Ch who had married one of the Daughters of Tho. Earl of Danby died of a Bloody-flux at Tangier a City in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa which had been given to K. Ch. 2. when he took to Wife Catherine the Infanta of Portugal on the 17 of Octob. 1680 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried as I presume in the Abbey Ch. of Westminster Qu. 4 Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton begotten on the body of Barbara Wife of Roger Palmer Esq afterwards Earl of Castlemaine and Daughter of Will. Villiers Lord Grandison which Lord dying of his wounds received at Edghill Battle in 1642 was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon over whose grave a stately monument was erected some years after his Majesties restauration by his said Daughter Barbara This Charles Fitz-Roy who was born in Kingstreet in Westm and was for some time a Nobleman or Canon Commoner of Ch. Ch married the Daughter and Heir of Sir Henry Wood sometimes one of the Clerks of the Spicery in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth by his second Wife the Daughter of Sir Tho. Gardiner sometimes Recorder of London This Dutchess of Southampton died without Issue near Whitehall in Nov. or Dec. 1680 and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster 5 Henry Fitz-Roy Earl of Ewsion and Duke of Grafton begotten on the body of the said Barbara Wife of Rog. Palmer This Henry whom the K. for a considerable time would not own to be his Son and therefore the titles of Charles Fitz-Roy were in case he die without heirs male of his body to descend to George Fitz Roy whom I shall anon mention married Isabel the only Child of Henry Earl of Arlington He died at Cork in Ireland of a wound received while that place was besieged by the Forces of K. Will. 3 on the ninth of Octob. 1690 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried at Ewston in Suffolk near the body of the said Earl of Arlington 6 Geor. Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland begotten on the body of the said Barbara He was born in a Fellows Chamber in Merton Coll 28. Decemb. 1665 at which time the Queen and her Court lodged in that Coll as the King did at Ch. Ch to avoid the plague then raging in Lond. and Westm In the latter end of the year in Jan. or Feb. 1685 there was committed a clandestine marriage between him and a Woman of ordinary extract Widow of one Captain Lucy of Charlecot in Warwickshire a Captain in the Earl of Oxfords Regiment but were as it seems soon after parted 7 Charles begotten on the body of Eleanor Quinn or Gwinn a Comedian in the Kings Play-house c. was born in Lincolns-Inn-Fields about the 14 or 15 of May 1670 had the Sirname of Beauclere given to him 27. of Dec. 28 of K. Ch. 2 being then created Earl of Burford c. He is now Duke of S. Albans 8 Charles Lenos Duke of Richmond begotten on the body of Lovisa de Querovall a Lady of French extraction and an attendant on Henrietta Dutchess of Orleans when she came into England to give a visit to the K. her Brother an 1670. She was afterwards made Duchess of Portsmouth 9 Charlot a Daughter begotten on the body of Barbara before mention'd then Countess of Castlemaine afterwards Duchess of Cleveland The said Charlot was
1674 and was there in some yard or burial place committed to the earth Doct. of Div. June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Nathan Bisbie of Ch Ch. The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes Physitian to Hen. Duke of Glocester afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society Physitian to the Queen Consort and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Creations June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk and a munificent Benefactor to this University by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Marshall of England an 1672 and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas who died distracted at Padua in the Dukedom of Norfolk This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January 1683 and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex He then left behind him a Widow which was his second Wife named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an antient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons Under this Duke of Norfolks name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna and from thence to Constantinople in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellour of State to his Imperial Majesty c. Lond. 1671. in tw Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mention'd was after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ Law created Master of Arts. On the 28 of January 1677 he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lords House and seated next before Will Lord Stourton by the name of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Fathers death Duke of Norfolk and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. See in the creations an 1684. After these two Henry Howards were created and seated one on the right and the other on the left hand of the Vicechancellour the publick Orator of the University stood up and in an excellent speech congratulated them especially the Father in the name of the University June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mention'd was then actually created Master of Arts This Thomas Howard who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created but was then absent was with his said Brother Henry Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury but they did not wear Gowns because both were then Rom. Catholicks The said Thomas afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptized became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq about the 12 of Mar. 1686 and afterwards upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine was sent Embassadour to Rome where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William Prince of Orange Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England but going thence about publick concerns to France in behalf of his Master the Ship wherein he was was cast away and he himself drowned about the beginning of the year 1690. June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch was created Mast of Arts He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory and is now Earl of Stamford c. Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll of 20 years standing was created M. of A. One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847 but whether this was I cannot yet tell Quaere In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library where improving himself much in Literature he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physick which he published An. Dom. 1669. An. 21. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University being never sworn thereunto or installed by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July the most high mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde Earl of Ossory and Brecknock L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold c. was unanimously elected Chancellour on the 4. of Aug having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ Law and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ Law and President of S. Johns Coll Sept. 23. Proct. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. Apr. 21. Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll but before he took the degree of Master he went to the Middle Temple and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683 and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased he was made Attorney to the Duke of York On the 16 of Oct. 1685 he was sworn L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and one of his Majesties K. Jam. 2. most honourable Privy Council whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Serjeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales his case Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answer'd by W. Atwood Barrester and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atkâ—ns Kt. of the Bath then late
the River of Boyne in the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonging to K. James 2 and soon after he expir'd at or near Tredagh An. Dom. 1690. An. 2. Will. 3. An. 2. Qu. Mary Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Edwards again Oct. 6. Proct. Franc. Browne of Mert. Coll. Apr. 30. Franc. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 30. Bach. of Arts. July 10. Edward Wells of Ch. Ch. He hath published Two Geographical Tables containing the principal Countries Kingdoms Provinces Islands c. of the now known world c. one in English and another in Latine and both printed at Oxon. 1690. Adm. 156. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or person of note Mast of Arts. May 5. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. He is author of Tabellae Dialectorum in Graecis Declinationibus c. Lond. 1691. oct c. 8. James Harrington of Ch. Ch. He is now a Barrister of the Inner Temple and hath written and published several books July 8. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall He was afterwards author of An amical call to repentance and the practical belief of Gospel as being the only way to have peace and content here c. Lond. 1691. 2. in tw c. Adm. 71. Bach. of Phys Eight were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Seven were admitted of whom Rob. Wynn of Jesus Coll a Compounder and Chancellour of the Diocese of S. Asaph was one June 26. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 28. Nich. Stanley of All 's Coll. He compounded and accumulated July 10. Will. Boyse of C. C. Coll. He accum Doct. of Div. May 31. Tho. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. He was elected Warden of his Coll upon the promotion of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Bristow on the 21 of Octob. 1689. June 21. Matthew Hutton of Brasn Coll. Comp. July 8. Joh. Price of Ch. Ch. July 8. Franc. Morley of Ch. Ch. July 8. Thom. Burton of Ch. Ch. The two first of these three were Compounders and Accumulators Incorporations The Act being the sixth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated only one which was before the time of Act. Two also were incorporated from Dublin Creations May 22. George Royse of Oriel Coll was actually created Doct. of Div. On the first of Dec. 1691 he was elected Provost of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Rob. Say deceased Dec. 11. Francis Lord North Baron of Guilford a Nobleman of Trin. Coll was after he had been presented by the Dep. Orator actually created Master of Arts being then about to leave the University His Father Sir Francis North second Son of Dudâ—ey Lord North was from being L. Ch. Just of the Common-pleas advanced to the honorable office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England on the 20 of Dec. 1682 and in Sept. 1683 he was for his great and faithful services that he had rendred the Crown created a Baron of this Kingdom by the name and stile of Baron of Guilford in Surrey He died at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordshire on the 5 of Sept. 1685 and was privately buried in a vault under part of the Church there among the ancestors of his Wife named Frances the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland uncle to Thomas the last Earl of Downe of the straight or linial descent of that family who died at Oxon in the year 1660 as I have told you in the 397 page of this book But whereas 't is said there that he married the eldest daughter and coheir is an errour for it was the second the first named Beata having been married to Will. Some of Suffolk Esquire and the youngest named Finetta to Robert Hyde Esq Son of Alexander sometimes Bishop of Salisbury Sir George Makenzie of Rosehaugh de Valle Rosarum in the County of Rosse in Scotland having left that Country upon the change of the Government there and violent proceedings of the Kâ—rk party an 1689 he retired to Oxon in the month of Sept. that year became a Sojournour there for a time a frequenter of the publick Library and on the second day of June 1690 he was by the favour of the Ven. Congregation of Regents admitted a Student therein where he continued all that Summer This most worthy and loyal Gentleman Son of Simon Makenzie Brother to the Earl of Seaforth by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of a Gentleman of an antient and heroick Extraction named Dr. And. Bruce Rector of the University of S. Andrew was born at Dundee in the County of Angus an 1636 and having an ardent desire from his Childhood for the obtaining of good Letters he was at about 10 years of age at which time he had conquered his Grammar and the best classical authors sent to the University of Aberdene where and afterwards in that of S. Andrew he ran through the Classes of Logick and Philosophy under the tuition of several eminent Masters before he was scarce 16 years of age Afterwards applying his studies with great zeal to the Civil Law he travelled into France and in the University of Bourges he continued in an eager pursuit of that faculty for about three years time After his return to his native Country he became an Advocate in the Courts at Edenburgh being then scarce 20 years of age and in 1661 he was made choice of to be an Advocate for pleading the causes of the Marquess of Argyle and afterwards became a Judge in the criminal Court which office he performed with great faith justice and integrity In 1674 or thereabouts he was made the Kings Lord Advocate and one of his Privy Council and notwithstanding the great troubles and molestations that arose from the fanatical party yet he continued in those places and stood steady faithful and just in the opinion of all good and loyal men till the beginning of the raign of K. James 7 at which time being averse in lending his assistance to the taking away of the penal laws he was removed and Sir Joh. Dalrimple now Secretary of State in Scotland under K. Will. 3. was put into his place Some time after his removal he was restored and continued L. Advocate and Privy Counsellour till K. Will. 3. made a revolution in Scotland and then he went into England as I have before told you He was a Gentleman well acquainted with the best authors whether antient or modern of indefatigable industry in his studies great abilities and integrity in his profession powerful at the Bar just on the Bench an able Statesman a faithful Friend a loyal Subject a constant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities of strict honour in all his actions and a zealous Defender of piety and religion in all places and companies His conversation was pleasant and useful severe against vice and loose principles without regard to quality or authority a great lover of the Laws
Lel. p. 8. (h) Ibid. p. 7. (i) Ib. p. 8. (*) Printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. p 17 (*) It is to be observed that when with some difficulty he obtained leave to kiss the Kings hand after his return from exile he out of guilt fell backward as he was kneeling 1662. (*) 'T is said that one Mrs. Catherine Johnson a pretender to Prophecy did some time before tell Will. Lenthall that the Oath of Abjuration against the Royal Family should be endeavoured to pass in Parliament which if he would deny he should afterwards be forgiven for what he had done against the King So that upon her warning he upon the proposal of that Oath absented himself from the House for about ten days under pretence of the Gout See more in a book intit The mystery and method of his Majesties happy Restauration c. by Joh. Price D. D. Lond. 1680. oct p. 40. 1662. (a) In his Anti-Baal-Berith p. 275.276 (b) Farther continuation of the Friendly Debate Lond. 1670. in oct p. 147.148 (c) The Author of The fourth Plea of the Conformists for the Non-Conformists Lond. 1683. qu. in a Postscript at the end (d) In Mr. Hooker's life written by Isaac Walton (e) In a book intit Mirabilis annus secundus or the second year of prodigies Being a true and partial Collection of many strange signes c. printed 1662. num 21. p. 86.87 (f) Tim. Rogers (g) Wethersfield in Essex 1662. (a) The Author of The Nonconformists vindicated from the abuses put upon them by Durell and Scrivner c. Lond. 1679. p. 70. (b) See the Life of Archb. Laud written by P. Heylyn part 2. an 1639 1662. 1662. (*) Dr. Joh. Williams 166◠3. (a) Reg Matric P. pag. 395 (*) Will. Assheton in his Epistle before Bish Sandersons Discourse of the Church c. before mention'd 1662 3. 166◠3. 1663. 1663. (*) See in a book intit Canterburies Doome c. published by Will. Prynne (†) The said Articles were answer'd by R. M. 1663. 1663. (*) Joh. Horne 1663. 1663. 1663. 1663. 1663. 1663. 1663. (a) In Gestis Cancellariatus Vniv Oxon. Gul. Laud MS. p. 28. (b) Ibid. p. 27. 1663 4. Clar. 1663. Clar. 1663. Clar. 1663. 1664. (a) See the Acts in the book called The Looking-glass pag. 43.44 1664. 1664. 1664. 1664 5. 1664 5. 1664 5. Clar. 1664. Clar. 1664. Clar. 1664. (a) See in a book entit A Pearl in an Oyster-shel or pretious treasure put in perishing vessels c. Lond. 1675. oct pen'd by Richard Moore sometimes Rector of Aldchurch in Worcestersh ejected thence for Nonconformity and now 1682 lives at Wetherock-hill near Kings Norton in the said County 1665. (*) Pet. Heylyn in his letter Combate Lond. 1659. p. 82. (a) Sober sadness or historical observations upon the proceedings c. Oxon. 1643. p. 32. (b) See Canterb. Doome p. 173. (c) Letter from Mer. Civic to Mer Rustic printed 1643. p. 9. (*) In Dr. Jo. Hinkley's Fascic literarum Lond. 1680. oct pag. 34. (†) See in Is Basire in his Sacriledge arraigned Lond. 1668. sec Edit in the Preface 1665. (a) It should be 2 Ed. 6. Dom. 1649. (b) 'T is in oct H. 138. Th. in bib Bod. pr. at Lond. 1663. (c) The book is interleaved and therein as in the Margin he hath noted many things with his own hand (d) Edw. Leigh in his Treatise of Religion and Learning c. lib. 3. cap. 15. (e) As in the book of Nativities collected by Dr. Rich. Napier of Buckinghams MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq and in an Almanack for 1673 published by Joh. Gadbury (f) In his Vnderwoods pag. 243. (g) So in Sir Ken. Digby's Epitaph made by R. Ferrar. (h) Hen. Stubbe in his Animadversions upon the Plus Ultra of Mr. Glanvill p. 161. 1665. (†) Franc. Lord Bacon 1665. 1665. 1665. 1665. (a) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. p. 367. b. 368. b. 369. a. b. 370. a. 386. a. 389. a. 391. a. b. 394. a. 398. b. 400. a. b. 402. a. b. 403. b. 404. a. 405. a. 407. a. 408. a. 410. b. 411. a. b. 413. b. lib. 2. p. 34. b. 305. a. (b) Reg. Convocat Univ. Oxon. T. p. 97. 1665. 1665. (*) In the Memoires of noble and reverend Personages written by Dav. Lloyd Lond. 1668. fol. p. 521. 1665. 1665. 1665. (a) Ser. Cressy in his Epist Apologetical p. 46.47 (b) See in The life of Mr. Rich. Hooker Lond. 1670. p. 95. written by Is Walton 1665. 1665. (c) In Anthropos Theomag p. 53.54 (d) Ibid. p. 63. (e) In his Man-Mouse p. 114. 1665 6. 1666. 1666. 1666. (a) In the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Vsher's Life fol. p. 261.270 c. 1666. (b) In Offic. Armorum H. 8. fol. 32. b. 1666. 1666. 1666. (c) Sebast Smith D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rich. Croke Recorder of the City of Oxon. 1666. (*) So I have been informed by his Son the Butler of Furnivals inn in Holbourn near London 1666. (a) Lib. matric P. pag. 473. (b) In his Epist or familiar Letters vol. 1. §. 6. nu 60. 1666. (a) See in the Mysterie of the good old Cause c. Lond. 1660. oct p. 11. 1666. (*) D. Lloyd in his Memoires c. p. 600. 1666. 1666. 1666 7. Clar. 1666. 1667. (a) See in the beginning of our Authors book intit Abuses whipt and stript and there you 'll find an account of himself while he studied in the Univ. of Oxon. 1667. 1667. 1667. (a) Lib. matric PP fol. 78. b. (b) Dr. Lazarus Seaman 1667. 1667. (a) See Dr. Geo. Rusts Sermon at Bish Taylors funeral (b) Hen. Jeanes in his Epist to the reader before Certain letters between him and Jer. Taylor Lond. 1660. (c) G. Rust ut sup (*) Ibid. (d) Tho. Long in his Preface to the book entit Mr. Hales his Treatise of Schisme c. (e) Ibid. See also in Responsio Roberti Grovii ad lib. qui inscrib Celeusma c. Lond. 1680. qu. p. 80. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1667. (a) In his Poems called Fragmenta aurea Lond. 1648. oct p. 8. (†) The said Sir Joh. Suckling was made one of the principal Secretaries of State 30 of March 1622. So Camden in his Annals of K. James 1. an 1622. (†) Thomas Walkley in his New Catalogue of the Dukes Marques Earls Viscounts Barons of England c. also Baronets Kts c. Lond. 1658. oct p. 163. 1668. 1668. 1668. 1668. 1668. (a) The marriage was consummated 4. Oct. 1655. So Theodosia his Widow in The narrative of his life from his silencing to his death p. 91. (b) In the Introduction before Jos Alleines life p. 17. 1668. (c) Printed at Lond. 1672 and 1677 in a large octavo 1668. (a) So have I been informed by the Letters of James Webb of Butleigh in Somersetsh Gent. Son of John Webb who married the Cosin German of the said Inigo Jones 166◠(b) John Durell in his S. Ecclesiae Anglicanae
have mention'd in the first vol. of this work under the year 1621 by Joan his wife daughter of Hen. Freeman of Staffordshire was born in the same house and chamber at Wornal in Bucks wherein his father had received his first breath in the month of January 1591. and was baptized there on the 16 of the said month educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordsh and partly in the College School at Westminster from which last he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1608 being then put under the tuition of a noted Tutor Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders became a most florid preacher and successively Chapl. in ord to K. Jam. 1. of pious memory Archdeacon of Colchester Residentiary of S. Pauls Cathedral Canon of Ch. Ch Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 D. of D. and Dean of Rochester in which Dignity he was installed 6. Febr. 1638 but whether in the room of Dr. John Richardson who occurs Dean of that Church in Apr. 1636 in which month and year he died or in that of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall who had the grant of the Deanery of Durham made to him in 1638 but not installed therein till May 1639 I cannot justly tell In 1641 he was made Bishop of Chichester being one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late promoted to that honorable office to which being consecrated at Westminster as it seems on the 19. of Decemb. the same year sate there without any removal saving only that by the members of the Long Parliament to the time of his death When he was young he delighted much in the studies of Musick and Poetry which with his wit and fancy made his conversation much accepted When he was elder he applied himself to Oratory and Philosophy and in his reduced age fixed on Divinity in which faculty he became eminent as his Sermons partly shew which remain'd fresh in the minds of his Auditors many years after his death His works are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached at Pauls cross 25. Nov. 1621. upon occasion of that false and scandalous report lately printed touching the supposed apostacy of Dr. John King late B. of Lond. on Joh. 15.20 Lond. 1621. qu. To which is added The examination of Tho. Preston taken before the Archb. of Cant. at Lambeth 20. Dec. 1621 concerning his being the author of the scandalous report of Bishop Kings apostacy 2 Davids enlargement the morning Sermon on Act Sunday on Psalm 32.5 Oxon. 1625. qu. See more in John King in the first vol. an 1638. p. 526. 3 Sermon of deliverance at the Spittle on Easter Munday on Psal 91.3 Printed 1626. qu. 4 Two Sermons at Whitehall in Lent on Eccles 12.1 and on Psal 55.6 Printed 1627. in qu. 5 Serm. at Pauls on his Maj. inauguration on Jer. 1.10 Printed 1640. in qu. 6 Sermon at Whitehall 29. May being the happy day of his Maj. inauguration and birth on Ezek. 21.27 Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Serm. at the funeral of Brian Bishop of Winchester in the Abbey Ch. of Westm 24. Apr. 1662 on Psal 116.15 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 Visitation Serm. at Lewis 8. Oct. 1662 on Titus 2.1 Lond. 1663. qu. 9 Sermon preached 30. Jan. 1664 at Whitehall being the day of the Kings Martyrdome on 2 Chron. 35.24.25 Lond. 1665. qu. Exposition on the Lords Prayer delivered in certain Sermons on Matth. 6.9 c. Lond. 1628. qu. It must be now observed that this worthy Bishop being at divine Service on Sunday in a certain Church at Langley I think in Bucks and hearing there a Psalm sung whose wretched expression quite marr'd the Pen-mans matter and his devotion he did at his return home that evening try whether from the version of our Bible he could not easily and with plainess suiting the lowest understanding deliver it from that garb which indeed made it ridiculous From one to another he passed on until the whole book was run through Which done he could not resist the advice and importunity of better judgments than his own to put it to the press He was as he confess'd discouraged knowing that Mr. George Sandys and then lately one of our pretended Reformers had failed in two different extremes The first too elegant for the vulgar use changing both meter and tunes wherewith they had been long acquainted the other as flat and poor as lamely worded and unhandsomly rimed as the old which with much confidence he undertook to amend He therefore ventur'd in a middle way as he himself said aiming without affectation of words and endeavouring to leave them not disfigur'd in the sense This version soon after came out with this title The Psalmes of David from the new translation of the Bible turn'd into meter to be sung after the old tunes used in Churches Lond. 1651. 54. in tw c. He hath also written Poems Elegies Paradoxes and Sonnets Lond. 1657. oct When these poems were first published all the report was that Dr. Philip King Brother to the said Hen. King was the author and thereupon it was put into the Bodleian Catalogue under the said Philips name Several letters Among which are extant one or more to the famous Dr. Usher Primat of Ireland and another to Isaac Walton concerning the three imperfect books of Rich. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie dat 13. Nov. 1664. Pr. at Lond. 1665. oct Divers Lat. and Gr. poems Many of which are extant in several books What remains to be observ'd of this Prelate is that he was always puritannically affected and therefore to please the Puritan he was promoted to the See of Chichester That after Episcopacy was silenced by the Long Parliament he mostly lived in the house of Sir Rich. Hobart who had married his Sister at Langley near to Colebrook in Bucks That being restored to his See at the return of K. Ch. 2. became esteemed by many persons of his neighbourhood and diocess the Epitome of all honors virtues and generous nobleness and a person never to be forgotten by his Tenants and by the Poor That also being not removed to a better See became discontented as I have heard and a favourer thereupon of the Presbyterians in his Diocess And lastly that dying on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried on the South side of the Choir near the Communion Table belonging to the Cathedral Church of Chichester Soon after was a comly monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was antiquâ eâque regiâ Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi prosapiâ oriundus that he was natalium splendore illustris pietate doctrinâ virtutibus illustrior c. Near to his body was in short time after buried his eldest Son named John to whose as also to the memory of the said Bishop King did his Widow Anne Daughter of Sir Will. Russell of Strensham in Worcestersh
Kt and Bt now the Wife of Sir Tho. Millington Dr. of Phys erect the said monument at her proper charges JOHN TRAPP Son of Nich. Trapp of Kemsey as it seems in Worcestershire was born at Crome D'abitot commonly called Crumdebitot in the same County 5 June 1601 educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a Kings scholar under Mr. Hen. Bright in the Free-school at Worcester and made great proficiency in the three learned Languages In 1618 he made his Academical entry into Ch. Ch. and lived there some years in the condition as it seems of a Servitour under the tuition of Mr. George Jay a Student of that house and partly by the benefaction of Dr. Corbet then Dean thereof After he had compleated the degree of Master of Arts an 1624 he was invited to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire to teach a Free school there where shewing great industry in that employment had the small Vicaridge of Weston upon Avon in Glocestersh about two miles from his school confer'd upon him both which places with the Church of Luddington in Warwicksh for some time he kept about 47 years He was by those of the puritannical party esteemed to be a person endowed with several virtuous qualifications and to be one of the prime Preachers of his time Yet this the Reader must know that upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and in his Preachings and Discourses became violent against the King his Cause and his Adherents yet lost nothing for so doing but was a gainer by it as he was by the publication of these books following taken into the hands and admired by the Brethren but by others not Gods Love-tokens or the afflicted mans lessons brought to light and laid before him c. on Rev. 3.19 Lond. 1637. oct Theologia Theologiae or a true treasure of holy truths touching Gods word and God in the word Being a discourse on Hebr. 1. ver 1.2.3 Lond. 1641. oct Comment upon the four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles When this was first published I know not sure I am that his Exposition of S. Joh. the Evang. was pr. at Lond. 1646. qu. Comment upon all the Epistles of the Apostles and upon the Revelation Pr. in qu. A decad of common places Pr. in qu. Clavis to the Bible Or a new comment upon the Pentateuch or 5 books of Moses wherein are first difficult places explained 2 Controversies discussed c. Lond. 1650. qu. Comment on Joshua Judges Ruth first and second of Sam. first and sec of Kings and first and sec of Chronicles Solomonis ΠΑÎΑ′ΡΕΤΟΣ or a Commentary upon the books of Proverbs Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs wherein the text is explained some controversies are discussed divers common places are handled c. Lond. 1650. qu. Com. or Exposition upon all the books of the New Test wherein the text is explained some controversies are discussed c. with a Decad upon these ten heads Abstinence Admonition Alms Ambition Angels Anger Apostacy Arrogance Arts and Atheism Lond. 1656. fol. sec edit with the Authors picture before it In this folio book are contained the Comment on the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles Com. upon the Epistles of the Apost and upon the Rev. as also A Decad of com places before mention'd Com. or Exposition upon the twelve minor Prophets Wherein the text is explained some controversies discussed c. Lond. 1654. fol. The righteous mans recompence Or a true Christian characterized and encouraged Grounded on Malac. 3.16.17.18 Printed with the Com. or Expos upon the twelve min. Proph. Com. on Proverbs Ecclesiastes the Song of Songs Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel and Daniel Lond. 1656 and 60. fol. In this folio is contained the Com. on the Proverbs Eccles and Song of Songs before mentioned which were pr. in qu. 1650. Com. on Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job and Psalmes Lond. 1656. fol. At length this voluminous Author paying his last debt to nature on the 17 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire before mentioned near to the grave of sometimes wife What other things he left behind him fit for the press I know not Since my writing of this I find that our Author Trapp was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Warwickshire for the ejection of such whom they then in Olivers Raign called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters WILLIAM PRYNNE a most noted and frequent Writer of his time was born at Swainswick near Bathe in Somersetshire an 1600 at which time his Father as afterwards this his son whom we now mention was a Tenant to Oriel Coll. educated in Grammar learning as I conceive within the same City of Bathe became a Commoner of the said Coll. of Oriel under the tuition of Giles Widdowes an 1616 took one degree in Arts in 1620 went afterwards to Linc. Inn to obtain knowledge in the Common Law where he was made successively Barrester utter Barrester Bencher and Reader At his first coming to that Inn he became a great follower and admirer of that noted Puritan Dr. John Preston then Lecturer there who finding him to be of an enterprizing nature hot-spirited and eager in pursuit of any thing that was put into him he was looked upon by Preston and his party as the fittest person to adventure upon such exploits which a more sober and considerate man durst not have appeared in Whereupon he was put into the road of writing not without the helps and advice of Preston and the Brethren and having made or gotten a Common-place-book published several matters against the loosness and debauchery so he took it of the times as against drinking of healths long or womanish hair Stage-plays wherein the Queen Henr. Maria was in a gross manner reflected upon several times and other matters relating to the Church Discipline and Members thereof which were altogether looked upon as aliene from his profession and pragmatical and impudent for him so to do About the time of Christmas an 1632 he published a book intit Histriomastix c. wherein breathing out nothing but disgrace to the Nation infamy to the Church reproaches to the Court dishonour to the Queen and some things which were thought to be tending to the destruction of his Majesties person as Dr. Pet. Heylyn an enemy to our Author Prynne tells us great complaints therefore were made of that book notwithstanding it had been licensed by Mr. Tho. Buckner Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury Before I go forward with this matter you may be pleased to hear what a certain Author saith of it thus About this time meaning the latter end of 1632 Mr. Prynne published his book called Histrio-mastix by license of Archb. Abbot's Chaplain which being against Plays and a reference in the table of the book to this effect Women actors notorious Whores relating
Tho. Hoy of S. Joh. Coll. Adm. 132. Bach. of Phys Five Bachelaurs of Physick were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. June 15. Rob. Huntingdom of Mert. Coll. 22. Rog. Altham of Ch. Ch. On the 24 of Nov. 1691 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. Edw. Pococke deceased Jul. 4. Tho. Sayer of S. Joh. Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Surrey Adm. 11. Doct. of Law Jun. 22. John Conant of Mert. Coll. He is now an Advocate in Doctors Commons c. Doct. of Phys May 9. Will. Gibbons of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 4. David Williams of Oriel Coll. The last of these two accumulated the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. Jun. 15. Abrah Campion of Trin. Coll. Jun. 15. Rob. Huntingdon of Mert. Coll. The first of these two was a Compounder the other who was an Accumulator was lately made Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin and on the 31 of March 1692 was nominated Bish of Kilmore 22. Tho. Smith of Magd. Coll. 22. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. The last was soon after made Bishop of the Isle of Man Jul. 2. Tho. Turner of C. C. Coll. Comp. Jul. 2. Will. Turner of Trin. Coll. Comp. The first of these two who were brothers and both the sons of Dr. Tho. Turner sometimes Dean of Canterbury was installed Archd. of Essex in the place of Dr. Edward Layfield deceased in January 1680 was elected President of C. C. Coll. on the death of Dr. Neulin 13 March 1687 and after the death of Dr. Crowther he became Chantor of S. Pauls Cath. in London c. He hath published A sermon preached in the Kings Chap. at Whitehall 29 May 1685 on Isay 1.26 Lond. 1685. qu. At which time he was Chap. in ord to his Maj. The other Dr. Will. Turner had been collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland on the death of Dr. Is Basire 30 Oct. 1676 and dying in Oxon 20 Apr. 1685 aged 45 or thereabouts was buried in the Church of S. Giles there near to the monument of Alderman Henr. Bosworth father to Elizabeth mother to the wife of the said Dr. W. Turner Jul. 2. Tho. Beale of C. C. Coll. Jul. 2. Tho. Bevan of Jes Coll. The last of these two who is now beneficed in his native Country of Wales hath written The Prayer of Prayers or the Lords Prayer expounded Lond. 1673. oct dedicated to Nich. Lloyd M. A. and Tho. Guidott Bach. of Physick of Wadh. Coll. 5. Henr. Maurice of Jes Coll. 5. Jam. Jeffryes of Jes Coll. The first was a Compounder the other had been installed Canon of Canterbury 8 Nov. 1682 by the endeavours of his brother Sir George Jeffryes and died in few years after 6. Nich. Hall of Wadh. Coll. a Compounder He was now Treasurer and Can. resid of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter which he obtained by the favour of Dr. A. Sparrow Bishop thereof whose daâ— or else near Kinswoman he had married Incorporations Eighteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated after the Act Jul. 10 among whom were Adam Oatley of Trin. Hall as also one John Lowthorpe of S. Johns Coll. in that University afterwards Author of A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury Dr. Burnet in answer to his Lordships pastoral Letter printed in 5 sh and an half in qu. in July 1690 Which being esteemed a pernitious scandalous seditious and notorious Libel against the K. and Government c. he the said Mr. Lowthorpe was indicted for high misdemeanour in Sept. following at the Sessions in the Old Bayly in London And the matter being fully proved against him he was fined 500 Marks and condemned to be degraded of his Ministerial Function the 400 Copies also of the said Letter to the L. B. of Salisbury c. that were found in his custody were then ordered to be burnt by the common Hangman in the Pallace yard at Westminster at Charing Cross and without Temple Barr. Jul. 11. Joh. Eliot Doct. of Phys of Cath. Hall in Cambr. Mar. 4. Edw. Gee M. A. of S. Johns Coll. in the said Univ was then incorporated This learned Divine who is of the Gees of Manchester in Lancash is now Rector of S. Benedicts Church near Pauls Wharf in London and Chapl. in ord to their Majesties King Will. â— and Q. Mary He hath written and published several books mostly against Popery which came out in the Reign of K. Jam. 2 the titles of which I shall now for brevity sake omit CREATIONS Mar. 26. Sir George Wheeler Kt sometimes Gent. Com. of Linc. Coll was actually created Mast of Arts. He had been before recommended to the Members of the ven Convocation for that degree by the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University who by their Letters told them that He is a person of great integrity and affection to the interests of Learning and the Church that he had spent several years in travel in the eastern parts and had brought back with him divers pieces of Antiquity and as a testimony of his respects and kindness to his Mother the University hath deposited them in this place c. This Gent. who about the same time took holy Orders was in the month of Dec 1684 installed Preb. of Durham upon the promotion of Dr. Dennis Greenvill to the Deanery thereof and is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers In the month of May his Royal Highness James Duke of York with his Royal Consort Josepha Maria or Beatricia Maria with the Lady Anne his daughter were entertain'd by the University of Oxon and it being the Duke's pleasure that some of his retinew should be created Doctors of the Civil Law there was a Convocation celebrated in the morning of that day May 22 of his departure wherein these following persons were created Doctors of that faculty viz. Doct. of Law John Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Baron of Ophalia in Ireland Christopher Lord Hatton Visc Gretton Governour of Garnsey or Guernsey I have made mention of his father in these Fasti among the created Doctors of Law in 1642. Heneage Finch eldest son of Heneage Earl of Winchelsea Captain of the Kings Halbadiers and one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York Joh. Werden Bt Secretary to the said Duke Joh. Conway Bt. Hugh Grosvener Esq Tho. Cholmondeley Esq Joh. Egerton Esq The second of these last three was afterwards a Knight for Cheshire to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 19 May 1685. 1 Jac. 2. May 23. Rob. Bulkley second son of Rob. Lord Bulkley Visc Cashels in Ireland He was nominated the day before to be created but did not then appear as others then nominated did not at that time or afterwards Among such were Henry Mâ—rdant Earl of Peterborough and Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon which last who was son of James Earl of Roscommon was educated from his youth in all kind of polite Learning but whether he had spent any time in
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest