Axe-yard joyning to Kingstreet within the City of Westminster where he died in the very beginning of the year about 25 of March sixteen hundred fifty and four but where he was buried I cannot tell for the register of S. Margarets Church wherein Axe-yard is situated mentions him not to have been buried in that Parish Now as for John Lilbourne before-mention'd he having been very famous for his infamy I shall say these things of him He was born of a good Family at Thickley-Punchardon in the County Pal. of Durham and when very young was sent to London and bound an Apprentice to a packer of Cloth in S. Swithins-lane At which time and before he was esteemed a youth of an high and undaunted spirit of a quick and pregnant apprehension and of an excellent memory yet always after much addicted to contention novelties opposition of Government and to violent and bitter expressions About the year 1632 he upon the dislike of his trade had a mind to study the common Law and therefore upon his and the desire of his friends he was taken into the service of Mr. Will Prynne of Linc. Inn who shortly after suffering for his Histrio-Mastix as I shall tell you at large when I come to him his Servant Lilbourne took his Masters part imprinted and vended a book or books against the Bishops for which being committed Prisoner to the Fleet was afterwards whipped at a Carts tail from the said Fleet to Westminster the indignity of which he being not able to endure railed all the way against his Persecutors When he came to the Pallace yard he stood in the Pillory two hours and talking there to the People against the State was gagg'd In 1640 he was released from his Prison by the Members of the Long Parliament and soon after took upon him the place of a Captain in their Service and after the battle of Edghill being taken Prisoner at Brainford in the year 1642 was carried to Oxon and there arraigned for a Traytor for levying War against the Person of the King Afterwards he being released he was made a Lieutenant Colonel and became for a time the Idol of the factious party But he being naturally a great trouble-world in all the variety of Governments became a hodg-podg of Religion the chief ringleader of the Levellers a great proposal maker and modeller of state and publisher of several seditious Pamphlets among which were 1 A Salva Libertate 2 Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his Son in Law Hen. Ireton Esq 3 The outcry of the young men and the Apprentices of Lond. or an inquisition after the loss of the fundamental Laws and Liberties of England c. 4 The legal fundamental Liberties of the People of England revived 5 Preparation to an hue and crie after Sir Arth. Haselrig c. For which and for his endeavors to disturb the peace and subvert the Government of this Nation he was committed Prisoner to Newgate in Aug. 1645 where continuing a considerable while several Petitions subscribed by hundreds of Citizens and others as also by his Wife and many Women were put up to the Parliament for his releasment Afterwards he was transmitted to the Tower where having too much liberty allowed him he and his party spake very disgracefully of the two Houses of Parliament to whom it appeared that there was a design of many thousands intended under a colour of Petition to dishonour the Parliament and their proceedings whereupon his liberty was restrained and he was ordered to appear at the bar of the H. of Commons This was in Jan. 1647 and accordingly appearing he made a large answer to the information against him at which time the reading of proofs and examination of the business held till six of the Clock at night and then the House ordered that he be remanded to the Tower and tried by the Law of the Land for seditious and scandalous practices against the State Which order being not obeyed for his party withheld him under a pretence of a great meeting to be at Deptford in Kent about their Petition that is The Petition of many thousands of the free-born People of England c. it was ordered that the Officers of the Guards do assist the Sergeant in carrying him and Maj. Jo. Wildman to Prison which was done and that the Committee of Kent take care to suppress all meetings upon that Petition and to prevent all tumults and that the Militia of London c. take care to suppress such meetings and to prevent inconveniencies which may arise thereby and upon the said Petition Afterwards he seems to have been not only set at liberty but to have had reparations made for his sentence in the Star Chamber and sufferings before the Civil War began But he being of a restless spirit as I have told you published a Pamphlet entit Englands new Chains discovered c. which was the bottom and foundation of the Levellers design of whom he was the Corypheus Whereupon being committed again about the beginning of 1649 was brought to his trial in the Guild-hall where after great pleadings to and fro he was quitted by his Jury to the great rejoycing of his party Afterwards he went into the Netherlands and there as 't is said became acquainted with the Duke of Buckingham Lord Hopton Captain Titus c. At length being desirous to see his native Country he returned into England where after he had continued some time in his projects to disturb the Government he was apprehended and committed to Newgate and at length brought to his trial at the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie 20. Aug. 1653. but quitted again by his Jury Soon after he was conducted to Portsmouth in order to his conveyance beyond the Seas but by putting in for his peaceable deportment for the future he return'd fell into the acquaintance of the Quakers became one of them setled at Eltham in Kent where somtimes he preached and at other times at Wollidge and was in great esteem among that party At length departing this mortal life at Eltham on Saturday 29. of Aug. 1657 his body was two days after conveyed to the house called The Mouth near Aldersgate in London which was then the usual meeting place of Quakers Whence after a great controversie among a strange medley of People there mostly Quakers whether the Ceremony of a Hearse-cloth should be cast over his Coffin which was carried in the negative it was conveyed to the then new burial place in Morefields near to the place called now Old Bedlam where it was interred This is the Person of whom the magnanimous Judge Jenkins used to say that if the World was emptied of all but John Lilbourne Lilbourne would quarrel with John and John with Lilbourne This Jo. Lilbourne who was second Son of Rich. Lilbourne Esq by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Thom. Hixon of Greenwich in the County of Kent Yeoman of the Wardrobe to Qu. Elizabeth had
rest was to apply himself to God by Prayer to require his immediate direction and guidance After many of these religious Consults during the continuance of their being dissatisfied two persons professing themselves Anabaptists retired to Lydde and under the title of Messengers of God desired of our Author the libeâ—ty of using his Pulpit the next Lords day whâ—ch motion he seemed very inclinable to grant but the Church-Wardens strictly forbad it Whereupon the said Anabaptists on the Saturday following preached by turns in the open Market-place amongst a great concourse of people wherein our Author had placed himself so near as to have the conveniency of hearing their several Harangues In the conclusion our Author desired a conference with them and after some debate he publickly disowned his former Tenents revolted from the Ch. of England and was immediately re-baptized positively affirming that this opportunity was the return which God had made to his foregoing Fasts and Prayers and with this plausible pretence he gained several Proselites renounced his Cure and zealously propagated his opinions as well by keeping a constant Conventicle as by publick Challenges and Disputes with several of the neighbouring Ministers and writing several controversial Pamphlets all reprinted in fol. as I shall anon tell you About 8 or 9 years after his Apostacy he turned a very zealous Quaker and in the company of one of that Sect he undertook a Voyage to Rome whether under pretence of converting the Pope I cannot say it Upon their return thence about 1658 his companion was in a very poor miserable condition but our Author in a very gentile Equipage having been as 't was credibly supposed in Kent made in his absence a Rom. Priest In the year following he as a Quaker held a publick disputation at Sandwich with Mr. Tho. Danson as I shall tell you anon wherein several Proposals being made to him about his Religion he first denied not that he had been at Rome but that he received a pension from the Pope he utterly denied which then as 't was said was very probable if not true for it was reported from very good hands that in his late Travels to Constantinople and thence to Rome he had as good bills of Exchange as most Gentlemen that travel and yet it was well known then that he had no visible Estate and the Quakers that came to the Dispute did report that he did bear his witness against the Pope and Cardinals of Rome and yet they suffered him not to be medled with c. Secondly it was sworn by sufficient and credible men of Sandwich that had some discourse with him at Dunkirk that he told them that he looked upon the Jesuits and Friers there to be sounder in Doctrine than those we call the Reformed Churches And thirdly that on the first day of the Dispute he made very light of the charge of Popery against him when Amesius against Bellarmine was produced and with a gesture of derision he replied that Bellarmine held many truths which must not be rejected because he held them c. As for the books which he published the titles of them follow but the respective years when they were published I know not Anti-diabolisme or the true account of a true Counterfeit One word yet to the Disputers and Scribes of the Ashford disputation or an Epilogetical Postscript on the Apologetical Preface Anti-babism or the Babish disputation at Ashford for Baby-baptisme disproved The second part of Antiâ—babisme or a Review of their Review Anti-rantism or Christ'ndom unchristn'd Anti-sacerdotism Sacerdotale delirium diliatum The dotage of the Priests discovered Or a new Edition with no small addition in way of emendation c of the third part of that treble Treatise which is extant about the Ashford Disputation intit A pathetical exhortation to the Pastors to oppose the growth of Anabaptisme c. All which things being reprinted in fol. had this title set before them Christianismus redivivus Christ'ndom both unchristned and new-christned or that good old way of dipping and in Churching of Men and Women after faith and repentance professed commonly but not properly called Anabaptism vindicated from that two-edged sword of the Spirit the word of God from all kind of calumnies that are cast upon it c. Lond. 1655. fol. Rusticus ad Academicos in exercitationibus expostulatoriis Apologeticis quatuor The Rusticks alarum to the Rabbines or the Country correcting the University and Clergy and not without good cause contesting for the truth against the nursing mothers and their children In four Apologetical and expostulatory Exercitations Wherein is contained as well a general account of all Enquirers as a general Answer to all opposers of the most truly catholick and most truly Christ-like Christians called Quakers and of the true Divinity of their Doctrine By way of entire entercourse held in special with four of the Clergies Chieftains John Owen D. D. Tho. Danson M. A. Joh. Tombes B. D. and Rich. Baxter of Kederminster c. Lond. 1660 in a thick quarto with an additional appendix A positive true testimony according to the external letter to the internal and eternal light Printed with the former in Engl. and Lat. in two columes Busie Bishop besides the business or Dr. Gauden overseen c. Lond. 1662. qu. This which I have not yet seen is the same I suppose with the book about Tender consciences Three disputations at Sandwych with Tho. Danson an 1659. Lond. 1664. oct 3d. edit Published by the said Tho. Danson sometimes fellow of Magd. Coll. Baptisme before or after faith and repentance Lond. 1669. fol. The same I suppose for I have not yet seen it with the folio before mention'd Christianismus redivivus c only the title alter'd What else he or others under his name have published I know not nor any thing else of him save only that after his Majesties restoration he lived obscurely in London kept Conventicles and thereupon was imprison'd in Newgate and was accounted the Corypheus of the Quakers At length being at liberty he retired to a village called Dalston in the Parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex where he died of the plague as 't was said in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five This Person in his Disputes did always decline a direct answer to the question what University he was of which gave some of the neighbouring Ministers in Kent occasion to suspect that the said Fisher was bred in some forreign Popish University and the rather because he would often plead for popish Tenents tho when pressed to tell whether he did really believe them he would pretend he did it disputandi gratiâ to hold an argument for discourse sake One or two of both his names have published several matters and therefore they are to be remembred elsewhere FRANCIS CHEYNELL son of John Cheynell Doct. of Phys sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll by Bridget his Wife was born in Catstreet in
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
mentioned before under the year 1662 p. 211. was born at Broughton in Northamptonshire educated in Westm School elected thence a Student of Ch. Ch on the first of May 1646 aged 17 years yet capable of that place an year before but hindred from coming to Oxon because it being a Garrison for the King the discipline in that house was omitted While he continued in the state of Under-Graduat and Bach he did set an high value upon and expressed himself very often intolerably impudent saucy and refractory to the Censor and thereupon was either Sconst or put out of commons or forced to make his Palinody in a Declamation in the public Hall Farther also when quadragesimal Disputations were publickly performed in the Schools he would without any provocation take the questions either of an Under-Graduat or Bachelaur purposely to dispute with him and so consequently shew his parts and be shouldred out or carried out into the quadrangle on the Shoulders of his Admirers When a Sen. Bachelaur of Mert. Coll. E.W. above the standing of Master of Arts was present in the Schools in his formalities according as the Statute of his House required Bagshaw in despight of those things which he call'd trifles did express some scorn towards him and therefore being reprehended by the Senior Bach he sent a challeng to him to dispute but the other scorning to encounter with caus'd him to be kick'd into better manners In the year 1651 Bagshaw proceeded in Arts an year being then allowed to him and was Senior of the Act then celebrated and being soon after put in Office he shew'd himself a turbulent and domineering person not only in his College but in the University where 't was common with him to disturb the Vicechancellour with interposed speeches without formalities and his hat cock'd which posture also he used when he read the Catechist Lecture in his House In June 1656 he was appointed to officiat as second Master of Westm School in the place of Joh. Vincent and in Dec. 1657 he was by the then Governours of that School made the second Master But soon after he shewing himself too busie in that office pragmatical and ungrateful to the chief Master Rich. Busby he was by his endeavours outed of that place in May 1658 and Ad. Littleton sometimes of Ch. Ch. was put into his room Soon after he became Vicar of Amersden near Bister in Oxfordsh in the place of Mr. Rich. Watkins sometimes of Ch. Ch. also upon his removal to Whichford in Warwickshire and in 1659. Nov. 3. he took upon him holy orders as he himself confesseth from the hands of Dr. Ralph Brownrig B. of Exeter After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was entertained by Arthur Earl of Anglesie to be his Chaplain and then left Amersden but finding not preferment to be thrust upon him which he expected so confident he was of his own merit and abilities he grew highly discontented and as he had alwaies before shew'd himself opposit to that Government that was in being so then did he to the Hierarchy which before he had in some degree defended such was the mutability of the man In Dec. 1662 he upon his then return from Ireland where he had been gaping after great matters but without success and therefore enraged retired to London among the faction and being looked upon as a dangerous person as having then lately written and preached several matters against his Majesty and present Government Ch. and Bishops he was seized on by order of the Council and committed prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster where continuing till the 16 of Jan. was removed thence to the Tower of London and thence after a tedious imprisonment to Southsea Castle near Portsmouth on the 5 of Apr. 1664. How long he continued there I know not sure I am that upon his release and return to London he fell to the old trade of conventicling and raising sedition for which being ever and anon troubled had at length the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy tendred to him but he bogling at them at first and afterwards denying to take them was committed prisoner to Newgate where he continued 22 weeks before his death He was a person of very good parts which he himself knew too well well learned but of a hot and restless head and was as an eminent presbyterian who wrot against him saith an Anabaptist Fift Monarchy Man and a Separatist and a man of an txtraordinary vehement spirit who had been exasperated by many years hard and grievous imprisonments And that the Nonconformist Ministers of England were so far from being of his mind and spirit that when Mr. Baxter had written three books against him as an Anabaptist or a Millenary no one Minister of England wrot in his defence nor pleaded for him To these things I shall add that while he continued in Oxon he was a very troublesom person of a huffing proud and scornful carriage was very loose in his morals over familiar with another mans wife yet living in Oxon was false undermining and no credit given to his words or promises The books and pamphlets which he hath written are these Dissertationes duae anti-socinianae c. Lond. 1657. qu. Discussio istius quaestionis An bona Infidelium opera sint peccata Aff. Printed with the Dissertat De monarchiâ absolutâ dissertatio politica c. Oxon. 1659. qu. Appendix de monarchia mixta at the end of the former book These two were wrote against Monarchical Government of which hear Mr. Baxters Character The arguments in this discourse seem to be such poor injudicious slender stuff that it was one occasion of my writing 20 arguments against Democracy which I put into the book which I have since revoked viz. Political Aphorismes or holy Commonwealth c. Which book was published at Lond. 1657 in a thick oct Practical discourse concerning Gods decrees part 2. Oxon. 1659. qu. Dedicated to John Bradshaw who condemned K. Ch. 1. to die and in his epist complements in an high degree that famous Regicide The said Discourse written to Tho. Pierce Rector of Brington in Northhamptonsh is the sum of two sermons and was answer'd by Laur. Womack Archdeacon of Suffolk at the end of a book without his name set to it Entit Arcana Dogmatum Anti-Remonstrantium or the Calvinists Cabinet unlocked c. under this title Reflections upon a practical discourse lately printed at Oxon. Which Reflections touching upon some passages relating to Bagshaw's quarrel with Mr. Rich. Busby he presently concluded that the said Mr. Pierce somtimes of Madg. Coll was the author not only of them but of the Arc. Dogm c. and therefore first of all in some one piece of his he nibbles at Pierce's name and writings but finding him unconcern'd at as not to take notice of it he soon after published A true and perfect narration of the differences between Mr. Busby and Mr. Bagshaw the first and second Masters of
near Covent Garden within the liberty of Westminster having been married a little before not altogether to his content in the month of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden One Joh. Mayo was Minister of Catistock in Dorsetshire and published certain Sermons in 1630 and after but of what University he was I know not yet nor where Jo. Maio was bred who was author of the Popes Parliament wherein are throughly delivered and brightly blazed out the paltrie trash and trumperies of him and his poling prelates c. whereunto is annexed the life of Pope Joan. Lond. 1591. qu. JOHN SMITH the eldest son of a Gentleman was born in Bucks admitted a Communer of Brasn Coll. 7. Aug. 1647 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line proceeded in that faculty 1659 and at length became one of the Coll. of Physitians and eminent for his practice in London He hath written and published The Portraict of old age wherein is contained a sacred Anatomie both of soul and body and a perfect account of the infirmities of age incident to them both Being a Paraphrase upon the six former verses of the twelfth Chapter of Ecclesiastes Lond 1666. oct c. T is a philosophical discourse tho upon a sacred theme and therein is to be met with an ingenious observation concerning the antiquity of the doctrine of the bloods circulation See in the Philosoph Transactions numb 14. p. 254. Matth. Poole in his second vol. of Synopsis makes an honorable mention and use of it This learned Doctor died in his house in the Parish of S. Helen the Great in London in Winter time either in Octob. or Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Church there in a vault near his wife One John Smith a Physitian published The compleat practice of Physick wherein is described c. Lond. 1656. in tw but he is not the same I suppose with the former Quaere JOHN BIRKENHEAD son of Randall Birkenhead of Northwych in Cheshire Sadler was born there became a Servitour of Oriel Coll. under the tuition of Humphrey Lloyd afterwards B. of Bangor in the beginning of the year 1632 aged 17 years where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts became Amanuensis to Dr Laud Archbishop of Cant who taking a liking to him for his ingenuity did by his Diploma make him Master of Arts an 1639 and by his letters commendatory thereupon was elected Probationer-Fellow of All 's Coll. in the year following After the rebellion broke out and the King and his Court hid setled themselves in Oxford this our author Mr. Birkenhead was appointed to write the Mercurii Aulici which being very pleasing to the Loyal party his Majesty recommended him to the Electors that they would chuse him Moral Philosophy Reader which being accordingly done he continued in that office with little profit from it tâ—ll 1648 at which time he was not only turn'd out thence but from his fellowship Afterwards he retired to London suffered several imprisonments for his Majesties cause lived by his wits in helping young Gentlemen out at dead lifts in making Poems Songs and Epistles on and to their respective Mistresses as also in translating and writing several little things and other petite Employments After his Majesties restauration he was by vertue of his letters sent to the University actually created Doctor of the Civil Law and in 1661 he was elected a Burges for Wilton to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 8. of May the same year In 1662 Nov. 14 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty King Charles the Second and in Jan. 1663 he was constituted one of the Masters of Requests in the place of Sir Rich. Fanshaw when he went Embassador into Spain he being then also Master of the Faculties and a member of the Royall Society A certain Anonymus tells us that this Sir Joh. Birkenhead was a poor Alehouse-keepers son and that he got by lying or buffooning at court to be one of the Masters of Requests and Faculty Office and in boons at Court 3000 l. The truth is had he not been given too much to bantring which is now taken up by vain and idle people he might have passed for a good wit And had he also expressed himself grateful and respectful to those that had been his benifactors in the time of his necessity which he did not but rather slight them shewing thereby the baseness of his spirit he might have passed for a friend and a loving companion He hath written Mercurius Aulicus communicating the intelligence and affairs of the Court at Oxon to the rest of the Kingdom The first of these was published on the first of Jan. 1642 and were carried on till about the end of 1645 after which time they were published but now and then They were printed weekly in one sheet somtimes in more in quarto and contain a great deal of wit and buffoonry Mercurius Britanicus pen'd by Foul-mouth'd Nedham no more his equal than a Dwarf to a Gyant or the goodness of his cause to that of the Kings tells us that the penning of these Mercurii Aulici was the act of many viz. Birkenhead the Scribe Secretary Nicholas the informer and George Digby the contriver Also that an assesment of wits was laid upon every Coll and paid weekly for the communion of this thing called Mercurius Aulicus But let this lyer say what he will all that were then in Oxford knew well enough that John Birkenhead began and carried them on and in his absence P. Heylyn supplied his place and wrote many of them News from Pembroke and Montgomery Or Oxford Manchester'd c. Printed in 1648 in one sh in qu. 'T is a faigned speech as spoken by Philip Earl of Pembroke in the Convocation house at Oxon. 12. Apr. 1648 when he came to visit and undoe the University as Edward Earl of Manchester had done that of Cambridg while he was Chancellor thereof T is exceeding waggish and much imitating he way of speaking of Pembroke Paules Churchyard Libri Theologici Politici Historici nundinis Paulinis una cum templo prostant venales c. Printed in 3 several sheets in qu. an 1649. These Pamphlets contain feigned titles of books and Acts of Parliaments and several questions all reflecting on the reformers and men of those times The four-legg'd Quaker A ballad to the tune of the dog and elders maid Lond. 1659. in 3. columes on one side of a sh of paper Such another almost you may see in Sir Joh. Denhams Poems and translations The Assembly man or the character of an Assembly man written 1647. Lond. 1662 3 in three sheets in qu. The Copy of it was taken from the author by those who said they could not rob because all was theirs so exciz'd what they liked not and so mangled and reformed it
the holy Feast of Easter c. Written 1665. Apotelesma or the nativity of the World and revolution thereof Short discourse of yeares months and dayes of yeares Somthing touching the nature of Ecclipses and also of their effects Of the Crises in diseases c. Of the mutations inclinations and eversions of Empires Kingdomes c. Discourse of the names Genus Species c. of all Comets Tract teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus c. Secret multiplication of the effects of the Starrs from Cardan Sundry rules shewing by what Laws the weather is governed and how to discover the various alterations of the same He also translated from Latin into English The art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the hand of man c. Written by John Rothman M. D. Lond. 1652. oct This is sometimes called Whartons Chiromancy Most of which foregoing treatises were collected together and publishd an 1683 in oct by John Gadbury born at Wheatley near to and in the County of Oxon 31. Dec. 1627 Son of Will. Gadb of that place farmer by his stoln Wife the Daughter of Sir John Curson of Water-perry Knight bound an Apprentice to Tho. Nicholls a Taylor living in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie in Oxon left him after the great fire hapned in that City 1644 and having a natural genius to the making of Almanacks improved it at London under Will. Lilly then called the English Merlin and afterwards set up the trade of Almanack-making and Fortune-telling for himself in which he became eminent Our author Wharton hath also written Select and choice poems Composed during the Civil War which I have before mention'd At length dying in his house at Enfield in Middlesex on the tenth day of Aug. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried on the 25 day of the same month in the Chappel of S. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London leaving then behind him the character of a most loyal and generous Chevalier JOHN TROUGHTON son of Nathan Trought a Clothier was born in the City of Coventry educated in the Free-School there under Sam. Frankland became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1655 afterwards Fellow and Bach. of Arts but upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 being ejected to make room for one who had been expel'd by the Visitors in 1648 he retired to a mercate town in Oxfordshire commonly called Bister where living a moderate Nonconformist read Academical learning to young men and somtimes preached in private whereby he got a comfortable subsistence Upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for the toleration of religion dat 15. Mar. 1671 this Mr. Troughton was one of those four Dr. Hen. Langley and Tho. Gilbert and Hen. Cornish Bachelaurs of Div. being the other three who were appointed by the principal heads of the Brethren to carry on the work of preaching within the City of Oxon. The place where they held their meetings was in Thamestreet without the north gate in an house which had been built a little before the Civil War began by Tom. Pun alias Tho. Aires where each person endeavouring to shew his parts this our author Troughton was by the auditory of Scholars who came among them meerly out of novelty held â—he best and was by them most applauded The truth is tho the man had been blind occasion'd by the small pox ever since he was four years old yet he was a good School Divine and Metaphysitian and was much commended while he was in the University for his disputations He was not of so busie turbulent and furious a spirit as those of his persuasion commonly are but very moderate And altho he often preached as occasions offer'd themselves in prohibited Assemblies yet he did not make it his business by employing all the little tricks and artifices too frequently practiced by other hot-headed zealots of his fraternity viz. by vilifying and railing at the established ordinances of the Church libelling the conformable ministry by keeping their meetings at the very time when the services and administrations of the Church are regularly performing c. He did not I say by these and such like most unwarrantable contrivances endeavour to withdraw weaker persons from the sacred bosome of the Church in order to fix and herd them in associated defying Conventicles He was respected by and maintain'd an amicable correspondence with some of the conformable Clergy because of his great knowledg and moderation He hath written and published Lutherus redivivus or the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith only vindicated And the plausible opinion of justification by faith and obedience proved to be Arminian Popish and to lead unavoidably to Socinianisme part 1. Lond. 1677. oct This is reflected on by Tho. Hotchkis in his preface to the second part of A discourse concerning imputed righteousness c. Lond. 1678. oct Luther Rediv. or the Protest doctr of justif by Christs righteousness imputed to believers explained and vindicated part 2. Lond. 1678. oct Letter to a Friend touching Gods providence about sinful actions in answer to a Letter intit The reconcilableness of Gods prescience c. and to a postcript of that Letter Lod. 1678. oct Popery the grand Apostasie Being the substance of certain Sermons preached on 2. Thess 2. from ver 1. to 12 on occasion of the desperate plot of the Papists against the K Kingdome and Protestant religion To which is added a Sermon on Rev. 18.4 preached 5. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1680. oct An Apologie for the Nonconformists shewing their reasons both for their not conforming and for their preaching publickly tho forbidden by Law Lond. 1681. quart An Answer to Dr. Stillingfleets sermon and his defence of it so much as concerneth the Nonconformists preaching Printed with the Apologie This learned and religious person Mr. Jo. Troughton died in an house of one of the Brethren situat and being in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon. on the 20 of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 44 years whereupon his body was carried to Bister before mentioned alias Burchester and buried in the Church there At which time Abrah James a blind man Master of the Free-school at Woodstock sometimes of Magd. Hall preaching his funeral sermon did take occasion not only to be lavish in the commendations of the Defunct but to make several glances on the government established by law So that an Auditor there named Sam. Blackwell M. A. and Vicar of Bister a zealous man for the Church of England complaining to the Diocesan of him James was glad to retract what he had said before him to prevent an ejection from his School which otherwise would inevitably have come to pass Now I am got fnto the name of Troughton I cannot without the guilt of concealment but let the Reader know this story of one of that name which is this While his Majesty K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was a
72 persons Members of the House of Commons Officers of the Army and Citizens of London sate upon benches some degrees above one another as Judges Hacker I say by order of the Court which was erected in the same place where the Judges of the Kings-bench use to hear causes brought his Majesty to a velvet chair opposite to the President at which time John Cook the Sollicitor General was placed on the Kings right hand I shall pretermit the Judges names the formality of the Court and the proceedings there by way of charge as also his Majesties replies in regard all those particulars have been published at large by several writers Nor indeed was much to be observed seeing his Majesty having heard the allegations against him would sometimes smile but not acknowledge their jurisdiction or that by any known law they had any authority to proceed in that manner against the King it being without example also whereupon the Court made no farther proceedings on that day Afterwards his Majesty was conveyed to Cotton house where Sir Tho. Cotton the Master thereof and Mr. Kinnerslie of the Wardrobe did make the best accommodation they could in so short a time in the Kings Chamber The Soldiers that were upon the Guard were in the very next Chamber to that of the King which his Majesty perceiving he commanded Mr. Herbert to bring his pallet and place it on one side of the Kings bed which he did and there slept Sunday the 21. of Jan. Dr. Will. Juxon the good Bishop of London had as his Majesty desired the Liberty to attend the King which was much to his comfort and as he said no small refreshing to his spirit especially in that his uncomfortable condition The most part of that day was spent in prayer and preaching to the King Munday 22. Jan. Col. Hacker brought his Majesty the second time before the Court then sitting as formerly in Westminster Hall Now the more noble the person is the more heavy is the spectacle and inclines generous hearts to a sympathy in his sufferings Here it was otherwise for assoon as his Majesty came into the Hall some Soldiers made a hideous cry for justice justice some of the Officers joyning with them At which noise the King seemed somewhat abashed but overcame it with patience Sure to persecute a distressed soul and to vex him that is already wounded at the heart is the very pitch of wickedness yea the utmost extremity malice can do or affliction suffer as the learned Bishop of Winchester Bilson saith in one of his Sermons preached before Qu. Elizabeth upon Good Friday which was here very applicable As his Majesty returned from the Hall to Cotton house a Soldier that was upon the Guard said aloud as the King passed by God bless you Sir The King thank'd him but an uncivil Officer struck him with his cane upon the head which his Majesty observing said The punishment exceeded the offence Being come to his apartment in Cotton house he immediatly fell upon his knees and went to prayer which being done he asked Mr. Herbert if he heard the cry of the Soldiers in Westminster hall for justice he answer'd he did and marvell'd much at it So did not I said the King for I am well assur'd the Soldiers bare no malice towards me the cry was no doubt given by their Officers for whom the Soldiers would do the like if there were occasion His Majesty likewise demanded of him how many there were that sate in the Court and who they were he replied there were upward of threescore some of them members of the House of Commons others Commanders in the Army and others Citizens of London some of whom he knew but not all The King then said he viewed all of them but knew not the faces of above eight and those he named The names tho Mr. Herbert told me not yet they were generally supposed to be Thomas Lord Grey of Grobie William L. Monson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir John Danvers Oliver Cromwell who had shew'd seeming civility to him at Childerlie Newmarket and Hampton Court Major Harrison Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond c. Tuesday 23. Jan. The King was the third time summoned and as formerly guarded to the Court where as at other times he persisted in his judgment that they had no legal jurisdiction or authority to proceed against him Upon which Cook the Solicitor began to offer some things to the President of the Court but was gently interrupted by the King laying his staff upon the Solicitors arme the head of which being silver hapned to fall off which Mr. Herbert who as his Majesty appointed waited near his Chair stoop'd to take it up but falling on the contrary side to which he could not reach the King took it up himself This was by some looked upon as a bad Omen But whereas Mr. Herbert puts this passage under the 22 of Jan. is a mistake for it hapned on the first day of the Trial when the charge was read against the King The Court sate but a little time that day the K. not varying from his principle At his going back to Cotton house there were many men and women crouded into the passage behind the Soldiers who as his Majesty pass'd said aloud God almighty preserve your Majesty for which the King returned them thanks Saturday 27. Jan. The President came into the Hall and seated himself in his Scarlet Gown whereupon the K. having quick notice of it he forthwith went seated himself in his chair and observing the President in his red Gown did imagine by that sign that it would be the last day of their sitting and therefore he earnestly press'd the Court that altho he would not acknowledge their jurisdiction for those reasons he had given yet nevertheless he desired that he might have a conference in the Painted Chamber with a Committee of Lords and Commons before the Court proceeded any farther whereupon the President and Court arose and withdrew In which interval the K. likewise retired to Cotton house where he and Dr. Juxon were private near an hour and then Colonel Hunks gave notice that the Court was sate The King therefore going away he seated himself in the Chair The President told his Majesty that his motion for a conference with a Committee of Lords and Commons had been taken into consideration but would not be granted by the Court in regard he would not own their jurisdiction nor acknowledge them for a lawful assembly Whereupon the King with vehemency insisted that his reasonable request might be granted that what he had to offer to a Committee of either House might be considered before they pronounced sentence His Majesty had the former day mov'd the President that the grounds and reasons he had put in writing for his disavowing their authority might be publickly read by the Clerk but neither would that desire be granted The President then gave judgment against the King who at the Presidents pronouncing it
Before I go any farther the Reader is to note that this Pen-combat exercised between our author and Marvell was briskly managed with as much smart cutting and satyrical wit on both sides as any other perhaps of late hath been they endeavouring by all the methods imaginable and the utmost forces they could by any means rally up to blacken each others cause and to set each other out in the most ugly dress their pieces in the mean while wherein was represented a perfect trial of each others skill and parts in a jerking flirting way of writing entertaining the Reader with a great variety of sport and mirth in seeing two such right Cocks of the Game so keenly engaging with sharp and dangerous weapons And it was generally thought nay even by many of those who were otherwise favourers of Parkers cause that he Parker thro a too loose and unwary handling of the debate tho in a brave flourishing and lofty stile laid himself too open to the severe strokes of his snearing Adversary and that the odds and victory laid on Marvell's side Howsoever it was it wrought this good effect upon our author that for ever after it took down somewhat of his high spirit insomuch that tho Marvell in a second part replyed upon our authors reproof yet he judged it more prudent rather to lay down the Cudgels than to enter the Lists again with an untowardly Combatant so hughly well vers'd and experienc'd in the then but newly refin'd art tho much in mode and fashion almost ever since of sportive and jeering buffoonry And moreover it put him upon a more serious sober and moderate way of writing in other good treatises which he since did set forth and which have proved very useful and beneficial to the publick The Reader may be pleased now to know by the way for here I think it very proper to be brought in and no where else that the said Andr. Marvell was son of Andr. Marv. the facetious yet Calvinistical Minister of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire that being very well educated in Grammar learning was sent to Cambridge particularly as I conceive to Trin. Coll where obtaining the Mastership of the Lat. tongue became Assistant to Joh. Milton when he was Lat. Secretary to Oliver and very intimate and conversant with that person A little before his Majesties restauration the Burghers of his native place of Kingston before mention'd did choose him their Representative to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 25. of Apr. 1660 and again after his Maj. rest for that which began at the same place 8. May 1661 and they loved him so well that they gave him an honorable pension to maintain them From which time to his death he was esteemed tho in his conversation very modest and of few words a very celebrated wit among the Fanaticks and the only one truly so for many years after He hath written besides the two parts of The Rehearsal transpros'd 1 A book entit Mr. Smirk or the Divine in mode being certain annotations upon the Animadversions on Naked truth together with a short historical Essay concerning general Councils Creeds and impositions in matters of Religion Lond. 1676. qu. Which Historical Essay was afterwards printed by it self in fol. The person whom he calls Mr. Smirk author of Anim. on Naked truth was Dr. Franc. Turner Head or Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridg conceiv'd and taken by Marvell to be a neat starcht formal and forward Divine 2 The rise and growth of Popery c. Lond. 1678. fol. The second part of which from the year 1677 to 1682 was pen'd by Rob. Ferguson before mentioned said to be printed at Cologne but really at Lond. 1682. qu. This Andr. Marvell who is supposed to have written other things as I have told you in Joh. Denham p. 303. died on the 18. of Aug. 1678. and was buried under the Pewes in the South side of the Church of S. Giles in the fields near London Afterwards his Widow published of his Composition Miscellaneous Poems Lond. 1681. fol which were then taken into the hands of many persons of his perswassion and by them cried up as excellent Soon after his death one Benj. Alsop then a Conventicling Minister about Westminster did put in very eagerly to succeed Marvell in Buffoonry partly expressed in his Antisozzo written against Dr. Will. Sherlock in his Melius inquirendum against Dr. Joh. Goodman Chapl. in ord to K. Ch. 2. and Rector of Hadham his Serious and compassionate enquiry c. and in his Mischief of impositions against Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon entit The mischief of Separation c. In all which pieces upon little or no ground pretending to wit he took more than ordinary pains to appear smart but the ill natur'd jokes did still commonly hang off and when he violently sometimes drag'd them into a sentence they did not in the least become their place but were a disgrace to rather than an ornament of his seemingly elaborate and accurate periods This person took upon him to act a part for the due and laudable performance of which neither the natural bent of his own genius nor any acquired improvements this way have in any measure tolerably qualified him notwithstanding the poor well wisher to punning laboured under all these discouraging disadvantages that he did still couragiously go on in a way of pleasing and at the same time exposing himself and furnisht his Readers with matter only of laughter at him and not at those whom he endeavoured to vilifie and was in 1682 and after cried up as the main witmonger surviving to the fanatical party which argued a great scarcity of those kind of creatures among them when such little things as this person were deemed by them fit for that title As for the other books which our author Parker hath written the titles are these Disputationes de Deo providentia divina Disp 1. An Philosophorum ulli quinam Athei fuerunt c. Lond. 1678. qu. In which is much of his Tentamina de Deo involved See a character of this book and its author in Dr. Hen. More 's Praefatio generalissima set before the translation of the first tome of his Philosophical volume Lond. 1679. fol. One Antonius le Grand a french man born and a Cartesian Philosopher of great note now or lately living in London author of 1. Institutio Philosophiae secundum principia D. Renati Descartes c. much read in Cambr. and said in the title to be wrot in usum juventutis Academicae 2. Historia Naturae and thirdly of a small piece in tw maintaining a great paradox called De carentia sensus cognitionis in Brutis c. published a book against some passages in the said Disp de Deo in which our author hath impartially examined and deservedly censur'd certain principles of the Cartesian Philosophy as grosly atheistical and destructive of Religion This piece of Le Grand
Lieut. Gen. to Oxon when they were invited thither by the then Members of the University to see what a Godly Reformation the Committee and Visitors had made therein May 19. Sir Hardress Waller Kt was the first that was presented by Zanchy the junior Proctor which being done he was conducted up to Cromwell just before presented to the degree of Dr. of the Civ Law sitting on the left hand of him that then held the Chancellours chair Dr. Chr. Rogers Deput Vicechanc. and with due Ceremony was seated on his left side This person was son and heir of George Waller of Groombridge in Kent Esq by Mary his wife daugh of Rich. Hardâ—ess Esq Relict of Sir Will. Ashenden Kt which George was elder brother to Sir Thom. Waller father of Sir Will. Waller lately one of the Parl. Generals mention'd among the Writers an 1668. p. 297. and marrying with the daugh and co-heir of Sir Joh. Dowdall or Dovedall of Limerick in Ireland Kt enjoyed fair inheritances by her and spent most of his time there In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he was a Royalist in opinion but with the more gainfuller times he turn'd Presbytâ—â—ian and at length a strong Independent and thereupon was made a Committee-man and afterwards a Colonel of Horse He had been lately one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1 and sate when Sentence past upon him for his decollation for which service he was afterwards made Major Gen. of the Army in Ireland Where continuing till the revolution of affairs brought Monarchy again into England he did upon the issuing out of the Kings Proclamation surrender himself to mercy Whereupon being brought to his trial for having a hand in the murther of his said Prince he shew'd very great reluctancy for what he had done and was thereupon conveyed from his prison in the Tower to the Isle of Wight there to continue during his life an 1660 aged 56 years Whither he was afterwards removed thence I cannot tell nor where he died May 19. Colonel Tho. Harrison was presented next by Zanchy and conducted by him on the other side This person who was the son of a Butcher or Grasier of Newcastle under Line in Staffordshire was after he had been educated in some Grammar Learning placed with one Hulke or Hulker an Attorney of Cliffords Inn and when out of his time became a kind of a Pettisogger as 't is said but finding little profit thence he betook himself from the pen to the sword in the Parliament Army when they first raised a Rebellion against their King and having a tongue well hung he did by his enthusiastical Preaching and great pretence to piety so far insinuate himself with the deluded Army that he pass'd from one Command to another till he attained to be a Major and a great Confident of Ol. Cromwell and so consequently his close friend in breaking the Presbyterian faction in both Houses in depriving them of their King and at length in bringing him to the block as by these particulars it doth appear First he was the person appointed by Oliver or at least the Adjutators of the Army to go to Hurst Castle where the King was Prisoner to the end that he should enform the Governour thereof that he deliver his Majesty up to a party of Horse that should be ready to receive him in order to his conveyance to Windsore Castle and so to Westminster to be tried This was by Harrison done about the 15 of Dec. 1648 for on the 21 following he was conveyed thence towards Windsore See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers an 1677. p. 438. Secondly that after his Majesty had left Hurst Castle and was conveyed from Milford three miles distant thence by a party of the Rebels Horse to Winchester and thence to Alton and so to Alresford this Major Harrison appeared in the head of another party between that place and Farnham to the end that he might bring up the rear His party was drawn up in good order by which his Maj. was to pass and the Major in the head of them gallantly mounted and armed with a Velvet Montier on his head and a new Buff-coat on his back with a Crimson silk Scarf about his waist richly fring'd The King as he passed by on horse-back with an easie pace as delighted to see men well hors'd and arm'd the Major gave the King a bow with his head Alla soldad which his Majesty requited This was the first time that the King saw the Major at which time Tho. Herbert Groom of the Bedchamber from whom I had this story riding a little behind the King his Majesty call'd him to come near and ask'd him who that Captain was and being by him told that it was Major Harrison the King viewed him more narrowly and fix'd his eyes so steadily upon him as made the Major abashed and fall back to his party sooner than probably he intended The K. said he looked like a Soldier and that his aspect was good and found him not such an one as was represented and that having judgment in faces if he had observed him so well before he should not have harbour'd that ill opinion of him for oft times the spirit and disposition may be discerned in the countenance That night the K. got to Farnham where he was lodged in a private Gentleman's house in the town the Castle there being then a Garrison for the Parliament and a little before supper his Majesty standing by the fire in a large wainscoted parlour and in discourse with the Mistress of the House the King notwithstanding the room was pretty full of Army Officers and Country People that crowded in to have a sight of him did at length see the Major at the farther end of the Parlour talking with another Officer Whereupon beckoning to him with his hand to come nearer he did so accordingly with due reverence And his Majesty taking him by the arm drew him aside towards the window where for half an hour or more they did discourse together Among other things the King minded him of the information that he had received concerning the murder that he intended on him in the Isle of Wight which if true rendred him an enemy in the worst sense to his person The Major in his vindication assured his Majesty that what was reported of him was not true yet he might report that the Law was equally obliging to great and small and that Justice had no respect to persons or words to that purpose which his Majesty finding affectedly spoken and to no good end he left off farther communication with him and went to supper being all the time very pleasant which was no small rejoycing to many there to see him so cheerful in that company and in such a dolorous condition Thirdly that when his Majesty went thence to Bagshot and there dined in the Lord Newburgh's house the said Major ordered Centries to be set at every door where he was and after
his rudeness so as with shame he mounted his horse and followed the Coach with his party or guard the Coachman driving as he directed and Captain Merriman a name ill suting with the occasion with another party went foremost The King in this passage shew'd no discomposure at all tho at parting he did and would be asking the Gentlemen in the Coach with him Whether they thought he was travelling they made some simple replies such that served to make his Majesty smile at their innocent conjectures Otherwhile he would comfort himself with what he had granted at the late Treaty with the Commissioners whom he highly praised for their ingenuity and fair deportment at Newport The Coach by the L. Colonels direction went Westward towards Worsley's Tower in Fresh-water Isle and a little beyond Yarmouth Haven About that place his Majesty rested until the Vessel was ready to take him aboard with those few his Attendants The King after an hours stay went aboard a sorrowful spectacle and great example of fortunes inconstancy The wind and tyde favoured him and his company and in less than three hours time they crost that narrow Sea and landed at Hurst Castle or Block-house rather erected by order of K. Hen. 8 upon a spot of earth thrust by nature a good way into the Sea and joyned to the firm land by a narrow neck of Sand which is constantly covered over with loose stones and pebbles Upon both sides of this passage the Sea beats so as at spring tydes and in stormy weather it is formidable and hazardous The Castle has very thick stone walls and the platforms are regular and both have Culverins and Sakers mounted A dismal receptacle it was for so great a Monarch as this King was the greater part of whose life and reign had been prosperous and full of earthly glory Nevertheless it was some satisfaction to his Majesty that his two Houses of Parliament abhor'd this force upon his person having voted that the seizing of the Kings Person and carrying him Prisoner to Hurst Castle was without the privity and consent of either House of Parliament c. The Captain of this wretched place was not unsutabâ—e to it At the Kings going on Shoar in the Evening of the said 30 of Nov. he stood ready to receive him with small observance His look was stern his hair and large beard were black and bushy He held a Partizan in his hand and Switz-like had a great Basket-hilt-sword by his side Hardly could one see a man of more grim aspect and no less robust and rude was his behaviour Some of his Majesties servants were not a little fearful of him and really thought that he was designed for mischief especially when he vapoured as being elevated with his command and puft up by having so royal a Prisoner so as probably he conceived he was nothing inferior to the Governour of the Castle at Millan But being complained off to L. Col. Cobbet his superior Officer he appeared a Bubble for being pretty sharply admonished he quickly became mild and calm whereby 't was visible that his humour or tumour rather was adulatory acted to curry favour wherein also he was much mistaken For to give the L. Colonel his due he was after his Majesty came under his custody very civil to him both in language and behaviour and courteous to those that attended him on all occasions Also that his disposition was not rugged towards such as in loyalty and love came to see and to pray for him as sundry persons out of Hampshire and the neighbouring Counties did His Majesty as it may be well granted was very slenderly accommodated at this place for the Room he usually eat in was neither large nor lightsome insomuch that at noon day in that Winter season candles were set up to give light and at night he had his wax Lamp set as formerly in a silver bason which illuminated the Bedchamber and Tho. Herbert then attending being the sole person at that time left as Groom thereof for Harrington was soon after dismist as I have elsewhere told you he could not otherwise but call to mind a relation well worth the observance which is this as by Letters with several other stories relating to the Kings last two years of his life he very kindly imparted to me When Mountague Earl of Lindsey one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bedchamber did lay one night on a Pallet by the Kings bed-side a little before he left Oxon in a disguise to surrender his person up to the Protection of the Scots then laying seige to Newark upon Trent was placed at the end of his Majesties Bed as was usually every night a Lamp or round cake of wax in a bason set on a stool The Earl awaked in the night and observed the room to be perfectly dark and thereupon raising himself up he looked towards the Lamp and concluded that it might be extinguished by water got into the bason by some creek But he not hearing the King stir he forbore rising or to call upon those in the next chamber to bring in another light About half an hour after he fell asleep again and awaked not till morning but when he did awake he discerned the Lamp bright burning which so astonish'd him that taking the boldness to call to the King whom he heard by his stirring to be awake he told him what he had observed whereupon the King replied that he himself awaking also in the night took notice that all was dark and to be fully satisfied he put by the curtain to look on the Lamp but concluded that the Earl had risen and set it upon the bason lighted again The Earl assured his Majesty he did not The King then said he did consider it was a prognostick of Gods future favour and mercy towards him and his that tho he was at that time ecclipsed yet either he or they may shine out bright again c. But to return in this sad condition was the King at Hurst the place and military persons duly considered He was sequestred in a manner from the comfort that earth and air affordeth and the society of men The earth confin'd him to that promontorie or gravel walk overspread with loose stones a good depth on which when he walked as usually he did was very uneasie and offensive to his feet but endure it he did with his most admirable and accustom'd patience and serenity of spirit and more alacrity than they that followed him The air was equally noxious by reason of the marish grounds that were thereabouts and the unwholsome vapours arising from the â—argosses and weeds which the salt water constantly at tydes and stormes cast upon the shoar and by the foggs that those marine places are most subject to so that the dwellers thereabouts find by experience how that the air is insalubrious and disposing to diseases especially aguish distempers Notwithstanding all these things the King was content in this most
the taking of their degrees only to have the benefit of the publick Library c. This person who was much addicted to Musick while he studied in Oxon which was about 8 years was made Archdeacon of Ely by his Father after his Majesties restauration had other spiritualities as I conceive confer'd upon him and became a member of the Royal Society He died in 1679 being then of Wilberton in the Isle of Ely and whether he was Doctor of the Laws at Cambridge I cannot tell Aug. 7. Daubigney Tarbervill of Oriel Coll. Aug. 7. Degorie Pollwhele of Exet. Coll. The first who afterwards practised Phys in the City of Salisbury was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters the other who had been ejected his Fellowship of Exeter Coll. by the Parliament Visitors in 1648 was also created by vertue of the said Letters which say that he the said D. Pollwhele had from the beginning of the late unhappy troubles vigorously and faithfully served his Majesty under the command of Ralph Lord Hopton then of Sir Jam. Smith in the quality of a Major of Horse and continued in Armes until the surrender of Pendennis Castle from whence he went to his late Majesty of blessed memory and afterwards followed his now Majesty for some time in Holland and Flanders And in or about the year 1650 he returned into Cornwall his native Country where he betook himself to the study and practice of Physick c. Aug. 10. Edw. Duke of Gloc. Hall Aug. 10. Augustus or Augustine Caesar of the Univ. of Cambr. 16. Will. Jacob of Ch. Ch. He was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say We have received good testimony of his abilities in the Theorie and practice of Physick He hath been formerly a Graduate in Oxon and hath studied in Foreign Countries c. This person who was Son of John Jacob a Physitian of Canterbury was bred in Ch. Ch afterwards practised his faculty with good success for many years in the said City and was if I mistake not a Burgess to serve in one of the Parliaments that began after the discovery of the Popish Plot. Oct. 17. Edw. Hawtaine M. A. of Magd. Coll. 30. John Lamphire M. A. of New Coll. and Camdens Professor of History This person who was Son of George Lamphire an Apothecary of the City of Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Wykehams School there made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1636 entred on the Physick line when Master of Arts ejected his Fellowship by the Parl. Visitors and afterwards practised his faculty with good success in and near Oxford After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship became Camdens Professor of History upon the ejection of Lewis du Moulin Principal of New Inn in the place of Dr. Rogers ejected for Non-conformity and soon after Principal of Hart Hall He hath published of other mens works with Epistles before corrections on and sometimes additions to them these following 1 Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris commentariis c. and Dictata Both written by Hugh Lloyd See in the first Vol. of the Athenae Oxon. p. 269. 2 Monarchia Britannica c Written by Tho. Master See in this sec Vol. of Athenae pag. 19. 3 Rev. Patris Lanc. Andrews Episcopi Winton preces privatae Graecè Latinè Oxon. 1675 in tw Afterwards Dr. Lamphire obtained a more perfect copy of the said prayers which he was about to publish but hindred by other affairs 4 Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita 1592. 'T is the oration of Sir Hen. Savile and 't was published by Dr. Lamphire with the sec edit of Monarchia Britannica See in the first Vol. of Ath. Oxon. p. 397. 5 Questiones selectiores in Logica Ethica c. See in Dr. Pink among the Writers of this Vol. p. 58. This Dr. Lamphire who was Justice of the Peace for the County and City of Oxon a good generous and fatherly man of a publick Spirit and free from pharasaical leven or the modish hypocrisie of the age he lived in died in his Lodgings in Hart Hall on the 30 of March 1688 aged 73 years and was buried in the outer Chappel near the W. door belonging to New Coll. The next day Will. Thornton M. A. of Wadh. Coll. was admitted Principal of the said Hall in his place and on the 2. of Apr. following the learned Hen. Dodwell M. of A. of Dublin was elected Camdens Professor of History to the great content of the generality of the members of the University Oct. 30. Thom Willis of Ch. Ch. Nov. 29. Rich. Franklin of Qu Coll. He was put in among the rest tho no sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 6. Henry Wyat of Pemb. Coll. He was no sufferer but was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 and by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation by Lenthall the Speaker of the H. of Commons he was created M. of A. in 1649. Afterwards he went Physitian with the Lord Rutherford lately made Earl of Tiveot in Scotland to the Garrison of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa and practised his faculty there with good success At length he accompanying the said Count with a select party of horse out of that Garrison to view the Moors Country on the 3. of May 1664 were all some very few excepted cut off after they had passed the Jews River some Miles distant from Tangier by Gayland the chief of the Moors and his party who having had notice by the treachery of a certain person that they would take a view of the Country there was an Ambuscade planted to receive them by Gayland and sheltred by a thick wood and seconded as 't was supposed by his whole Army March 12. Joh. Fisher M. A. of Cambridge Steph. Bowden of Magd. Coll. was nominated by the Chancellors Letters dat 1. Dec. this year to be created Doct. of Physick but whether he was so it appears not Doct. of Div. Aug. 1. Nich. Monke sometimes of Wadh. Coll now Provost of Eaton Brother to Gen. George Monke Duke of Albemarle at this time in high value by the King Church University and all British People was presented by Dr. Rob. Sanderson the Kings Professor of Div. to the degree of Doct. of that faculty and actually created by the Vicechancellour in Convocation by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well satisfied of the full standing sufficiency and merit of Nich Monke M. of A as duly qualified for the degree of D. of D and also well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings and service for our self and the Church during the late distractions c. These persons following till you come to Byrom Eaton were actually created Doctors on the second day of Aug tho several of them had not suffered for the Kings cause Guy Carleton M. A. of Qu. Coll. Anth. Hawles M. A. of Qu. Coll. The last was