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A66946	A vindication of the historiographer of the University of Oxford, and his works from the reproaches of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, in his letter to the Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, concerning a book lately published, called, A specimen of some errors and defects in the history of the reformation of the Church of England, by Anthony Hurmer, written by E.D. ; to which is added the historiographer's answer to certain animadversions made in the before-mention'd History of the Reformation, to that part of Histroia & antiquitates Universitatis Oxon, which treats of the divorce of Queen Catherine from King Henry the Eighth.	Wood, Thomas, 1661-1722.; E. D.	1693 (1693)	Wing W3412; ESTC R22497	12,326	32

Parsons his Party are to Answer for it while in the mean time the Author of the Athenae Oxon is so far from speaking ill of that Worthy and Learned Bishop that he tells you in that Book That he was one of the greatest Lights that the Reformed Church of England hath produced that for his great Learning and Sufferings he was made Bishop of Salisbury by Queen Elizabeth and adds with Cambden who was no Missionary That he was a wonderful great and deep Divine a most stout and earnest Maintainer of our Reformed Religion against the Adversaries of his Learned Books That he was a Man of singular Ingeny of exquifit Erudition in Theologicals and of great Piety c. what more can be said If this is not enough after an excellent Book written of his Life by the Learned Dr. Lawrence Humphrey I know not what is The Truth is which may be easily observed by any ordinary Reader not prejudiced that the Author of Athenae Oxon. hath written very impartially and has related whatsoever he knows whether good or bad of those whose Lives he writes The Roman Catholicks are not better used by him than those of the Church of England as may be seen in the Lives of many of them in the First Volume among which are those of John Bekinson William Chiadsey Edm. Bonner Thomas Harding Henry Cole Edm. Campian John Nicholls Robert Parsons and others whose great Mutability in Religion which the Author of The works of the Learned calls Hyprocrisie he sets down The Second Volume of the Athenae Oxon which makes the Third Volume that the Author hath Published was collected as the First viz. From Records Registers c. In it you 'll find a great deal of the Mystery of Iniquity Acted in that dismal Rebellion which was commenced by the Puritans and other Factious People Anno 1642 opened and displayed It shews how those Brethren were common Preachers up of Treason and Rebellion and how their Pulpits were Esteemed by Observing Men the Chairs of Juglers That Blasphemies Profanations Absurdities c. were by them vented every Day in their Extemporary Prayers and Sermons to the great blinding and misleading of the People It shews how the Men of those times did turn themselves and overturn all things meerly for private Interest and Gain It shews also the Instability of others who then Swore and Forswore for their own Ends made Religion a Stalking-Horse and of Sacred Oaths no more than common Knights of the Post Therein you 'll find many passages relating to the Life and Actions of that Blessed Martyr King Charles the First especially for the Two last Years of his Reign which were never before Published and the Intriegues of many of the Leading Men on the Rebels side that were carried on in bringing that Pious Prince to the Block Therein you 'll find great and generous Sense of Loyalty in the Author and from his Pen Just and Impartial Characters of the True and Suffering Sons of the Church of England as also the Impartial Relations of such as were not so mostly taken from their own Books and Sermons or Pamphlets written by the Brethren or Royal Party You 'll also find therein the Just Characters of many of the Nobility and Gentry that adhered to the said King when he was at Oxon and what not of History that relates to that most Wicked and Barbarous Rebellion before-mention'd You 'll also find therein many bold and undeniable Truths which treading too close on the heels of Time several Persons whose Relations had been Actors in or submitters to the Men in the said unparallel'd Rebellion have endeavoured to make them Abuses and Libels thereby to bring the Author into trouble Both the Volumes of the Athenae and Fasti Oxon which his Lordship of Salisbury calls a despicable Book are most exactly written according to time and the Author has been so punctual that the very Day and sometimes the Hour of a thing done or of the Death of a Writer or Bishop is set down and all compacted in so good and exact a Method that nothing of that Nature can possibly be done better And therefore why his Lordship of Salisbury should say That he has thrown together a Tumultuary mixture of Stuff and Tattle none in Oxon can imagin it or in the least judge where that Stuff and Tattle should be lodged Both the said Volumes will without doubt be of great use to all Persons of Literature but particularly to such as apply themselves to History or Politicks whom it concerns every Moment to know what kind of Men were the Authors of those Books they Read Neither is that knowledg unnecessary to all that Study for as the Writing of Authors may be said to be the Picture of the Mind so to know their Life Religion and most remarkable Actions must needs be a great help towards judging rightly of their Sentiments This being an infallible Truth it has been a wonder to many why his Lordship of Salisbury who hath written many Lives and many more of Eminent Men and seems to have a peculiar Genius that way should now endeavour to run down the Athenae and Fasti Oxon which consists all or most of Lives and Characters and make it a despicable Book and the Author a Scribler c. As for that passage in Mr. W. Fulman in the Second Volume of Athenae p. 625 that his Corrections of and Observations on the First part of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England were some omitted and others curtail'd c. The Author had from Mr. Fulman himself who related it several times with reluctancy before him and some of his Collegiats of Christ-Church-College and seemed to Condole his Misfortune that his Labours and Lucubrations could not stand according to his Mind desiring withal that as the said Author had done him right as to the Collecting of the Works of King Charles the First and obtaining Materials for the Writing of that King's Life the Glory of which Dr. Richard Perinchief carried away so he would be pleased to do him right in the Work Athenae Oxon that he was then Meditating to let the World know of the omitting and curtailing of many of the said Observations All which he according to a promise then made hath performed and thereby done right to the Memory of his deceased Friend Which being Just and Equitable and not unbecoming an Historian his Lordship of Salisbury needed not to expect to see a Writer of his Anthony Harmer ' s Rank descend so low to Cite such a Scribler especially upon such an occasion c. Had it not been for Mr. Harmer's reference to a passage in the Second Volume of the Athenae Oxon. the Character of a Scribler and other most terrible things of the Historiographer would not have been mention'd but something must be said let it be never so unjust lest an Answer should be deficient Et hinc Lachrymae I cannot but reflect on that sort

of Creature who when for their Snarling and Barking a Stone or a Stick is thrown at them they turn Tail to him that threw it and fall with Teeth and Grins upon the poor Instrument of Correction With Reverence be it spoken there is a great likeness in the present Case Mr. Harmer being a little offended with the Noise made by the Writer of The History of Reformation thought fit to cast at him a passage out of Athenae Oxon. Vol. 2. p. 625. Upon this the Author of that History turns away from the Objecter and falls upon the Book so Objected to him with so much Fury that if the Book had been burned it had been better used But pray where 's the Ingenuity of this Method of Defence Would any Court of Equity allow that when a Person stands Convicted of a Crime by this or that Evidence he shall not insist upon disproof of the Testimony but fall upon the Witness and call him Fool and Knave because he dared to prove him guilty If the Writer of this Vindication had treated Mr. Harmer with some Scorn and Contempt it had not affrighted him nor deterr'd him from enquiring further into the truth of things And therefore it seems when he foresaw his Scorn and Contempt would be thrown away upon the said Mr. Harmer he was resolv'd to cast it all upon the By-stander the Author of Athenae Oxen. And it was wisely done not to provoke the Man that wore the Sword but to turn the Affront upon the Naked Passenger And he has effectually done it upon one who can digest a Rude thing and equally neglect Greatness and Passion The next matter that his Lordship of Salisbury takes notice of is His Barbarous attacking the Memory of his Predecessor Bishop Ward who was in so many respects one of the greatest Men of his Age c. What his Lordship means by Barbarous attacking is no doubt in his sense Abusing or Reporting False things of him If so then let the Reader know that what is said being taken from Register and Observation is as clear as the Sun at Noon But I see Truth must not be spoke at all times Had his Lordship known Dr. Ward before His Majesties Restauration he would have been of another Mind but his knowledg of him was not I presume till after he was a Bishop when then and to the time of his Death he was esteemed a Good and Excellent Man The Truth is he was a Man of Parts and a great Royalist for a time but when he saw that King Charles the First was beheaded and Monarchy never in a possibility of returning again then did he change his Orthodox Principles submit to the Men then in power and Eat the Bread of Two Royalists that had been Ejected successively And tho' his Friends say that he never took the Oath cal●ed the Engagement yet it appears that he did so in the Register belonging to the Committee for the Reformation of the University of Oxon as I was many Years since informed by the Clerk belonging to that Committee What his Life and Conversation was while he Lived in Oxon the poor Remnant of the Royalists that then remained there would have told you who usually said That had not Dr. Ward degenerated from their Principles of Loyalty he would not have lashed out into several Immoralities c. for the doing of which he also lost the Opinion that the then Saints in the University had of him And now to conclude I shall leave with you the Character of the Author of the Athenae Oxon. which is at the end of the Epistle to the Reader of which but few were Printed set before the First Volume of the said Athenae running thus The Reader is desired to know that this Herculean Labour had been more proper for a Head or Fellow of a College or for a Publick Professor or Officer of the most Noble University of Oxon to have undertaken than the Author who never enjoyed any Place or Office therein or can justly say that he hath Eaten the Bread of any Founder Also that it had been a great deal more fit for one who pretends to be a Virtuoso and to know all Men and all things that are Transacted Or for one who frequents much Society where the Characters of Men and their Works are frequently discussed but the Author alas is so far from frequenting such Company that he is as 't were Dead to the World and utterly unknown in Person to the generality of Scholars in Oxon. He is likewise so great an Admirer of a Solitary and Retired Life that he frequents no Assemblies of the said University hath no Companion in Bed or at Board in his Studies Walks or Journeys nor holds Communication with any unless with some and those very few of Generous and Noble Spirits that have in some measure been promoters and encouragers of this Work And indeed all things considered he is but a degree different from an Ascetick as spending all or most of his time whether by Day or Night in Reading Writing or Divine Contemplation However he presumes that the less his Company and Acquaintance is the more Impartial his Endeavours will appear to the Ingenious and Learned to whose Judgments only he submits them and himself To which I shall add what I know besides of the same Author viz. That he did never in heat and forwardness meddle with a Subject to which he was not prepar'd by Education and a due Method of Studies That he never Wrote to oblige a Rising Party or to insinuate into the disposers of Preferment but has been content with his Station and aimed at no end but Truth That he never took up with the Transcript of Records where the Originals might be consulted Nor made use of others Eyes when his own could serve That he never Wrote in Post with his Body and his Thoughts in a hurry but in a fix'd Abode and with a deliberate Pen That he never conceal'd an Ungrateful Truth nor flourish'd over a Weak Place but in sincerity of Meaning and Expression has thought an Historian should be a Man of Conscience That he has never had a Patron to oblige or forget but has been a free and independent Writer And in a Word that he confesses there may be some Mistakes in Modern Things and Persons when he could have no Evidence but from the information of living Friends or perhaps Enemies But he is confident that where Records are cited and where Authentick Evidence could possibly be had there he has been Punctual and Exact And therefore he defies Anth. Harmer to Write any one Specimen of Errours and Defects in his History or if he can find out Eighty Nine or One Hundred gross Mistakes yet he should not value his Threats of further Exposing him and his Writings FINIS * Nich. Lloydius in Dictionario Historico Geograph Poet. c. Edit Oxon. in fol. 1670. p. 593. col 2. in Voce Oxon. * In his Mystery of Iniquity c. Printed at Geneva in Octavo Anno 1545 Fol. vel Pag. 26. * So in The Works of the Learned c. London 1691. qu. p. 5. * See Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. See also in Athenae Oxon Vol. 2. p. 625. * Preface to the Specimen of Errours c. p. 7.