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

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.

died at Salisbury where he was Can. resid on the 10 of June 1676 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Whereupon Obadiah Walker M. A. was elected Master of the said Coll. on the 22 of the said month of June Jun. 15. Thom. James Warden of All 's Coll. He became Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edw. Davenant who died at Gillingham in Dorsetsh 12 March 1679 and dying on the 5 of January 1686 was buried in the outer Chap. of All 's Coll. In his Treasurership succeeded Seth Ward M. A. 23. Tho. Lambert of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was now Can. resid of Salisbury one of his Majesties Chaplains and Rector of Boyton in Wilts On the 12 of June 1674 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Priaulx Jun. 23. Tho. Wyat of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 23. Jam. Longman of New Coll. The former was now Vicar of Melksham in Wilts the other Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire 27. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. 30. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. The former who accumulated was Preb. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and Chapl. to his Majesty the other was now Warden of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh Heywood of C. C. Coll. a Compounder He was now Rector of Walton in Lancashire Sim. Patrick of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He had been sometimes Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was elected Master thereof by the major part of the Fellows against a Mandamus for the admitting of Dr. Anth. Sparrow Master of the same For which opposition some if not all of the Fellows that sided with him were ejected Afterwards if not at that time he was Minister of Battersea in Surrey then of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Subdean of Westminster and in the year 1680 Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. James Duport who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Edw. Rainbow an 1664. On the 13 of Oct. 1689 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in the Bishop of Lond. Chappel at Fulham in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake deceased and in the Month of June 1691 he was translated to Ely in the place of Dr. Franc. Turner deprived of his Bishoprick for not taking the Oathes to their Majesties K Will. 3. and Qu. Marie This Dr. Patrick hath many Sermons Theological discourses and other things relating to the supreme faculty extant which shew him to be a learned Divine and an Orthodox Son of the Church of England July 5. Joh. Cawley of All 's Coll. This person who was Son of Will. Cawley of the City of Chichester was by the endeavours of his Father made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 where he continued several years Some time after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Henley in Oxfordshire and upon the death of Dr. Raphael Trockmorton Archdeacon of Lincoln in which Dignity he was installed on the second of March or thereabouts an 1666. He hath written The nature and kinds of Simony Wherein is argued whether letting an ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a Lay-surrogate under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits be reducible to that head And a sentence in a cause depending about it near six years in the Court of Arches is examined Lond. 1689 in 5. sh in qu. July 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. He was now Vicar of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and afterward B. of Landaff Incorporations Apr. 7. Henry Compton M. of A. of Cambr. youngest Son of Spencer Earl of Northampton was then incorporated M. of A with liberty allowed him to enter into and suffragate in the House of Congregation and Convocation This Gent. was originally of Queens Coll. in this University and afterwards through several preferments he became B. of London June 19. Edward Browne Bach. of Phys of Cambridge I shall mention him among the Doctors of that faculty in the next year 27. Sim. Patrick Bach. of Div. of Cambridge I have made mention of him among the Doct. of Div. of this year CREATIONS Those that were created this year were mostly by such that were created when Thom. Earl of Ossory had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd on him Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. Sam. Bowater of Pemb. Coll. lately Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was created Mast of that faculty and the same day was admitted Bach. of Div. conditionally that he preach a Latin Sermon The other persons following were created on the 4. of Feb. after the Earl of Ossory and two of his retinue had been created Doctors of the Civil Law James Russell of Magd. Coll. George Russell of Magd. Coll. They were younger Sons of William Earl of Bedford Thom. Leigh a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Lord Leigh of Stoneley Anthony Ashley Cooper of Trin. Coll. Son of Anthony Lord Ashley He was after his Fathers death Earl of Shaftesbury an 1682. Sir Rich. Graham of Ch. Ch. Bt. This Gentleman who was usually called Sir Rich. Grimes was the Son of Sir George Graham of Netherby in Cumberland Bt and afterwards at riper years a Burgess for Cockermouth in Cumberl to serve in several Parliaments particularly for that which began at Westm 26. of Jan. 1679 and for that which began at Oxon 21. of March 1680. Afterwards he was created by his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Viscount Preston in Scotland and by K. Jam. 2. was sent Embassador into France upon the recalling thence of Sir Will. Trumbull Some time after his return he became so great in the favour of that King that on the 28. of Octob. or thereabouts an 1688 he was made one of the Secretaries of State upon the removal of Robert E. of Sunderland who seemed very willing to be discharged of that office because that having then lately changed his religion for that of Rome he thought it very requisite to make provision for a safe retirement to avoid the danger that might come upon him if the enterprize of the Prince of Orange should succeed as it did In the said station of Secretary the Lord Preston continued till K. Jam. 2. left the Nation in Dec. following who then would have made him Viscount Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire but the sudden change of affairs being then made to the great wonder of all People there was no Seal pass'd in order to it In the beginning of Jan. 1690 he was taken with others in a certain Yatcht going to France to K. Jam. 2 upon some dangerous design as 't was said and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower was in danger of his life and endured a long and tedious imprisonment c. He is a Gent. of many accomplishments and a zealous lover of the Church of England c. Sir Carr Scrope of Wadh. Coll. Bt. This person who was Son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Kt became

dying 26. Sept. 1607. aged 23 was buried at the upper end of the S. isle joyning to the body of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards Christian put up a monument over his grave which is yet remaining but defaced Mark Zeiglier a German was entred into the Coll. about 1624. Wibbo Jansonius Artopaeus Finsoendensis Civis Gen. was admitted into the Coll. in June 1635 aged 20. Hieronimus Ernesti Erffurto●Thuringus was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of Aug. 1638 and continued in the College till July 1641. Besides these and many more which shall now be omitted have been several of the Scotch nation that have been received into the said House upon the same account among which have been 1 Joh. Balcanquall see in the Fasti 1612. among the Incorporations 2 .... Gilman who studied there 1613 and some time after 3 Sam. Balcanquall 1616. One of both his names occurs Fellow of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge 20 years after See in the Fasti 1618 among the Incorporations 4 Rob. Spotswood M. of Arts of Glascow was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of the year 1613. He was afterwards raised by the favour of K. James and K. Ch. 1. unto great honours as his singular virtues did merit K. Jam. made him a Knight and a Privy Counsellour K. Charles advanced him to be Lord President of the Sessions and at length Principal Secretary of Scotland in the place of William Earl of Lanerick afterwards Duke of Hamilton when he revolted to the Covenateers of that Kingdom After James Marquess of Montross had gained great victories against the said Cov. the said Sir Rob. Spotswood conveyed from the King at Oxon to him the said Montross letters pattents whereby he was made Vice-Roy of Scotland and General of the Army there But being soon after taken prisoner upon the defeat of Montross near Silkerke he was conveyed to S. Andrews where at length they found him guilty of High Treason lamented by many because he never bore arms against them for his eminency laid in the way of peace and knew not what belonged to the drawing of a sword His treason being for conveying the said let pat he was beheaded at S. Andrews in 1645 leaving then behind him the general character of a most excellent and good man He was a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and study of the law hath written things in nature of our Reports of the law which have been highly valued among Lawyers in Scotland His Father was Dr. Joh. Spotswood the famous and orthodox Theologist of Scotland consecrated Archbishop of Glascow in the Archbishps Chappel at Lambeth near London according to the ceremonies of the Church of England on the 20. of Oct. 1610. At which time Gawen Hamilton was consecrated Bishop of Galloway and Andr. Lamb B. of Brechin The said Dr. Spotswood was afterwards translated to St. Andrews and dying on the fourth of the Cal. of Dec. an 1639. aged 74 years was buried in the Abbey Church at Westminster 5 James Hamilton Earl of Arran Baron of Evenu in Scotland and of Ennerdale in Cumberland eldest Son of James Marquess of Hamilton was admitted a Noble man under the said Dr. Prideaux his tuition 6. Jul. 1621. He was afterwards Marquess and Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Cambridge 6 James Baylie Governour to the said Count was admitted at the same time to the Fellows table with him See in the Fasti 1621. among the Creations It is farther also to be noted that as the said College did send out many eminent men into the Church and State that had been under the Government of Prideaux so also many that did great mischief and were enemies to them as you may see at large in this work in the lives and characters of several that had been educated in the said College Some also of the English Nobility having been sent thereunto have by the Principles that they have sucked in proved no great friends either to the Church or State Among such have been John Lord Roberts E. of Radnor a severe predestinarian and a Promoter of the grand Rebellion Philip Lord Wharton another Promoter Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury of whom shall be large mention made elsewhere Philip the second Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who lived and died little better than a Quaker c. HENRY TOZER was born at North Tawton in Devonshire entred into Exeter Coll. in 1619 and in the year of his age 17 took one degree in Arts and then was made Prob. Fellow of his House 1623. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty took holy orders and became a useful and necessary Person in the society by moderating reading to Novices and lecturing in the Chappel At riper years he was admitted Bach. of Div became an able and painful Preacher had much of the Primitive Religion in his Sermons and seem'd to be a most precise Puritan in his looks and life which was the true reason why his preachings and expoundings in the Churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were much frequented by Men and Women of the Puritanical party In 1643 he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines but refused to sit among them choosing rather to exercise his function in Oxon before the K. or Parliament or in his cures there than venture himself among rigid Calvinists In 1646 a little before the garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he was one of those noted Theologists who had either preached at Ch. Ch. before his Majesty or at S. Maries before the Parliament that were nominated by the Chancellour of the University to have the degree of D. of D. bestowed upon them but that also he as others refused In 1647. and 48 he behav'd himself a stout Champion against the unreasonable proceedings of the Visitors appointed by Parliament For which being by them posted up for an expell'd Scholar revoked their sentence so far that by an order dated 2. Nov. 16●8 they impower'd him to have liberty to use his Chamber in Exeter Coll. as also that he enjoy a Travellers allowance for three years Afterwards he went into Holland and became Minister to the worshipful company of English Merchants at Roterdam His works are these Directions for a godly life especially for communicating at the Lords table Oxon. 1628. oct There again the tenth time 1680. oct Several Sermons as 1 A Christian amendment Serm. on New-years-day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. on 2. Cor. 5.17 Oxon. 1633. oct 2 Christian Wisdom or the excellency c. of true wisdom Serm. on 1. Kings 10.24 Oxon. 1639. oct 3 Sermon on Joh. 18.3 Ox. 1640. c. Dicta facta Christi ex quatuor Evangelistis collecta in ordme disposita Oxon. 1634. oct He gave way to fate on the eleventh day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred and fifty old stile and was buried in the English Church at Roterdam appropriated to

1641. in qu. which I have not yet seen Catechisme for the use of the Parishoners of Gr. Greenford Lond. 1646. oct Sum of Religion Printed 1647. qu. Characters of a wicked heart hypocritical and sincere heart Printed in one sh● Voyage to East India Wherein some things are taken notice of in his passage thither but many more in his abode there within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogul Lond. 1655. oct with the Authors picture before it The narrative of this voyage was written and disgested into order by the Author after his return thence and by him dedicated and presented in MS. to Prince Charles an 1622. Afterwards it was added to the Travels of Pet. de la Valle and abridged in Sam. Purchas his second part of Pilgrims book 9. Corolarie of serious and heedful but sad conclusions Printed at the end of the Voyage before mention'd Character of K. Ch. 2. with a short Apologie before it an introduction to it and conclusion after it Lond. 1660. qu. From which King he expected the Deanery of Windsore to be confer'd upon him but upon what ground seeing that he suffer'd neither for his or his fathers cause I know not He departed this mortal life on the 8. day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Greenford beforemention'd as I have been informed by his Son Edw. Terry a Non-conformist Divine somtimes Master of Arts and Fellow of University College THOMAS POWELL Son of Joh. Pow. Rector of Cantreffe near to and in the County of Brecknock was born there in 1608 made his first entrie into this University in 1625 elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. in 162● took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Fellow of that House About which time applying his mind to the faculty of Theologie he entred into the sacred function and at length became Rector of the place of his nativity In the time of the Civil War he suffer'd much for the Kings cause and being sequestred of his spiritualities ship'd himself beyond the Seas for a time After the return of Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms he was restored to them was actually created D. of D. and made Canon of S David and would without doubt have risen higher in the Church had he not been untimely snatch'd away from it He was a Person well vers'd in several sorts of learning was an able Philosopher a curious Critick was well skill'd in various languages and not to be contemn'd for his knowledge in Divinity He hath written Elementa Opticae nova facili compendiosâ methodo explicata c. Lond. 1651. oct Commended to the World by the copies of verses of Olor Iscanus and Eugenius Philalethes his Brother Quadriga Salutis or the four general heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained Lond. 1657. oct At the latter end of which are some annotations of the same Author in the Welsh tongue A Catechistical Tract of the Lords Prayer the Creed and ten Commandements This I have not yet seen and therefore I know not to the contrary but that it may be the same with his Catechisme in Welsh and English Humane industry or a history of most manual Arts deducing the original progress and improvement of them c. Lond. 1661. in oct This I have in my study but his name is not set to it He translated from Ital. into English Stoa Triumphans Two letters of the noble and learned Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi one in praise of banishment the other in contempt of honor and from French into English 1 Recueil de novellis Lettres or the last letters of Monsieur de Balsac 2 The unfortunate Politick or the life of Herod He left behind him a Ms of his composition unpublished intit Fragmenta de rebus Britannicis A short account of the lives manners and religion of the British Druids and the Bards c. As also two translations one from the Latine and another from the Italian tongue That from the Latine hath this title The Insubrian Historie containing an exact account of the various fates civil commotions battles and seiges acted upon the theater of Lombardie and the adjacent parts of Italy c. written originally by the learned Puteanus And that from the Ital. hath this The Christian politic Favourite or a vindication of the politic transactions of the Count-Duke de S. Lucar the great Minister of State and favourite counsellour to Philip the 4. of Spayne Written originally by Virg. Malvezzi before mention'd it was before traduced but in this translation all things were righted therein by our Author T. Powell who giving way to fate at London on the last day of December in sixteen hundred and sixty was the next day buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. leaving then behind him the character of a most ingenious and polite Person WALTER RUMSEY an Esquires Son was born in Monmouthshire at Llannover as I have been informed became a Gent. Com. of Glocester Hall in 1600 aged 16 years but leaving that house without a Scholastical degree retired to Greys-inn studied the municipal Law was made Barrester Bencher Lent-Reader 9. Car. 1 and at length a Judge in South Wales being then so noted for his profession that he was usually called The picklock of the Law In 1640 he was elected one of the Knights for Monmouthshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13. Apr. and might have been chosen again to serve in the Long Parliament but refused it He was an ingenious man had a Philosophical head was a good Musician and most curious for graftng inoculating and planting and also for ordering of Ponds But that which he is to be most noted for is that he having been always much troubled with flegme was the first that invented the Provangg or Whalebone instrument to cleanse the throat and stomack which hath not only been since used by noted Physicians and Vertuosi at home but by those beyond the Seas At length he wrot a book of it and its use entit Organon Salutis An instrument to cleanse the stomach Lond. 1657. 59 oct To which he added Divers new experiments of the vertue of Tobacco and Coffey Before both which are two Epistles written to the Author one by Sir Hen. Blount in praise of Tobacco and Coffey and the other by Jam. Howell in praise of those two and the Provangg What other books our Author Rumsey hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he dying in his house at Llannover about sixteen hundred and sixty was buried in the Parish Church there near to the bodies of his Relations He had a Son named Edward who was entred a Gentleman Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1623 21. Jacobi 1. RICHARD ZOUCHE or Zouchaeus as he somtimes writes himself the Cadet of an antient and noble Family was born of worthy parents in the Parish

became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vil●ains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed a● to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at Justice●Hall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga

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

1667 at which time William Albert Count of Dona Embassador from Sweedland was here in England was broken and thereupon an alliance was made with France In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry Secretary of State for his pains if his own affirmation may be credited when he went into Sweedland 1671. In the same Session of Parliament Shaftesbury had a principal hand in promoting and establishing the Test to render Papists uncapable of publick employments And this he did as 't is thought because he perceiving the Court to be sick of him provided himself by having a hand therein with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy On the 9. of Nov. 1673 he being then President of his Majesties Council for trade and plantations the Great Seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James Duke of York who found him untractable and not fit according to moderation for that high place or as another tells us for his zeal and activity in promoting the Bill for the aforesaid Test and thereupon he grew much discontented and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance On the 16. of Feb. 1676 he with George Duke of Buckingham James Earl of Salisbury and Philip Lord Wharton were sentenced by the H. of Lords to be committed Prisoners to the Tower under the notion of contempt for that they refused a recantation for what the day before was spoken by them viz. that Buckingham just after the King had ended his Speech to both Houses at their then meeting endeavouring to argue from Law and reason that the long prorogation was null'd and that the Parliament was consequently dissolved was seconded by Salisbury Shaftesbury and Wharton For which reason I say and for endeavouring to raise sedition they were sent to the Tower Buckingham Salisbury and Wharton were by petition to his Majesty freed thence in the beginning of May following but Shaftesbury remained there till the beginning of Dec. next ensuing notwithstanding he before Jun. 22. an 1677 had moved for a Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench which was granted yet the Judges declared they could not release him In Sept. 1678 upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot he became head of the factious party who making it more terrible than 't was endeavoured all ways imaginable to promote their interest thereby To stop Shaftesbury's mouth therefore and so consequently please his party his Majesty vouchsafed to constitute him Lord President of his Privy Council consisting then but of 30 21. Apr. 1679 but he shewing himself too busie and forward and little or not at all to keep pace with the Kings moderate humour he was laid aside on the 5 of Octob. following and was succeeded in that honorable office by John Lord Roberts who behaving himself much like a Gentleman was soon after created Earl of Radnor After this Shaftesbury plays his old game by recurring to the People remov'd into the City and to vent his spleen became the most bitter enemy in the H. of Lords against the Duke of York especially at that time 15. of Nov. 1680 when William Lord Russell eldest Son of William Earl of Bedford did in the head of more than 200 of the House of Commons carry up a Bill to the House of Lords for the disinheriting the said Duke of the Imperial Crown of Britaine Then and there I say he was so heated with passion being excellently well opposed in what he then said by George Earl of Halyfax that he talked almost all the time being ten of the Clock at night before they gave over But all that he then and afterwards said effecting nothing he wrot or caused to be written abusive Pamphlets and endeavoured with others by an Association to depose the King in case he and his Parliament held at Oxon in Mar. 168● should disagree which he fully expected But his trayterous designs being discovered he was seized on in his House in London by one of his Majesties Serjeants at armes on the 2. Jul. 1681 examined by the Council the K. being then present and forthwith was committed close Prisoner to the Tower for High Treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King and endeavouring to depose him from his Crown and Dignity and to raise armes to that purpose On the 24. of Nov. following there was a Bill of indictment of High Treason against him read before his Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie London and afterwards proved by several sufficient Witnesses but the fanatical Jury pack'd on purpose by the then fanatical Sheriffs Tho. Pilkington and Sam. Shute they returned the Bill Ignoramus and so forthwith Shaftesbury was set at liberty Upon which deliverance the seditious party made Bonefires and caused a medal to be cast of which medal Dryden the Poet Laureat made a witty Poem In Octob. 1682 when Dudley North and Pet. Rich the loyal Sheriffs of London were sworn a Warrant was issued out against to apprehend him Whereupon he sculk'd for a time till an opportunity wafted him over the Seas to Holland where he remained to the time of his death He hath written divers things of which these are some The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Lond. in 7. sh in fol. These constitutions are in number 120 and at the end are eleven rules of precedence to be observed in Carolina When these constitutions were printed it appears not either in the title or at the end of the book They are dated on the first of March 1669 and so I presume they were soon after printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Lord Treasurers Clifford taking his Oath in the Exchecquer 5. Dec. 1672. Printed in one sh in fol. 1672. 2 Several Speeches to both Houses at the opening of the Parliament 4 and 5. of Feb. 1672. Printed in fol. papers 1672. 3 Speech to Serj. Edw. Thurland in the Exchecquer Chamber when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer 24. January 1672. Pr. in one sh in fol. Reprinted afterwards in half a sheet in fol. at Lond. 1681 because it was much for the Kings Prerogative and contained therein as 't is said a good character of the Duke of York shewing thereby the great mutability in opinion of this our author who then 1681 was a severe enemy against both 4 Speech to both Houses of Parliament 27. oct 1673. pr. in a fol. sheet 5 Speech in the House of Lords 20. Octob. 1675. upon the debate of appointing a day for the hearing Dr. Thom. Sherley's ease Lond. 1675. qu. This case of Dr. Sherley was against Sir John Fagge who detained a large Estate from him in Sussex With the said Speech was printed that of George Duke of Bucks spoken in the House of Lords on the 16. of Nov. the same year for leave to bring in a Bill for Indulgence to all Protestant Dissenters together with the protestation and reasons of several Lords for the dissolution of that Parliament