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 Vilâ—ains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ— 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 Justiceâ—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
month of July and in the same year he was not only named one of the Kings Serjeants which he refused to accept but was made one of the 3 Commissioners of the new Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England 8. Febr at which time the King Great Seal was publickly broken in the H. of Commons And farther also on the 14. of the said month he was elected one of the 30 persons for the Council of State wherein he sate and acted according to his ability In the month of June 1649 he was made High Steward of the City of Oxon by the Mayor and Citizens thereof in the room of the Earl of Berks Whom they for his Loyalty displaced and about the same time they made him their Recorder In July following he was constituted keeper of the Kings Meddals and Library which in 1647 he had hindred from being sold And that employment he the rather took because he was put upon it by Selden and other learned men and that he himself being accounted learned took great delight in such matters However being not alwaies at leisure to attend those places he had a Deputy allowed him and one John Dury a Traveller did the drudgery of the place On the 24. of Nov. 1651 he was continued one of the Council of State and likewise on the same day in the year following In the beginning of Nov. 1653 he set forth with a gallant retinew in the quality of an Embassador into Sweedland being impowred thereto by Oliver and the Little Parliament and had a thousand pounds per ann for his Salary In which Embassie and Country behaving himself with great prudence to the liking and with the approbation of all Christina Queen of that Country made him a Knight of the honorable Order of Amaranta of which Order the Queen herself is Soveraign and wears the badg thereof which is a rich Jewel tied to a crimson riband under her left breast You may be pleased to see more of this Order in Elias Ashmole's book intit The institutions lawes and ceremonies of the Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. chap. 3. p. 123. and the copy or draught of the badge between pag. 94. and 95. After his return thence which was in July 1654. he was in Aug. following made one of the Commissioners of the Exchequer or Treasury for in his absence alteration or pretended reformation being made in the Chancery he stood off at his return from being any longer Commissioner of the Seal In January 1656 he being then Serjeant at Law was chose Speaker of the H. of Commons pro tempore upon the indisposition of him lately chosen and in the year following he was summoned by Oliver the Protector to sit in the other House by the name of Bulstrode Lord Whitlock which summons he obeying had thereupon a negative voice in that House over the people tho he had helped to put it down when it consisted of King and Lords In Aug. 1659 he was made President of the Council of State in Octob one of the Committee of Safety on the first of Nov keeper of the great seal pro tempore by the appointment of the said Committee and on the 30 of Jan. following he retired into the country for fear of being sent prisoner to the Tower by some prevalent Members in the in the Rump Parl. then newly restored for his being a member of the Committee of Safety At which time he leaving the Seal with his wife lock'd up in a desk she forthwith delivered it to Lenthal the Speaker From which time to that of his death we heard but little of him only that he lived retiredly mostly at Chilton in Wilts near Hungerford in Berks that he had been an observing person thro all changes guided more by policy than conscience and that he had advantaged himself much in Civil affairs by his relation to the publick and his eminent station To which I add that he was an excellent Com. Lawyer was as well read in books as in men and well vers'd in the Oriental Tongues and therefore belov'd of Selden who would have made him one of his Executors and the Virtuosi of his time The things that he hath extant are these Several Speeches viz. 1 Speech at a conference of both Houses 17. Feb. 1641. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Sp. to the Qu. of Sweden an 1653. The beginning of which is Madam by command of my Superiors the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England c. 3 Speech in Lat. to the said Qu. in May or Jun. 1654. The beginning of which is Multo equidem cum taedio ferrem c. 4 A learned and godly speech spoken when Serjeant Willam Steel Recorder of the City of London was made L. Chief Baron in the Court of Exchecquer at Westm 28. May 1655. 5 Sp. to the Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of London 9. Aug. 1659. 6 Another Sp. to them 8. Nov. the same year which two Sp. are published in one sh in qu. Several discourses in the trial of Tho. E. of Strafford See in Jo. Rushworths Trial of Tho. E. of Straff Monarchy asserted to be the best most ancient and legal form of government in a conference had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector and a Committee of Parliament in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct Made good by way arguments in at least five Speeches then by him spoken Memorialls of the English affaires or an historicall account of what passed from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1682. fol. This is no more than a Diary which he began and continued for his private use In this book you 'll find divers of his discourses made on various occasions It was published by Arth. Earl of Anglesie but with a very bad index to it which is a disadvantage to the book in many respects He also left behind him several manuscript volumes of his own writing which are not determin'd by the heir whether they may or shall be published Several things in his life time were fathered upon him among which was a little thing published in Jan. 1659. entit My Lord Whitlocks Reports on Machiavil c. wherein the author tells us that when Whitlock was chose a member of the Long Parl. he had then no interest but contented himself with seeing the fashions of the Parl. house At length Pyms discerning eyes spying that curiosity presently attacqued his unconcerned undetermined mind and with the proffers of greatness and popularity brought him over to his design and became his Second c. Also that when he with other Commissioners attended the King at Oxon with propositions from both houses in order to peace the K. shewed to the Commissioners during their stay there great respect but of Commissioner Whitlock he took small notice c. which implanted in him ever after an implacable malice to him and his posterity c. That he was sent to make speeches against the young King at Guild hall
Ap. 1646. and once as it seems before the Commons 30. July 1645 and his sermons without doubt were published but such I have not yet seen nor a little thing printed in tw going under the name of Thom. Ford entit The Anatomy of the times This Tho. Ford of Exeter died in the latter end of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried on the 28 day of the same month in the Church of S. Lawrence before mention'd near to the bodies of his Wife Bridget and several of his Children that had been there buried before him I find one Thomas Ford who entitles himself Philothal to be author of Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on our late K. Ch. 1. c. attended with several other pieces from the said pen viz. 1 A theatre of Wits being a collection of Apothegms 2 A century of familiar Letters 3 Loves Laberynth a Trag. Comedy 4 Fragmenta Poetica or poetical diversions concluding with a Panegyrick on his sacred Majesties return Lond. 1660. oct But whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot yet tell nor whether he was the same T. Forde who translated into English Lusus fortunae c. Lond. 1649. oct GEORGE DIGBY son and heir of John Digby Earl of Bristow was born in the City of Madrid in Spain in the month of Oct. 1612 made his first entry into Magd. Coll. 15. Aug. 1626 and was then entred a Noble man there At which time and so long as he continued there he was very familiar and held great correspondence with Pet. Heylyn Fellow of that House by whose directions and conversation he improved himself much in several sorts of learning In 1636 just after his Majest had left Oxon where he had been splendidly entertained by the members of the University and by the Archbishop at S. Johns Coll he was among other Persons of honor actually created Master of Arts being then esteemed a Person of good parts and in hopes to do the State service In the beginning of the Long Parliament of which he was a member he became one of the eminent Darlings of the People as being a Person discontented and therefore was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a charge against the most noble and eminently conspicuous Thomas Earl of Strafford 11. Nov. 1640 and appointed one of the managers of the evidence against him But upon a discovery of the unjust practices against him he became his Advocate tho all the advantage he got by it was that he lost his own esteem both among the House of Commons and among the Faction From that time he became their declared enemy by being a bold friend of truth and justice which he shewed in a Speech at the passing of the Bill of Attainder against the said Earl 21. Apr. 1641 ordered to be burnt as I shall tell you anon and therefore was posted up by some in the head of those called Straffordians He was also a friend to the Bishops and their function when both were called into question about that time and a zealous enemy to the Covenant All which do appear in speeches uttered in good language and sweetness On the 10. of June 1641. he was expell'd the House of Commons not only for exceptions taken by them for words spoken concerning an oath which Colonel G. Goring confessed he had taken to be secret to saying he was a perjur'd Person but because he was the day before made a Baron and introduced into the upper House the very same 10. of June In the beginning of January following he went on a message from his Maj. to Kingston upon Thames to certain Gentlemen there some say to give Coll. Tho. Lundsford a visit in a Coach with 6 horses and no other equipage with him save only a servant riding by him and a Companion in a Coach But his appearance there being represented to the Parliament as in a warlike manner and every Coach horse reckoned for a Troop the House of Commons made a complaint thereof on the 10. of the same month to the House of Lords Whereupon it being voted that he then took up Arms for his Majesty he was proclaimed Traitor banished and made the publick hatred of the Puritans or Presbyterians But the King soon after leaving the Parliament because of their desperate proceedings he drew by degrees many Lords and Commons after him together with this Lord from beyond the Seas and therefore he was excepted by the Parliament in a treaty of peace with the King at Oxon in the latter end of the year 1642. In 1643 he was made one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty and high Steward of this University in the place of Will Lord Say who adher'd to the Parliament and in the next year he would have been question'd for an Incendiary by the Parliament sitting at Oxon because of a Mutiny that hapned among the Soldiers of the Garrison there but it was dissolved before the members could do any thing in the matter In the latter end of 1645 he being then a stirring active man he went into Ireland where he did good service for his Majesty and underwent great hazards of his life but upon the declining of the Kings cause he left that place and on the 24. of Oct. 1648 he was exempted from pardon by the Parliament Afterwards upon the death of his Father he became Earl of Bristow and Knight of the Garter being then in exile beyond the Seas suffering much by the loss of his Estate After the Kings return he was restored to what he had lost and the year after was installed with others Knight of the said Order became a frequent Speaker in Parliaments and an enemy to Clarendon while he was Lord Chancellour Under his name were printed these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in Parl. 9. Nov. 1640. concerning grievances and a triennial Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Printed in the 1. vol. of John Nalson's Impartial Collection c. p. 505. 2 Speech in the H. of Com. to the bill of triennial Parliaments 19. Jan. 1640. Lond. 1641. qu. Remitted into the third part of Joh. Rushworth's Historical Collections 3 Sp. in the H. of Com. concerning Bishops and the City Petition 9. Feb. 1640. Lond. 1640. in 4. sh in qu. Remitted into the said 3d. part of Hist Coll. with other discourses of our author Digby This Sp. spoken 9. Feb. is called the L. Digby's third speech 4 Sp. in the House of Com. to the bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford 21. Apr. 1641. Lond. 1641. in two sh in qu. Remitted into John Rushworth's Trial of the E. of Strafford p. 50. and into Joh. Nalson's Impart Coll. vol. 2. p. 175. On the 13 of July following it was ordered by the H. of Com. that one part of the said speech should be publickly burnt on Friday after at 10. of the clock in the morn by the hands of the common hangman in the Pallace-yard at Westminster and another part
use of him he having then an eye upon his Brother George in Scotland whom his family had obliged likewise I say that this good benefice being bestowed on him he was by his Brothers interest fix'd therein and ready to perform what laid in his power to serve the interest of the Royal Family In 1659 he agitated with his said Brother by Letters to and soon after in Person in Scotland in order to influence him for the restauration of K. Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms being put upon it chiefly by the said Sir Jo Greenvill and some of the Gentry in the West who were of kin to Monke So happy it was for his Maj. to employ the said Sir John and so lucky for him to send his Clerk Mr. Monke thither where he omitted nothing of his instructions but prudently managed them as may reasonably be inferred from the good effect they had Thus did the sense of allegiance and the love of his Country prevail with his Brother against all hazards And if I should speak right the revenge of slights was some part of grain in the Scales In the year following 1660 his endeavours and desires being effected he was by the interest of the said Sir John minded thereunto by Gen. Monke made Provost of Eaton Coll in the month of June then or lately enjoyed by Nich. Lockyer sometimes Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell lately Protect In the beginning of Aug. following he was actually created Doctor of Divinity by vertue of the Kings Letters sent to the University for that purpose and soon after being nominated by his Majesty to the See of Hereford which had laid void for 14 years by the death of George Cook he was consecrated thereunto on the sixth day of January Epiphany day in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Archb. of York Bishops of Durham Chichester Lincolne and Peterborough But before he had enjoyed that See a full year he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in the Old Pallace-yard in Westminster on the seventeenth of December in sixteen hundred sixty and one whereupon his body was buried on the twentieth of the said month in S. Edmunds Chappel within the Precincts of the said Church of S. Peter In the See of Hereford succeeded Dr. Herbert Croft of whom may future mention be made and of his works as to learning BRIAN DUPPA sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1638 translated to Salisbury in 1641 and thence to Winchester in 1660. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 176. He was so bountiful in his Legacies to Ch. Church that the money might serve to found a new and not to compleat an old College He left Legacies to Allsouls Coll to the Cath. Churches of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester and erected an Hospital at his own charge in the place of his nativity as I have elsewhere told you Over the door of which may this be engraven That a poor Bishop vowed this House but a great and wealthy one built it In the See of Winchester succeeded Dr. George Morley of whom I have made large mention among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 581. JOHN GAUDEN sometimes of Wadham College was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the 2. of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent an 1660 and translated thence to Worcester on Morleys going to Winchester in the beginning of 1662 in which year in Septemb. he died See more of him among the Writers under the same year p. 207. In the said See of Worcester succeeded Dr. John Earle and him Dr. Rob. Skinner as I shall tell you anon under the year 1670. ROBERT SANDERSON sometimes Fellow of Lincolne College was consecrated Bishop of Lincolne on the 28 of Octob. 1660 and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 213. He was succeeded in the said Bishoprick by Dr. Benj. Laney Bishop of Peterborough who after he had sate there four years was translated to Ely WILLIAM JUXON son of Rich. Juxon of Chichester son of John Juxon of London was born as 't is said within the City of Chichester in Sussex educated in Merchant Taylors School became Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in 1598 and Bach. of the Civil Law in 1603 being about that time a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London Soon after he took holy Orders and in the latter end of the year 1609 he was made Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon where continuing about six years he was much frequented for his edifying way of preaching In 1621 he was elected President of his College and in the next year he proceeded in the Civil Law In 1626 and after he did execute the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in January 1627 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Jos Hall promoted to the See of Exeter On the 10. of July 1632 he was at Dr. Lauds suit then Bishop of London sworn Clerk of his Majesties Closet which office was by that great person procured for him to the end that he might have one that he might trust near his Majesty if he grew weak or infirm In the beginning of the year 1633 he was elected Bishop of Hereford in the place of Dr. Franc. Godwin deceased was about that time made Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the translation of Dr. Laud to the See of Cant. which was on the 19 of Sept. the same year he was translated to London that City being then in its height of giddiness and faction About that time he was called to be one of his Majesties Privy Council who finding him to be a person of uprightness and justice did confer upon him the great office of Lord Treasurer on Sunday the sixth of Mar. 1635. Which office no Churchman had since Hen. 7 time as Doct. Laud observes who adds this I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour and the King and the state service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more In this office which he enjoyed till 1641 he kept the Kings Purse when necessities were deepest and clamours loudest to the great content of all that had to do with him In the time of the rebellion began and carried on by the restless Presbyterians he suffer'd as other Bishops did was outed of the House of Lords with his Brethren and lost the Lands belonging to his Bishoprick as the rest did In 1648 he had the honour and happiness if it may be so called to attend K. Ch. 1.
of Magd. Hall The first of these two who was the celebrated Poet of his time I have mention'd among the Writers the other who was afterwards of All 's Coll. I shall mention among the Masters an 1677. 25. Joh. Kettlewell of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. Nov. 3. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch. Nov. 3. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall Of these two you may see more among the Masters 1677. Jan. 19. Andr. Allam of S. Edm. Hall Feb. 6. George Tully of Qu. Coll. 13. Humph. Smith of Qu. Coll. Mar. 1. George Royse of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Oriel Coll. These three last Bachelaurs with J. Parkinson J. Kettlewell c. having since published several things ought therefore to be remembred at large hereafter Adm. 244. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Charles Hickman of Ch. Ch. May 16. Joh. Barrow of S. Edm. Hall He was admitted Master two terms sooner than he ought to have been by vertue of the Chancellours Letters because he was to go Chaplain to Sir Will. Temple of Shene in Surrey Bt his Maj. Embassador to Holland After his return he became Lecturer of S. Mich. Cornhill in Lond. and Curat to Dr. George Hooper at Lambeth during the said Dottors attendance on Mary Princess of Orange in Holland Afterwards he became Vicar of New Windsore in Berks and on the 26. of Aug. 1682 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Butler deceased He hath published A Sermon preached at the triennial Visitation of Seth L. Bish of Sarum held at Reading 6. Sept. 1683 on Philip 1.15.16.17.18 Lond. 1683 qu. This person who was a Northamptonshire man born was esteemed while he continued in the University a man of polite parts a good Poet and Orator He died in 1684 or thereabouts June 26. Aaron Baker of Wadh. Coll. He was afterwards a Preacher at or near Putney in Surrey and at length beneficed in his own Country of Devonshire He hath published Achitophel befool'd Sermon preached 5. Nov. 1678 at S. Sepulchres in Lond. on 2. Sam. 15.31 Lond. 1678-79 qu. July 4. Francis Lloyd of Oriel Coll. 9. Matthew Morgan of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Archdeacon of Merioneth July 9. Jonath Blagrave of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Sub-Almoner to Qu. Mary Preb. of Worcester c. Oct. 24. Joh. Bennion of Hart lately of S. Edmunds Hall He was afterwards Vicar of Malmsbury in Wilts and author of Moses's charge to Israels Judges opened in an Assize Sermon at Salisbury 27. Feb. 1680 on Deut. 1.16 and part of the 17 vers Oxon. 1681. qu. Adm. 129. Bach. of Phys June 27. Joh. Floyer of Qu. Coll. Feb. 6. Joh. Locke of Ch. Ch. Adm. 5. Bach. of Div. July 9. Obad. Howe of Magd. Hall Oct. 13. Matthew Hole of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Stogursey in Somersetshire hath two Sermons extant viz. 1 Our Saviours passion in a Serm. on Good Friday 1. Apr. 1670 in S. Peters Cath. Ch. Exon on Acts 2.23 Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Sermon preached at Taunton on the Feast of Epiphany before the Forces of the Militia of the County of Somerset met there for the preservation of the peace of the town on Luke 2.17 Lond. 1689. qu. Oct. 29. Thom. Smith of Magd. Coll. Nov. 3. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch. 11 William Jane of Ch. Ch. 11 Joh. Morton of Linc. Coll. The last who was afterwards Preb. of Durham was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland on the death of Dr. William Turner sometimes of Trin. Coll on the 5 of Octob. 1685. The degree of Doct. of Div. was granted to him on the 6. of Apr. 1692. Mar. 24. Nathan Sterry of Mert. Coll. In the month of Sept. going before he was made Dean and Rector of Bocking in Essex Adm. 19. Doct. of Law May 30. Thom. Taylor of Magd. Hall Doct. of Phys June 25. Joh. Jacobeus a Dane Accumulators July 4. Franc. Eedes of Ch. Ch. Accumulators The first of these two had spent 14 years in study in several Universities and more than the last five in Oxon where he wholly addicted himself to the study of Physick He did not stand in the Act to compleat his degree neither was he licensed to practice his faculty tho sometimes he did it privately in these parts whereupon he returned to his Country of Denmark and practised there c. Doct. of Div. Apr. 6. Thomas Ryves of New Coll. June 4. Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. 17. Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. a Compounder In the month of Feb. 1675 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. upon the translation of Dr. Henry Compton from the See of Oxon to that of London who while he was B. of Oxon held his Canonry in Commendam with it 17. Timothy Halton of Queens Coll. a Comp. Archdeacon of Brecknock and Canon of S. David In 1675 he became Archdeacon of Oxford on the promotion of Dr. Thom. Barlow to the See of Linc and on the 7 of Apr. 1677 he was elected Provost of Queens Coll which place Dr. Barlow had kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick two years July 9. Obad. Howe of Magd. Hall He accumulated the degrees â—n Div. Incorporations From the 5. of May to the 14. of July were 12 Cambridge Masters of Arts incorporated whereof 9 of them were received into the bosom of this University on the said 14. of July being the next day after Act Munday but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop July 18. Michael Ward Doct. of Div. of Dublin and Cambridge was incorp in the said degree with liberty given him to suffragate in Congreg and Convoc He was afterwards Provost of Trinity Coll. near to and the Kings Professor of the Univ. of Dublin afterwards B. of Ossory and at length of London-Derry in which last he was succeeded by Ezek. Hopkins an 1681. CREATIONS In the month of June the Sweedish Embassador with other Forreigners accompanied by some English men coming to the University were Creations made in the two faculties of Arts and Civil Law Mast of Arts. June 27. David Macklier Captain of a prefectorian company belonging to the King of Sweedland Sam. Monsson Agriconius Secretary to the extraordinary Embassie from the K. of Sweedland was created the same day Christianus Fredericus Secretary to the Embassador or Envoy extraord from the Elector of Brandeburg was also created at the same time Doct. of Law June 27. The most illustrious and excellent Lord Peter Sparre free Baron in Croneberge Lord of Nynas Peuteberg and Tulgarne General of the Army of Foot belonging to the King of Sweedland Governour of Elfborglhen and Daal and extraordinary Embassador to the King of Gr. Britaine from the said King of Sweedland was with solemnity actually created Doct. of the Civil Law The illustrious Lord Otto free Baron of Schwerin Counsellour of the State of
1621 which was printed that year In 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and in 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I yet know of him CALYBUTE DOWNING the eldest Son of Calyb Downing of Shennington in Gloucestershire near to Banbury in Oxfordshire Gent. Lord of the mannors of Sugarswell and Tysoe in Warwickshire became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1623 and in that of his age 17 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts compleated it by determination and then went as it seems to Cambridge or beyond the Seas where taking another degree he entred into orders was made Rector of Hickford in Bucks Doctor of the Laws and had as I have been informed by one that well knew him the Rectory of West-Ildesley in Berks bestowed on him About that time he being a competitor for the Wardenship of All 's Coll. when Dr. Gilb. Sheldon was elected but lost it did at length exchange W. Ildesley for the Rectory of Hackney near London and was a great suitor to be Chaplain to Tho. E. of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland thinking that employment the readiest way to be a Bishop And whilst he had hopes of that preferment he writ stoutly in justification of that calling and was ready ever and anon to maintain it in all Discourses But being a reputed weathercock that turns which way soever the wind of his own humour and ambition blew him did upon some discontent watch an opportunity to gain preferment let it come what way soever At length being esteemed by the Faction to be a Man fitted for any base employment and one that what ever he counterfeited ever looked awry on the Church in which being setled and in peace he could never hope to advance further than Rector of Hackney was by them sent to feel the pulse of the great City of London While therefore discontents did rise high in the North the Scots having in an hostile manner entred the Kingdom the people every where especially in London stirred up by some Agents to petition the King for that Parliament which began 3. Nov. 1640 our Author Downing did then viz. on the first of Sept. 1640 preach to the brotherhood of the Artillery Garden and positively affirmed that for defence of religion and reformation of the Church it was lawful to take up arms against the King He having thus kindled the fire in the City did for fear of being questioned for then it was not lawful to preach Treason retire privately to Little-Lees in Essex the house of Robert Earl of Warwick and common rendezvouze of all schismatical preachers in those parts while in the mean time his Sermon which did administer in every place matter of discourse was censur'd as people stood affected and in fine gave occasion to the Ringleaders of the Faction to enter upon serious examination and study of this case of Conscience And it seems that they consulting with the Jesuits on the one side and the rigid Puritan on the other or indeed because without admitting this doctrine all their former endeavours would vanish into smoak they stood doubtful no longer but closed with these two contrary parties yet shaking hands in this point of Rebellion and subscribing to the Doctrine of Downing as an evangelical truth Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after he became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Lord Roberts in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex where he preached and prayed continually against the King and his Cause In 1643 he shewed himself a grand Covenanter and thereupon was made one of the Assembly of Divines but leaving them soon after he sided with the Independents and preached so seditiously that he was commonly called Young Peters or Hugh Peters the second and often and bitterly preached against such Citizens of London that shew'd themselves zealous for an union or right understanding between the King and his Parliament But behold while he was in the height of these diabolical and rebellious actions he was suddenly and as I may say most justly cut off from the face of the earth and was no more seen His Works are these A discourse of the state Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom in relation to the Civil considered under three conclusions c. Oxon. 1633. c. A digression discussing some ordinary exceptions against Ecclesiastical Officers To these two discourses tho his name is put yet I have been informed by a certain D. of D. then living and well known to Downing that he the said C. Downing was not the Author of them Discourse of the false grounds the Bavarian party have laid to settle their own Faction and shake the peace of the Empire c. Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse upon the interest of England considered in the case of the deteinure of the Prince Elector Palatine his dignities and dominions printed with the former book next going before A discoursive conjecture upon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present Troubles of Great Britaine different from those of Lower Germany c. Lond. 1641. qu. c. Divers Sermons as 1 Serm. preached before the renowned Company of Artillery 1. Sept. 1â—40 on Deut. 25.17 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Fast Serm. before the H. of Commons 31. Aug. 1642 on 2. Thes 3. ver 2. whether printed I know not and others which I have not yet seen This person who had a hot and rambling Head laid it down very unwillingly and gave up the Ghost at Hackney about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and four to the great grief of his aged Father who died in Nov. following This Dr. Cal. Downing was Father to a Son of his own temper named George a sider with all times and changes well skil'd in the common Cant and a Preacher sometimes to boot a man of note in Olivers days as having been by him sent Resident to the Lords States General of the United Provinces a Soldier in Scotland and at length Scout Master General there and a Burgess for several Corporations in that Kingdom in Parliaments that began there in 1654 and 56. Upon a foresight of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. his Restauration he wheeled about took all opportunities to shew his Loyalty was elected Burgess for Morpeth in Northumb. to serve in that Parl. begun at Westm 8. May 1661 was about that time sent Envoy Extraordinary into Holland where to shew his zeal and love for his Majesty he seized on three Regicides at Delft named John Barkstead Joh. Okey and Miles Corbet whom he forthwith sent into England to receive the reward of the Gallows Afterwards being made Secretary to the Treasury and one of his Majesties Commissioners of the Customs was by the name of Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Cambridgeshire Knight created a Baronet on the first of July 1603. BRIAN TWYNE Son of Tho. Twyne mentioned before under the year 1613 p. 329 was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Surrey
that he was very confident that then would be great revolutions in the Kingdom of England THOMAS WIDDOWES Son of Thom. Wid. Brother I think to Giles mention'd under the year 1645. p. 44 was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire entred a Student in Gloc. Hall in 1626 aged 14 years where continuing about 8 Terms was made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Frewen President thereof Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he was by the endeavours of the same Person made Master of the College School at Glocester in the place of Joh. Langley an 1640. at which time Dr. Frewen was Dean of the Cath. Church there But Widdowes being soon after outed for his Loyalty he became Minister of Woodstock and Master of the School there founded by Rich. Cornwell Citizen and Skinner of Lond. 27. Eliz. dom 1585. where continuing for some time was removed to the Free school at Northleech in Glocestershire a place of more value He hath written The just Devil o◠Woodstock or a true narrative of the several apparitions the frights and punishments inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners sent thither to survey the Mannors and Houses belonging to his Majestie Lond. 1649. qu. It is a diary which was exactly kept by the Author for his own satisfaction intending not to print it But after his death the copy coming into the hands of another Person 't was printed in Dec. 1660 and had the year 1649 put in the bottom of the title as if it had been then printed The names of the Commissioners were Cockaine Hart Unton Croke Careless and Roe Captains Rich. Croke the Lawyer afterwards Recorder of Oxon. and Browne the surveyor The Book is very impartially written and therefore worth the reading by all especially the many Atheists of this age Our Author also hath written A short survey of Woodstock Taken from antient Authors and printed with the former He hath also written as I have been told certain matters pertaining to the faculty of Grammar for the use of his Scholars which I have not yet seen He was buried in the Church of Northleech beforemention'd on the 26. of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five In the year 1649 was printed in one sheet in qu. a Poem intit The Woodstock scuffle or most dreadful apparitions that were lately seen in the Mannor-house of Woodstock near Oxford c. the beginning of which is It were a wonder if one writes c. but who the Author of it was I cannot tell JOHN LATCH a Sommersetshire man born descended from a gentile family of his name living at Upper Langford near to Churchill in the said County was by the care of his Uncle Latch educated in Academical Learning in Oxon. particularly as I have been informed in S. Johns Coll where he made a considerable proficiency in Literature Afterwards he retired to the Middle Temple studied the municipal Laws but being very sickly lived a solitary and studious life and improved his natural talent as much as his abilities of body would permit He hath written Reports of divers causes adjudged in the three first years of K. Ch. 1. in the Court of the Kings bench Lond. 1662. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hayes as it seems in Middlesex in the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried in the Church there Some years before his death he had embraced the R. Cath. Religion partly if not altogether by the perswasion of one called Francis Harvey whose right Sirname was Hanmer a pretended Solicitor and a Broker for letting out money esteemed by the Fanatical Party of that time to be either a Rom. Priest or Jesuit for by his endeavours his estate came to the Soc. of Jesus Soon after fell out great controversies between Uncle Latch who pretended to be Executor to his Nephew and others entrusted by the R. Catholicks What the event of the matter was I know not only that Hanmer was committed to Newgate Prison for conveying away his Will and the matter it self was examined by the Protector in Sept. following FRANCIS GOLDSMITH or Gouldsmith Son and Heir of Franc. Golds of S. Giles in the Fields in Midd. Esq Son of Sir Franc. Goldsmith of Craford in Kent Knight was educated under Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Taylours School became a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of 1629 was soon after translated to S. Johns Coll. and after he had taken a degree in Arts to Greys Inn where he studied the common Law several years but other learning more and wrot Annotations on Hugh Grotius his Sophompaneus or Joseph a Tragedie Lond. 1652. oct Which Trag. was with annotations printed then in English He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his Consolatory Oration to his Father in verse and prose with Epitaphs and also his Catechism into English verse intit Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia c. which translations were printed with the annotations beforemention'd See more in Nich. Grey among these Writers under the year 1660. What other things Fr. Goldsmith hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Ashton in Northamptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and five was I presume buried there leaving then behind him a Daugh. named Catherine afterwards the Wife of Sir Hen. Dacres Knight His Father Francis Goldsmith died 16. of Decemb. 1634 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London beforemention'd TOBIE MATHEW the eldest Son of Dr. Tob. Math. Archb. of York by Frances his Wife Daugh. of Will. Barlow sometimes Bishop of Chichester was born as it seems in Oxon. while his Father was Dean of Ch. Church matriculated as a member of that house in the beginning of March 1589 being then eleven years of age and the year following had a Students place conferred on him By the benefit of a good Tutor and pregnant parts he became a noted Orator and Disputant and taking the degrees in Arts he afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas At his return he was esteem'd a well qualified Gentleman and to be one well vers'd in the affairs of other Nations At length leaving the Church of England by the perswasions of Fath. Parsons the Jesuit to the great grief of his Father he entred himself into the Society of Jesus but whether he took holy Orders is yet to me uncertain Afterwards growing famous for his eminency in the Politicks he came into England upon invitation in January 1621 to the end that the King might make use of his assistance in certain matters of State On the 10. of Octob. 1623 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Maj. then at Royston for his great zeal in carrying on the Spanish match to be had with Prince Charles at which time not only the King but the chief of the Nobility and others
of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury THOMAS CHALONER a younger son yet elder than James Chaloner before mention'd of Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight was born in Buckinghamshire at Steeple-Claydon near Buckingham as it seems became a Sojournor of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of 1611 aged 16 years but before he took a degree he left the College and what was fit to accomplish his natural parts which were good were not omitted by his Father He afterwards travelled into France Italy and Germany and returned a well bred Gentleman but ting'd as it seems with antimonarchical Principles if not worse About that time he setled at or near Gisburgh in Yorkshire where there is an Estate belonging to the Name and Family was elected a Burgess for a Corporation in Yorksh to serve in the Long Parliament about 1643 wherein he became a frequent Speaker an enemy to the King his Family and Government and a great stickler for their new Utopian Commonwealth All which he did partly out of his natural inclination and partly out of revenge for the loss which his Father endured and so consequently he for being deprived of the propriety of the Alum Mines in Yorkshire which he had discovered about the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth In 1647 he with Col. Jo. Temple were appointed Commissioners of Parliament in Mounster was one of the Kings Judges in 1648 and soon after made a member of the Council of State In 1658 he was elected a Burgess for Scarborough in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament called by Richard to meet at Westm 27 of Jan. but afterwards shewing himself a zealous Rumper upon the turning out of the Fag end of that Parliament called the Rump by Col. Jo. Lambert and his Party on the 13 of Oct. 1659 he was committed to Prison by Ch. Fleetwood then made Commander in chief of all the Forces in England where continuing till 27 of Decemb. following was then released by the Members of the Rump Parliament who had retaken their places the day before and on the 2 of Jan. following he was appointed by the House one of the Council of State This Tho. Chaloner was as far from a Puritan or Presbyterian as the East is from the West for he was a boon Companion was of Harry Marten's gang was of the natural Religion and loved to enjoy the comfortable importances of this life without any regard of laying up for a wet day which at his last he wanted The things that he hath published are these An Answer to the Scotch Papers delivered in the H. of Commons concerning the disposal of the King's person Lond. 1646. qu. In answer to which divers did exercise their pens some scoffingly and some in earnest whereupon came out this Pamphlet intit The justification of a safe and well-grounded Answer to the Scottish papers printed under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech or Answer which doth maintain the honour of the Parliament and interest of the Kingdom of England Lond. 1646. qu. Written as 't was usually said by Tho. Chaloner Afterwards came out against Chaloner Lex talionis or a Declaration against Mr. Chaloner the Crimes of the times and the Manners of you know whom Lond. 1647. in one sh in qu. and also An answer to a Speech without doers or animadversions upon an unsafe and dangerous Answer to the Scotch Papers under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech c. in one sh in qu. A true and exact relation of the strange finding out of Moses his tomb in a Valley near unto Mount Nebo in Palestina c. Lond. 1657. in about 3 sheets in oct This book at its first appearance made a great noise and pusâ—ed the Presbyterian Rabbies for a time at length the Author thereof being known and his story found to be a meer sham the book became ridiculous and was put to posteriour uses At length in the beginning of the year 1660 upon a foresight that King Ch. 2. would be restored he therefore knowing very well that his former actions would not enduâ—e the touchstone withdrew himself beyond the seas and setling in a fearful condition at Middleburgh in Zeeland died and was buried there about sixteen hundred sixty and one Since my writing of this I find that this Mr. Chaloner published A speech containing a plea for Monarchy an 1â—59 But therein being several Restrictions came out an Answer to it by way of Address to General George Monke THOMAS CULPEPER or Colepeper was born of a gentile Family at Harietsham in Kent became a Communer of Hart Hall in 1591 aged 13 years departed thence without a degree went to the Inns of Court and afterwards to his Patrimony which is all I know of him only that first he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. on the 23 of Sept. 1619 secondly that he wrot A Tract against the high rate of Usury presented to the Parliament in 1623 printed several times the fourth Edit of which came out at Lond. 1668 prefac'd with a discourse by his son Sir Tho. Culpeper and thirdly that dying at Hollingbourne in Kent in sixteen hundred sixty and one was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church there on the 25 of January the same year leaving then behind him the character of a good man There is a stone over his grave but hath no Inscription on it CHRISTOPHER HARVEY a Ministers son of Cheshire was born in that County became a Batler of Brasenose Coll. in 1613 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1620 holy Orders and at length was made Vicar of Clifton in Warwickshire His works are these The right Rebell A treatise discovering the true use of the name by the nature of Rebellion with the properties and practices of Rebells Appliable to all both old and new Phanatiques Lond. 1661. oct Faction supplanted or a caveat against the ecclesiastical and secular Rebells in two parts 1. A discourse concerning the nature properties and practices of Rebells 2. Against the inconstancy and inconsistent contrariety of the same mens pretensions and practices principles and doctrines Lond. 1663. oct pen'd mostly in 1642 and finished 3 Apr. 1645. This book I suppose for I have not seen it or the other is the same with the former only a new title put to it to make it vend the better Another book goes under his name called Conditions of Christianity printed at Lond. in tw but that or any other besides I have not yet seen CONSTANTINE JESSOP son of Joh. Jess of Pembroke in Pembrokeshire Minister of Gods Word was entred a Student in Jesus Coll. in 1624 aged 22 years whence after he had gone a course he went into Ireland and was made Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin At his return he was incorporated in this University an 1â—31 and in the year following proceeded in Arts being about that time in holy Orders but what his Employment was between that time and 1640
Prison in hot weather contracting a disease he died thereof in the month of Septemb. one tells me the second and another the 22d day about 5 of the Clock in the morning to the great grief of his disciples in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being conveyed to the burial place joyning to Old Bedlam in Morefields near London was there deposited by the Brethren who soon after took care that an altar monument of stone should be erected over his grave with an inscription thereon shewing that he was Master of Arts of the University of Oxon and that he had given to the world great specimens of his learning and piety c. He had in him a sharp and quick judgment and a prodigious memory and being very industrious withal was in a capacity of devouring all he read He was wonderfully well vers'd in the Scriptures and could not only repeat all St. Pauls Epistles in English but also in the Greek tongue which made him a ready Disputant He was accounted by those of his perswasion a sober man in his discourse and to have nothing of impiety folly or scurrility to proceed from him Also so devout that he seldom or never prayed without being prostrat or flat on the ground as his life which I have attests Soon after his death his Twofold Catechisme was turned into Latine and printed in oct 1665. The first called A Scripture Cat. was done by Anon. The other called A brief Scripture Cat. for Children was done by a youth called Nathaniel Stuckey and at the end of it was printed 1 Oratiuncula de passione morte Christi made by the said Stuckey 2 Exemplum literarum Jeremiae Felbingeri ad Joh. Biddellum dated at Dantsick 24. Aug. Styl vet 1654. This Nath. Stuckey who had been partly bred up in Grammar and Logick by Biddle or at least by his care died 27. Sept. 1665 aged 16 years and was buried close to the grave of Biddle as it appears by an inscription engraven for him on one side at the bottom of Biddles monument A certain Author tells us that the said Biddle translated into English the Alchoran and the book called The three grand Impostors damn'd for shame But upon what ground he reports these things he tells us not Sure I am that there is no such thing mention'd in his life and whether there be such a book in rerum natura as the Three grand Impostors meaning Moses Mahomet and Christ is by many knowing men doubted After the coming to the Crown of England of William Prince of Orange when then more liberty was allowed to the press than before were several of John Biddles things before mention'd reprinted in the beginning of the year 1691 viz. 1 His 12 questions with An exposition of five principal passages c. 2 A confession of faith c. 3 The Testimonies of Irenaeus c. And before them was set a short account of his life taken from that written in Latine by J. F. as I have here in the margin told you WILLIAM LENTHALL second Son of Will. Lenth of Lachford in Oxfordshire by Frances his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho. Southwell of St. Faiths in the County of Norfolk was born in a Market Town called Henley upon Thames in the said County of Oxon in an house near to the Church there in the latter end of June 1591 descended from Will Lenthall or Leynthall a Gentleman of Herefordshire who in the beginning of K. Edw. 4. married with the Dau. and Heir of .... Pyperd of Lachford before mention'd Which Pyperd also was descended from a younger Son of those of his name living at Great Haseley in Oxfordshire who I mean the said younger Son much in renown in the beginning of K. Edw. 3. performed military acts so valiantly against the Scots that he did not only receive the honour of Knighthood from the King but the mannour of Lachford from his Father to hold by Kings service of the mannour of Pyperd of Great Haseley before mention'd in which Parish Lachford is situated It is here to be noted by the way that both the Haselies did for many descents belong to the Pyperds whose mannour-place was the same which is now the Farm-place situated near to the Church But the Male line being there worn out in the raign of Ed. 3. the said mannour place with the patronage of the rectory of Haseley was given to the College at Windsore of the Dean and Canons of which the said Farm-place is and hath been for several generations held by the said Lenthalls As for Little Haseley now called Haseley Court where in the time of K. Hen. 8. was a right fair mansion place with marvellous fair walks toperarii operis and orchard and pools belonging to Sir Will. Barentine whose Daughter Marie Anth. Huddleston Esq took to Wife was also numbred among the antient possessions of the Pyperds and was held of their mannour by Knights service As for this Will. Lenthall of whom we are now to speak he became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the year 1606 where continuing about 3 years departed without the honour of a degree and went to Lincolns Inn where applying his mind to the study of the municipal Law became a Counsellor of note and in the 13. of Ch. 1. Lent-reader of the said Inn being then as before noted for his practice in his profession In the latter end of 1639 he was elected Burgess for the Corporation of Woodstock in Oxfordsh to serve in that short Parliament which began at Westm 13. of Apr. 1640 and in Oct. following he was chose again for the same place to serve in that unhappy Convention called the Long Parliament begun 3. of Nov. the same year At which time being elected Speaker worth to him 2000 l. per an he kept that honorable office by siding with the leading Party till its dissolution without any adherance to the King when by force he left that Parliament Whether he acted justly in his place 't is to be question'd forasmuch as he was not only false to the members thereof in many things but also kept correspondence with that noted Minister of State in France Cardinal Julius Mazarini as 't is very well known Being thus put into the road to get beneficial places and so consequently riches which he hungred after by the continual importunities of his covetous Wife named Elizabeth Dau. of Ambrose Evans of Lodington in Northamptonshire Gent he became Master of the Rolls 8 Nov. 1643 worth as 't is said 3000 l. per an one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 1646 worth 1500 l. per an Chamberlain of Chester 1647 in the room of James E. of Derby a place of profit as well as honour which last he occupying till 1654 was succeeded by John Glynn Lord Ch. Justice but obtained it again 14. March 1659. About the same time 1647 he became Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster worth
Mounteyne Bishop of Lincolne and not long after Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Southwell in the Dioc. of York and Preb. of Lincolne Dr. Laud Bish of Lond. got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. by commending him to be excellent in all casuistical learning and accordingly in Nov. 1631 he was sworn Chaplain in Ordinary So that having occasion to be somtimes near to him the said King took great content in conversing with him whereby our Author gained great credit from the Nobility and greater from the Clergy as being esteemed the most known casuist that this Nation ever produced In 1636 he was actually created D. of D on the very day that the K. and Court left Oxon after they had been some days entertained there In 1641 he with two more of the Convocation of the Clergy for he had been usually elected for all Convocations for about 20 years before that time did draw up some safe alterations in the Service Book and abated some of the Ceremonies that were least material for the satisfaction of the Covenanteers and Presbyterian Party in the Long Parliament In July 1642 he was nominated by his Majesty the Regius Professor of Divinity of this University and the same year he was proposed by both Houses of Parliament to the King then at Oxon. to be one of the Trustees for the setling of Church affairs as Prideaux Bishop of Worcester was and was allowed of by the King to be so but that treaty came to nothing In 1643 he was nominated one of the Assemb of Divines but sate not among them In 1647 he had the most considerable hand in drawing up the University Reasons against the Covenant and negative Oath and the same year he was sent for by the King then at a more large imprisonment with Dr. Hammond Dr. Sheldon and Dr. Morley to attend him in order to advise with them how far he might with a good conscience comply with the proposals of the Parliament for a Peace in Church and State which was allowed by the Independents but denied by the Presbyterians Afterwards he attended on his Maj. in the Isle of Wight preached before him and had many both publick and private conferences with him to his Majesties great satisfaction About that time his Maj. translated into English our Authors Book De Juramento which being done Dr. Juxon Dr. Hammond and Mr. Tho. Herbert did compare what he had done with the original as I shall anon tell you The same year 1648 he was turned out of his Professorship of Divinity by the Parl. Visitors and so consequently from his Canonry of Ch. Ch. and soon after he retired to his cure at Bothby where living obscurely took upon him to put the Kings Meditations in his solitude into Latine which being half done Dr. Earle prevented him from finishing it by doing that work himself While he remained there he was plunder'd imprisoned wounded and tho brought into a low and obscure condition yet many receded to him for the resolution of cases of conscience Which being also resolved by Letters many of them have been preserved and printed for the benefit of posterity In Aug. 1660 he was restored to his Professorship and Canonry by his Majesties Commissioners and by the commendations of Dr. Sheldon to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he was soon after made Bishop of Lincolne receiving consecration thereunto in the Abbey Church at Westminster 28. Oct. the same year After which retiring to his Mannour of Bugden in Huntingdonshire belonging to his See he bestowed much money in repairing his House or Pallace there All Authors especially those that are famous do speak honorably of him The learned Usher of Armagh stiles him judicious Sanderson upon the return of a case he proposed to him and Hammond that stayed and well weighed man Dr. Sanderson c. who receiveth things deliberately and dwells upon them discreetly Besides also his great knowledge in the Fathers and Schoolmen and profoundness in controversial Divinity he was exactly vers'd in the Histories of our Nation whether antient or modern was a most curious Antiquary and an indefatigable searcher into antient records as his labors in Mss which he left behind him do evidently shew One of them which is a large thick folio I have seen and perused containing all under his own hand collections from registers leiger books rolls evidences in the hands of private Gentlemen c. evidences belonging to Cathedral and other Churches c. This Book is endorsed with Cartae X shewing that there were other Volumes as indeed there are in number about twenty as I have been told by Hen. Symmons his somtimes Secretary which are as I conceive dispersed in several hands He was also a compleat Herald and Genealogist made several collections of English Genealogies and also of monumental inscriptions and Arms in Churches and Windows wheresoever he went His care also was so great for the preservation of them from ruin that when he published Articles of Enquiry in order to the visiting of his Diocess in 1661 he in the conclusion of them desired the Ministers to make a return of all such monumental Inscriptions and Arms in Windows that were in their respective Churches But many of them being ignorant of such matters made very imperfect and halt returns However he carefully preserved them so long as he lived and what became of them after his death I cannot tell His published works are these Logicae Artis Compendium Oxon 1615. 18. 40. c. oct there again 1680 the ninth Edit in oct Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons on Rom. 14.3 and on Rom. 3.8 Lond. 1622. qu. 2 Twenty Sermons Lond. 1626. fol among which are the two former 3 Two Serm. on 1. Tim. 4.4 and Gen. 20.6 Lond. 1628. qu. 4 Twelve Serm. viz three ad Clorum three ad Magistratum and six ad Populum Lond. 1626. and 32. fol. 5 Two Serm. on 2. Pet. 2.16 and Rom. 14 23. Lond. 1635. qu. 6 Twenty Serm. formerly preached viz. sixteen ad Aulam three ad Magistratum and one ad Populum Lond. 1656. fol. The next year were fourteen of his Sermons reprinted to joyn with the aforesaid twenty together with a large Preface by the same Author Which fourteen were thus divided viz. Four ad Clerum three ad Magistratum and seven ad Populum It was the fourth time that they were then printed In 1660 they were all in number 34 reprinted in folio and again in 1681 with another ad Aulam and another ad Clerum added which make up the number of 36. 7th edit with the Authors life before them written by Is Walton c. As most books of later composure so more especially Sermons within the compass of a few years undergo very different characters and meet with a quite contrary entertainment in the World And this I conceive comes to pass because the way and manner of preaching is in a short time much altered from what it was but a little
Author Jenkyns thinking of nothing but hanging was resolved if it should come to pass to suffer with the Bible under one Arm and Magna Charta of which he was a zealous defender under the other But Harry Marten as 't is said urging to his Fellows that sanguis martyrum est semen ecclesiae and that that way of proceeding would do them mischief they thought good not to take away his life Afterwards he was sent to Windsore Castle where remaining till the month of January an 1656 was set at liberty and then lived for a time in Oxon where he became a constant Auditor of the Sermons of Dr. Edw. Hyde at Halywell then lately ejected from his Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford to whom all the loyal party of that City flocked to hear his Doctrine After the Restoration of K. Ch. 2. 't was expected by all that he should be made one of the Judges in Westminster Hall and so he might have been would he have given money to the then Lord Chancellour but our Author scorning such an act after all his Sufferings he retired to his Estate in Glamorganshire then restored to him after the loss of it and all he had for many years He was a person of great abilities in his profession and his counsel was often used by Sir Jo. Banks and Will. Noy in their Attorneyships He was also a vigorous maintainer of the Rights of the Crown a heart of oke and a pillar of the Law sole Author of his Sovereigns Rights Englands Laws and the Peoples Liberties when they were invaded and trampled under feet by restless and base men His Writings are these His Recantation or rather protestation delivered at Westm 10 Apr. 1647. to Mil. Corbet the Chairman of the Committee for Examination Printed in a half a sheet Vindication while he was Prisoner in the Tower 29 Apr. 1647. Pr. in 1 sh in qu. This when published was referred to a Committee of Complaints who ordered that the Printer and Publisher thereof should be tried at the Kings Bench. The Armies indemnity with a declaration shewing how every Subject of England ought to be tried for Treason c. Written 10 June 1647. Sundry Acts of Parliament mentioned and cited in the Armies indemnity set forth in words at large Pr. 1647. qu. Apologie for the Army touching the eight Queries upon the late Declarations and Letters from the Army touching Sedition falsly charged upon them Pr. 1647. quart Discourse touching the inconveniences of a long continued Parliament and the judgment of the law of the Land in that behalf Lond. 1647. in one sh and half in quart Cordial for the good people of London in a reply to a thing called An answer to the poysonous seditious paper of Dav. Jenkyns By H. P. Barrester of Linc. Inn. Pr. 1647 in 3 sh in qu. See more in Hen. Parker among these Writers under the year 1657. His Plea delivered to the Earl of Manchester and the Speaker of the H. of Commons sitting in the Chancery at Westminster 14 Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh in quar Answer to the imputation put upon his Plea in Chancery in Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh in qu. Remonstrance to the Lords and Com. of the two Houses of Parliament 21 Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh in qu. Lex terrae the Law of the Land To which are added some seeming Objections of Mr. Will. Prynne scatter'd in divers books answer'd and the truth thereof more fully cleared All which little things before mention'd in number eleven were printed together at Lond. 1648 in twelves and went by the name of Judge Jenkyns his works They were also published there again in the same vol. in 1681 at what time the said works were esteemed very seasonable to be perused by all such as would not be deluded by the unparallel'd arbitrary Proceedings and seditious Pamphlets of that licentious and ungrateful time They were also printed again two years after that time in tw Before the said Editions is his picture to the life and underneath these Verses made by Joh. Birkenhead Here Jenkyns stands who thundring from the Tower Shooke the Senats legislative Power Six of whose words twelve reams of Votes exceed As Mountains mov'd by graines of Mustard seed Thus gasping Laws were rescued from the snare He that will save a Crown must know and dare Preparative to the Treaty with the King tendered to the Parliament Ass of Divines and Treaters c. Pr. 1648. His Declaration while Prisoner in the Tower 17 March 1647. Pacis consultum The antiquity extent and practice of several Country Corporation Courts especially the Court Leet with an abstract of the penal Statutes Lond. 1657. oct Published under Dav. Jenkyns his name but disowned and disclaimed by him Exact method for keeping a Court of Survey for the setting forth and bounding of Mannours c. Lond. 1657. This also was disowned by him Difficult questions in Law proposed and resolved Printed with the Exact method and disowned also Rerum judicatarum centuriae octo Lond. 1661. fol. in English A proposition for the safety of the King and Kingdom both in Church and State and prevention of the common Enemy Lond. 1667. in tw 2 edit A Reply to the pretended Answer to it Printed with the former I have seen a little thing intit Conscientious Queries from Mr. Jenkyns or the grounds of his late Petition and Submission to the present power an 1651. Printed 1679. But this Jenkyns must be understood to be the same with Will. Jenkyns a Presbyterian Minister of London one of Christop Love's Plot for bringing in K. Ch. 2. from Scotland Judge Jenkyns dyed at Cowbridge in Glamorganshire on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 81 or more and was buried at the west end of the Church there He died as he lived preaching with his last breath to his Relations and those that were about him Loyalty to his Majesty and Obedience to the Laws of the Land CHARLES POTTER Son of Dr. Christop Potter Provost of Queens College was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1647 aged 14 years took one degree in Arts in 1649 and was that year made the senior quadragesimal Collector Soon after was published under his name his Theses Quadragesimales in scholis Oxoniae publicis pro forma discussae an 1649 50. Oxon. 1651. in tw Afterwards he took the degree of Master of Arts travelled beyond the seas became for a time a Retainer to Mr. Crofts known soon after by the name of James Duke of Monmouth and at length after he had changed his Religion for that of Rome was made one of the Ushers to Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother of England He died in his Lodgings in Dukestreet near the Strand in the middle of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of
became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628 aged 19 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver whereupon he wrot A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walt. Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts Which book being not permitted to be published after he had made it fit for the Press was at his Majesties return printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living continued there to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven was buried in the Church at Box having then laying by him one or more things fit to be printed as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood GEORGE WITHER Son of George Wither the first Son by a second venter of the house of Wither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County on the eleventh day of June 1588 30 Eliz. educated in Gram. learning under the noted School-master of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner afterwards B. of Roch. whom if I mistake not he serv'd made some proficiency with much ado in academical learning but his genie being addicted to things more trivial was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London and afterwards to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful he did at length make himself known to the world after he had taken several rambles therein by certain Specimens of Poetry which being dispersed in several hands became shortly after a publick Author and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty But so it was that he shewing himself too busie and satyrical in his Abuses stript and whipt was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where continuing several months was then more cried up especially by the puritanical Party for his profuse powring forth of English rime and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass which he pretended to predict In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots and Quarter-master Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain viz. of that Regiment of oâ— next under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the said expedition But this our Author who was always from his youth puritannically affected sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by them an 1642 became an enemy to the King and Regality sold the estate he had and with the moneys received for it rais'd a Troop of Horse for the Parliament was made a Captain and soon after a Major having this motto on his Colours Pro Rege Lege Grege but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers Sir Jo. Denham the Poet some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches desired his Majesty not to hang him because that so long as Wither lived Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire Surrey and Essex which office he kept 16 years and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist After the Kings Restauration in 1660 he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops which he before had either bought or had confer'd upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause And being then look'd upon as a dangerous person to the King and State especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed was committed Prisoner to Newgate and afterwards upon his own confession and the oaths of two persons that he was the Author of it he by order of the H. of Commons was sent in custody and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London to be debarr'd Pen Ink and Paper and about the same time 24 of March 1661 2 an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him In both which Prisons he continued three years and more wrot several things by the connivance of the Keeper of which some were afterwards made publick yet could never refrain from shewing himself a Presbyterian Satyrist He began very early being precisely educated from his childhood to express and publish those conceptions which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with morality and piety as subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to the capacities of young-men who delight to see their own natural passions represented as 't were in a glass wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for but with such notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that thousands especially such youths that were puritannically educated were desirous to peruse his future writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice while others of generous education and of more solid parts looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain and esteemed Taylor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rimes The things that he hath written and published are very many accounted by the generality of Scholars meer scribbles and the fancies of a conceited and confident if not enthusiastical mind The titles of them follow Iter Hibernicum or an Irish Voyage Written in verse Iter Bor. or a northern Journey Written in verse Patricks Purgatory Written in verse Philaretes Complaint Written in verse These four were called his Juvenilia and tho the original MS. of them was lost yet they were recovered and printed more than once Prince Henries obsequies or mournful elegies upon his death Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct A supposed interlocution betw the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britaine Printed with the former Abuses stript and whipt or satyrical essays in two books Lond. 1613. 14.15 and 22. in oct Satyr written to the King Jam. 1. when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book Lond. 1614. 15. 22. in
to some Women actors mentioned in his book as he affirmeth It hapned that about six weeks after this the Queen acted a part in a Pastoral at Somerset-house and then the Archbishop Laud and other Prelates whom Prynne had angered by some books of his against Arminianism and against the jurisdiction of the Bishops and by some prohibitions which he had moved and got to the High Commission Court These Prelates and their instruments the next day after the Queen had acted her Pastoral shewed Prynne's book against Plays to the King and that place of it Women actors notorious Whores and they informed the King and Queen that Prynne had purposely written this book against the Queen and her Pastoral whereas it was published six weeks before that Pastoral was acted Yet the King and Queen though thus exasperated did direct nothing against him till Laud set Dr. Heylyn who bare a great malice to Prynne for confuting some of his doctrines to peruse Prynne's books and to collect the scandalous points out of them which Heylyn did though as Prynne affirms not at all warranted by the text of his book but these two Gentlemen were well matched and alike in other things though so much different in Divinity or shew of it c. Thus our Author here quoted of whom I shall hereafter make large mention Upon the said Complaints concerning that book Heylyn being appointed to collect such passages out of it that were esteemed scandalous to the King Queen State and Government of the Realm did after some time deliver them in writing to Sir John Coke or Cook Secretary of State and to Dr. Laud Bishop of London the last of which did soon after on a Sabbath-day morning go to Will. Noy Attorney Gen. and charged him to prosecute Prynne for the said book which Noy did rigorously enough Afterwards Prynne was sent for before the Lords in the Inner Star Chamber where being examined about the said matters was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London on the first day of Febr. 1632 where remaining without permission of Bayle till the month of Feb. 1633 was at last brought to a Trial in the Court of Star Chamber having been first pre-condemned by the Gentlemen of his own profession and afterwards sentenced by that Court on the 17 day of the said month thro the eager prosecution of the said Noy to be fined 5000 l. to the King expelled the University of Oxford and Lincolns Inn degraded and disinabled from his profession in the laws to stand in the Pillory first in the Pallace-yard in Westminster and three days after in Cheapside in each place to loose an ear tho this last part of his censure was much moderated in the execution to have his book called Histriomastix publickly burnt before his face by the hand of the Hangman and remain prisoner during life After this sentence was executed which was in May an 1634. he was remitted to his prison But all this was so far from working any remorse in him that it rather hardned him in his ways for on the 11 of June following as soon as he could provide himself of pen ink and paper he wrot a most sharp and libellous Letter to Dr. Laud then Archb. of Cant. touching his censure in the said Court and that which the Archb. in particular had declared against him With this letter the Archb. acquainted his Majesty who thereupon commanded him to refer it to Attorney Noy Noy sent for Prynne from his prison and demanded of him whether the letter was of his own hand-writing or not to which Prynne cunningly replied that he could make no answer to that demand unless he could see the letter and might read the same No sooner was the letter put into his hands and Noy's back turn'd a little towards him but presently he tore it to pieces and flung the pieces out of the window to the end that the said letter might not rise in judgment against him if the Attorney should proceed to an Ore-tenus as he meant to do For this affront and the principal passages of the letter the Attorney acquaints their Lordships in open Court but there was no remedy for being there was no proof of the misdemeanour but the letter it self and that the letter could not be brought in evidence as it should have been the Archb. thought it a more noble act to remit the Crime than trouble the Court or any of his Majesties Ministers in the prosecution of it But herein Prynne sped better than some others who had before been snarling at him and laboured to expose him to scorn and danger In Apr. the same year which is a step back in this discourse he was solemnly degraded in the Univ. of Oxon and his name dashed out of the Matricula In 1636 he published two books at once or immediately after each other One of them was called The Quench Coal in answer to that called A coal from the Altar against placing the Communion-table altarwise The other named The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus against the Apostolical institution of Diocesan Bishops But that which was entituled to him by the name of a Libel was his Pamphlet called News from Ipswich intended chiefly against Dr. Wrenn then Bishop of Norwych who had taken up his dwelling in that Town and fell as scandalously foul on the Archb. himself and some of the other Bishops also and such as acted under them in the present Service For therein he descants very trimly as he conceived on the Archb. himself with his Arch-piety Arch charity Arch-agent for the devil c. With like reproach he fell on the Bishops generally calling them Luciferian Lord Bishops execrable Traytors devouring Wolves c. with many other odious names not fit to be used by a Christian and more particularly on Wrenn c. In Midsummer term he was brought to his Trial in the Star Chamber for what he had done but his Answer was so libellous and full of scandal that no Counsellor could be found to put his hand to it according to the course of that Court. So that instead thereof he exhibited a cross bill against the Archb. and his Confederates as he called them charging them with the greatest part of those Reproaches which had been made the subject matter of his former libels which being signed by no hands but by his own and tendred so to the Lord Keeper was by him rejected and himself taken pro confesso his obstinacy in not answering in due form of Law being generally looked upon by the Court as a self conviction On the 14 of June an 1637 he received his sentence which briefly was to this effect that he be fined 5000 l. to the King to loose the remainder of his ears in the Pillory to be branded on both cheeks with the letters S. L. for a schismatical libeller and to be perpetually imprison'd in Caernarvan Castle At the pronouncing of which sentence the Archb. made a long and elaborate
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
on the â—â— of Sept. in the same year had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause 〈◊〉 his Majesty and the first book that he wrot in his 〈◊〉 against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum c. for which he was fetch'd away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton where the Committee that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there had the said book in their hands Afterwards he retired to Oxon and printed his Discovery of Mysteries and on that very day he was preaching at S. Maries before the House of Commons the Soldiers from Northampton went and plunder'd his House and all his Houshold-stuff at Apethorp where his Wife and Children then resided and sequestred his Lands for the use of the Parliament The next winter following he wrot his Jura Majestatis and according to his poor abilities out of the means he had in Wales he gave unto his Majestys own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power Upon the the declining of the Kings cause this our author being then brought very low the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament but he refused it as he did also the importunat invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose Soon after he retired into Wales where for 12 years together as he saith having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means nor 20 l. per an in all the world to maintain himself and servants of any temporal estate he was forced to live upon a little Tenement for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann to Sir Gr. Williams and 4 l. Land per ann besides of his own So that he lived worse than a poor Curat with oaten-bread barley-bread buttermilk and somtimes water being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lusters of years He went attir'd in very mean cloaths as he farther adds and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House Garden and Cattel And all this he did as he said rather than accept of means benevolence or maintenance from the Usurpers Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church He then also perswaded as he had done before some of the Earl of Pembrokes children who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty altho their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament but they refused Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland while his Father was Protector of England offer'd him as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann if he or they would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry but he scorn'd that motion also as he farther tells us After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick Deanery and Archdeaconry but rose no higher or was translated to any other place because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation paying a small Rent to the Usurpers and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruine but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor Afterwards he retired into Ireland lived as privately as might be obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishoprick to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto The Works that he hath written and published are these The delights of the Saints A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace c. Lond. 1622. oct Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion Lond. 1627. qu. The true Church shewed to all men that desire to be members of the same in 6. books Lond. 1629. fol. The best religion wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least which he had formerly preached and mostly published besides some treatises among which is The delights of the Saints before mention'd Vindiciae Regum or the grand rebellion that is a looking glass for Rebels whereby they may see how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the heighth of their design c. Oxon. 1643. qu. The discovery of Mysteries or the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion c. Printed 1643. qu. Jura Majestatis the rights of Kings both in Church and State granted 1. By God 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth Oxon. 1644. qu. The only way to preserve peace Sermon at the publick fast 8. March at S. Maries in Oxon before the H. of Commons on Amos 5.6 Oxon. 1644. qu. The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single Person nor the succession of any one Monarch or Tyrant in any policy but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture c. Lond. 1660. fol. Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days to prevent the seven last vials of Gods wrath that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel 16. c. Lond. 1661. fol. The declaration of the just judgment of God 1. Upon our late Kings friends 2. Upon the Kings enemies that rebell'd and warr'd against him c. This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises c. Four Treatises suffering of the Saints burning of Sodom c. Lond. 1667. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The happiness of Saints on Joh. 20.26 Printed 1657. qu. 2 Gods war with the wicked Rebels and Murtherers on Isa 57.21 3 The property and prerogative of true Saints on Joh. 10.27.28 4 The monstrous murther of the most holy Jesus parallel'd to the murther of Kings on Acts 7.32 5 The four chief duties of every Christian man on 1. Pet. 2.17 6 The chiefest cause why we should love God on 1. John 4.19 7 The lively picture of these hard times on Jer. 14.10 8 The grand rebellion c. Psal 106.16 9 The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King that was his Master on 2. Kings 9.31 All these Sermons except the first with others were printed in folio an 1662. Other Sermons as 1 Description of the four Beasts explained in 4 Sermons on Rev. 4.8 Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The ejection of four devils on Matth. 17.21 Lond. 1664. qu. 3 The saving Serpent on John 3.14 Ibid. 1664. qu. 4 The monstrous murther of two mighty Kings on 2. Cor. 24.23 Ibid. 1665. qu. 5
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.
by his wife daughter and heir of Rob. Sapcote of Elton in Huntingdonshire Esq younger brother to John Lord Harrington sons of Sir Jam. Harrington Kt. by Lucie his wife daughter of Sir Will. Sydney Kt. son of Sir Jo. Harrington Knight who was Treasurer of the Army to K. Hen. 8. Now as for Mr. Rogers before mention'd whom our author Harrington answered in his Parallel of the Spirit c. as 't is before told you his Christian name was John a notorious fifth Monarchy man and Anabaptist living in Aldersgatestreet in London and the title of his book which was answered runs thus A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne Mr. Baxter and Mr. Harrington for the true cause of the Commonwealth c. Lond. 1659. This Mr. Rogers was a busie pragmatical man and very zealous to promote a quarrel between his party and Oliver Cromwell for his seemingly running with them till he had got the reins of Government into his own hands and then to leave them with scorn He with Christop Feake as impudent and forward as himself were the Coryphaei of their party as Love in his time was of the Presbyterians and were not wanting upon all occasions to raise a commotion Wherefore it being thought requisite to secure Oliver caused them to be imprison'd at Lambeth and to debar their party to have access to them in Dec. or thereabouts 1654. Rogers being then of S. Thomas the Apostles in Southwark After they had remained there for some time Rogers had prevailed so far with his party as to present an Address which he himself had drawn up to the said Oliver for his enlargment Whereupon on the 7 of Feb. the same year Rogers was brought before the Protectors Council sitting at Whitehall who told him what a high charge there was against him and that he was not a Prisoner for the cause of Christ but suffered as a busie body and an evil-doer c. At length it being desired by his friends that the cause might be debated between his Highness the Protector and himself it was with his Highness his consent granted Whereupon in the evening of the said day Rogers with some of his friends were admitted into his Highness's presence where being told of an high charge exhibited against him Rogers charged them that brought it in to be Drunkards and Swearers The Protector asked him which of them was so that brought it in but he could name none of them that he knew The Protector pressed him for Scripture for his actings He said the Scripture was positive and privative And being asked which of those evil Kings that he mention'd that God destroyed he would parallel to this present State he gave no positive but privitive answer Whereupon the Protector shewed what a disproportion there was those being such as laboured to destroy the people of God but his work speaking of himself was to preserve them from destroying one another and if the sole power was in the Presbyterians they would force all to their way and they the Fifth Monarchy men would do the like and so the re-baptized persons also And his work was to keep all the Godly of several judgments in peace c. And when Rogers cried down the national Ministry and national Church mention'd to be antichristian the Protector told him that it was not so for that was to force all to one form that was national which was then done as he said in this Commonwealth c. Afterward Maj. Gen. Tho. Harrison Col. Charles Rich and some others made an address to the Protector to desire the release of him Feake and others or to try them The Protector shewed how he kept them from tryal out of mercy because if they were tried the Law would take away their lives So he was remitted to his Prison and Feake and the rest were there to continue On the 30 of March 1655 Oliver and his Council ordered that the said Rogers should be removed to Windsor Castle whereupon the next day he was carried there and his wife rode after him RICHARD ATKYNS whose birth was neither glorious nor contemtible as having been descended from Gentry on his fathers side and Nobility on that of his mother His father was son and heir of Rich. Atkyns of Tuffleigh in Glocestershire Esq at which place this our author as I conceive was born chief Justice of West Wales and of Qu. Elizabeths Council of the Marches of Wales and brother to Sir Edward Atkyns of Lincolns Inn one of the Barons of the Exchecquer His mother was second daughter of Sir Edwyn Sandys of Latimer in Bucks Baronet by his wife the Lady Elizab. Sandys dau and heir of Will Lord Sandys of the Vine near Basingstoke in Hampshire descended from the Bray's Barons After he had been partly educated in English and Grammar learning under two bad Masters he was sent to the College School at Glocester where being compleated for the University he was at 14 years of age sent to Balliol Coll an 1629 and continued there at least two years in the quality of a Gent. Commoner studying the Zegardines Philosophy more than that of Aristotle or Ramus Thence he went to Lincolns Inn and soon after travelled into France with the son of the Lord Arundel of Wardour by a second venture but that son dying there before they went farther he returned improv'd himself with the accomplishments of a Courtier and then married which towards his latte◠end proved his ruin Afterwards upon the breaking out of the Civil Wars in England he raised a Troop of Horse at his own charge for the King and did him good service for which afterwards he suffered much in his estate After his Majesties restauration he was made being then a Colonel one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Glocestershire where and in that capacity he expressed himself not only loyal upon all occasions but an affectionate son of the Church of England He was an ingenious and observing man and saw the vanity of this world sooner than others tho of elder years which fitted him the better for another He hath written and published The original and growth of Printing c. Lond. 1664· in 4. sh in qu. His Vindication Lond. 1669. qu. Relation of several passages in the western War of England wherein he was concerned Sighs and Ejaculations These two last were printed with the Vindication At length being committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark for debt died there on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and two days after was buried without any publick solemnity in the Parish Church of S. George the Martyr within the said Borough of Southwark by the care and appointment of Sir Rob. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas and Edw. Atkyns Esq afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer both nearly related to the defunct WILLIAM LUCY descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Charlcote in Warwickshire was
Bradshaw to act the second part to his starcht and more solemn treason Who began his first Diurnal with an invective against Monarchy and the Presbyterian Scotch Kirk and ended it with an Hosanna to Oliver Cromwell who in the beginning of June returned by the way of Bristoll from Ireland to London c. These Mercurii Politici wherein were many discourses against Monarchy and in behalf of a Free-state especially in those that were published before Ol. Cromwell gaped after the Supremacy were constantly carried on till about the middle of Apr. 1660 when then as several times before the author was prohibited by order of the Council of State By vertue of which order Hen. Muddiman and Giles Dury were authorized to publish their Intelligence every Munday and Thursday under the titles of Parliamentary Intelligencer and Mercurius Publicus which continued Dury soon after giving over till the middle of Aug. 1663 and then Rog. L'estrange published the Intelligence twice every week in quarto sheets under the titles of The publick Intelligencer and The News The first of which came out 31 of Aug. and the other on the 3 of September an 1663. These continued till the 29 of Jan. 1665 at which time L'estrange desisted because in Nov. going before were other kind of News-papers published twice every week in half a sheet in folio These were called The Oxford Gazette and the first commenced 7 Nov. 1665 the King and Queen with their Courts being then in Oxon. These for a little time were written I think by Hen. Muddiman But when the said Courts removed to London they were intituled and called The London Gazette the first of which that was published there came forth on the 5 of Feb. following the King being then at Whitehall Soon after Mr. Joseph Williamson Under-Secretary of State procured the writing of them for himself and thereupon employed Charles Perrot M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. in Oxon who had a good command of his pen to do that office under him and so he did tho not constantly to about 1671. After which time they were constantly written by Under-Secretaries belonging to those that are Principal and do continue so to this day The publick Intelligencer communicating the chief occurrences and proceedings within the Dominions of England Scotland and Ireland c. These Mercuries came out weekly every Munday but contained mostly the same matter that was in the Politici The case of the Commonwealth of England stated or the equity utility and necessity of a submission to the present Government against all scruples and pretences of the opposite parties viz. Royalists Scots Presbyterians Levellers c. Lond. 1649. in two parts in quarto There again in 1650 in qu. also Discourse of the excellency of a Free-state above Kingly government Lond. 1650. qu. published with the former An appendix added out of Claud. Salmasius his Defensio Regis and Mr. Hobbes De corpore politico Tryal of Mr. Joh. Goodwin at the bar of religion and right reason c. Lond. 1657. qu. The great accuser cast down c. An answer to a scandalous book intit The Triers or Tormentors tried and cast c. Written by Mr. Joh. Goodwin Lond. 1657. qu. The said Goodwin did not reply in another Pamphlet only in a book which he the year after published against other persons doth characterize our author Nedham as having a foul mouth which Sathan hath opened against the truth and mind of God c. as being a person of an infamous and unclean character for the service of the Triers c. A man that curseth whatsoever he blesseth and blesseth whatsoever he curseth c. That his book hath a double image visibly stampt upon it like our Philip and Mary Coine and therein is a Nye of Oxford learning as well as a Mouth of Oxford railing in the composition c. Interest will not lye or a view of Englands true interest in reference to the Papist Royallist Presbyterian c. in refutation of a treasonable Pamphlet intit The interest of England stated Lond. 1659. in 6 sh in large quarto paper The moderate informer communicating the most remarkable transactions both civil and military in the Commonwealth of England c. It commences with the 12 of May 1659 but not carried on for above two or three weeks Nedham it seems was put out of his place of writing the weekly news in the time of Richard L. Protector occasion'd by the Presbyterians yet notwithstanding tho Joh. Can was put in his place yet in spight of opposition he carried on the writing of his Mercuries Newes from Brussels in a Letter from a near Attendant on his Majesties person to a person of honour here dat 10 March stil vet 1659. There is no name to this Letter full of rascallities against K. Ch. 2. and his Court but the general report was then that it was written by M. Nedham and conveyed to the Printer or Bookseller by that notorious Schismatick and grand Zealot for the Good Old Cause called Praise-God Barebone It was answer'd about a week after in another thing in qu. intit The late news or message from Brussels unmasked but by whom it was written I know not A short History of the English Rebellion completed in verse Lond. 1661. qu. 'T is a collection of all such verses which he before had printed before each of his Merc. pragmat and was then by him published to curry favour with the Royallists This short History was printed again in 1680. qu. when the Presbyterians were busie to carry on their designs under the pretence of the Popish Plot. He did prefix to it The true character of a rigid Presbyter and added the Coat of Arms of Sir John Presbyter to that edit of 1661 but the said character was not of his writing Discourse concerning Schooles and Schoolmasters Lond. 1663. in one sh and an half in qu. Medela medicinae A plea for the free profession and renovation of the art of Physick c. Lond. 1665 in a large oct Answer'd by two Doctors of that faculty Fellows of the Coll. of Physitians at London namely Joh. Twysden in his Medicina veterum vindicata c. and Rob. Sprackling in his Medela ignorantiae c. Our Author Nedham saith that four Champions were employed by the Coll. of Physitians to write against this book Two of which he saith are gone already The third I hear saith he is often buried in ale at a place called The hole in the Wall and the fourth hath asked me pardon before company confessing that he was set on by the brotherhood of the confederacy An epistolary discourse before Medicina instaurata or a brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of Physick c. by Edw. Bolnest M. D. Lond. 1665. A pacquet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftsbury c. Occasioned by a seditious Pamphlet intit A Letter from a
protestor for a Community of wealth as well as of women He was also a grand prodigal in not only spending 3000 l. per an which his father and other relations left him mostly lying in Berks but several thousand pounds and a 1000 l. per an given to him and his heirs for ever out of the Duke of Buckinghams estate by Parliament in consideration of his losses not of his members for the holy and blessed cause This viper which had been fostered in the bosome of Parliament was against the Parliament it self and against all Magistrates like a second Wat Tyler all pen and Inkhorn men must down This his levelling doctrine is contained in a Pamphlet called Englands troubles troubled wherein all rich men whatsoever are declared enemies to the mean men of England and in effect warr denounced against them Besides all this he being a Colonel plundered so much where ever he came that he was commonly called the plunder-master general and all whatsoever he got that way he spent to satisfie his filthy lusts In 1648 he forbad the people to stand bare at a Sessions in Barkshire and do homage and fealty to the Lords but in this he gull'd them tho they were not sensible of it because he gave that which was not their due Yet notwithstanding he rob'd them of that which was their due as of their horses goods money c. which he plundered from them under pretence forsooth for service of the State and did beat those that defended their own So that while he flatter'd them to be the supreme authority and Lords Paramount and the Parliament to be their servants he used them like slaves conquer'd by the Parliament On the 8. of Dec. the same year being the day after the Parliament house was purged of the Presbyterians in came Ol. Cromwell out of the Country bringing in under his protection our sanctified Member Harry Marten who had spent much time in plundering the Country had often basâ—ed the House and disobeyed many of their orders sufficient to have made an honest man liable to sequestration But great was the privilege of the Saints for there was nothing done in it because it fortun'd that day that the case of the secured Members was reported to the House which Harry interrupting desired them to take into consideration the deserts of the Lieu. General Cromwell which with all slavish diligence was presently done So Harry by this device escaped free who in the beginning of the next month was with Hugh Peters a zealous sollicitor in Parliament to have the Statute of banishment against the Jewes repealed according to their Petition for the same purpose then put up to the House About the same time Cromwell finding him a man fit for his purpose put him into the roll for one to sit as Judg upon the life of his Sovereign in which Tragedy he acted his part so unconcernedly that he valued the life of his Prince no more than that of a dog yet afterwards as the report goes he in a speech in the House upon the debate whether a King or no King He made answer that if they must have a King he had rather have had the last than any Gentleman in England for he found no fault in his person but office On the 14. of Feb. following which was about a fortnight after the King was beheaded he was appointed one of the thirty to be of the Council of State and in the beginning of July 1649 he brought into the House an accompt of his arrears which came to 25000 l. whereupon it was ordered that 1000 l. in Land should be setled upon him and his heirs About which time the Welsh Counties were set on work to desire H. Marten for their Commander in chief Afterwards Harry perceiving Oliver to aim at high things he left him fided with the Levellers and would have done them good service had not the Parl. given him 3000 l. more to put him upon the holy Sisters In Nov. 1651 he was appointed again one of the Council of State and had in a manner what he desired but after Oliver had made him as many a wiser person his shooing horn merely to serve his turn he turn'd him off and publickly called him a noted Whoormaster as he did Th. Chaloner a Drunkard and a vitious Liver at the dissolution of the reliques of the Long Parliament To conclude he was a man of good natural parts was a boon familiar witty and quick with repartees was exceeding happy in apt instances pertinent and very biting so that his company being esteemed incomparable by many would have been acceptable to the greatest persons only he would be drunk too soon and so put an end to all the mirth for the present At length after all his rogueries acted for near 20 years together were past was at length called to an account for that grand villany of having a considerable hand in murthering his Prince of which being easily found guilty was not to suffer the loss of his life as others did for it was then commonly reported that if they hung him his body would not hold together because of its rottenness but the loss of his estate and perpetual imprisonment for that he came in upon the Proclamation of surrender So that after one or two removes from Prison to Prison he was at length sent to Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire where he continued another twenty years not in wantonness riotousness and villany but in confinement and repentance if he had pleased Under his name go these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Common Hall 28. Jul. 1643 concerning Sir Will. Waller and what course now is to be taken Lond. 1643 qu. 2 Speech in Parl. c. The independency of England endeavoured to be maintained against the claim of the Scottish Commissioners in their late answer upon the bills and propositions sent to the King in the Isle of Wight Lond. 1648 in 3 sh and an half in qu. The Parliaments proceedings justified in declining a personal treaty with the King c. Lond. 1648 in 3 sh in qu. Familiar Letters to his Lady of delight Oxon. 1663. Lond. 1685. qu. Politick and Oeconomical Letters Printed with the first and I think with the sec Edit of the said Familiar Letters In the beginning of the said Letters is that in justification of the murther of K. Ch. 1 See more in Edm. Gayton under the year 1666. p. 271. Our author Marten was also the principal cause of publishing the letters of the King and Queen called the Cabinet besides other things which have not yet come to my sight I have seen also under his name A Speech in the H. of Com. before his departure thence 8. June 1648. Printed in one sh in qu. but t is a piece of roguery fathered upon him This person who lived very poor and in a shabbed condition in his confinement and would be glad to take a pot of ale from any
prefix'd being come which was about the 9. of January 1648 his Majesty took Coach near the Keep in Windsore Castle at which time was a Guard all along of Musquets and Pikes both Officers and Soldiers expressing civility as he passed by At the great gate a party of Horse commanded by Major Tho. Harrison was drawn up into the Market place and Pescod street end in the Town of Windsore who followed the Coach which passed through Brainford Hammersmith and the direct way to his Majesties House at S. James within the liberty of Westminster His Lodgings there were furnished by Mr. Clem. Kinnerslie his Majesties Servant in the Wardrobe strict guards were placed and none suffer'd to attend in his Maj. Bedchamber only Mr. Thom. Herbert before mentioned His usual diet was kept up and the Gentlemen that formerly waited were permitted to perform their respective services in the presence where a state was placed and for a few days all things were with decency and honor observed Sir Fulk Grevill was Cup-bearer and gave it upon his knee Mr. Anthony Mildmay was Carver Captain Preston was sometimes Sewer and kept the Robes Mr. Anstey was Gent. Usher Capt. Burroughs Mr. Firebrass Mr. Muschamp had their places Capt. John Joyner or Jeoner was Cook Mr. Babington Barber Mr. Reading Page of the Back-stairs and some others also waited The Kings dishes were brought up cover'd the say was given and all things were performed with satisfaction in that point But to return a little it is very well worth the observation that so soon as the King came into his Bed-chamber before he either eat or drank or discours'd with any he went to prayer or to reading in the Bible Whilst he was in this sorrowful condition none of his Nobility Chaplains or Counsellors nor any of his old Attendants had the liberty to repair to him to converse about any matters yet he had private notice that the H. of Commons in a resolve had declared that by the Laws of England it was treason in the King to levy War against the Parliament and Kingdom which resolve as he had farther been informed they sent up unto the Lords for their concurrence who assoon as they had heard it read rejected it and after some debate did pass two votes c. He had also information from private hands of the late proceedings in the House of Commons and of their violent secluding and seizure of several members by force by some eminent Army-officers under a notion of purging the House as also of their Votes passed concerning him By which he was very apprehensive of their ill intentions towards him and his government and did believe that his enemies aimed at his deposing and confinement in the Tower or some such like place and that they would seat his Son the Prince of Wales in his Throne if he would accept of it but as to the taking away his life by trial in any Court of Justice or sub dio in the face of the people he could not believe there being no such precedent or mention in any of our Histories 'T is true his Grandmother Mary Queen of Scots suffer'd under Qu. Elizabeth but in England she was no Sovereign but a subject to Law And indeed some Kings of England had been lamentably murdered by Ruffians in a clandestine way as the Chronicles inform us but the facts were neither owned or approved of by any King These were his Majesties imaginations till he came unto his trial in Westm Hall when then he alter'd his mind Nevertheless his faith overcoming his fear he continued his accustomed prudence and patience so as no outward perturbation could be discerned with Christian fortitude submitting to the good pleasure of the Almighty sometimes sighing but never breaking out into passion or uttering a reproachful or revengeful word against any that were his Adversaries only saying God forgive their impiety For about a fortnight after his Majesties coming to St. James's House he constantly dined in the presence-chamber and at meals was served after the usual state the Carver Sewer Cup-bearer and Gent. Usher attending and doing their Offices respectively His Cup was given upon the knee as were his covered dishes the say was given and other accustomed Ceremonies of State observed notwithstanding this his dolorous condition and the King was well pleased with the observance afforded him But soon after the case was alter'd for the Officers of the Army being predominant they gave order at a Council of War that thenceforth all state ceremony or accustomed respect unto his Majesty at meals should be forbourn and his menial servants tho few in number should be lest'ned And accordingly the Kings meat was brought up by Soldiers the dishes uncovered no say no cup upon the knee or other accustomed court-Court-state was then observed which was an uncouth sight to the King he then saying that the respect and honour denyed him no Soveraign Prince ever wanted nor yet Subjects of high degree according to antient practice and adding Is there any thing more contemptible than a despised Prince So that seeing things were so ordered the best expedient he had to reconcile them was to contract his diet to a few dishes out of the bill of fare and to eat in private His eating was usually agreeable to his exercise and his abstinence was in no wise displeasing His temperance preserved his health especially in the two last years of his life and reign without any indisposition or recourse to Physick So as in all probability had not his thread of life been immaturely cut he might have surpassed the age of any of his Royal Ancestors On Friday the 19 of Jan. his Majesty was removed from S. James to Whitehall and lodged in his Bedchamber After which a Guard of Musquetiers were placed and Centinels set at the door of his Chamber Thenceforth Mr. Herbert who constantly lay in the next room to the King according to the duty of his place was ordered to bring his pallet into his Majesties Bedchamber to the end that he might be nearer to his royal Person and so accordingly he did rest every night after during his Maj. life in the said Bedchamber near the royal bed The next day Jan. 20. the King was removed in a Sedan or close chair from Whitehall to Sir Thom. Cottons House near the West end of Westm hall Guards were placed on both sides of King-street in the Pallace-yard and Westm hall As his Maj. was carried through the Garden door belonging to Whitehall which is between the two gates leading to King-street none but Mr. Herbert went bare by him because no other of his Majesties Servants were permitted by the Soldiers At Cotton house there was a Guard of Partizans Collonel Francis Hacker sometimes and Col. Hercules Hunks at other times commanding them His Majesty being summoned by Hacker to go to the Court then sitting in Westminst Hall where Serjeant John Bradshaw was President and seated in a chair and about
was observed to smile and lift up his Eyes to Heaven as appealing to the Divine Majesty the most supreme Judge The King at the rising of the Court was with a guard of Halberdiers returned to Whitehall in a close chair through King-street Both sides whereof had a guard of Foot soldiers who were silent as his Majesty passed but shop-stalls and windows were full of People many of which shed tears and some of them with audible voices prayed for the King till he was carried through the Privy garden door to his Bedchamber whence after two hours space he was removed to S. James's Nothing of the fear of death or indignities offer'd seem'd a terrour or provok'd him to impatience nor uttered he a reproachful word reflecting upon any of his Judges albeit he well knew that some of them were or had been his domestick servants nor against any member of the House or Officer of the Army so wonderful was his patience tho his spirit was great and might otherwise have express'd his resentment upon several occasions It was a true Christian fortitude to have the mastry of his passion and submission to the will of God under such temptations The same night after which sentence was pronounced Coll. Hacker who then commanded the Guards at S. James's about the King would have placed two Musquetiers in the Kings Bedchamber with which his Majesty being acquainted he made no reply only gave a sigh Howbeit the good Bishop Dr. Juxon and Mr. Herbert apprehending the horrour of it and disturbance it would give to the King in his meditations and preparation for his departure out of this uncomfortable world they never left the Col. till he had reversed his order by withdrawing those men representing it as the most barbarous thing in nature The King now bidding a farewel to the World his whole business was a serious preparation for death which opens the door unto eternity In order thereunto he laid aside all other thoughts and spent the remainder of his time in prayer and other pious ejaculations and exercises of devotion and in conference with that meek and learned Bishop before mentioned who under God was a great support and comfort to him in that his afflicted condition And resolving to sequester himself so as he might have no disturbance to his mind nor interruption to his meditations he ordered Mr. Herbert to excuse it to any that might have the desire to visit him I know said the K. my Nephew the Prince Elector will endeavour it and some other Lords that love me which I would take in good part but my time is short and precious and I am desirous to improve it the best I may in preparation I hope they will not take it ill that they or any have not access unto me only my Children The best office they can do now is to pray for me What he had said it fell out accordingly for his Electoral Highness accompanied with James D. of Richmond William Marq. of Hertford Thomas Earl of Southampton and Mountague E. of Lindsey with some others having go leave came to the Bedchamber door where Mr. Herbert persuant to the Kings command acquainted his Highness and the said Noblemen with what the King gave him in charge and thereupon they acquiesced and presented their humble duty to his Majesty with their prayers which done they return'd with hearts full of sorrow as appeared by their faces The Prince of Wales also then in Holland did by the States Embassadors interceed to the Parliament and used all possible means to prevent or at least to defer his Majesties execution and applyed themselves likewise to the Army At this time Jan. 30. Mr. Herbert should have said came to S. James's Edm. Calamy Rich. Vines Jos Caryl Will. Dell and some other London Ministers who presented their duty to the King with their humble desires to pray with him and perform other offices of service if his Majesty would please to accept of them The King returned them thanks for their love to his Soul hoping they and all other good Subjects would in their addresses to God be mindful of him but in regard he had made choice of Dr. Juxon whom for many years he had known to be a pious and learned Divine and able to administer ghostly comfort to his Soul sutable to his present condition he would have none other The Ministers were no sooner gone but John Goodwin Minister in Coleman street came likewise upon the same account to tender his service whom the King also thanked and dismist with the like friendly answer Mr. Herbert about this time going to the Cockpit near Whitehall where the Lodgings of Philip Earl of Pembroke were he then as at sundry times enquired how his Majesty did and gave his humble duty to him and withal asked if his Majesty had the gold Watch he sent for and how he liked it Mr. Herbert assured his Lordship the K. had not yet received it The Earl fell presently into a passion marvell'd thereat and was much troubled least his Majesty should think him careless in observing his commands and told Mr. Herbert that at the Kings coming to S. James's he as he was sitting under the great elm tree near Sir Ben. Rudyerds Lodge in the Park seeing a considerable military Officer of the Army going towards S. James's he went to meet him and demanding of him if he knew his Cosin Tom Herbert that waited on the King the Officer said he did and was going to S. James's The Earl then delivered to him the gold watch that had the Larme desiring him to give it to Mr. Herbert to present it to the King The Officer promised the Earl he would immediately do it My Lord said Mr. Herbert I have sundry times seen and past by that Officer since and do assure your Lordship he hath not delivered it to me according to your order and his promise nor said any thing concerning it nor has the King it I am certain The Earl was very angry and gave the Officer his due character and threatned to question him But such was the severity of the times that it was judged dangerous to reflect upon such a person so as no notice was taken of it Nevertheless Mr. Herbert at the Earls desire did acquaint his Majesty therewith who gave the Earl thanks and said had he not told the Officer it was for me he would probably have delivered it he well knew how short a time I should enjoy it This relation is in prosecution of what is formerly mentioned concerning the Clock or Larm-watch which his Majesty would have to lay by Mr. Herbert's Pallet to awaken him at the hour in the morning which his Majesty should appoint when he was at Windsore The name of this Officer Mr. Herbert told me not only that he was executed after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and therefore I take him to be either Major Harrison or Col. Hacker That evening Mr. Hen. Seymour a
Gent. belonging to the Bed-chamber of the Prince of Wales came by Col. Hacker's permission who commanded the Guards at S. James's to his Majesties chamber door desiring to speak with the King from the said Prince and being admitted he presented to the King a letter from him dated at the Hague 23 Jan. 1648 old stile At Mr. Seymour's entrance he fell into a passion having seen his Majesty in a glorious and now in a dolorous state and having kist the Kings hand he clasp'd about his legs and mourned in a most lamentable condition Hacker came in with this Gentleman and beholding these things was very much abash'd But so soon as his Maj. had read his sorrowing letter and heard what his servant had to say and he imparted to him what his Maj. thought fit to return the Prince's servant took his leave and was no sooner gone but the King went to his devotion Dr. Juxon praying with him and reading some select Chapters out of the sacred Scripture The same evening also the K. took a ring from his finger having an emrold set therein between two diamonds and gave it to Mr. Herbert and commanded him as late as 't was to go with it from S. James's to a Lady living then in Canon row on the back-side of Kingstreet in Westminster and to give it to her without saying any thing The night was exceeding dark and Guards were set in several places as at the Houses in the Gardens Park at the gates near Whitehall in Kingstreet and elsewhere nevertheless getting the Word from Col. Math. Tomlinson then there and in all places wheresoever he was about the K. so civil both towards his Majesty and such as attended him as gained him the Kings good opinion and as an evidence thereof gave him his gold pick tooth case as he was one time walking in the Presence Chamber Mr. Herbert pass'd currently tho in all places where Sentinels were he was bid stand till the Corporal had the Word from him Being come to the Lady's house he delivered her the Ring Sir said she give me leave to shew you the way into the parlour where being seated she desired him to stay till she returned In a little time after she came and put into his hands a little Cabinet closed with 3 seals two of which were the Kings Arms and the third was the figure of a Roman which done she desired him to deliver it to the same hand that sent the ring which ring was left with her and afterwards Mr. Herbert taking his leave the Word served him in his return to the King at which time he found that Dr. Juxon was newly gone to his Lodging in Sir Hen. Henns house near S. James's gate Mr. Herbert gave the Cabinet into the hands of his Majesty who told him that he should see it opened next morning Morning being come the Bishop was early with the King and after Prayers his Majesty broke the seals and shew'd them what was contained in the Cabinet There were Diamonds and Jewels most part broken Georges and Garters You see said he all the wealth now in my power to give to my Children That day the Bishop preached before the King on Rom. 2.16 In the day when God shall judge c. inferring from thence that Altho Gods judgments be for some time deferred he will nevertheless proceed to a strict examination of what is both said and done by every man Yea the most hidden things and imaginations of men will most certainly be made to appear at the day of judgment when the L. Jes Ch. shall be upon his high tribunal c. It may not be forgotten that Sir Hen. Herbert Master of the Revells and Gent in ord of his Maj. Privy Chamber one that cordially loved and honour'd the King and during the War had suffer'd considerably in his estate by sequestration and otherwise meeting Mr. Tho. Herbert his kinsman in S. James's Park first enquired how his Majesty did and afterwards presenting his duty to him with assurance that himself with many others of his Majesties Servants did frequently pray for him desir'd that his Maj. would be pleased to read the second Chapter of Ecclesiasticus for he should find comfort in it aptly suting his present condition Accordingly Mr. Herbert acquainted the King therewith who thanked Sir Harry and commended him for his excellent parts being a good Scholar Soldier and an accomplish'd Courtier and for his many years faithful service much valued by the King who presently turned to that Chapter and read it with much satisfaction Munday Jan. 29. the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Glocester her brother came to take their sad farewell of the K. their father and to ask his blessing The Princess being the elder was the most sensible of her royal fathers condition as appeared by her sorrowful look and excessive weeping Her little brother the Duke seeing his sister weep he took the like impression tho by reason of his tender age he could not have the like apprehension The K. raised them both from off their knees he kist them gave them his blessing and setting them on his knees admonish'd them concerning their duty and loyal observance to the Queen their mother the Prince that was his successor Love to the D. of York and his other relations The K. then gave them all his Jewels save the George he wore which was cut in an Onix with great curiosity and set about with 21 fair Diamonds and the reverse set with the like number and then again kissing his children had such pretty and pertinent answers from them both as drew tears of joy and love from his eyes And then praying God almighty to bless them he turned about expressing a tender and fatherly affection Most sorrowful was this parting and the young Prince shedding tears and crying most lamentable moved others to pity that formerly were hard-hearted And at the opening the chamber door the K. returned hastily from the window kissed them blessed them and so parted This demonstration of a pious affection exceedingly comforted the K. in this his affliction so that in a grateful return he went immediately to Prayer the good Bishop and Mr. Herbert being only present That day the K. eat and drank very sparingly most of it being spent in Prayer and Meditation It was some hours after night ere Dr. Juxon took leave of the King who willed him to be early with him the next morning After Dr. Juxon was gone to his Lodgings the King continued reading and praying more than two hours after The K. commanded Mr. Herbert to lye by his bed-side upon a Pallat where he took small rest that being the last night his gracious Soveraign and Master enjoyed But nevertheless the King for four hours or thereabouts slept soundly and awaking about two hours before day he opened his curtain to call Mr. Herbert there being a great cake of wax set in a silver bason that then as at all other times burnt all
dispersed THOMAS BROWNE eldest son of Th. Br. Gent. was born in S. Michaels Cheap or in the parish of S. Michael in Cheapside in London on the 19 of Nov. an 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester entred a Commoner of Broadgates Hall soon after known by the name of Pembroke Coll in the beginning of the year 1623 took the degrees in Arts as a Member of the said Coll entred on the physick line and practised that faculty for some time in these parts Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas was made Doctor of Physick at Leyden and after his return he was incorporated in this University an 1637. About which time he by the perswasions of Tho. Lushington his somtimes Tutor retired to the City of Norwych where being setled he was much resorted to by Patients for his admirable skill in Physick which he practiced there with good success for many years was made Socius honorarius of the Coll. of Physitians at London and at length in the latter end of Sept. 1671. had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Maj. Ch. 2 then at and near the City of Norwych He hath written Religio Medici Lond. 1642. c. oct in English Answerd in a book intit Medicus Medicatus written by Alex. Ross a Scot and had English Observations put on it about the same time by Sir Ken. Digby and Annotations by another Afterwards the book it self was translated into Latine by Joh. Meryweather M. A. of Cambridge and had latine annotations put to it by a certain German who subscribes himself L. N. M. E. M. Printed at Strasburgh 1652. in oct whose preface to it tells us that the book it self which is translated into French Italian Dutch German c. hath been much taken into the hands of curious and learned men who have read it with great delight See more there of the author Browne and of his Relig. Med. in the said translat Pseud Epidem Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed truths or enquiries into common and vulgar errours Lond. 1646 in a little fol. There again 1650. and 57 c. The sixth edit in 1673 was enlarged by the author with many explanations additions alterations c. T was answer'd by the said Alex. Ross in his Arcana Microcosmi Or the hid secrets of mans body discovered c. Lond. 1652 oct c. And in a book written by Joh. Robinson M. D. entit Eudoxa seu questionum quarundam Miscelleniarum examen probabile c. Lond. 1656. oct The Reader may be pleased now to know that there hath been published under Dr. Tho. Brownes name a book bearing this title Natures Cabinet unlocked wherein is discovered the natural causes of Metalls Stones Pretious Earths c. Printed 1657 in tw A dull worthles thing stole for the most part out of the Physicks of Magirus by a very ignorant person a Plagiary so ignorant and unskilful in his rider that not distinguishing between Laevis and Levis in the said Magirus hath told us of the Liver that one part of it is gibbous and the other light And yet he had the confidence to call this scribble Natures Cabinet c an arrogant and fanciful title of which our authors Browne true humilitie would have no more have suffer'd him to have been the father than his great learning could have permitted him to have been the author of the said book For it is certain that as he was a Philosopher very inward with nature so was he one that never boasted his acquaintance with her Sir Tho. Browne hath written also Urn-burial or a discourse of Sepulchral Urns lately found out in Norfolke c. Lond. 1658. oct c. The Garden of Cyrus or the Quincunical Lozenge or Net-work plantations of the Antients artificially naturally mystically considered with sundry observations c. Printed with Urn-burial Certaine Miscellany Tracts 1 Observations upon several plants mention'd in Scripture 2 Of Garlands and coronary or garden-plants 3 Of the Fishes eaten by our Saviour with his Disciples after his resurrection from the dead 4 Answer to certain equeries relating to Fishes Birds Insects 5 Of Hawkes and falconry antient and moderne 6 Of Cymbals c. 7 Of ropalie or gradual verses c. 8 Of Languages and particularly of the Saxon tongue 9 Of artificial Hills mounts or burrowes in many parts of England 10 What place is meant by that name 11 Of the answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus King of Lydia 12 A prophecie concerning the future state of several nations 13 Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca abscondita c. All these were printed at Lond. 1686 in oct with the authors picture before them shewing him to have been an handsome man and an Epistle written by Dr. Tho. Tennison the publisher of them who saith that there is on foot a design of writing the authors life and that there are already some memorialls collected for that purpose by one of his antient friends and puts the Reader in expectation of receiving hereafter some other remaining brief Discourses among which is his Repertorium or some account of the Tombes Monuments c. in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich This learned and worthy Physitian whose works were published in fol. 1686 with his picture also before them died in his house in Norwych on the 19 day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried within the Railes at the East end of the Chancell in the Church of S. Peter in Mancroft within the said City Over his grave was a Monument soon after erected by his Relict Dame Dorothy who had been his affectionate wife 41. years with this inscription thereon M. S. Hic situs est Thomas Browne M. D. Miles An. 1605 Londini natus generosâ familiâ apud Upton in agro Cestrensi oriundus Scholâ primum Wintoniensi postea in Coll. Pembr apud Oxonienses bonis literis haud leviter imbutus in urbe hâc Nordovicensi Medicinam arte egregiâ faelici successu professus Scriptis quibus tituli Religio Medici Pseudodoxia Epidemica aliissque per orbem notissimus Vir pientissimus integerrimus doctissimus Obiit Octob. 19 an 1682. Pie posuit maestissima conjux D a Dor. Br. There is also an English Epitaph which for brevity sake I shall now pass by THOMAS TANNER son of a wealthy Citizen of London was born in the Parish of S. Matthew in Friday-street within that City an 1630 educated in Paules School and thence sent to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge where he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon when the Visitours appointed by Parl. sate there he was incorporated in the said degree in Feb. 1650 and about that time was made one of the Fellows of New Coll. by the said Visitors In less than two years after he proceeded in Arts having some time before had the degree of M. of A. confer'd on him
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
his Maj. K. Ch. 2 in his exile was by him sent Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople and demanding audience in his name he was by bribes given delivered to some of the English Merchants there who shipping him in the Smyrna Fleet was conveyed into England Soon after he being committed to the Tower of London he was brought before the High Court of Justice where he desired to plead in the Italian Language which he said was more common to him than the English But it being denied him he was at length condemned to die whereupon he lost his head on a Scaffold erected against the Old Exchange in Cornhill on the fourth day of March an 1650. It was then said by the faction in England that he did by vertue of a Commission from Charles Stuart as K. of Great Britaine act in the quality of an Agent to the Court of the Great Turk with intent to destroy the trade of the Turkey Company and the Parliaments interest not only in Constantinople but also in Mitylene Anatolia and Smyrna That also he had a Commission to be Consul in that matter with an aim likewise to seize upon the Merchants goods for the use of Charles King of Scots For the effecting of which design he presumed to discharge Sir Tho. Bendish of his Embassie being Leiger there for the state of England c. The said faction also reported and would needs perswade the People in England that those that abetted Sir H. Hyde at Smyrna had the heavy hand of judgment fell upon them This Sir Hen. Hyde after his decollation was conveyed to Salisbury and buried there in the Cathedral among the graves of his Relations Another Brother younger than him was Edward Hyde D. D sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berkshire From which being ejected in the time of Usurpation he retired with his Wife and Children to Oxon and hiring an apartment within the precincts of Hart Hall lived there several years studied frequently in Bodlies Library and preached in the Church of Halywell in the suburbs of Oxon to the Royal Party till he was silenc'd by the Faction In 1658 he obtained of his exil'd Majesty by the endeavours of Sir Edw. Hyde before mention'd his kinsman then tho in banishment Lord Chancellour of England Letters Patents for the Deanery of Windsore in the place of Dr. Chr. Wren deceased dated in July the same year but he dying at Salisbury of the Stone a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was never installed in that Dignity He hath written and published several books which were taken into the hands of and perused by the Royal Party as 1 A Christian â—egacy consisting of two parts preparation for and consolation against death Lond. 1657. oct 2 Christ and his Church or Christianity explained under seven Evangelical and Ecclesiastical heads Oxon. 1658. qu. 3 Vindication of the Church of England Ibid. 1658. qu. 4 Christian vindication of truth against errour Printed 1659. in tw 5 The true Catholick tenure c. Cambr. 1662. oct and other things as you may see in Joh. Ley among these Writers an 1662. Another Brother the tenth in number was Sir Frederick Hyde Knight the Queens Serjeant an 1670 and one of the chief Justices of South Wales who dyed in 1676. Also another called Francis who was Secretary to the Earl of Denbigh Embassador and died at Venice without issue And among others must not be forgotten Dr. Thomas Hyde Fellow of New Coll afterwards Judge of the Admiralty and also the eleventh and youngest Brother of them all named James Hyde Dr. of Physick lately Principal of Magd. Hall HUGH LLOYD was born in the County of Cardigan became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an 1607 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts translated himself to Jesus Coll of which I think he became Fellow and in 1638 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Archdeacon of S. David and well beneficed in his own Country In the times of Usurpation and Rebellion he suffered much for the Kings cause was ejected and forced to remove from place to place for his own security In consideration of which and his episcopal qualities he was consecrated to the See of Landaffe on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday of that month an 1660 by the Archb. of York Bishops of London Rochester Salisbury and Worcester at which time six other Bishops were also consecrated He died in June or July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was as I suppose buried at Matherne in Monmouthshire where the House or Pallace pertaining to the Bishop of Landaff is situated In the said See succeeded Dr. Francis Davies as I shall tell you elsewhere JEREMY TAYLOR originally of the University of Cambridge afterwards Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in this University was consecrated Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland an 166â— and died in Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 282. GEORGE HALL sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll became Bishop of Chester in the room of Dr. Henry Ferne deceased an 1662 and dying in sixteen hundred sixty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 297 was succeeded in that See by Dr. Joh. Wilkins of whom I have largely spoken elsewhere already HENRY KING sometimes Canon of Ch Church afterwards Dean of Rochester was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1641. and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 308. In the said See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Pet. Gunning as I have elsewhere told you HENRY GLEMHAM a younger Son of Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham in Suffolk Knight by Anne his Wife eldest daughter of Sir Tho. Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset was born in the County of Surrey became a Commoner of Trin. Coll in 1619 aged 16 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Robert Skinner Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became well beneficed before the rebellion broke out at which time suffering more for his loyalty than merits was upon his Majesties restauration made Dean of Bristow in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas promoted to the Deanery of S. Pauls Cath. in London where continuing till 1666 he was by the endeavours of Barbara Dutchess of Cleavland made Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of that year in the place of Dr. George Griffith deceased He gave way to fate at Glemham Hall in Suffolk on the seventeenth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Vault that belongs to the Family of Glemham in the Parish Church of Little Glemham in the said County To the said See of S. Asaph was translated Dr. Is Barrow Bishop of the Isle of
I shall anon set down In 1639 he was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland and when the Rebellion broke out there he suffered much in his Estate In 1644 he with the Lord Edward Brabason afterwards Earl of Meath and Sir Hen. Tichbourne Kt were sent by James Marquess of Ormonde then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon about the affairs of that Kingdom Which being concluded to their minds they returned but in their way they were taken on the seas by a Parliament Ship just after Sir James had flung over board the Kings packet of Letters directed to Ormonde Whereupon being all conveyed to London were committed Prisoners to the Tower where continuing eleven months were then released upon exchange Afterwards Sir James returned to Dublin continued there for some time and was one of the hostages for the delivery of that City to Coll. Mich. Jones for the use of the Parliament of England Afterwards the said Colonel thinking it not convenient for several reasons that he should remain there commanded him to depart so that by vertue of his pass he went into France where he continued an year and an half mostly at Caen and partly at Paris In 1651 he left that Country went into England and setling in London wrot several books and published one or more there Upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he went into Ireland and by special order was restored to his place of Auditor General and continued a privy Counsellor there His works are these 1 Archiepiscoporum Casseliensium Tuamensium vitae duobus expressae commentariolis Dubl 1626. qu. This book was afterwards involved in his De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius 2 Caenobia Cisterciensia Hiberniae Included afterwards in his Disquisitiones de Hibernia c. 3 De praesulibus Lageniae sive provinciae Dubliniensis lib. unus Dubl 1628. qu. Included also in his Comment de praesulibus Hib. 4 De scriptoribus Hiberniae libri duo Dubl 1639. qu. A great part of which is taken out of the book of Joh. Bale intit De script maj Britan. and from Rich. Stanyhurst his book intit The Description of Ireland 5 De Hibernia Antiquitatibus ejus disquisitiones Lond. 1654 and 1658. in a thick oct 6 De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius à prima gentis Hibernicae ad fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra usque tempora Dubl 1665. fol. 7 Note ad Bedae epist Apologeticam Dubl 1664. oct 8 Notae ad Historiam Abbatum Weremuthensium Girwicensium per Bedam composit Dubl 1664. oct 9 Notae ad Bede Epistolam ad Egbertum Ib. eod an oct 10 Notae ad Egberti dialogum de institutione ecclesiastica Ib. eod an oct 11 Notae ad rem Historicam Antiquariam spectantes ad opuseula S. Patricio qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit adscripta c. Lond. 1656. oct He also wrot and published Rerum Hibernicarum Henrico 7 regnante Annales Pr. at the end of his Disquisit de Hibernia and De praesul Hib. comment Also Rerum Hib. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Maria regnantibus Annales which are at the end of the said book De praesul besides the publication of Campians Hist of Ireland the Chronicle of Mered. Hanmer that of Hen. Marleburrough and The view of Ireland by Edm. Spenser At length Sir James having lived beyond the age of man and by his endeavours had gotten a fair estate departed this mortal life at Dublin on Saturday Decemb. the first an 1666 and was buried on Tuesday following in a burying place appointed for his Family within the Church of S. Warborough in the said City He had a choice Collection of antient MSS many of which related to Irâ—sh affairs procured from many persons as well in Engl. as Irel a catalogue of which was printed at Dublin an 1648. in â— sh and an half in qu. All or most of which MSS. came into the hands of Hen. Earl of Clarendon when he was Lord Lieutenant of Irel. an 1686 who soon after brought them with him into Engl. and deposited them in the custody of Dr. Tho. Tenison Vicar of S. Martins Church in the Fields in Westm a Catalogue of which is lately made extant by Edm. Gibson B. A. of Qu. Coll. in Ox. This year also about the beginning thereof as it seems was a proposal made by vertue of a letter sent to the Vicechancellour that Rich. Fanshaw Esq Servant to Prince Charles should have the degr of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him but whether he was presented thereunto tho diplomated he might be it appears not in the publick Register Howsoever it is sure I am that certain Masters now living in the University did many years after report that he had that degree confer'd on him here yet whether personally presented thereunto they could not positively affirm This right worthy and loyal person Richard Fanshaw originally of the University of Cambr. was descended of the family of Fanshaw of Fanshaw gate in Derbyshire being the great Grandchild of John Fanshaw of that place brother of Henry Fanshaw and father of Tho. Fanshaw Esquires who were successively Remembrancers of the Exchequer to Qu. Elizabeth Which Thomas was father to Sir Hen. Fanshaw Kt who died of an Apoplexy at the Assizes in Hertford 10 Mar. 1615. father of Thomas sometimes Lord Viscount Fanshaw of Dromore in Ireland father of him who is now or at least was lately L. Visc Fanshaw Which three last have also been Remembrancers of the Exchecquer to K. Jam. 1. K. Ch. 1. and 2. The said Rich. Fanshaw brother to Lord Thomas of whom we are farther to speak was for his early abilities taken into the Employment of the State by K. Ch. 1. an 1635 and then sent Resident to the Court of Spain Whence being recall'd in the beginning of the Troubles 1640 1 into Engl. he followed the royal interest during all the calamitous times that followed and was employed in several weighty matters of State In 1644 he was appointed Secretary at War to Charles Prince of Wales afterwards King whom he attended into the Western parts of Engl and thence into the Isles of Scilly and Guernsey In 1648 he was appointed Treasurer of the Navy under the command of Prince Rupert which he managed till the year 1650 when then he was prefer'd by his Majesty to the dignity of a Baronet and sent Envoy extraordinary to the Crown of Spain and being thence recalled into Scotland he there served in the quality of Secretary of State Which weighty and difficult Employment he performed in that conjuncture with great satisfaction of all parties notwithstanding he never took Covenant or Engagement Thence he attended his Maj. at Worcester was at the battel there 1651 taken Prisoner and conveyed to Lond. by the Rebels where continuing in close custody till he contracted a great sickness had liberty allow'd him upon Bayle given for the recovery of his health to go to any place he
authority do when he is possest by knaves Miserable man His foolery did so long wait upon Cromwells and Iretons knavery that it was not safe for him then to see his folly and throw by his cap with a bell and his bable Elsewhere he speaks of his ill breeding and churlishness of his being a Cypher or Prepositor in the Free-school called the Army while Cromwell was Head-master and Ireton Vsher c. that he was a stalking horse a Brute c. and indeed his Majesty K. Ch. 1. doth once at least in his works stile him the brutish General as being a person not fit to hearken to reason When the War was terminated and no enemy either in Field or Garrison left he went to London in Nov. 1646 where he was in a most high manner joyed and caressed by the Citizens of London and Parliament for the great service he had done for the Commonwealth and nothing was thought too good or great for him After his Majesty was taken away from Holdenby and conveyed to Childerley Newmarket c. he expressed himself civil to him as he did afterwards at Hampton-court but then having no pious frauds in him or dissimulation for a good end he did not or could not endeavour as being no politician to countermand the diabolical designs of Cromwell and the hellish crew He did not endeavour to repell or hinder the Remonstrance of the Army the purging of the House of Commons of its chief members the Agreement of the People c. but was lull'd on in a kind of stupidity 'T is true that before the King was beheaded in order to whose trial he was nominated the chief Judge but did not sit he did use his power and interest to have the execution defer'd for some days forbearing his coming among the Officers and did fully resolve with his own Regiment to prevent the execution or have it defer'd till he could make a party in the Army to second his design But behold his policy all the morning of that day on which the King was beheaded and the time when he was beheaded he was with certain Officers of the Army at Prayer or in discourse or both in Maj. Tho. Harrisons apartment in Whitehall being a room at the hither end of that Gallery looking towards the Privy-garden and knew nothing of it as it doth appear by this passage When his Majesty was beheaded on a Scaffold joyning to the Banquetting-house at Whitehall and his Corps thereupon immediatly coffin'd and covered with a black velvet Pall Bishop Juxon who attended him on the Scaffold and Thomas Herbert the only Groom of his Bedchamber that was then left did go with the said Corps to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with Fairfax the General Fairfax asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert looking very strangely upon him he told him that the King was beheaded at which he seem'd much surpriz'd Afterwards Herbert walking farther in the Gallery with the said Bishop they were met by another great Commander named Ol. Cromwell who knew what had lately past for he told them unasked that they should have orders for the Kings burial speedily as I have been informed by the Letters of the said Thomas Herbert In little more than a fortnight after viz. Feb. 14. an 1648. General Fairfax was elected one of the Council of State consisting of 30 persons and soon after when K. Ch. 2. ship'd himself near the Hague in Holland to go to Scotland there to be invested in his right he laid down his Commission as General being influenc'd thereunto by certain Presbyterian Ministers because he would not engage against him whereupon Cromwell was made General in his place and how he afterwards acted against that King especially when he went into England to obtain his right all Histories will tell you Afterwards the Lord Fairfax retired to his Seat in Yorkshire lived there mostly during the Reign of Oliver was ready to rise with the people of his County to assist Sir George Booth in Cheshire if any ways successful and soon after did not only appear in the head of a great party when the forces belonging to Col. Jo. Lambert began to desert him when they were about to fight Gen. Monke at what time he was coming into Engl. from Scot. to restore the Rump but declared with his party in Decemb. 1659 against illegal taxes and free-quarter as also for the freedom of a Parliament as it was in the year 1648. On the 2. Jan. 1659 the Rump Parliament then sitting he was by them appointed one of the Council of State and in Apr. following being elected the first Knight for the County of York to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 25 of the said month he was by the members thereof appointed one of those 12 Commons to go with those persons appointed by the House of Lords to attend on his Majesty in Holland for the greater solemnity and luster of his Court there On the 16 of May following they were there with his Majesty at the Hague where Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eyeâ— of all men as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliament Army And when the first ceremony was past he desired as 't is said to see the King in private and to ask him pardon for the past offences which accordingly he did with all submission After the said Parliament was dissolv'd he retired to his seat lived retiredly and dying there was buried in an Isle joyning on the south side to the Chancel of Bilborough or Bilburgh near York Over his grave was soon after pur this Epitaph Here lye the bodies of the right honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax of Denton Baron of Camerone who died Novemb. the 12 an 1671 in the sixtieth year of his age And of Anne his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere Baron of Tilbury He had Issue Mary Duchess of Buckingham and Elizabeth Under this Lord Fairfax his name were published while he bore armes for the Parliament especially when General Many Letters of which most were to the Speaker of the House of Commons some Relations concerning skirmishes battles taking of Castles Towns c. As also Remonstrances Declarations Speeches Messages c. He was a great lover of learning religious in the way he professed and when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took great care for the preservation of the publick Library which in several respects did suffer while the Garrison was possest by the Royal Party And what he did for it at the time of his death I have elsewhere told you May 19. Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then also created Dr. of the Civ Law He was conducted with Fairfax by the Beadles towards the upper end of the Convocation the members thereof then standing bare and was presented by
Dauphine of whom the Qu. was delivered Nov. 1. stilo novo About that time he the said Laurence Hyde was made by the endeavours of his father Master of the Robes to his Majesty and in 1676 or thereabouts was sent Embassador to Poland In Oct. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Wotton Basset in his own Country of Wilts to serve in that Parl. which was to begin on the 17 of the said month and on the 19 of Nov. following he became the first Commissioner of the Treasury being the second of the four that were by his Majesty appointed on the 26 of March going before upon the removal of Tho. Earl of Danby from the office of Lord Treasurer and being then sworn a Privy Counsellor he took his place accordingly at the Board This was done when his Majesty on the same day was pleased to declare in Council that he had given leave to Arthur Earl of Essex to resign his place of first Commissioner of the said Treasury and that he intended his Lordship should continue of his Privy Council In the month of Apr. 1681 his Maj. was pleased in consideration of his faithful Services in that Office and other Employments of eminent trust to create him Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in Warwickshire and Baron of Wotton Basset in Wilts and soon after upon the death of Charles the young E. of Rochester to make him an Earl by the title of Earl of that City in Nov. or thereabouts 1682. On the 24 of Aug. 1684 his Maj being then at Windsore did declare in Council the said Earl of Rochester Lord President of his Council in the place of John Earl of Radnor whom his Majesty had given in consideration of his great age leave to retire Wnereupon Sidney Godolphin Secretary of State was made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place and Charles Earl of Middleton in Scotland Secretary in Godolphin's place In Feb. following K. Jam. 2 who was then newly proclaimed King did constitute him L. High Treasurer of England and on the 16 of the said month his Majesty gave him the White Staff On the 29 of June 1685 he was elected Kr. Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter and was then invested with the George and Garter having been first Knighted by the Soveraign and on the 22 of July following he was installed in the Royal Chappel of S. George at Windsore at which time were also installed Henry Duke of Nâ—rfolk Earl Marshal of England and Hâ—nry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stole to his Majesty In the beginning of Jan. 1686 he was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer and soon after John Lord Bellasyse Sidney Lord Godolphin Henry Lord Dover Sir John Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were constituted Commissioners for executing the said Office On the first of March 1691 he was with Richard Earl of Ranelagh Charles Lord Cornwallis and Sir Edw. Seymour Bt sworn of their Majesties hon Privy Council c. Bach. of Phys Aug. 7. Will Cole of Gloc. Hall Aug. 7. Will. Hawkins of Pemb. Coll. The first of these two hath published several things of his faculty and therefore hereafter he is to be remembred among the Writers The other had practised Phys 20 years before this time but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell Bach. of Div. Eighteen were created of whom were these Aug. 2. Thom. Smith M. of A. of Qu. Coll. He is now B. of Carlile 7. Henr. Pigot of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Staffordshire man born was afterwards Minister of Rochdale in Lancashire and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Lancaster 19 Mar. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu. Sept. 20. Thom. Long of Exet. Coll. Doct. of Law Aug. 2. Will. Fuller sometimes of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick and at length of Linc. 7. Will. Parsons of New Coll. He had been a great Sufferer by the Presbyterians and had been kept in Jayl at Cambridge 19 weeks for his Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. during the Rebellion Afterwards retiring to his small Living at Birchanger in Essex did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of Usurpation and therefore beloved of the loyal Gentry in those parts After his Majesties restauration he became Prebendary of Chichester Rector of Lambourne and Vicar of Great Dunmow in Essex At the last of which places he dying of an Apoplexy was buried there on the eleventh of July 1671 aged 72 years This person tho said in the Register to be actually created Doct. of the Civil Law yet in the Letters of the Chanc. of the University written in his behalf it is said that when he was Subwarden of New Coll. and Bachelaur of Law he read his Lectures for Doctorship according to the Statutes an 1635. Joh. Lowen of Ch. Ch. who had been ejected thence for his Loyalty by the Parl. Visitors in 1648 was actually created the same day Aug. 7. He was afterwards of Doctors Commons and usually lived at Rainham in Essex where I think he died in the latter end of 1677. Dec. 6. Pet. Mews of S. Johns Coll. Feb. 16. Leolin Jenkyns of Jesus Coll. This person who was the son of a father of both his names living at Llanblethian in Glamorganshire was born at Llanthrished in the same County and at 16 years of age in 1641 he became a Student in Jesus Coll but the Troubles in the Nation soon after following he retired to his own Country and afterwards became a Tutor to several Welsh Gentlemen of Quality in the house of Joh. Aubrey at Llantrithied in Glamorganshire Esq which was then left void by Sequestration where continuing from 1648 to 1651 he removed with his charge to Oxon and there sojourned in an house opposite to Vniv Coll then possess'd by Sampson White a Mercer afterwards Mayor of the City and a Knight where he educated them as in Glamorganshire before according to the way of the Church of England In 1655 they were dispersed because they were obnoxious to the then schismatical Members of the University and forthwith travelled beyond the seas for 2 or 3 years After Mr. Jenkyns his return and delivery up of his Pupils to their respective Parents and Relations he was invited by the most loyal Sir Will. Whitmore of Apley in Shropshire to live with him an 1658 the most ingenious Rob. Waring whom he had for some years kept in his Family being then dead where continuing till his Majesties restauration in 1660 he then returned to Jesus Coll of which he was first made Fellow and soon after upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell Principal and Dr. of the Civ Law as before 't is told you Afterwards he retired to London and in the time of the Dutch War he executed the office of Judge of the Admiralty for Dr. Joh. Exton which he managed with great dexterity and prudence and at length was Judge in his own right and when Dr. Will.
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
till 1689 and then surrendred it up He hath written and published 1 A genealogical History of the Kings of Portugal c. Lond. 1664. fol. 'T is partly a Translation 2 The Order and Ceremonies used at the funeral of his Grace George Duke of Albemarle c. with the manner of his Effigies lying in state in Somerset house the whole proceeding to the Abbey of Westminster the figure of his hearse in the said Abbey c. Printed in the Savoy near Londâ—n 1670 in a thin fol all exactly represented in Sculpture with the form of the offering performed at Westm 3 A genealogical history of the Kings of England and Monarchs of great Britain c. from the Norm Conq. an 1066 to the year 1677 in seven parts or books with their effigies seals tombs cenotaphs devises arms c. Pr. in the Savoy 1677. in fol. 4 The History of the Coronation of K. Jam. 2. and Qu. Mary solemnized in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster on Thursday 23 of Apr. 1685 with an exact account of the several preparations in order thereunto c. the whole work illustrated with sculptures Pr. in the Savoy 1687 in a large fol. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him besides only that he now lives in or near Bloomsbury in Middlesex An. Dom. 1666. An. 18 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon Vicechanc. John Fell D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch Aug. 3. Proct. Nathan Hodges of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Walt. Baylie of Magd. Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 3. Jam. Fen of Ch. Ch. He hath extant A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guildhall Chap. 18 Jul. 1686. Lond. 1686 at which time the author was Vicar of Goudhurst in Kent Apr. 5. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. May 3. John Miln or Mill of Queens Coll. 8. Abraham Markland of S. Johns Coll. Of Joh. Mill you may see among the Doct. of Div. 1681. 31. Tho. Bennet of Ch. Ch. 31. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. 31. Joh Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. Of the first of these last three who were afterwards Writers you may see among the Masters an 1669. Jul. 14 Sam. Master of Ex. Coll. He hath published several Sermons and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Oct. 20. Joh. Cook of Ch. Ch. 27. John Inett of Vniv Coll. Of these two last you may see more among the Masters in 1669. Dec. 13. Charles Powell of Ch. Ch. This person who was son of Edw. Pow. of the Burrough of Stafford Minister became Student of the said House under the tuition of Mr. Benj. Woodroff in 1662 aged 17 years or thereabouts and after he had taken one degree in Arts became Curat of South Marston in Wilts and afterwards Chapl. to John Earl of Bridgwater who prefer'd him to the Rectory of Cheddington near Aylesbury in Bucks He hath published A sermon preached at South Marston near Hyworth in Wilts 9 Sept. 1683 being the day appointed for a Thanksgiving from the horrid plot of the Presbyterians on Psal 10.10 Lond. 1683. qu. This being all that he hath published I can only say that he died at Cheddington in the latter end of 1684. Jan 26. Hugh Barrow of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1681. Feb. 12. Joh. Willes of Trin. Coll. He hath published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers 14. William Williams of Jesus Coll. See among the Masters an 1669. In a Convocation held 31 of Octob. were the Chancellours Letters read in behalf of Will. Gould formerly of Oriel Coll. that he might accumulate the degree of Bach. of Arts that so he might be enabled to take the degree of Master c. but whether he was admitted to either I find not Adm. 170. Bach. of Law Seven were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Mar. 29. Will. Richards of Trin. Coll. Apr. 7. George Howell of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was son of Dr. Tho. Howell sometimes Bishop of Bristow was afterwards Rector of Buckland in Surrey and Author of A sermon preached July the first 1683 on Matth. 10.33 Lond. 1684. qu. May 3 â—â— Jonas Proast lately of Qu. Coll. now 1666 of Gloc. Hall This person who is a Ministers son and a Colchester man born was afterwards one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll and Author of 1 The argument of the Letter concerning Toleration briefly consider'd and answer'd Oxon at the Theat in 3 sh and an half in qu. an 1690 published in Apr. that year Afterwards was written and published by the same hand who wrot the said Letter a Pamphlet intit A second Letter concerning Toleration London 1690 in 9 sh and an half in qu. This second Letter which is dated 27 of May 1690 doth reflect much upon The argument c. before mention'd Whereupon our Author Proast came out with 2 A third Letter concerning Toleration In defence of the argument of the Letter concerning Toleration briefly considered and answered Oxon 1691. in 11 sh in qu. Jun. 27. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. 30. Will. Richardes of Allsoules Coll. The last of these two who was Chapl. of his Coll became Archdeacon of Berkshire in the place of Dr. John Sharp when he was translated from the Deanery of Norwych to that of Canterbury 1689. Jan. 17. Steph. Penton of New Coll. Feb. 12. Thom. Staynce of Trin. Coll. The first of these two who hath published several books was admitted Principal of S. Edm. Hall in the place of Dr. Tully deceased 15 Feb. 1675 Which place he at length resigning was succeeded therein by Thom. Crosthwait See among the Doct. of Div. 1684. Mar. 7. Will. Basset of Magd. Coll. 21. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch. Adm. 70. Bach. of Phys Jul. 14. Tho. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. Adm. 8. Bach. of Div. Jâ—n 22. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. Jul. 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. Oct. 16. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law Jun. 19. Thom. Sargeant of All 's Coll. Jul. 6. Thom. Style of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys Jun. 19. Will. Levinz of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 19. Edw. Exton of Magd. Coll. Jun. 19. Joh. Speed of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these three who hath written Appendicula de rebus Britannicis plac'd at the end of a book intit Flosculi historici delibati nunc delibatiores facti c. Oxon 1663 in tw fift edit was afterwards President of his College Subdean and at length Can. resid of Wells And the last Practitioner of his faculty at Southampton and a publisher of one or two trivial things of Poetry Jun. 19. Henr. Danvers of Trin. Coll. Jun. 19. Rich. Torless of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh. Parys of C. C. Coll. 5. Will. Cole of Glocest Hall Doct. of Div. May 31. Rich. Clayton Master of Vniv Coll. He
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
of that Imperial City 3. From Vienna to Hamburg 4. From Colen to London Wherein the Mines Bathes c. Lond. 1679. qu. An account of which also is in the Royal or Phil. Transact nu 130. He hath also several Discourses printed in the said Phil. Trans and in the Phil. Collections hath translated into English The life of Themistocles which is in Plutarchs lives translated from the Greek by several hands Lond. 1683. oct and The life of Sertorius in the Third vol. of Plutarchs lives Lond. 1684. oct c. Doct. of Div. July 2. Gilb. Coles of New Coll. July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. The last accumulated the degrees in Div. and was afterwards B. of S. Asaph Creations Mar. 28. Sir Joh. Huband of Qu. Coll. Bt. Apr. 17. William Julius Coyett Son of the Lord Peter Julius Coyett Lord of Lynbygord and Bengsboda Counsellour of the State and Chancellourship of Sweden now Embassador extraordinary with the Lord Baron Flemming from his Majesty of Sweden to the King of Great Britain was presented with a little Speech by Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Deputy-Orator and actually created and admitted Master of Arts by the Vicechancellour The said Pet. Jul. Coyett had been Resident for the K. of Sweden in the Court of Ol. Cromwell who confer'd on him the honour of Knighthood 3. May 1656 And afterwards before the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he was Envoy extraordinary from the said King to the States of Holland and West-Friesland Peter Trotzigh a young Nobleman companion to the former Son of the most noble John Trotzigh chief Governour or Master while he lived of the Copper Mines in Coperberg for his sacred Majesty of Sweden was also presented by the said Dep. Or. and actually created M. of A. on the said day Sir Will. Farmor of Magd. Coll. Bt. was also created M. of A. in the same convocation Apr. 23. Sir Edw. Acton of Qu. Coll. Bt was created M. A. July 4. Lewis Reness Pastor of the Church at Breda and the Professor of Div. in the Aurangian Coll. there was declared Doct. of Div. in a Convocation then held by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf whereupon he was diplomated the day following July 4. Franc. Plant another Pastor of the said Church and Profess of the Heb. tongue in the said Coll. July 4. Anton. Hulsius Pastor of the Church belonging to the Low Countries at Breda Both which being then declared Doctors of Div were diplomated the next day An. Dom. 1668. An. 20. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Fell again continued in his office by the decree of the Delegates of Convocation Octob. 5 without any nomination thereunto by the Chancellour he being as yet not sworn or installed so that thereby all the Chancellours power rested in the Deputy Proct. Rich. White of S. Maries Hall Apr. 1. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll. Apr. 1. Balliol Coll. having not a statutable Master to undergo the procuratorial office this year which the Carolyne Cycle did appoint Mr. Benj. Woodroffe a Student of Ch. Ch. entred himself a Commoner in the said Coll. a day or two before the time of election And being elected by the Master and Masters of the said College he stirred so much in the matter for admission thereunto in Convocation as to have a hearing before the King and his Council But they finding it a litigious thing refer'd it to the University Wherefore the Doctors and Masters assembled in Convocation for the admission of the Proctors they did after Mr. Woodroffe had made an eloquent Speech before them in his own defence and for the obtaining of the office adjudg the matter to the Halls so that Mr. White who had been chosen before was then admitted Bach. of Arts. Apr. 16. Joh. Floyr of Qu. Coll. May 5. Rich. Peers of Ch. Ch. Octob. 22. Rich. Lucas of Jes Coll. Feb. 11. Jerem. Wells of S. Joh. Coll. 18 Joh. Shirley of Trin. Coll. 18 Rich. Banke of Linc. Coll. Of the last of these four you may see more among the Masters an 1671. Feb. ... Edward Palmer of Qu Coll. This Gent who was a younger Son of Sir Will. Palmer of Werdon in Bedfordshire wrot An Elegy on the death of Mr. James Bristow late Fellow of All 's Coll. Oxon. 1667 in one sh in qu. Adm. 171. Bach. of Law Apr. 1. Edward Yonge of New Coll. He hath published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. Apr. 8. Will. Hopkins of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. June 5. Thom. Laurence of Vniv Coll. This person who was lately a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll but now Fellow of that of Vniv was eldest Son of Sir Joh. Laurence of Chelsey in Middâ—esex Bt and being esteemed an ingenious person he was elected Musick reader for the Act an 1671. While he was of S. Johns Coll he was appointed to speak a Speech in verse before the King Queen and Duchess of York when they in the afternoon of the 29 of Sept. 1663 went to visit that Coll which being well performed they were printed with this title Verses spoken to the King Queen and Duchess of York in S. Johns Library in Oxon printed at the end of Verses spoken c. by Thom. Ireland mention'd in these Fasti an 1657. July 9. Richard Reeve of Trin. Coll. Dec. 12. Joh. Wolley of Trin. Coll. The last of these two who was a Ministers Son of Oxfordsh was afterwards Rector of S. Mich. Church in Crooked-lane London and at length Rector of Monks-Risborow near Aylesbury in Bucks He hath published A Sermon preached at Oxfordshire Feast in Lond. 25. Nov. 1674 on Gen. 13.18 Lond. 1675. qu. He died at Monks-Risborow before mention'd on the 5. Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church there Feb. 11. Abrah Markland of S. Joh. Coll. 18. John Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Only one was adm and another to practice that fac Bach. of Div. June 9. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. July 7. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. July 7. Nâ—than Biâ—bie of Ch. Ch. Adm 3. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 9. Thom. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll. This Physitian who was Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Shabbington in Bucks was born at Ricot in Oxfordshire and after he had been some years Scholar was made Fellow of his House He hath written Artificial Embellishments or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it Oxon. 1665 oct His name is not set to the book neither did he being then Bach. of Phys desire to be known to be the author of it But having taken vent by the pratling of the Bookseller the author was laugh'd at and commonly called Artificial Embellishments Afterwards the book sold well and I think it was printed a second time The author died in the great City of Paris in July
we may now leave him Adm. 129. Bach. of Physick But two were admitted of whom Joh. Radcliff of Linc. Coll. was one July 1. Bach. of Div. May 14. George Hickes of Linc. Coll. June 26. Will. Hopkins of S. Maries Hall July 6. Lanc. Addison of Qu. Coll. Adm. 7. Doct. of Law May 18. Rowl Townshend of All 's Coll. Jun. 26. Steph. Brice of Magd. Coll. Compounders and Accumulators Jun. 26. Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. Compounders and Accumulators The last of these two who was originally of Magd. Hall became Chancellour of Rochester in the place of Dr. Will. Trumbull afterwards Judge of the Admiralty a Knight Master of the Faculties c. June 26. Roger Stanley of New Coll. He died at Ham in Wilts 17 Sept. 1678 and was buried there Doct. of Phys July 6. Sam. Izacke of Exet. Coll. 8. Christop Dominick of Wadh. Coll. The first did accumulate the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. July 6. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. 8. Joh. Nicholas of New Coll. The last who was a Compounder was now Warden of his Coll to which he was elected on the death of Dr. Mich. Woodward 30. of June 1675 being then Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester and Master of S. Nich. Hospital in Salisbury On the 17 of July 1679 he was elected Warden of the said Coll. of Wykeham on the death of Dr. Will. Burt and on the second of Apr. 1684 he was installed Preb. of Winchester Incorporations On the 13 of July just after the finishing of the Act were seven Bach. of Arts one Bach. of Law 24 Masters of Arts one Bach. of Div. and one Doct. of Physick of Cambridge incorporated but not one of them can I yet find to be a Writer only Joh. Turner M. A. and Fellow of Christs Coll who was afterwards Hospitaller of S. Thomas in Southwark and author of several Sermons and discourses which being too many to be here set down shall for brevity sake be omitted Thomas Allen Doct. of Physick of Gonvill and Caies Coll was also then July 13 incorporated He was one of the Coll. of Phys at London and lived to the year 1685 but hath written nothing Quaere Besides the said Cambridge men was one John Ouchterlon M. A. of S. Salvators Coll. in the University of S. Andrew in Scotland incorporated which is all I know of him CREATIONS June 2. The most illustrious Pr. John William Prince of Neoburg Son of the Duke of Neoburg Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Giuliers Cleve and of Mons Count or Earl of Valdentia Spinhim la Mark Ravensberg and Moers Lord in Ravenstein c. was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law He was conducted bare-headed in his Doctors robes from the Apodyterium into the Convocation House with the Beadles marching before and the Kings Professor of Law with him the Vicechanc. then with the Doctors and Masters standing bare And being come to the middle of the Area the said Professor presented him with a short speech which being done the Vicech created him with another Afterwards he was conducted to his seat of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour and then the Dep. Orator who stood on the other side near to the Registraries desk complemented him with another speech in the name of the University All which being done he was conducted by the Vicechanc. Doctors and Masters to the Theater where being placed in another seat of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellours chair he was entertained by the Musick professor with vocal and instrumental Musick from the Musick gallery This Prince was then about 18 years of age and had taken a journey into England purposely to pay his respects to the Lady Mary the eldest Daughter of James Duke of York And after he had seen most of the rarities in the publick Library several of the Colleges Physick Garden c. the Vicechancellour Dr. Bathurst Dr. Fell and other Doctors made a present to him at his departure of Hist Antiquitates Univ. Oxon with Cuts in two Volumes very fairly bound June 23. Henry Justell Secret and Counsellour to the most Christian King was diplomated Doctor of the Civil Law He was a most noted and learned man and as the publick regist saith non modo omni scientiarum virtutum genere per se excelluit verum etiam Parentis optimi eruditissimi Christop Justelli doctrinam merita ornando atque excolando sua fecit He had given several choice Mss to the publick Library and had sent by Mr. George Hicks of Linc. Coll. who became acquainted with him at Paris the Original Ms in Greek of the Canones Ecclesia Vniversalis put out by his Father Christopher which is at this time in the publick Library What this eminent author Hen. Justell hath written and published the printed Cat. belonging to that Library commonly called Oxford Catalogue will tell you Nov. 10. Thaddeus Lantman diplomated Doct. of Div. Nov. 10. Joh. Woolnove diplomated Doct. of Div. These two persons were Ministers at the Hague and having been represented by the Prince of Orange to be persons of good esteem in Holland for their preaching learning and prudence and for the great veneration they had and have for the Church of England were upon those accounts recommended to the Chanc. of the University and by Henry Earl of Arlington lately in Holland to the Vicechanc. and Convocation for their degrees Jan. 26. Hippolytus du Chastlet de Luzancy of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts This Divine who made a great noise in his time was the Son of a famous common Woman named Beauchasteau a Player belonging to the Hostel de Burgoyn at Paâ—is and educated in the University there as I shall tell you by and by Afterwards he became Usher or Regent of the fifth form among the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine at Vitry then lived among the Monks at Vendosme and a little after in the service of a Bishop then in the Abbey of Trape next with another Prelate and at length a Preacher errant here and there but chiefly at Montdidier in Picardy where counterfeiting the name of Luzancy by a bill signed with that name he cheated the Damoizele Cartiâ—r of a piece of money So that by that and other pranks which expos'd him to the pursuit of Justice he left France went into England by the name of De la March which he quitted about a month after his arrival and at length to London without clothes without shoes without money and without any recommendation from France Soon after upon his own word and at the instance of some who solicited in his behalf he was permitted to get into the Pulpit at the Savoy within the liberty of Westminster not only to declare the motives of his conversion but his abjuration from and abhorrency of the Roman Catholick Faith which was solemnly done on the eleventh of July an 1675. The discourse he made and
Rhine and Prince Elector of the Empire elder Brother to Pr. Rupert and he the Son of Frederick Co. Pal. of the Rhine Pr. Elect. of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of King Jam. 1. of England was received with solemnity the day before in the University and took up his Lodgings in the Deans apartment in Ch. Ch. The next day being conducted to the publick Schools by the Bishop and others and thence to the Apodyterium he was there habited in scarlet with some of his retinue Thence he was conducted by the Beadles and Dr. Morison the Botanick Professor who at that time executed the office of the Kings Professor of Phys then absent to the Theater where the Convocation was solemnized And coming near to the Vicech Seat the said Doctor presented him with a little Speech which being done the Vicech created him with another and then was conducted to his seat of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellour All which with the Creation of some of his retinue being finish'd the Orator complemented him with another Speech in the name of the University The next day his Highness left Oxon went to Hampton Court and just at his arrival there Sept. 12 news was brought him that his Father died suddenly at Edingen between Manheim and Frankendale on the 7 of the said month according to the account there followed Philip Christopher de Koningsmarck Count or Earl of Westerwick and Stegholme Lord in Rotenburg and New-house was created Doct. of Physick the same day Sept. 9. as one of the retinue of the aforesaid Electoral Pr. He was Brother if I mistake not to Charles John Count of Koningsmarck who in the latter end of 1681 was committed to Newgate and brought to a publick trial of his life for a deep suspicion of having a signal hand in the murder of Tho. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts Esq in revenge as 't was then said for depriving him of his Mistress called Elizabeth Countess of Ogle dau and heir of the antient and illustrious family of Piercy Earl of Northumberland William Dutton Colt an Engl. man Master of the Horse to Prince Rupert Uncle to the Elect. Pr. He is now or else was lately his Majesties Resident at Lunenberg and Brunswick Eberhardus Frederic à Venningen of Alsatia in Germany Master of the Game or Hunting to the Elect. Prince Abraham Dorr a German of Hanaw Joh. Bernhardus Ferber a Saxon. These four last were of the retinue of his Electoral Highness Feb. 25. Andr. de Mellevil a Knight and Colonel Feb. 25. Anton. de Saictot These last two who were of the retinue of the Prince of Hannover were created Doct. of Phys after the said Prince had been created Doct. of the Civil Law Doct. of Div. Sept. 9. Fred. Christian Wincherus Professor of Medicine in Heidelberg as in the pub reg 't is said was created in the same Convocation wherein the Electoral Prince was created being one of his retinue Oct. 21. Thom. Hinde Bach. of Div. of Brasn Coll. and Chaplain to James Duke of Ormonde He succeeded in the Deanery of Limerick in Ireland one Dr. Will. Smith promoted to the See of Killala and died in his house in Limerick in the month of Nov. 1689. An. Dom. 1681. An. 33. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde who being as yet in Ireland did on the 2 of June this year upon notice received that some of the delegated power were dead appoint new Delegates to manage and execute in his absence all powers and jurisdiction belonging to him in the University Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton again nominated by the Chanc. Letters dat at Kilkenny 27. Sept. confirmed by Convocation 2. Oct. Proct. Joh. Halton of Qu. Coll. Apr. 13. Rich. Oliver of S. Jo. Coll. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Hudson of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters 1684. 5. Will. Digby of Magd. Coll. He succeeded his Brother Simon sometimes of Magd. Coll. in the honour of Baron of Geashill in Ireland which Simon who had succeeded in the said Barony his elder Brother Robert mention'd in these Fasti an 1676 died on the 19 of January 1685 and was buried in the Church of Coleshull in Warwickshire among the graves of his Ancestors Oct. 27. Rich. Stafford of Magd. Hall Soon after he went to one of the Temples to study the Law and is now a frequent Writer See in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 829. Dec. 1. Joh. Jones of Trin. Coll lately of New Inn. 17. Leopold William Finch of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Heneage Earl of Winchelsey Adm. 177. Bach. of Law June 6. Joh. Northleigh of Exet. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. and a publisher of certain books Adm. 7. Mast of Arts. June 10. Tho. Bent of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in or near Friday-street in London bred in the quality of a Com. in the said Coll and afterwards travelled but died before he had consummated his intended journey He hath translated from French into English An historical defence of the Reformation in answer to a book entit Just prejudices against the Calvinists Lond. 1683 in a pretty large qu originally written by Monsieur Claud Minister of the reformed Church at Charenton The Translator hath a preface to this book wherein he saith that the Romanists caused the said book of Claud to be burned in France This Mr. Bent died at Geneva 21. of May 1683 aged 23 years and was buried in the Cemitery or Yard on the south side of the Church of S. Gervaice there Soon after was a monument fixed on the wall of that Church near his grave with an Epitaph thereon made by Richard Blackmore M. A. of S. Edm. Hal◠which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Adm. 95. Bach. of Phys Feb. 9. Samuel Derham of Magd. Hall Adm. 4. Bach. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 27. Hugh Barrow of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 27. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. March 2. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. Mr. Barrow who is now Rector of Heyford Purcells or Heyford ad Pontem near Bister in Oxfordshire hath written A brief account of the Nullity of K. James's title and of the obligation of the present Oathes of Allegiance Lond. 1689. qu. He is a learned man and able to write other things which would without doubt be more pleasing to the sober part of Scholars As for Mr. Cade who was now or about this time Rector of Allington and Vicar of Smeeth in Kent hath published The foundation of Popery shaken or the Bishop of Romes Supremacy opposed in a Sermon on Matth. 16.18.19 Lond. 1678. qu. Mar. 2. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain of S. Saviours in Southwark and author of A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Lond. in Guild-hall Chappel on Sunday 20.