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A48790	Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ...	Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.	1668 (1668)	Wing L2642; ESTC R3832	768,929	730

554 l. Sir Robert Windham 748 l. Tho. Willis 516 l. Will. Winter of Clapton Somers Esq 349 l. Sir H. Wood of Hackney Midd. 273 l. Robert Willis Morrock Somers 328 l. Jo. Whittington Ivethorn Somers Esq 283 l. Sir John Winford of Ashley Worcest 703 l. Col. Jo. Washburn Wickenford Worcest 797 l. one that paid the Rebels more than once in other mettal Sir Marmaduke Wivel whose Ancestor is the last mentioned in Lastle Abbey roll 1660. continuing in so good state that one of them in Hen. VI. time deposed that he could spend 20 l. a year old rent all charges defrayed of Constable Barron York 1343. Sir Tho. Whitmore of Appley Salop. 5000 l. Sir Patricius Curwen Knight and Baronet of Worlington in the County of Cumber a pious and a peaceful man forced as his Majesty was to the War where he had the Command of a Collonel of Foot in that County as he had the trust of being Knight of the Shire in all Parliaments when he first appeared from 1623. to 1664 when he died a Gentleman in whom Art and Nature conspired to make him Master of a great Wit and a vigorous discourse out-doing most in action and himself in suffering being as able to perswade himself to patience as he was to move his neighbours to allegiance dressing his misfortunes so gracefully that they were envied and he like to be sequestered of them too and as he was in prosperity that due reward of his merit an example of the least part of mankind that is the happy so in his adversity was he a pattern to the greatest that is the unhappy his clear and heroick mind finding an exercise and thereby a glory in the darkest state as Stars and Diamonds do a lustre oppressed not helped by day in the darkest night Fortune at last yielding to his vertue and flattering him as his Slave whom it could not overcome as his Foe he had once the Posse Comitatus 12. Car. I. as a Sheriff and always as a Patriot for which honourable title he paid to the Parliament 2000 l. and spent with the King 23000 l. 1 Sir Francis Carew of Beddington Surrey that as nature had epitomized most perfections belonging to a man in him so would he extract all sense into short sentences called Sencca's little-much who paid for one smart word 1000 l. Sir Jo. Covert of Sla●ham Sussex 3000 l. Hen. Clerk of Covenr 300 l. Adam Cley-pool of West-Pooling Linc. 600 l. George Cotton Cumbermoor Chesh. 666 l. Tho. Chester Amisbury Gloc. Esq 1000 l. Sir Will. Clerk 1100 l. Jo. Caring of Harling Suss. Esq 3030 l. Berg. Cutler Ipswich Suss. 750 l. Tho. Carew of Studley Devon Esq 750 l. Giles Corter of Turk-Dean Gloc. Esq 768 l. Tho. Chafine Chettle Dorset Esq 900 l. Edw. Copley Earley York Esq 1246 l. Sir H. Clerk Essex and Gervase Cutler York 1100 l. 2 Col. Tho. Cary of Norwich Esq whose years were measured not by his Almanack but his suffering called the Round Heads Circle having given away 3000 l. to the King had but 200 l. left for the Parliament 3. Sir Alexander Culpepper that could have charmed any thing to a better usage but a Jew and a Puritan both which People carry their spirit in a round Circle paid them first 500 l. Composition and afterwards Witches if they have any of your money will have all 500 l. more 4. Iohn Courtney of Molland Devon Esq for saying that men now a days draw up platforms of Religion as men do Cycles Epicycles and other Phaenomena in the Heavens according to their fancies to salve their hypotheses paid 750 l. in Gold and was gladly rid of it in a time when Churches Crosses and all other things suffered for being Gilt. 5. Col. Sidney Godolphin descended of the most ancient Family both of Love and Wit murdered by those men that professed to destroy Wit and Learning and at that time when men were not allowed to wear Hair much less Bays A Gentleman that will live as long as Virgil whom he hath translated and as long as the best Times best Wit whom he hath commended as elegantly as he was commended by them Besides whom there were Col. Sir William and Col. William Godolphin of Trevervenith and Spragger Cornwal who spent their bloud and Estates for his Majesty being sorry that they had 1500 l. left to be taken by his Enemies Treasures of Arms and Arts men equally fit for Colledge and Camp in whom the Scholars ● earning did guide and direct and the Souldiers Valour fight and act the first without fear the second without rashness their several accomplishments meeting like so many conspiring perfumes to one delicate temper 6. Col. William Walton one that could do any thing ex tempore but durst not pray so having Wit and nothing else at will and knew no reason why he should not be rich but because he was born a Poet. He was slain in that Battel which he would not have out-lived I mean Nazeby wherein three Kingdoms lay bleeding by him as well as Col. Cuthbert Ratcliff and Col. Ralph Pudsey who would gladly have lived to do more service for his Majesty but refused not to serve him in dying scorning as well the censures as the commendations of that ignorant age 7. Col. Posthumus Kerton a Somersetshire Gentleman of a spreading name slain at Marston-Moor in the middest of the White Coats my Lord of New-castles Lambs called so because cloathed by him in white Cloath which he had not time to colour until they being cut off every man gave it a noble tincture with their own bloud which he commanded a cro●d of dead men makes a noble Crown about a Commander than one of Lawrel being so pleased Saints above know sure what we do delow in our fight with life to see the same brave heat in his followers that was in him that Death smiled on his lip● and he looked as if he were above wa●bling the hymns he used below pittying our dull and earthly joyes where grief and misery dwells with pleasure a man of great daring and good success a knowing and honest man seasonably taken away from the place of Ignorance and Hypocrisie to Heaven the only place then free from both to live there among the blessed whose souls are cloathed with white and follow the Lamb. Sir Jo. King of Woodsam York B●r. 500l R. Kibe Sussex Chich 992l Will. Knowls of Grayes Oxon. Esq a brave Gentleman of parts and a 〈◊〉 worthy his Ancestors who died 1664. 1100l Jo. Kirk Westm. Esq 985l G. Kinsley Cant. Esq 760l Sir H. Knolls Grooplace South 1250l Edward Kerton Castle Carv Som. Esq 1464l Edward Kinaston of Oatley and Roger ●inasion of Hordly Salop. Esq 4697l between them Sir Lewis Kire 264l William Kent Boscomb Wilts Esq 572l Sir William Kinsmel of 740l Robert Kemp Cheston Her 480l Sir Gorrel Kemp of Slindon Suff. 2931l 8. The Lords Kilmurry the Elder and the Younger the first having spent

excellent Company He died 1662. leaving this character of his modesty behind him That as the Lion out of state will not run so he out of humility would not perform any action while many looked on With him suffered in London Learned Dr. William Wats of Cajus-Colledge in Cambridge and St. Albans Woodstreet London well skilled in the Lyturgies and Rituals of the Primitive Times to which he desired to reduce his own time setting forth Matthew Paris and other ancient M. SS of former times and keeping a Swedish Intelligencer or an Exact Collection of his own times One that imitated the piety as well as the postures of the First Christians not only conforming his Hands and Knees but chiefly his Heart to their pattern not making the Ceremonial part of their Lives only Canonical and the moral part Apocryphal imitating their Devotion not in the Fineness of the Stuff but only in the Fashion of the Making He knew the time place and occasion of the backsliding of several parts of the Primitive Church into Superstition and of ours into Confusion what was Dogmatigal in the Fathers and what Figurative Opinionative or Conjectural He owned others the Founders of most of his Notions and himself only one sent into the world to clear and improve what others had invented He Preached an excellent Sermon of the Ancient way of Mortification and lived it His conjecture at the consequence of things was as good as his aim at a Mark being as judicious a Man as he was an exact Archer that opening Recreation of a Scholar as he called it This excellent Scholar and good man who would think it was Sequestred from his Living and Plundered of his Estate his Wife and Children turned out of their House and forced to fly out of the City Next him Mr. W●ston of Allhallowes Lombardstreet who knowing that the Conceit of the Physician was half the Cure and his Practice would scarce be happy where his Person is hated indeavoured to get into the affections of his People that he might get into their Judgements but yet because he humored them not in his Doctrine to get their affection for he would say with reference to the reproachful terms used in those days It was as had being a Fwaning Spaniel as a dumb Dog because he walked uprightly and would not creep or crouch using no Arts to gain them but pious Living and painful Labouring and because his smart Preaching made some galled back winch they persecuted and imprisoned him when he prayed for and pittied them saying Hadwe Ministers not desired to claw the People that we might get above one another the People had not had power now to trample on us Oh its fit the People should make it their business to conform themselves to our Doctrines and not we to their Humors Often meetings and a good understanding among our selves had prevented these calamities Honest Dr. Halsey of St. Alphage whose great fault was that he had been the Lord Treasurer Westons Chaplain heart-broken with his own and the publick calamities Among other indignities he suffered he had his Cap pulled off to see whether he was a Shaven Priest in a grand Committee A grave and courteous man neither affectedly retired or austere nor carelessly and openly familiar a man that was loath to ask a courtesie and never denied any He was an excellent Preacher because an excellent Liver and an excellent Scholar because he knew himself One of whom it was observed he never met a poor man but he had an almes to offer him nor a weak man but he had a comfort to relieve him any man but he had an advise to give him And that he seldome dreamed and if he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the good Oneirocritick found the day following that event whereof he had warning the night before and he would say he was confirmed that he was immortal because he dreamed being sure that the soul which was awake when the body slept would live when the body was dead He read Prayers always himself to shew his respect of them and likewise to prepare him for Preaching saying That if he Tolled the Bell on one side it made it afterwards Ring out the better in his Sermons Grave and learned Mr. Mason of St. Andrews Vndershaft that wise Master Builder in Gods House as King Iames called his near Relation Mr. Henry Mason the worthy Author of the excellent book De Ministerio Anglicano that digested all the errors of his times in judgment and practice into a common place instructing his people in the truths opposite to them and so convincing them of their errors never directly mentioned a beloved error till he had fully possessed them of the contrary truth finding much fault with them that jerked and girded at the popular errors of the times because they might provoke but could not reclaim the people exasperate but not reform them A good man and a good mans friend Dr. Iackson Mr. Mede c. And Dr. Clewet who said he went never from his Company but much the better for him profiting more by an hours discourse with him than a weeks study by himself learning if nothing else yet silence and reservedness from him who dispensed rather than spake his words pausing with a reflexion upon what he had said before he said any more a way of three advantages to him 1. Because so he might correct the error of a former word 2. He might take occasion and matter for a following word And 3. Likewise observing by the looks and carriage of him he spoke with frame his speech accordingly Dr. Clewet Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father Bishop King to whom he administred his last holy Viatieum in which respect he was a good witness against the Popish slander of that Reverend Prelate that had lived so renowned a Protestant dying a Papist by the same token that when he had read the Confession used at that holy Ordinance the Bishop desired him to read it over again Arch-deacon of Middlesex Minister of Fulham in Middlesex and St. Anne Aldersgate London and a Justice of Peace of more business in ending Controversies that any ten within London and Westminster both these were outed the one vexed the other Sequestred out of his livings it was Dr. Clwets saying when he heard the reproaches cast upon him that reviling was no Hurt to a good Conscience as flattery was no Cure to a bad one Doctor Chambers of St. Andrews Hubbard Dr. Isaacson of St. Andrews Wardrobe Dr. Graunt of St. Bartholomews Dr. Graunts Son who was the eminent School-master of Westminster and Dr. Graunts Father who is Minister of Isleworth Mr. Warfield of Bennet Finke Mr. Basly of St. Fosters Mr. Freeman of Garlick-hithe Dr. Hill of Katherine Coleman and Mr. Kibbuts Mr. Leech of Mary-le-bow Dr. Iermin Judge Ienkens Brother of St. Martins Ludgate Mr. Iones of Milke-street Dr. Gifford of St. Michael Bassishaw Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons Dr. Cheshire of