then esteemed a leading man in the blessed cause he became Preacher to the Garrison of Windsore castle then under the command of Collonel John Venn In which office he shewed him so violent against the King and his cause that he was usually stiled by the Royalists Venns principal fireman at Windsore This Venn by the way it must be known did while Governour of that Castle exercise very great cruelty against the Royalists that were Prisoners there but being dismist of his employ and Col. Christopher Whitchcot put into his place he retired to London carried on the cause there with great zeal was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and at length hung himself in his chamber as some say others that he died suddenly in his bed on the 7 of July at night or early next morning an 1650. In the year 1644 when the Commissioners from the King and Parliament met at Uxbridge to treat about peace this our Author Love did very officiously put himself upon preaching before some of them on the first day of their meeting Jan. 30 being the Market-day In which his Sermon full of dire he vented many passages very scandalous to his Majesties Person and derogatory to his honour stirring up the People against the Treatie and incensing them against the Kings Commissioners telling the said People that they came with hearts full of blood and that there was as great distance between the Treatie and Peace as between Heaven and Hell or words to that effect with divers other seditious passages against his Maj. and the Treaty Whereupon the Commissioners belonging to the King putting up their complaints to those of the Parliament they represented the matter to the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster who thereupon tho they could not with good conscience imprison Mr. Love yet they did confine him and where should it be but to that very house where his Mistress then lived whom for two years going before he had wooed with prayers sermons and ugly faces After this he was made Minister of S. Anns Church near to Aldersgate a Recruiter of the Assemb of Divines and at length Minister of the Church of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London which he kept till Oliver Cromwell paid the debt and brought him to the Scaffold when he least looked for it which was upon this account After the Presbyterians had been gull'd of their King by the Independents the prime heads of them were resolved to set up his Son Ch. 2. Whereupon he being invited from beyond the Seas into Scotland and there had taken the Covenant and was crown'd the Presbyterians in England plotted to bring him in among them and to that end corresponded with him and supplied him and his with money contrary to an Act of Parliament then lately made in that case provided These matters being discovered our Author Love Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Will. Jenkyns and other London Ministers as also one Dr. Roger Drake a Physician as it seems were by authority of the Council of State taken into custody about the 7. of May 1651 as being the chief Actors in the said treason as they then called it Soon after it was resolved by the great Masters at Westminster that Mr. Love the Minister then Prisoner in the Tower should be brought to his trial before the High Court of Justice on the 20. of June 1651 not for any matter of doctrine as it was then given out but for high treason as they said and conspiracy against the common-wealth of England He and the rest as the Independent then said had outstript the Jesuit both in practice and project as having not only tamper'd with mens consciences in private beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely venture but preached open rebellion and treason with a full mouth in the Pulpit On the said day he made his first appearance in order to his trial and one Jackson a Minister Arth. Jackson as it seems refusing then to give in evidence against him was for his contempt fined 500 l. and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. The next day he appeared again and as 't was then said by his enemies in his carriage and behaviour he discover'd as much ridiculous impudence equivocation and hypocrisie as ever any Person did upon the like occasion adding that in him you might have seen the true character of his faction full of passion and spleen and void of all ingenuity On the 25. and 27. days of the said month of June he appeared again and on the last of those two days he brought his counsel with him viz. Mr. Matthew Hale Mr. John Archer and Mr. Tho. Walter but the two last having not taken the Engagement were not suffer'd to plead for him At which time Mr. Love as the Independent said was full of malepert carriage matchless impudence obstinacy and impatiency On the 5. of July he was condemned to be beheaded on Tower-hill on the 15 of the same month but then several petitions being read in Parliament in his behalf viz. one from divers Ministers another from himself and a third from his Wife he was repriev'd till the 15. of Aug. following and thence to the 22. of the same month What farther may be said concerning his principles and profession you shall have it from his own mouth which he spoke When he was tried for his life thus God is my witness I never drove a malignant design I never carried on a malignant interest I detest both I still retain my covenanting principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terrour or perswasion whatsoever I do retain as great a keeness and shall whilst I live and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where I live and have to this day as ever I did in former times I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parliaments quarrel against the forces raised by the King I gave my all and did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulness of a defensive war but unless my books and wearing apparrel I contributed all I had in the world and tho my life is endeavoured to be taken away yet for all that I repent not of what I have done I have in my measure ventured my all in the same quarrel that you were engaged in and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant that took sweet counsel together and walked in fellowship one with another I die cleaving to all those Oathes Vowes Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my judgment for them to the protestation the vow and the covenant the solemn league and covenant And this I tell you all that I had rather die a Covenant keeper than live a Covenant breaker c. As for his writings and works they are these The debauched Cavilier or
24. Lond. 1672. qu. This sermon which I have not yet seen hath the name of Rob. Waring M. A. set in the title as Author which I take to be the same with our Author before mention'd JOHN HARRIS son of Rich. Harris of Padbury in Bucks sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards Rector of Hardwick in the same County was born in the Parsonage house at Hardwick educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1606 took the degrees in Arts and became so admirable a Greecian and so noted a Preacher that Sir Hen. Savile used frequently to say that he was second to S. Chrysostome In 1617 he was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University and two years after was made Greek Professor thereof both which Offices he executed to his great honor and credit Afterwards he became Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Meonstoke in Hampshire Doct. of Divinity and at length in Sept. 1630 Warden of VVykehams Coll. near VVinchester he being then Preb. of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells In the beginning of the grand Rebellion raised by the Presbyterians he sided with them was elected one of the Assembly of Divines took the Covenant and other Oaths and so kept his Wardenship to his dying day He hath written A short view of the life and vertues of Dr. Arth. Lake sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells Lond. 1629. in 6 sh and an half in fol. As also several letters to the noted Anti-Arminian Dr. W. Twysse of which one was Of Gods finite and indefinite decrees another Of the object of Predestination which with Twysse's Answers were published by Hen. Jeanes in a folio book which he published at Oxon 1653. Our Author Harris died at Winchester on the eleventh day of August in sixteen hundred fifty and eight aged 70 years and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Coll. of W. of Wykeham near Winchester Over his grave was soon after a Tomb-stone laid with an Inscription on a brass plate fastned thereunto the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake pass by In his Wardenship succeeded Will. Burt D. D. whom I shall mention elsewhere ANTHONY FARINGDON was born at Sunning in Berks admitted scholar of Trin. Coll. 9 June 1612 aged 16 years Fellow in 1617 and three years after M. of A. About which time entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts an eminent Tutor in the College and a worthy example to be imitated by all In 1634 he was made Vicar of Bray near Maydenhead in Berks. being then Bach of Div. and soon after Divinity Reader in the Kings Chappel at Windsore At the first of which places continuing not without some trouble till after the civil distempers broke forth was turn'd out thence and at length out of all by the impetuous and restless Presbyterians So that lest he his Wife and Children should be reduced to extremities and starve Sir Jo. Robinson Kinsman to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and some of the good Parishioners of Milkstreet in London invited him to be Pastor of S. Mary Magd. there where preaching to the great liking of the loyal party published some of the Sermons he had delivered to them viz. Forty sermons Lond. 1647. fol. the first vol. Afterwards were published by his Executor Forty sermons Lond. 1663. fol. The 2 vol. Fifty sermons Lond. 1673. fol. The 3 vol. He gave way to fate in his house in Milkstreet in the month of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in the Church of S. Mar. Magd. there He left behind him in MS. several memorials of the life of the famous John Hales of Eaton which if life had been spared he would have finish'd and made them publick But what became of them afterwards I cannot tell unless they were transmitted to the hands of Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. who to my knowledge had taken great pains to recover the memory of that worthy person from oblivion ROBERT HARRIS a famed puritanical Preacher of his time was born at Broad-Camden in Glocestershire an 1578 educated partly in the Free-school at Cheping-Camden and partly in the Free-school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright Thence he removed to Magd. Hall in the latter end of 1595 took one degree in Arts holy Orders and preached for some time near Oxon at Stadham as it seems and at length being made Rector of Hanwell near to Banbury in Oxfordshire was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1614. There he continued till the Civil War broke out in 1642 in all which time be was a constant Lecturer in those parts which with other Lectures in mercat Towns were the chief promoters of the Rebellion Upon pretence of great trouble and danger that might ensue from the Soldiers of each party when the War began he retired to London was made one of the Assembly of Divines and Minister of S. Botolphs Church near Bishopsgate in that City In 1646 he was appointed one of the six Ministers or Apostles to go to Oxon to preach the Scholars into obedience â—o the Parliament and about that time had the rich Rectory of Petersfield in Hampshire confer'd upon him which he kept with Hanwell for a time In 1647 he was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by Authority of Parliament and in the year following he was actually created Doct. of Div. and made President of Trin. Coll. by the said Authority and so consequently Rector of Garsingdon near to Oxon. In 1654 he with Dr. Jo. Owen Dr. Tho. Goodwin Dr. Hen. Wilkinson of Ch. Ch. Dr. Edm. Staunton of C. C. Coll. c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire to eject scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters as they were then called in which office he and they were not a little busie What else the Reader is desirous to know of him may be seen in his life such as 't is written by his Friend and Kinsman Will. Durham whom I shall hereafter mention In the mean time the Reader is to know that Dr. Harris wrot and published these things following Nine and thirty sermons Treatise of the Covenant of Grace Remedy against Covetousness Most or all of which having been printed severally were printed in one Volume at Lond. 1635 fol. and went by the name of Mr. Harris his works Several sermons being a supplement to his works formerly printed in fol. Lond. 1654. Soon after these sermons and the aforesaid works were all printed together with this title Dr. Rob. Harris his works revised and corrected and collected into one Volume with an addition of sundry sermons c. Lond. 1654. 55. fol. Among which are two parliamentary sermons and his Concio ad clerum 1. Oxoniae jamdudum habita 2. Dein posthabita repudiata 3. Nunc demum in lucem edita on Joh. 21. part of the 17 and all the 18 vers This with another
having before been accounted by all those that well knew him to have been a person well vers'd in the Greek and Lat. Poets in Musick whether practical or theoretical instrumental or vocal and in other things befitting a Gentleman Some of the said persons have also added in my hearing that his common discourse was not only significant and witty but incomparably graceful which drew respect from all Men and Women Many other things I could now say of him relating either to his most generous mind in his Prosperity or dejected estate in his worst part of Poverty but for brevity sake I shall now pass them by At the end of his Posthume Poems are several Elegies written on him by eminent Poets of that time wherein you may see his just character FRANCIS ROUS a younger son of Sir Anth. Rous Knight by Elizab. his first wife daugh of Tho. Southcote Gent. was born at Halton in Cornwall and at 12 years of age became a Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1591 where continuing under a constant and severe discipline took the degree of Bach. of Arts which degree being compleated by Determination he went afterwards as it seems to the Inns of Court tho some there be that would needs perswade me that he took holy orders and became Minister of Saltash in his own Country Howsoever it is sure I am that he being esteemed a man of parts and to be solely devoted to the puritanical Party he was elected by the men of Truro in his own Country to serve in Parliaments held in the latter end of K. James and in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. In 1640 also he was elected again for that Corporation to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov wherein seeing how violently the Members thereof proceeded he put in for one and shew'd himself with great zeal an Enemy to the Bishops Prerogative and what not to gain the Populacy a Name and some hopes of Wealth which was dear unto him In 1643 he forwarded and took the Covenant was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines and for the zeal he had for the holy cause he was by authority of Parliament made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore the same year in the place of Dr. Rich. Steuart who then followed and adhered to his sacred Majesty In the said Parliament he afterwards shew'd himself so active that he eagerly helped to change the Government into a Commonwealth and to destroy the negative Voice in the King and Lords In 1653 he was by the Authority of Ol. Cromwell nominated a Member of the Little Parliament that began to sit at Westm 4 July and was thereupon elected the Speaker but with a collateral Vote that he should continue in the Chair no longer than for a month and in Decemb. the same year he was nominated one of Olivers Council But when the good things came to be done which were solemnly declared for for the not doing of which the Long Parliament was dissolved He as an old bottle being not fit to leave that new wine without putting it to the question he left the Chair and went with his Fellow old bottles to Whitehall to surrender their Power to General Cromwell which he as Speaker and they by signing a Parchment or Paper pretended to do The colourable foundation for this Apostasie upon the monarchical foundation being thus laid and the General himself as Protector seated thereon he became one of his Council and trusted with many matters as being appointed in the latter end of the same year the first and prime Tryer or Approver of publick Preachers and the year after a Commissioner for the County of Cornwall for the Ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he sate in the following Parliaments under Oliver and being an aged and venerable man was accounted worthy to be taken out of the H. of Commons to have a negative Voice in the other house that is House of Lords over all that should question him for what he had done and over all the people of the Land besides tho he would not suffer it in the King and Lords This person who was usually stiled by the Loyal Party the old illiterate Jew of Eaton and another Proteus hath divers things especially of Divinity extant wherein much enthusiastical Canting is used the Titles of which follow The art of Happiness consisting of three parts whereof the first searcheth out the happiness of Man The second c. Lond. 1619. oct at which time the Author lived at Lanrake in Cornwall The diseases of the time attended by their remedies Lond. 1622. oct Oyl of Scorpions The miseries of these times turned into medicines and curing themselves Lond. 1623. oct Testis veritatis The Doctrine of K. James of the Ch. of England plainly shewed to be one in the points of Predestination Free-will and certainty of Salvation Lond. 1626. qu. Discovery of the grounds both natural and politick of Arminianisme Printed with Test ver The only remedy that can cure a People when all other Remedies fail Lond. 1627. in tw The heavenly Academie Lond. 1638. in tw dedicated to John L. Roberts of Truro Catholike Charity complaining and maintaining that Rome is uncharitable to sundry eminent parts of the Cath. Church and especially to Protestants and is therefore uncatholike And so a Romish book called Charitie mistaken though undertaken by a second is it self a mistaking Lond. 1641. oct Meditations endeavouring the edification and reparation of the house of God The great Oracle Even the main frame and body of the Scriptures resolving the Question Whether in mans free will and common grace stands the safety of man and the glory of God in mans safety The mystical marriage or experimental discoveries of the heavenly marriage between a Soul and her Saviour Lond. 1653. in tw All which treatises in number eleven were reprinted in one folio at Lond. 1657. under the title of Works of Francis Rous Esq Or Treatises and meditations dedicated to the Saints and to the excellent throughout the three Nations Before which works is the picture of the Author aged 77 years an 1656 engraven by the curious hand of Will. Faithorne Parliamentarie Speeches as 1 Sp. concerning the goods liberties and lives of his Maj. Subjects c. Lond. 1641. in one sh in qu. 2 Sp. before the Lords in the upper house 16. of March 1640 against Dr. Jo. Cosin Dr. Roger Manwairing and Dr. Will. Beale upon the complaint of Mr. Pet. Smart Lond. 1641. in one sh in qu. 3 Sp. in the H. of Commons against making Dr. Jo. Prideaux Dr. Th. Winniff Dr. R. Holdsworth and Dr. Hen. King Bishops till a setled Government in Religion was established Lond. 1642. in one sh in qu. Mella Patrum nempe omnium quorum per prima nascentis patientis ecclesiae tria secula usque ad pacem sub Constantino divinitûs datam scripta prodierunt atque adhuc
come within the compass of a remedy in a short time and likewise the Tooth-ach infallibly Discourse concerning the Vegitation of Plants Lond. 1661. oct and 69. qu. Spoken on the 23 of Jan. 1660 in a large meeting of the Royal Society in Gresham Coll. Printed in Lat. at Amsterd 1663. and 69. in tw under this title Dissert de plantarum vegitatione Choice and experimental Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery Cordial and distilled Waters and Spirits Perfumes and other Curiosities These two last things were translated out of several Languages for so they were collected and written by George Hartman sometimes Steward to Sir Kenelme the Collector and by him published at Lond. 1668. oct The first was printed afterwards under this title Medicina experimentalis Franc. 1677. oct His Closet opened whereby is discovered several ways of making Metheglin Sider Cherry-wine c. Lond. 1669. 77. oct Excellent directions for Cookery c. Lond. 1669. 77. octavo Choice collection of rare chymical Secrets and Experiments in Philosophy As also rare and unheard of medicines Menstruums and Alkahests with the true secret of volatizing the fixt salt of Tartar c. Lond. 1682. oct c. Published by Hartman before mention'd who had operated for Sir Kenelme for many years These are all the things which he hath written that I yet know of except as some are pleased to say which I scarce believe the Letter to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and the Revenues thereof Lond. 1646. 47 which he published at the request of the Earl of Dorset See more in Rich. Steuart under the year 1651. He also translated into English A Treatise of adheering to God Lond. 1654. oct Written by Albert the great Bishop of Ratisbon To conclude he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Covent Garden on the eleventh day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in a Vault built at his own charge under the east end of the south Isle or Alley joyning the Choire of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London by the body of Venetia his sometimes wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Edw. Stanley of Tongue-Castle in Shropshire to whose memory he had some years before his death erected over the said Vault a stately altar monument of black marble and thereon had caused her bust made of Copper gilt to be fastned with four inscriptions of Copper gilt to be affixed to the said monument Which being done he caused the draught or picture of the said monument with the several inscriptions to be entred in a large folio book of Vellam containing the history of the family of Digby which our Author caused to be made of all matters relating thereunto that could be found from record either remaining in the custody of his family or in the Tower or any office in London together with the pictures of their monuments that could be found in any Church whatsoever in which they had been buried Which book as his son John hath said did cost his father about 1000 l. The next year after our Author Sir Kenelme was buried the said monument with bust was spoiled and defaced when the Church it self was burnt in the dismal conflagration that then hapned in London His study of books being a most admirable collection which he had conveyed into France in the time of the Rebellion fell after his death for want of his being naturalized into the French Kings hands of whom being beg'd by a certain Gentleman it was sold as the report then went for ten thousand Crowns Sir Everard Digby father to Sir Kenelme was a most goodly Gentleman and the handsomest man of his time but much pitied for that it was his ill fate to suffer for the Powder-plot in 1605 aged 24 at which time when the Executioner pluck'd out his heart when his body was to be quartered and according to the manner held it up saying Here is the heart of a Traytor Sir Everard made answer Thou liest This a most famous Author mentions but tells us not his name in his Historia vitae mortis The said Sir Everard was son of Everard Digby of Dry stoke before mention'd sometimes Master of Arts and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge an 1579 a Publisher then and after of several books as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you among which is A Dissuasive from taking away the Goods and Livings of the Churchy c. Printed at Lond. in qu. This Everard the Writer died at Dry-stoke in 1592. or thereabouts Sir Ken. Digby had a younger brother called Sir Joh. Digby who very readily serv'd his Majesty K. Ch. 1. when his Parliament took up Arms against him was a Colonel and afterwards a Major Gen. in the western parts of England while Mr. Joh. Digby a younger son of John Earl of Bristow was a Gen. there for his Maj. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN LEWGAR was born of gentile parents in London admitted Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 and in that of his age 14 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and in 1632 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time beneficed in Essex After Will. Chillingwrrth returned from beyond the seas he had several Conferences with him about matters of Religion wherein Chillingworth shewing himself a person of great dexterity Lewgar was at length meerly by the force of his Arguments induced to believe that the Roman Church was a true Church and that the Protestants were all in the wrong as he used often to tell his friends and withall to add that Chillingworth was of no meek and winning spirit but high and conceited and so consequently unfit for a Religion that required Humility and Obedience c. Afterwards our Author Lewgar left his Benefice and Religion and upon the invitation of Cecil Lord Calvert called Lord Baltimore who had been his intimate acquaintance while he was a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. travelled into Maryland belonging to the said Lord where after he had spent several years and had buried his wife he returned into England some years before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. with Father Andrew White a Jesuit who had been sent thither to gain the Barbarians to his Religion After which time he lived in Wild-street near Lond. in the house of the said Lord Baltimore where he wrot Erastus junior a solid Demonstration by Principles forms of Ordination Common Laws Acts of Parliament that no Bishop Minister nor Presbyter hath any Authority to preach c. from Christ but from the Parliament Lond. 1659. 60. Erastus senior scholastically demonstrating this conclusion that admitting Lambeth Records to be true those called Bishops here in England are no Bishops either in Order or Jurisdiction or so much as legal c. Lond. 1662. oct He died of the Plague in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London in sixteen hundred sixty and five by too much exposing
Jo. Stow's Survey of London and his continuators Discourse of the Empire and of the election of the King of the Romans c. Lond. 1658. oct Lexicon tetraglotton An English-French-Italian-Spanish-Dictionary Lond. 1659. 60. fol. A particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English Italian French and Spanish of the proper terms belonging to several Arts and Sciences to common professions and callings both liberal and mechanick c. in 52 Sections Lond. 1659. Printed with the former book Proverbs or old sayed sawes and adages in English or the Saxon tongue Italian French and Spanish Whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added This is also printed with Lex tetragl A cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Answer'd as soon as it peep'd abroad by Rog. L'estrange in a book entit A caveat for the Cavaliers which having given offence to divers Persons he published a second edition of it with his name and a preface to it Soon after our author Howell set forth a vindication of his Cordial under this title Some sober inspections made into those ingredients that went to the composition of a late Cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Upon which L'estrange briefly reflects in the close of a piece of his intit A modest plea both for the Caveat and Author of it A French Grammar and a dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes with additions of the most useful and significant proverbs c. Printed at London twice the last time was in 1673 fol. He also added to A French and English Dictionary composed by Randle Cotgrave Sundry animadversions with supplements of many hundreds of words never before printed with accurate castigations throughout the whole work The parley of Beasts or Morphandra Qu. of the enchanted Island c. Tom. 1. Lond. 1660 fol. The second part of casual discourses and interlocutions between Patritius and Peregrin c. Lond. 1661. oct Printed in a book intit Divers historical discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britaine and Ireland Apology for Fables mythologiz'd Printed in the said book also Twelve treatises of the late revolutions Lond. 1661. octav New English Grammar for Forreigners to learn English with a Grammar for the Spanish or Castilian tongue with special remarques on the Portugues dialect for the service of her Majesty Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning the precedency of Kings Lond. 1663. fol. Translated into Latine by B. Harris L. P. Lond. 1664. oct Poems on several choice and various subjects occasionally composed Lond. 1663. oct Collected and published by one who calls himself Serjeant Major Payne Fisher somtimes Poet laureat to Oliver Treatise concerning Embassadors Translated into Lat. by John Harmer of Magd. Coll. Lond. 1664. oct Concerning the surrender of Dunkirk that it was done upon good grounds Lond. 1664. oct He also translated from Italian into English 1 S. Pauls late progress upon earth about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome by reason of her dissoluteness and excesses c. Lond. 1644. oct The Author of it whose name I cannot yet learn made it publick about the year 1642 and being forced to fly from Rome for so doing in the company and under the conduct of one that pretended friendship to him was betrayed at Avignion and there first hanged and then burned 2 A Venetian looking-glass or a letter written very lately from Lond. to Card. Barbarini at Rome by a Venetian Clarissimo touching the present distempers in England Printed 1648. in 3 sh in qu. 3 An exact history of the late Revolutions in Naples and of their monstrous successes not to be parallel'd by any antient or modern History Lond. 1650. oct Published in Ital. by Lord Alex. Giraffi The second part of this History came out soon after by the same hand who also translated it from Ital. In both which it appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles which exciting the Mobile headed by Tomaso Anello commonly called Masaniello a Fisherman all things in Naples were for some time turn'd topsie turvy 4 A letter of Advice sent from the prime Statesmen of Florence how England may come to her self again Dated at Flor. 12. Mar. 1659 Printed at the end of The second part of casual discourses c. before mention'd He also Ja. Howell translated from French into English The nuptials of Peleus and Thetis consisting of a Mask and Comedy or the great royal Ball acted lately in Paris six times c. Lond. 1654. qu. and from Spanish into Engglish The process and pleadings in the Court of Spain upon the death of Anthony Ascham Resident for the Parliament of England and of Joh. Baptista Riva his Interpreter c. Lond. 1651. fol. The said A. Ascham who was born of a gentile family was educated in Eaton School and thence elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1633 Afterwards taking the degree of M. of Arts closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion took the Covenant sided with the Independents became a great creature of the Long Parliament by whose authority he was made Tutor to James Duke of York and an active Person against his Soveraign At length being looked upon as sufficiently Antimonarchical was by the Rump Parliament sent their Agent or Resident to the Court of Spain in the latter end of the year 1649. In the beginning of June following he arrived at Madrid and had an appartment appointed him in the Court but certain English Royallists then in that City taking it in great disdain that such a notorious Rebel one of the destroyers of their Nation as they call'd him should come there from the murtherers of his sacred Majesty of England six of them named Joh. Guillim Will. Spark Valentine Progers Jo. Halsal Will. Arnet and Hen. Progers repaired to his lodging Two of them stood at the bottom of the stairs two at the top and two entred his Chamber of whom Spark being the first drew up to the table where Ascham and another were sitting and pulling off his hat said Gentlemen I kiss your hands pray which is the Resident Whereupon the Resident rising up Guillim took him by the hair of the head and with a naked dagger gave him a thrust that overthrew him Then came in Spark and gave him another and because they would make sure of their work they gave him five stabs of which he instantly dyed Whereupon Jo. Bap. Riva his Interpreter thinking to retire to his Chamber four others that were without the Chamber gave him four wounds whereof he presently expired Afterwards five of the Englishmen took sanctuary but were haled thence imprison'd and Spark suffered The sixth Person named Hen. Progers fled to the Venetian Embassadors house and so escaped The said Anth. Ascham who was slain 6. June 1650 hath written A discourse wherein is examined what is particularly lawful during the confusions and revolutions of government c. Lond. 1648. oct and other things as 't is probable
other uses belonging to different Glands as well for conservation of the individual as propagation of the species Amongst other things we ought particularly to take notice of his being the first who discovered the Ductus in the Glandulae Maxillares by which the Saliva is conveyed into the mouth He hath also given an admirable account of morbid Glands and their differences and particularly of Strumae and Scrophulae how new Glands are often generated as likewise of the several diseases of the Glands of the Mesentery Pancreas c. Which opinions of his he often illustrates by Anatomical observations What else he hath written I find not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying in his house in Aldersgate-street in the month of October in sixteen hundred seventy and three was as I suppose buried in the Church of S. Bottolph situat and being without Aldersgate in London GEORGE SWINNOCK was born in the antient Borough of Maidstone in Kent an 1627 brought up religiously when a Child in the family of Rob. Swinnock a most zealous Puritan of that Town educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon to get preferment in the latter end of 1647 at which time he entred himself a Communer of Magd. Hall Soon after he became one of the Chaplains of New Coll and on the sixth day of Octob. following 1648 he was made Fellow of Ball. Coll by the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament In 1650 he became Vicar of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire and thereupon resigning his Fellowship on the 24 of Nov. the same year took the degree of Master of Arts six days after In 1660 or thereabouts he was made Vicar of Great Kimbel in Bucks and in Aug. 1662 being ejected tor nonconformity he was received into the family of Rich. Hamden of Great Hamden in the said County of Bucks Esquire and continued with him for some time in the quality of a Chaplain At length upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience in the latter end of the year 1671 he retired to his native place where he continued in preaching and praying among the Godly till the time of his death His works are these The dore of Salvation opened by the key of regeneration or a Treatise containing the nature necessity marks and means of regeneration Lond. 1660. c. in oct and in qu. commended to the Readers by the Epistles of Edw. Reynolds D. D Tho. Watson of S. Stephens Walbroke in Lond. and Mr. Rich. Baxter written in Jan. 1659. This book was printed the third time at Lond. 1671. oct The Christian mans calling or a treatise of making Religion ones business wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered c. Lond. 1661. c. qu. The second part of this book which directeth Parents Children Husbands Wives Masters Servants in prosperity and adversity to do their duties was printed at Lond. 1663 c. qu. and the third part there in 1665 c. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The Pastors farewell and wish of welfare to his people or a valedictory Serm. on Acts 20.32 Lond. 1662. qu. It was preached as it seems at Gr. Kimbell before mention'd 2 The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith or one cast for eternity c. Funeral sermon on Mr. Caleb Swinnock of Maidstone on Psal 73.26 Lond. 1662. qu. To which is added by the said Author The gracious persons incomparable portion 3 Men are Gods Gods are Men two Assize sermons These I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you the Texts Heaven and Hell epitomized the true Christian characterized as also an exhortation with motives to be speedy about the work of Conversion Lond. 1663. qu. The beauty of Magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psal wherein is set forth the necessity utility dignity duty and morality of Magistrates Lond. 1660. c. qu. Assisted therein by Tho. Hall of whom I have spoken under the year 1665. p. 235. Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being attributes works and word opened and applied Lond. 1672. oct The Sinners last sentence to eternal punishment for sins of omission wherein is discovered the nature causes and cure of those sins Lond. 1675 and 79. oct What other things this Mr. Swinnock who was accounted an eminent Preacher among those of his perswasion hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the tenth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried in the Church at Maidstone before mention'd In that most virulent and diabolical Pamphlet called Mirabilis annus secundus is a story of one Mr. Swinnock a Minister in S. Martins lane near Canon street in London sometimes Chaplain to one of the Sheriffs of that City who for his Conformity to the Ch. of England and for wearing a Surplice which he began to do on the 21 of Sept. 1662 after he had often said among the brethren he would rather burn than conform c. as the Author of the said Mirab. an saith it pleased the Lord as he further adds to strike him with sickness which proved a violent burning feaver whereof within a few days after before another Lords day came about he died c. Who this Mr. Swinnock was I cannot tell neither doth the Author set down his Christian Name otherwise we might have said something more of him and something to the disproof of that most vile Author THOMAS BROWNE was born in the County of Middlesex elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1620 aged sixteen years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1627 made Proctor of the University in 1636 and the year after domestick Chaplain to Archbishop Laud and Bach. of Divinity Soon after he became Rector of S. Mary the Great called Aldermary in London Canon of Windsore in 1639 and Rector of Oddington in Oxfordshire But upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he being forced from his Church in London by the impetuous Presbyterians he retired to his Majesty to whom he was Chaplain at Oxford By virtue of whose letters he was actually created Doct. of Div. in Feb. 1642 having then only the profits of Oddington coming in to maintain him Afterwards he lost all for his Loyalty lived partly beyond the Seas in the condition of Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange at which time he became acquainted with divers learned men in Holland and suffered equally as other generous Royalists did After the return of his Majesty he was restored to what he had lost kept some of his Spiritualities especially Windsore to the time of his death without any other promotion in the Church He hath written and published A copy of the Sermon preached before the University at S. Maries in Oxon. 24 Dec. 1633 on Psal 130.4 Oxon. 1634. qu. I have seen a Serm. of his on Joh. 11.4 preached before his Parishiones
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
Oliver the Protector which with the Academy there being soon after dissolved he retired to Westbury and continued at that place till 1662 at which time being ejected for Nonconformity held notwithstanding afterwards Conventicles in the places where he lived He hath written A treatise of Monarchy containing two parts 1. Concerning Monarchy in general 2. Concerning this particular Monarchy c. Lond. 1643 qu. Answer'd by Dr. Hen. Ferne in his Reply to several Treatises c. and by Sir Rob. Filmer in a piece of his called The Anarchy of a limited and mixed monarchy Lond. 1646 qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1652 and 1679. oct This Sir Robert by the way must be known was son of Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Rich. Argall of the same place Esq and was as I conceive educated in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Our author Hunton hath also written A Vindication of the treatise of Monarchy Lond. 1644. qu. As for the said Treatise of Monarchy which hath been and is still in great vogue among many persons of Commonwealth and Levelling Principles was reprinted when the Press was open in 1680 when then the factious party endeavoured to carry on their designs upon account of the Popish Plot. But forasmuch as 't is said therein that the Soveraignity of England is in the three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons that proposition was condemned by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon in their Convocation held 21. July 1683 and the book it self wherein it is was then publickly burnt in the School-quadrangle Afterwards as soon as the Prince of Orange was come into England at which time the Nation was in a hurry it was again printed at Lond. in January 1688 qu. with the date of 1689 put to it Under our authors name goes also a book entit Jus Regum c. Lond. 1645. qu. But this I have not yet seen and therefore I can say nothing of it Nor no more of the author who was a man of parts only that he dying in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Church of Westbury in Wilts before mentioned having some years before married a widdow with a good joynture which maintained him and kept up his port THOMAS JONES son of John Williams was born and brought up in juvenile learning at Oswestrie in Shropshire entred into Jesus Coll. in the beginning of the grand rebellion left it soon after returned when Oxford garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parl an 1646 became fellow of Univ. Coll. by the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament in 1648 to whom he then submitted and acknowledg'd the use of the Covenant and in the year following he took a degree in Arts being at that time and after a zealous person for carrying on the righteous cause In 1652 he being then Master of his faculty he wrot Vita Edwardi Simsoni S. T. D. ex ipsius autographo excerpta which is set before the said Simsons Chronicon Catholicum printed at Oxon. 1652. fol. and in 1654 he took holy orders as 't is said from a Bishop About that time he became Rector of Castle in Montgomerieshire in the dioc of S. Asaph and learned the Welsh tongue purposely to serve those parts when the Orthodox Clergy were miserably consumed by an act of propagation From that place being ejected upon one Wynns's discovery of a dormant title he removed to the service of the Lord President and Council of Wales at Ludlow Castle an 1661 and thence to be domestick and naval Chaplain to James Duke of York in 1663 In whose service continuing till 1666 or after was then by the means of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester for some words spoken against him derogatory to his person and function dismiss'd thence So that soon after retiring to his rectory of Landurnog in the dioc of Bangor which he some time before had obtained found there but little quiet also from Dr. Morgan his Diocesan being as our author saith set on by the B. of Winchester In 1670 Winchester call'd him to an account for an action of slander at the Kings-bench for saying that he was a promoter of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England attested upon oath by Bangor and two of his Chaplains whereupon our author was fined 300 l. or mor and the Rectory of Landurnog was sequestred for the payment of it Which fine Winchester offer'd to remit wholly if he would confess he had spoken those words against him and ask forgiveness But when he would not the sequestration continued and 20 l. of it was sent to our author and some given for the repairing of the Cathedral of Bangor and the rest for other pious uses About the same time he was condemn'd and censur'd ab officio beneficio by his Diocesan occasioned by some controversie that hapned between them about a reading Pew in the Church at Landurnog the particulars of which you may read at large elsewhere So that being in a manner undone did much about the time of the breaking out of the Popish Plot publish Of the heart and its right Soveraigne and Rome no Mother-Church to England Or an historical account of the title of an English Church and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every County Lond. 1678 oct A remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above in the great question where is the true Mother Church of Christians Printed with the former book At that time the author taking part with Tit. Oates his old acquaintance Ez. Tongue Steph. Colledge c. and other factious people to gain their ends by making a disturbance in the nation by be Popish Plot he wrote and published Elymas the Sorcerer or a Memorial towards the discovery of the bottome of this Popish Plot c. Published upon occasion of a passage in the late Dutchess of Yorks declaration for changing her religion Lond. 1682 in 8. sh in fol. This book was written and published in Spleen against the Bishop of Winchester grounded upon a passage in The Historie of Calvinisme written by Monsieur Lewes Maimburgh a French Jesuit wherein he resolves the Dutchess of Yorks declaration for Popery into the seeming encouragement of two of the most learned Bishops in England One of these our author Jones doth endeavour to make the Reader to understand tho he nameth him not to be Winchester Notice of this book therefore comming to the said B. of Wint. he would have prosecuted the matter so far in his own vindication as to have the said Elymas the Sorcerer to be publickly burnt and the author to the further punished But before he could compass his design the author died However Winchester that he might not sit silent published his own vindication as to M. Maimburghs words in his preface to certain treatises that he published in 1683. Rich. Watson also D. D. of this
accounted among the Brethren a learned and mighty man and had brought upon himself a very ill habit of body by his too too much agitation for the cause gave up the Ghost at Inglefield before mention'd on the first day of November in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body being attended by multitudes of Dissenters to Newbury was buried in the Church there on the fourth day of the same month As for Tho. VVarren before mention'd he also wrot against Mr. Eyre in a book entit Unbelievers no subjects of justification nor mystical union vindicated against Mr. Eyre's objections in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae with a refutation of that antifidean and antievangelical error asserted therein viz. The justification of a sinner before or without faith Printed in qu. He hath also two or more Sermons extant and perhaps other things JOHN DALE son of Anth. Dale of Gilfield in Yorkshire was born there or in that County became a Student in Qu. Coll. an 1634 aged 15 years or thereabouts where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was elected into a Yorkshire Fellowship of Magd. Coll. In 1648 he submitted to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament and in the year after he became Bach of Divinity and kept pace with the men then and afterwards in power that is with Presbyterians and Independents About the time of his Majesties restauration he was presented by the President and Fellows of his Coll. to the rectory of Stanlake in Oxfordshire and soon after upon an exchange for another in Yorkshire was inducted into the rectory of Longworth in Berks near Stanlake but deprived of it soon after for Simony He hath written and published The Analysis of all the Epistles of the New Testament c. Oxon. 1652. oct and had written another book as I have heard fit for the press but was never printed He died at Stanlake before mention'd on the 14 day of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was 3 days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there Soon after the Pres and Fell. of the said Coll. presented to the said rectory of Stanlake one of their society named Thomas Smith D. D who keeping it not long surrendred it up to the College SETH BUSHELL son of Adam Bushell was born at Kuerdin in the Parish of Leyland near Preston in Amoundernes in Lancashire became a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in 1639 continued there till about the time that the Univ. and City of Oxon were garrison'd for the King and then retired to his own Country In 1654 he returned for a time and took both the degrees in Arts in that year being then as it seems Minister of VVhitley in Yorks and in 1665 he took the degree of Bach. of Div. at which time he was Minister of Euxton in his own County Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he became Vicar of Preston and in the three last years of his life Vicar of Lancaster where he finished his course He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A warning piece for the unruly in two Serm. on 1. Thes 5.14 at the metrapolitical Visitation of the most rev Fath. in God Richard L. Archb. of York held at Preston in Lanc. and there preached Lond. 1673. qu. 2 The Believers groan for Heaven preached at the funeral of the right honorable Sir R. Houghton of Houghton Baronet at Preston in Amoundernes on 2. Cor. 5.2 Lond. 1678. qu. And another preached on the 25. day of the first month an 1658. which George Fox Quaker answers in his book entit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. Cosmo-meros The worldly portion or the best portion of the wicked and their misery in the enjoyment of it opened and applied Lond. 1682 in tw It is the substance of several Sermons under some abridgments on Luke 16.25 Directions and helps in order to a heavenly and better portion enforc'd with many useful and divine considerations Printed with Cosmo-meros c. At length giving up the Ghost at Lancaster in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Church there and soon after had this Epitaph put over his grave P. S. Exuvias en hic deposuit Seth Bushell SS Th. Pr. Deo Ecclesiae Anglicanae reformatae usquam devotissimus utrique Carolo angugustissimis temporibus piè fidelissimus familiae suae quibusque notus fuerat meritò charissimus postquam hanc suam ecclesiam vitâ inculpabili assiduis concionibus per triennium faeliciter rexisset quo tempore inter alia pietatis specimina Parochi domum modò corruituram instauravit auxit Immortalitati verò natus coelâ—que maturus spe resurrectionis terris valedixit anno salutis 1684 aetatis 63. die Novemb. sexto NICHOLAS LOCKYER son of VVill. Lock of Glastenbury in Somersetshire was born in that County entred either Batler or Commoner of New Inn in 1629 aged 17 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether that of Master it appears not And about the same time entring into holy Orders according to the Church of England had some Cure conferr'd on him but upon the change of the times occasion'd by the iniquity of the Presbyterians he closed with preached frequently among them took the Covenant and afterwards preaching among the Independents he took the Engagement On the 10 of Dec. 1653 he was one of the Independent Ministers that were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for the ejecting and setling of Ministers according to the rules then prescribed but that project taking not effect he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Oliver in the latter end of the said year for the approbation of publick Preachers In June 1654 he being then Fellow of Eaton Coll in great favour with Oliver to whom he was Chaplain and entrusted in several Commissions the then Delegates of the University ordered that he the said Mr. Lockyer sometimes of New Inn and Master of Arts of 12 years standing might have the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd on him but whether he was admitted to that degree or was ever Master of Arts of this University it appears not as it is told you before In the latter end of 1658 he became Provost of Eaton Coll in the place of Franc. Rouse deceased was deprived of it at his Majesties restauration and two years after when the act of Conformity was published he lost an Ecclesiastical Benefice So that carrying on the trade of conventicling and plotting he was shrewdly suspected with Ph. Nye to have had a hand in that stupendious Tragedy intended to be acted by the satanical saints on the King royal Family Court and Loyal party in Nov. 1662 for which George Phillips Tho. Tongue c. suffered death He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 28 Oct. 1646. on Isa 53.10 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 Fast Serm. bef the H.
way c. for the use of the Neophyte in Merchant Taylors School Lond. 1676. oct 〈◊〉 edit Declamation whether Monarchy be the best formâ— of government This is at the end of a book entit The English Orator or Rhetorical descants by way of Declaâ—mation Lond. 1680. oct written by Will. Richards of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. But the grand work which he laboured in from about the year 1650 to the time that it was published but hindred from finishing it sooner thro the manifold avocations and the vastness of the enterprize is that intit Astro Meteorologica or Aphorismes and discourses of the bodies Celestial their natures and influences discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air temperate or intemperate as to heat or cold frost snow hail fog raine wind storme lightnings thunder blasting hurricane c. Lond. 1686. fol. The whole discourse is founded on sacred authority and reason About the time of his death was published of his Composition Autodidactica or a practical Vocabulary being the best and easiest method yet extant for young beginners to attain to the knowledg of the Latin tongue Lond. 1690 oct and after his death was published under his name Astro-Meteorologia sana sive Principia Physico-Mathematica quibus mutationum aeris morborum epidemicorum cometarum Terrae Motuum aliorumque insigniorum naturae effectuum ratio reddi possit Lond. 1690. qu with his picture before it very much resembling him while living aged 62 an 1677. He also wrot a book Concerning plagues their number natures kinds c. Which while in printing was burnt in the dismal conflagration of London an 1666. At length this learned and religious person concluding his last day on Munday the 28. of Octob. S. Simon and Jude about 5 of the Clock in the morn in sixteen hundred eighty and nine was buried on the Wednesday following among the graves of his Relations in the Church of Great S. Helen in Bishopsgate street in London Soon after were published several Elegies on his death two of which I have seen One was made by Joshua Barnes Bach. of Div. of Cambridge which begins thus Can then a father of our Israel die And none step forth to sound an Elegy The other was made by his great Admirer James Wright of the Middle Temple Esq the beginning of which also is this Goodness inspire me while I write of one Who was all Goodness but alas he 's gone THOMAS SYDENHAM son of Will. Sydenham of Winford Eagle in Dorsetsh Esq was born there became a Communer of Magd. Hall in Midsomer term an 1642. aged 18 years or thereabouts left Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesties use and did not bear Arms for him as other Scholars then and there did went to London fell accidentally into the company of a noted Physitian called Dr. Tho. Cox who finding him to be a person of more than ordinary parts encourag'd and put him into a method to study Physick at his return to the University After the said Garrison was delivered to the Parliament Forces he retired again to Magd. Hall entred on the Physick Line was actually created Bachelaur of that faculty in the Pembrockian Creation in Apr. 1648 having not before taken any degree in Arts and about that time subscribing and submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament he was thro the endeavours of a near relation made by them Fellow of All 's Coll in the place of one of those many then ejected for their Loyalty After he had continued for some years there in the zealous prosecution of that Faculty he left the University without the taking of any other degree there and at length setled in Westminster became Doctor of his Faculty at Cambridge an exact observer of diseases and their Symptoms famous for his practice the chief Physitian from 1660 to 1670 and in his last dayes Licentiat or Permissus of the College of Physitians He was a person of a florid stile of a generous and publick Spirit very charitable and was more famous especially beyond the Seas for his published books then before he had been for his practice which was much lessened after the year 1670 when then he was laid up with the terrible disease of the Gout He was famous for his cool regimen in the Small-pox which his greatest Adversaries have been since forc'd to take up and follow He was also famous for his method of giving the Bark after the Paroxysm in Agues and for his Laudanum He hath written Methodus curandi febres propriis observationinibus superstructa c. cui etiam accessit sectio quinta de Peste sive morbo pestilentiali Lond. 1668. oct sec edit more large and corrected than the former Observationes Medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam curationem Lond. 1676. 85. oct with his picture before them An account of these Observat are in the Philos Transact nu 123. p. 568 and a just character in Dr. W. Cole's Epist to our author printed with Dissert Epist following Epistolae responsoriae duae Prima de morbis epidemicis ab an 1675. ad an 1680. Written to Rob. Brady Doct. of Physick Master or Head of Caies Coll. in Cambr. and the Kings Professor of Phys there Secunda de Luis venereae historia curatione Written to Henry Paman Doct. of Physick Fell. of S. Joh. Coll. in Camb Pub. Orator of that Univ and Professor of Phys in Gresham Coll. Both these Epistles were printed at Lond. 1680. and 85. oct with two short Epistles set before them written by the said Doctors Brady and Paman which our author answers Dissertatio Epistolaris ad Spectatiss doctiss virum Guliel Cole M. D. de observationibus nuperis circa curationem variolarum confluentiam necnon de affectione hysterica Lond. 1682. 85. oct The three last books were reprinted at Amsterdam 1683. oct with several corrections in them Tractatus de Podagrâ Hydrope Lond. 1683 85. oct All which books were reprinted at Lond. 1685. with an useful index Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu Lond. 1686. oct This learned Doctor died in his house in the Pall-mall in the Suburbs of Westm on the 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the South Isle near to the S. door of the Church of S. James there He had an elder brother named William Sydenham an active man in the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1. was a Colonel of Horse and Foot Governor of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis and Commander in chief in Dorsetshire afterward one of O. Cromwells Council and a Lord of his other House had a great command in the Isle of Wight was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury a great Rumper and one of the Committee of Safety c. HENRY HURST a late noted Preacher of the Nonconformists party son of Hen. Hurst somtimes Vicar of Mickleton in Glocestershire was born there entred
latter end of 1617 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took the degr in Arts holy orders and became a most florid Preacher in the University In 1629 he was chosen the public Orator of the University being then one of the Proctors of it and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1638. Jul. 1. he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and in the same month proceeded D. of Div before which time K. Ch. 1. had setled a Canonry of the said Church upon him that should be lawfully elected public Orator but that pious Act hath been since annul'd by pretended Authority and now such a thing seems totally to be forgotten among us As for Strode he was a person of great parts but not equal to those of Cartwright a pithy and sententious Preacher exquisite Orator and an eminent Poet. He hath written Passions calmed Or the setling of the floating Island Lond. 1655. qu. 'T is a comedy and was publickly acted before the K. and Q. in Ch. Ch. Hall 29 Aug. 1636. Speech made to Qu. Mary at Oxon. at her return out of Holland Oxon. 1643. qu. Various Sermons as 1 Serm. concerning swearing on Math. 3.37 Oxon. 1644. qu. 2 Serm. concerning death and the resurrection preached at S. Maries in Oxon. on Low Sunday 28 Apr. 1644 on Colos 3. ver 3. Oxon. 1644. qu. 3 Serm. at a Visitation held at Linn in Norfolk 24 Jun. 1633 on Psal 76.11 Lond. 1660. qu. It was preached at the desire of Dr. Rich. Corbet Bish of Norwich to whom our Author I think was then Chaplain Orations Speeches Epistles Sermons c. They were left behind him fairly written in several Volumes which coming into the hands of Dr. Rich. Gardiner Canon of Ch. Ch. came after or before his death into those of Rich. Davies of Oxon Bookseller Our Author Dr. Strode yielded to the stroke of death to the great reluctancy of learned men on the tenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty and four and was buried in the Divinity Chappel that is the isle most northward from the Choire belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. I have seen several of his Poems that have had musical Compositions of two and three parts set to be sung by the incomparable Mr. Hen. Lawes as also certain Anthems particularly one to be sung on Good Friday which had a composition also set thereunto by Rich. Gibbs Organist of Ch. Ch. in Norwych I shall make mention of another Will. Strode elsewhere WILLIAM BURTON the eldest son of Ralph Burton Esq was born in Leycestershire at Lyndley I suppose near to Bosworth in that County 24 Aug. 1575 educated in the Grammar School at Sutton-colfield in Warwickshire became either a Commoner or Gent. Com. of Brasn Coll. in Mich. term an 1591 where by the benefit of a careful Tutor he became tolerably well read in Logic and Philosophy On the 20 of May 1593 he was admitted into the society of the Inner Temple and in the month of June in the year following he as a member of Brasnose Coll. was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards setling in the Temple without compleating that degree by Determination was made a Barrester but his natural genie leading him to the studies of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities he became excellent in those obscure and intricate matters and look upon him as a Gentleman was accounted by all that knew him to be the best of his time for those studies as it may appear by a book that he published intit The description of Leycestershire c. Lond. 1622. fol. Soon after the Author did very much enlarge and enrich'd it with Roman Saxon and other Antiquities as by his letter dated 9 June 1627 written to Sir Rob. Cotton that singular lover of venerable Antiquity it appears 'T is now as I have been informed in the hands of Walt. Châ—twind of Ingestrey near to Stafford Esq who intends to publish it I have seen a common place book of English Antiquities made by our Will. Burton which is a Manuscript in folio composed mostly from Lelands several Volumes of his Itinerary being the first of that nature that I have yet seen but it being a copy and not written with his own hand but by an illiterate scribe are innumerable faults therein This ingenious person who is stiled by a learned Author of both his names The great ornament of his Country died in his house at Fald in Staffordshire after he had suffered much in the war time on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Parish Church belonging thereunto called Hanbury Church leaving then behind him several collections of Arms and Monuments of Genealogies and other matters of Antiquity which he had gathered from divers Churches and Gentlemens houses and a son named Cassibilian Burton the heir of his Vertues as well as of other fortunes who was born on the 9 of Nov. 1609 but whether educated in this University I know not His parts being different from those of his Father he exercised them mostly in Poetry and translated Martial into English but whether extant I cannot tell you In 1658 it then remained in Ms which made a boon Companion of his complain thus When will you do your self so great a right To let your English Martial view the light This Cass Burton who had consumed the most or better part of the Estate which his Father had left him died 28 Feb. 1681 having some years before given most of if not all the aforesaid Collections of his Father before mention'd to the said W. Chetwind Esq to be used by him in writing The Antiquities of Staffordshire DANIEL FAIRCLOUGH commonly called Featley Son of John Featley somtimes Cook to Dr. Laur. Humphrey President of Madg. Coll. afterwards Cook of that of Corp. Chr. by Marian Thrift his Wife was born at Charlton upon Otmore near to and in the County of Oxford on the 5. of March or thereabouts in 1582 educated in the Grammar School joyning to Madg. College being then 1590 c. Chorister of that house admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13. Dec. an 1594 Probationer-Fellow 20 Sept. 1602 being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty at which time he was Junior of the Act he became a severe student in that of Divinity Soon after having laid a solid foundation in the positive part he betook himself to the Fathers Councils Schoolmen c. and in short time became eminent in them His admirable disputations his excellent Sermons his grave yet affable demeanour and his other rare accomplishments made him so renoun'd that Sir Tho. Edmonds being dispatched by King James to lye Leiger Embassadour in France he made choice of our Author to travel with him as his Chaplain The choice he accepted and willingly obeyed and spent 3 years in France in the house of the said Embassador During that time he became
H. N. O. J. Oxon. which whether meant by Henry HickmaN I know not as yet Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the life and death of Will Laud Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1668. and 71. fol. Aërius redivivus or the Hist of the Presbyterians c. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol. Historical and miscellaneous Tracts Lond. 1681. fol. Several of these are mention'd before as 1 Eccl. Vindicata 2 Hist of the Sabbath in 2 parts 3 Hist Quinqu articularis 4 Stumbling block c. 5 Tract de jure paritatis c. with Dr. Heylyn's life before them written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire sometimes one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll. Which life being alter'd and mangled before it went to the Press by the B. of Linc. T. Barlow and the Bookseller that printed it Hen. Heylyn son of Dr. Heylyn made a protestation against it and Dr. Joh. Barnard who married Dr. Heylyn's daughter wrot his life to rectifie that of Vernon which was alter'd and Vernon wrot another published in oct Our Author Heylyn also composed A discourse of the African Schisme and in 1637 did upon Dr. Laud's desire draw up The judgment of Writers on those texts of Scripture on which the Jesuits found the Popedome and the Authority of the Rom. Church Both which things the said Dr. Laud intended as materials towards his large Answer to Fisher the Jesuit which came out the year following He also I mean Heylyn did translate from Lat. into Engl. Dr. Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath as I have before told you and put the Scotch Liturgy into Latine an 1639 partly that all the world might more clearly see upon what grounds the tumults in Scotland that then before brake out had been raised At length after our Author Heylyn had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in adversity paid his last debt to nature on Ascension day May 8. in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being buried before the Sub-deans stall within the choire of S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster had a monument soon after set up for him on the north wall of the Alley joyning on the north side of the said choire a copy of the inscription on which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 205. JOHN LEY was born in the antient Borough of Warwick on the 4 of Feb. an 1583 but descended from the Leys of Cheshire educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school in the said Borough became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1601 where continuing for some time after he was Master of Arts was presented by the Dean and Canons to the Vicaridge of Great Budworth in Cheshire and there continued several years a constant Preacher Afterwards he was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Chester Sub-dean thereof 1605 a weekly Lecturer on Friday in S. Peters Church in the said City and Clerk of the Convocation of the Clergy once or twice But he having always been puritanically inclined he sided with the Presbyterians upon the defection of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1641 took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines Examiner in Latine to the said Assembly Rector of Ashfield in Cheshire and for a time Rector of Astbury or Estbury in the said County Chairman of the Committee for the examination of Ministers and of the Committee for Printing one of the Ordainers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way c. President of Sion Coll. about 1645 and afterwards when Dr. Ed. Hyde was ejected from his rich Parsonage of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks he was appointed to succeed him by the Committee which if I mistake not he kept with other Benefices for a time In 1653 he was appointed one of the Tryers for the approbation of publick Ministers and in the year following an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks. for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Soon after upon pretence that he could enjoy but little peace or hope of settlement for after times at Brightwell for the truth is he was much hated while he lived there he obtained the rich Rectory of Solyhull in Warwickshire from the Patron thereof Sir Sim. Archer of Umberslade near Tamworth Knight before the year 1656 where he continued for some time At length breaking a vein within him by overstraining himself in speaking became very weak thereupon So that being not able to go on in the Ministry he resigned Solyhull upon some consideration given and went to Sutton Colfield in the said County where after he had lived privately for a short time gave up the ghost in a fair age He was esteemed in his time a man of note especially by those of the Presbyterian perswasion well vers'd in various Authors and a ready Preacher His works are these An Apology in defence of the Geneva Notes on the Bible which were in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon publickly and severely reflected on by Dr. Joh. Howson When printed I know not 'T was written about 1612 and submitted to the judgment of Bish Usher who did well approve of it Pattern of piety or the religious life and death of Mrs. Jane Ratcliff widow and Citizen of Chester Lond. 1640. oct Several sermons as 1 Serm. on Ruth 3.11 Lond. 1640. oct 2 A monitor of mortality in two funeral sermons occasion'd by the death of Joh. Archer son and heir of Sir Sim. Archer of Warwicksh Knight and of Mrs. Harper of Chester and her daughter Phebe of 12 years old The first on Jam. 4.14 and the other on Gen. 44.3 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Fury of war and folly of sin Fast serm before the H. of Com. on Jer. 4.21.22 Lond. 1643. qu. c. Sunday a sabbath or a preparative discourse for discussion of sabbatarie doubts Lond. 1641. qu. Assisted in this work by the MSS. and advice of Archb. Usher The Christian Sabbath maintained in answer to a book of Dr. Pocklington stiled Sunday no Sabbath Defensive doubts hopes and reasons for refusal of the Oath imposed by the sixth Canon of the Synod Lond. 1641. qu. Letter against the erection of an Altar written 29 June 1635 to John Bishop of Chester Case of conscience concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper These two last things were printed and go with Defensive doubts Comparison of the parliamentary protestation with the late canonical Oath and the difference between them as also the opposition between the doctrine of the Ch. of England and that of Rome c. Lond. 1641. quar Further discussion of the case of conscience touching receiving of the Sacrament Printed with the Comparison Examination of John Saltmarsh's new Query and determination upon it published to retard the establishment of the Presbyterial Government c. Lond. 1646. qu. Censure of what Mr. Saltmarsh hath produced to the same purpose in his other and
was that he extracting thence several books did in some of them particularly in his two tomes of An exact chronological Vindication c. endeavour to bring an odium upon the Bishops and their function by giving an history in them of the Popes Usurpations upon the King and Subjects of England and Ireland In Aug. the same year he was appointed one of the six Commissioners for appeals and regulating the Excise and in the month of Apr. 1661 he was again elected a Burgess for Bathe to sit in that Parl. that began at Westm 8. of May the same year But in July following being discontented at some proceedings in the House he published a seditious paper against them intit Sundry reasons tendred to the most honorable House of Peers c. against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations This Pamphlet coming into the hands of several Members of Parliament who much complained against it the House appointed a Committee to examine and enquire after the Author the Printer and Publisher thereof The Committee met and soon found that Prynne was the Author of it And accordingly on the 15 of the said month of July the whole matter was reported to the House who thereupon being highly provok'd Prynne unable to conceal it any longer for 't was proved that he had sent that paper to the Printing-house and that he had corrected the Proof sheet and revise with his own hand he flew to the Printing-house and commanded the Compositors to distribute the form for they would be searched Which being done Prynne desired to be heard and unable to evade the evidence confessed himself to be the unhappy Author Then speaking largely setting forth what service he had done for the King formerly how kind and civil the King had been to him c. alledging that he had no mischievous intent but was sorry for what he had done and humbly craved their pardon the House then unanimously called upon him to withdraw and afterwards proceeded to debate it and resolved upon the question That the said printed paper intit Sundry reasons c. is an illegal false scandalous and seditious Pamphlet Prynne afterwards was called in again to receive the sense of the House which was as aforesaid Then Mr. Speaker Sir Edw. Turner worthily told him how sorry he was that a person of his years and experience should commit so foul an offence and one that had formerly much and yet now deserved to suffer all his punishments over again as imprisonment pillory c. But the House had considered his late services and hazards for his Majesty and in contemplation of them and his expressions of his sorrow which truly seemed very great the House shewed mercy unto him Prynne then did thankfully acknowledge the justice of the H. in their judgment of his great offence that the said paper was an illegal false scandalous and seditious pamphlet that he did humbly submit thereunto and did render most humble thanks to the H. and every Member thereof for their mercy and favour to him which words he spake with great sense of his own offence and the Houses goodness not offering to justifie the least line of his paper which his conscience told him he could not Whereupon the H. being satisfied with his confession and recantation they did remit his offence and Prynne sate down in his place From which time to the day of his death we heard of no more libels published by him The books and little pamphlets that he wrot were theological historical political controversial c. but very few of his own profession all which are in number near 200 as the titles following shew bound up in about 40 volumes in fol. and qu. in Linc. Inn Library To which an eminent Sage of the Law who had little respect for those published in his time promised to give the Works of John Taylor the Water-poet to accompany them 'T was not only he but many others afterwards especially Royalists that judged his books to be worth little or nothing his proofs for no arguments and affirmations for no testimonies having several forgeries made in them for his and the ends of his brethren They are all in the English Tongue and by the generality of Scholars are looked upon to be rather rapsodical and confus'd than any way polite or concise yet for Antiquaries Criticks and sometimes for Divines they are useful In most of them he shews great industry but little of judgment especially in his large folio's against the Popes Usurpations He may be well intituled Voluminous Prynne as Tostatus Abulensis was 200 years before his time called Voluminous Tostatus for I verily believe that if it rightly computed he wrot a sheet for every day of his life reckoning from the time when he came to the use of reason and the state of Man His custom when he studied was to put on a long quilted cap which came an inch over his eyes serving as an Umbrella to defend them from too much light and seldom eating a dinner would every 3 hours or more be maunching a roll of bread and now and then refresh his exhausted Spirits with Ale brought to him by his servant Thou that with Ale or viler liquors Did'st inspire Wythers Prynne and Vicars And teach though it were in despight Of nature and the stars to write c. Thus Hudibras part 1. He was a right sturdy and doughty Champion for the Cause a Puritan Beutifew an inveterate enemy against the hierarchy of Bishops especially upon his imprisonment and sufferings for his Hâ—strio mastix a busie pragmatical and medling man without end and one that had brought his body into an ill habit and so consequently had shortned his days by too much action and concernment day and night M. Nedham the Weather-cock tells us that he was one of the greatest paper worms that ever crept into a closet or library c. and others that he never intended an end in writing books and that his study or reading was not only a wearisomness to the flesh but to the ears Nay a printed Petition whereby some Wags under the name of the peaceable and well affected people of the three Nations did shew that whereas Will Prynne Bencher of Linc. Inn had for many years last past reckoning backward from 1659 in which year the said Petition was published been an indefatigable and impertinent Scribler and had almost nauseated the sober part of the said Nations with the stench of his carion pasquills and pamphlets for some whereof he had suffered under the hierarchy in the time of the late King c. that he might have an act of amnesty and pardon for all his Treasons Seditions Jesuitismes Contempts of Government misunderstanding of the Scripture Law and Reason Misquotations and misapplications of Authorities to his pasquills c. Which Petition I say being published and cried in Westm Hall and about London streets did so extreamly perplex Prynne for a time that
prospect of Qu. Cath. the Royal Consort of K. Ch. 2 she found means to have it pluck'd down Some time after his Majesties restauration he invented a new way of farthings of which he made demonstration to the King and Council so plainly that they were satisfied that they could not possibly be counterfeited and that one farthing could not be like another but that they should differ in some little thing And having then a design to get a patent for the making of them for England was put aside by Pr. Rupert and at length was content with one only for Ireland To which place taking a journey soon after died there before he could effect his design He hath written and published A design for bringing a river from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire to S. Giles in the Fields near London The benefits of it declared and the objections against it answerâ—d Lond. 1641. in 5. or 6. sh in qu. Experimental proposals how the K. may have money to pay and maintain his Fleets with ease to the people London may be rebuilt and all proprietors satisfied money may be lent at 6 l. per cent on pawns and the fishing trade set up and all without straining or thwarting any of our laws and customs Lond. 1666. qu. Defence of Bill-credit Printed at the end of the former pamphlet About the year 1663 he printed an ingenious proposal for the raising of money by bills of exchange which should pass current instead of money to prevent robbery but this I have not yet seen He died in Ireland on the 3. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and seventy and his body being brought into England was buried in the Church at Harting by its Ancestors He was a great Virtuoso of his time yet none of the Royal Society and might have done greater matters if that he had not been disincouraged for those things he had done before HENRY YELVERTON Baronet was born of an antient and gentile family at Easton Manduit or Mauduit in Northamptonshire baptized there 6 of July 1633 educated in Grammar learning in S. Pauls School in London admitted a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1650 where he made as great proficiency in several sorts of learning as his age was capable of and became so exact a Latinist and Greecian that none of his time went beyond him He hath written A short discourse of the truth and reasonableness of the religion delivered by Jesus Christ Wherein the several arguments for Christianity are briefly handled the miracles done by our Saviour Apostles and Christians c. Lond. 1662. oct To which is added A disquisition touching the Sybils and Sybilline writings c. Written by John Twysden Broth. to Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent both the Uncles of Sir H. Yelverton who hath also written something in vindication of the Church of England against Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. which I have not yet seen and a preface to a book of Dr. Tho. Morton Bish of Durham entit The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical from the authority of the Primitive Church c. Pr. in oct Which Bishop Sir Hen. had kept in his family several years in the time of that Bishops persecution and was as tender of him as of his parent shewing thereby as indeed he was a true Son of the Church of England He died in the flower of his age on the 3. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried at Easton Manduit among the graves of his relations leaving then behind him by Susan his wife sole daughter and heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen Charles his eldest Son afterwards a Noble-man of Ch. Ch. and called up to the House of Lords where he took his place as Lord Grey of Ruthen He died of the small pox unmarried in his Lodgings in the Pall-mall within the liberty of Westm on the 17. of May 1679 and was as I suppose buried at Easton Manduit CHRISTOPHER AIRAY was born at Clifton in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1621 where going through the servile offices was made Fellow when Master of Arts About which time entring into holy Orders according to the statutes of that House he became a Preacher was actually created Bac. of Div. in 1642 and afterwards made Vicar of Milford in Hampshire He hath written Fasciculus Praeceptorum Logicalium in gratiam juventutis Academiae Oxon compositus Oxon. 1660. sec edit in oct and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died on S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Milford before mention'd· Over his grave was soon after put this epitaph Memoriae sacrum Christopheri Airay S. T. Bac. olim Coll. Reg. Oxon. socii hujus ecclesiae Vicarii vigilantissimi viri summae integritatis judicii acerrimi ingenii literarum omnium capacis qui deficillimo seculo inter aestuantes rerum fluctus clavum rectum tenuit Mortalitati tandem exuit 18. Oct. annos natus 69. c. SAMUEL KEME or Kem was born according to the Matricula in the City of London became a Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Act term 1621 aged 16 years but how long he continued there I know not Sure I am that a certain author tells us that for those few weeks he wore a gown in Magd. Hall he obtained the title of a most notorious lyer that ever wore long ears In 1624 he was elected Demie of Magd. Coll at which time he said that he was born in Surrey and that he was in the nineteenth year of his age In that House he continued till after he was Bach. of Arts and then taking holy Orders he had a cure bestowed on him In 1636 the King being then in Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Divinity about which time he became Rector of the Church at Oldbury commonly called Albury near Ricot in Oxfordshire and a retainer if I mistake not to the family of Edward Wray of Ricot Esq Patron of the said Church by virtue of his marriage with Elizabeth the dau and heir of Francis L. Norris Earl of Berks. At the turn of the times in 1641 he put a Curate into his Living sided with the Rebels took the Covenant was made Chaplain to and Captain of a Troop of Horse in the Regiment of Basil Earl of Denbigh prayed and preached often to encourage the Soldiers to fight laid open to them the righteousness of their cause preached against the K. and his followers and endeavoured to make them believe that all that were about him were Papists or at least popishly affected When any Officer of the Regiment was kill'd he was ready to preach his funeral Sermon particularly that of Major Pinkney slain in the beginning of July 1644 and was ready at all hours to do the like provided the party died not a natural death When he
his employments and grew thereupon discontented In 1662 or thereabouts he had an impulse or a strange perswasion in his mind of which he was not able to give any rational account to another which did very frequently suggest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift of curing the Kings Evil which for the extraordinariness of he thought fit to conceal it for some time but at length he communicated it to his wife and told her that he did verily believe that God had given him the blessing of curing the said Evil for whether he were in private or publick sleeping or waking still he had the same impulse but her reply was to him that she conceived this was a strange imagination yet to prove the contrary a few days after there was one Will. Maker of Salterbridge in the Parish of Lismore that brought his son Will. Maker to his house desiring his wife to cure him who was a person ready to afford her charity to her neighbours according to her small skill in Chirurgery On which his wife told him there was one that had the Kings Evil very grievously in the eyes cheek and throat whereupon he told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy or imagination as she thought it or the dictates of Gods Spirit on his heart and thereupon he laid his hands on the places affected and prayed to God for Jesus sake to heal him and then he bid the Parent two or three days after to bring the child to him again which he accordingly did and then he saw the eye was almost quite whole and the node which was almost as big as a Pullets egg was suppurated and the throat strangely amended and in a month discharged it self quite and was perfectly healed Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane of Ballinecly in the Parish of Lismore who had had the Evil seven years and upwards far worse than the former whom he cured to the wonder of all and soon after his fame increasing he cured the same disease in very many other people for three years following not medling with any other distempers till about the end of those three years he cured some that were troubled with Agues all done by stroaking with his hands Afterwards he had the like Impulse on him discovering that he had given him the gift of Healing which the morning following he told to his wife and brother but neither of them could be prevailed with to believe it tho for his own part he had a full assurance thereof within him This Impulse he had on the Sunday after Easter-day 2 Apr. 1665 early in the morning and on Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans house at Lismore where there came into the house to him a poor man that with a pain in his loins and flank went almost double and had a most grievous ulcerous leg very black wherein were five ulcers who desired him for Gods sake that he would lay his hands on him and do him what good he could Whereupon he put his hands on his loins and flank and immediately run the pains out of him so that he was released and could stand upright without the least trouble Then he put his hand on his ulcerous leg which forthwith changed colour and became red and three of the five ulcers closed up and the rest within few hours afterwards so that he went out well that could hardly by the help of his staff craul in and in two days after he fell to his labour being a Mason by trade After this he cured many diseases of all sorts by stroaking and his name was wonderfully cried up But the Clergy being jealous of these matters he was cited to the Bishops court and by their authority was prohibited to proceed any farther in his course In Jan. 1665 he went into England and by the invitation of Edward Lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in Warwickshire to cure by stroaking his Lady who for many years had laboured under a most violent Head-ach but with all his endeavours he could not cure her yet continuing there three weeks he cured innumerable people in those parts which caused therefore our Author Hen. Stubbe who then practised Physick at Stratford on Avon in that County and was dayly at â—agley with the Lord and an eye-witness of the cures to write the said book called The miraculous Conformist c. Afterwards Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by command from his Majesty and performing several cures there and in London but more mistakes as 't is said caused Dav. Lloyd a Reader or Chaplain of the Charter house thereupon to write Wonders no miracles or Mr. Val. Greatrakes gift of healing examined c. Lond. 1666. qu. Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking March 7. an 1665 at one Mr. J. Cressets house in Charter house yard In which book the Author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his reputation making him but little better than a Cheat that person therefore came out with his vindication intit A brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of his strange cures by him lately performed Lond. 1666. qu. Written by himself in a letter to the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq and thereunto did annex the Testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related From this digression let 's now proceed to go on with our Author Stubbe who had a marvellous dexterity in writing books on all occasions Philosophical observations made in his sailing from England to the Caribe-Islands and in Jamaica c. Remitted into the Philosoph Transact num 27 an 1667 and num 36. an 1668. Legends no Histories or a specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Which History was written by Mr. Tho. Sprat Animadversions upon The History of making Saltpeter pen'd by Mr. Tho. Henshaw Printed and bound with Legends no Histories c. Animad upon The Hist of making of Gunpowder written also by the said Mr. Henshaw Pr. and bound with Legends c. also and to it is added An additional review written by Hen. Stubbe The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus Or a specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Jos Glanvill c. with divers enquiries made about several matters Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Written under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a passage in the Plus ultra which seemed to assert that the antient Physitians could not cure a cut-finger which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed or thought Censure on certain passages contained in The History of the Royal Society c. Oxon. 1670 in about seven sh in qu. Dedicated to Dr. Joh. Fell and soon after answered by two Anonymi in the same year pr. in qu. The former of which was written by way of letter to Mr Stubbe Campanella revived or an enquiry into The Hist of the Roy.
Antiquities of that County He wrot also The description of Harwich and all its appurtenances and antiquities which is now in Ms in a private hand He had great skill not only in the practical but theoretical part of Musick did compose several lessons some of which were tried and played in the publick School of that fac in this University while Dr. Wilson held the chair before his Majesties restauration and after that time he being well acquainted with that most admired Organist to the Queen called Matthew Lock who had married one Garnons a Herefordshire Woman he did compose several Anthems two or more of which were sung in his Majesties Chappel which being well performed his Maj. was pleased to tell the author that he liked them He had also good skill in the Mathematicks and the Tongues and might have proved excellent in them had his continuance in the University been longer or had he not spent most of his time in military matters He died on the fourth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Harwich before mention'd He died much in debt so that all such Mss and Papers that were then laying by him some of which he had before pawned were with his goods seized on by his Creditors His Father Silvanus Taylor before mention'd who also had been one of the High Court of Justice and a grand Oliverian wrot and published Common good or the improvement of Commons Forrests and Chases by enclosure Wherein the advantage of the Poor the common plenty of all and the increase and preservation of timber with other things of common concernment are considered Lond. 1652. in 7. sh and an half in qu. Dedicated to the supreme authority of the Nation the Parliament of England He had a son of both his names sometimes a Communer of Wadham Coll. afterwards M. A. and Fellow of that of Allsouls an ingenious man and well skill'd in the practical part of Musick who died at Dublin in Ireland in the beginning of Nov. 1672. MARCHAMONT NEDHAM was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire in the month of Aug. 1620 and on the 21. of the said month received baptisme there He was son of a Father of both his names born of gentile parents in Derbyshire sometimes Bach. of Arts of S. Johns Coll. and Gloc. Hall afterwards an Attendant on the Lady Elizab. Lucas Sister to John Lord Lucas and Wife of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden near Burford before mention'd by Margery his Wife Daughter of John Collier the Host of the George inn then the principal place for the reception of Guests in Burford But the said Father dying in the year following the Mother was the next year after that scil in 1622 married to Christoph Glynn Vicar of the said Town and Master of the Free-school there which Glynn perceiving his Son-in-law to have very pregnant parts did take him under his tuition and spared not to encourage his forwardness At about 14 years of age he was sent to All 's Coll. where being made one of the Choristers continued there till 1637 at which time he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. So that being not capable of keeping that place any longer because inconsistent with his degree he retired to S. Maries Hall for a time At length being invited to London he had confer'd upon him an Ushers place in Merchant Taylors School then presided by one Mr. Will. Staple but how long he continued there I cannot justly tell Sure it is that upon the change of the times he became an under-clerk in Greys inn where by vertue of a good legible court-hand he obtained a comfortable subsistance Soon after siding with the rout and scum of the people he made them weekly sport by railing at all that was noble in his intelligence called Merc. Britan. wherein his endeavours were to sacrifice the fame of some Lord or person of Quality nay of the King himself to the beast with many heads Diego writeth that Barcaeus meeting with the Devil sitting at his ease upon a chair bid him rise up and give place to his betters The tale was moraliz'd in Britanicus who might very well have challenged the precedency of Satan and to have thrust him out of his chair the seat of the scornful wherein he sate several years and out-railed all the Shimies and Rabsekehs and out-lyed all the Simmeasses and Psedolusses that ever sate in that chair So that this Nedham being become popular and an active man in person among the rout he was commonly called Capt. Nedham of Greys inn and what he said or wrot was looked upon as Gospel About that time he studied Physick followed the chymical way and in 1645 began to practice it and by that and his writing maintained himself in very gentile fashion But so it was that whether by his imprisonment in the Gatehouse for his aspersions of his Majesty in the opening or explaining his Cabinet Letters an 1645 or for some scorn or affronts put upon him he forthwith left the blessed cause and obtaining the favour of a known Royallist to introduce him into his Majesties presence at Hampton-court an 1647 he then and there knelt before him and desired forgiveness for what he had written against him and his cause which being readily granted he kiss'd his Majesties hand and soon after wrot Mercurius Pragmaticus which being very witty satyrical against the Presbyterians and full of Loyalty made him known to and admired by the Bravadoes and Wits of those times But he being narrowly sought after left London and for a time sculk'd at Minster Lovel near Burford in Oxfordsh in the house there of Dr. Pet. Heylyn At length being found out imprison'd in Newgate and brought into danger of his life Lenthall the Speaker of the House of Commons who knew him and his Relations well and John Bradshaw President of the High Court of Justice treated him fairly and not only got his pardon but with promise of rewards and places perswaded him to change his stile once more meaning for the Independents then carrying all before them So that being brought over he wrot Merc. Politicus so extream contrary to the former that the generality for a long time especially the most generous Royallists could not believe that that intelligence could possibly be written by the same hand that wrot the M. Pragmaticus The truth is these last were written for about an year and an half and were endeavoured by the Parliamenteers to be stifled but the former the Politici which came out by authority and flew every week into all parts of the Nation for more than 10 years had very great influence upon numbers of inconsiderable persons such who have a strange presumption that all must needs be true that is in print He was then the Goliah of the Philistines the great Champion of the late Usurper whose pen in comparison of others was like a
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
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
praestitit officium sed etiam bene maximam horum partem meaning his Clavis Mathematica Anglicè non ita pridem edendam transtulit Besides which he hath written The times mended or a rectified account of time by a new Luni-solar year the true way to number our days Lond. 1681. in 4. sh and an half in fol. An account and abstract of which is in the Philosophical Collections written by Mr. Rob. Hook numb 2. p. 27. an 1681. A new Al-mon ac for ever or a rectified account of time beginning with March 10. an 1680 1 by a Luni-solar year or by both luminaries that is by the moons monthly course primarily so as the first of the month shall always be within about a day of the change and yet adjusted to the Suns yearly course also viz. keeping within about a week thereof at a medium Described in and dedicated to the most noble order of the Garter Printed the same year with the Times amended c. An account of which is also in the said Philosophical Collections p. 26. He also wrot some things in Mathematicks not yet published one piece whereof he was pleased out of great friendship and 〈◊〉 long acquaintance sake to dedicate to Mr. George Tâ—â—let a Teacher of Gentlemen in London the faculty of Mathematicks This Dr. Wood died at Dublin in Ireland on the ninth day of April in sixteen hundred eighty and five aged 63. or thereabouts and was buried in St. Michaels Church there notwithstanding he had desired his friends some days before his death that he might be buried in the Ch. yard of the Parish Church where he should happen to dye thinking that Churches were the less wholsome for corps being buried in them THOMAS OTWAY son of Humph. Otway Rector of Wolbeding in Sussex was born at Trottin in that County on the 3. of March 1651 educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester became a Communer of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1669 left the University without the honor of a degree retired to the great City where he not only applied his muse to Poetry but sometimes acted in plays whereby he obtained to himself a reputation among the ingenious and a comfortable subsistence to himself besides the favour and countenance of Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos Earl of Plymouth one of the natural Sons of K. Ch. 2. In 1677 he went in the quality of a Cornet with the new rais'd English forces design'd for Flanders but getting little or nothing by that employment returned with the loss of time to London where he continued to the day of his death by writing of plays and little poetical essays He was a man of good parts but yet sometimes fell into plagiary as well as his contemporaries and made use of Shakespear to the advantage of his purse at least if not his reputation After his return from Flanders which was in a poor condition Rochester the biting Satyrist brought him into his Session of Poets thus Tom Otway came next Tom Shadwells dear Zany And swears for Heroicks he writes best of any Don Carlos his pockets so amply had fill'd That his mange was quite cur'd and his lice were all kill'd But Apollo had seen his face on the stage And prudently did not think fit to engage The scum of a Playhouse for the prop of an age As for his works which have been approved by the generality of Scholars a Catalogue of them follows Alcibiades a Tragedy Lond. 1675. 87. qu. 'T is writ in Heroick verse and was the first fruits of the authors labours Don Carlos Prince of Spain Trag. Lond. 1676. 79. Titus and Berenice Trag. Lond. 1677. qu. Cheates of Spaine a Farce Printed with Tit. and Ber. Friendship in fashion a Comedy Lond. 1678. qu. The Poets complaint of his muse or a satyr against Libells a Poem Lond. 1680. qu. The History and Fall of Caius Marius Trag. Lond. 1680. qu. The Orphan or the unhappy marriage Trag. Lond. 1680. 84. c. qu. The Soldiers fortune Com. Lond. 1681. qu. Venice preserv'd or a plot discovered Lond. 1682. qu. The Atheist or the second part of the Soldiers fortune Lond. 1684. qu. Windsor Castle in a monument to our late Sovereign K. Ch. 2. of ever blessed memory a poem Lond. 1685. qu. He also translateâ— from Lat. into English The Epistle of Phaedra to Hyppolytus in Ovids Epistles translated by several hands Lond. 1680. 81. oct Also The sixteenth Ode of Horace in a book entit Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids Elegies Odes of Horace c. Lond. 1684. oct In which Miscellany Poems is our author Otway's Epistle to R. D. in verse p. 218. He englished also The History of the Triumvirates the first part of Julius Caesar Pompey and Crassus The second part of Augustus Antony and Lepidus Being a faithful collection from the best Historians and other authors concerning that revolution of the Rom. government which hapned under their authority Lond. 1686. oct Written originally in the French language At length after he had lived about 33 years in this vain and transitory world made his last exit in an house on Tower-hill called the Bull as I have heard on the 14. of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was conveyed to the Church of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster and was buried in a vault there In his sickness he was composing a congratulatory Poem on the inauguration of K. Jam. 2. THOMAS MARSHALL or Mareschallus as in his Observ in Evang. he writes himself son of a father of both his names was born at Barkbey in Leicestershire educated there in Grammar learning under Francis Foe Vicar of that Town entred a Batler in Linc. Coll. in Mich. terme an 1640 aged 19 years and on the 31. of July in the year following he was elected one of Rob. Trapps Scholars in that House much about which time he being a constant auditor of the Sermons of the most learned and religious Primate of Ireland Dr. Usher delivered in Allhallowes Church joyning to his Coll his affections were so exceedingly wrought upon that he was alwaies resolv'd from thence forth to make him the pattern of all the religious and learned actions of his life and therefore ever after he could not endure those that should in their common discourse or writings reflect in the least on that sacred Prelate Soon after Oxford being garrison'd upon the breaking out of the rebellion he bore Arms therein for his Majesty in the Regiment of Henry Earl of Dover at his own proper cost and charges and therefore in 1645 when he was a Candidate for the degree of Bach. of Arts he was admitted thereunto without paying fees But upon the approach of the Parliamentary Visitation he left the University went beyond the Seas and became Preacher to the Company of English Merchants at Roterdam and Dort in the place of Henry Tozer deceased In
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â—5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
labours in the search of Records for those works already published perused the notes that he had taken of the Lord Chancellours L. Treasurers Masters of Rolls Judges of all the Courts in Westminster Hall Kings Attorneys and Sollicitors as also of the Serjeants at Law Courts of â—usâ—ice and Inns of Court and Chancery for Students in that excellent Profession he compiled that historical work intit Origines Juridiciales adorned with exact cuts in copper plates of the Arms in the windows throughout all the Inns of Court and Serjeants Inns which was first made public by the Press an 1666 but the grand Conflagration soon after hapning many of the copies were burnt Further also he having in the course of his Collections formerly made at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion extracted from sundry choice MSS. divers special notes relating to antient Nobility of this Kingdom and being not ignorant that those Volumes of Monasticon would yield many excellent materials of that kind he then became encouraged to go to the Tower of London Exchequer Office of the Rolls in Chancery lane which were the chief treasures of Records as also to the Archbishops principal Registers and Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury of Wills and Testaments Dispensations for Marriages c. Whence and out of sundry MSS. in private hands monumental inscriptions and other Authorities which after the greater part of 30 years labour he had got together he at length compiled that large work intit The Baronage of England In making which Collections he omitted nothing of consequence which related to the Foundations and Endowments of the Cathedral and Collegiat Churches in England and Wales consisting of secular Canons as also of what else he could observe concerning those Monasteries that were already published to the end that use might be made of them as Additaments to those volumes And in the year 1673 he published all those Additaments together with what he had so gathered for those cathedral and collegiate Churches before specified But the said Volumes of the Baronage hanging long at the Press came not out till the year 1675 and 1676 being then and soon after taken into the hands not only of his Majesty and royal issue but also by the prime Nobility of the Nation Towards the end of the said year 1676 Sir Edw. Walker Garter Principal K. of Arms departing this mortal life at Whitehall Mr. Dugd. being then in Warwickâ—hire much dispute grew between Henry then Earl of Norwich afterwards Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal of England and the King for the nomination of a person unto whom his Majesty should by his Letters Patents make a grant of that Office the Chancellour of the Garter on the Kings behalf as Soveraign of that most noble Order strenuously insisting upon his Majesties right to nominate by reason that the said Office of Garter was an employment meerly belonging to that Order and chiefly for attending at all Installations and Festivals and performing other services unto the Soveraign and Knights Companions thereof The Earl on his part as Earl Marshal and chief Superintendent of the Office and Officers of Arms pleading the usage of his Predecessors in that honorable Office of Earl Marshal to nominate and recommend to the King upon the death and vacancy of any King of Arms Herald or Pursevant such person or persons to supply the place as he shall think most fit and most properly qualified for that service In which contest one Sir Will. Haward Knight a person well accomplish'd with learning especially in point of Honour and Arms having obtained the favour of divers great men to move his Majesty on his behalf the K. did thereupon much incline to to have that office confer'd upon him The Earl of Norwych on the other part accounting it no little derogation to his Office of Earl Marshal to be refused the like privilege as his Predecessors in that great place had been permitted to enjoy for which he produced some late Presidents acknowledging tho he had nothing to do as to any superintendency over him as an Officer of the Garter yet as Garter was Principal K. of Arms he was subordinate to his authority did obtain the favour of the Duke of York upon this great dispute to speak to his Majesty on his behalf The King therefore asked the said Count Earl Marshal whom he had a design to nominate and recommend he answer'd Mr. Dugdale tho 't is well known he had another person Th. Leigh Chest Her in his eye against whom such objections might have been justly taken as that he would have failed of his aim had he stuck to him whereupon his Maj. immediately replied Nay then I am content So that the matter being thus ended the Earl Marshal caused his Secretary to advise Mr. Dugdale thereof by the Post that night and earnestly to press his speedy coming up to London he then being at Blythe Hall in Warwickshire This news did not a little surprize him because he was so far from any thoughts of that Office that upon some Letters from certain honorable persons ensuing Sir E. Walkers death earnestly desiring his speedy repair to London in order to his obtaining that Office he excused himself in respect of his age he being then above 20 years older than any other Officer in the Coll. of Arms then living as he then told me being then with him at Blythe Hall when those Letters came to him After serious consideration what to resolve on therein having a far greater desire to wave it than otherwise as he then said he grew fearful that his Majesty so readily assenting to the Earl Marshal's nomination of him should not take it well in case he did refuse what was so intended him as a favour And doubting also the Earl Marshal's displeasure for not complying with him therein did at length conclude with himself that it was by God Almighties disposal thus cast upon him and therefore he resolved to accept of it So that within few days after repairing to London he was welcom'd by the Earl Marshal with many noble Expressions for his ready acceptance of his Lordships favour herein On the 26 of Apr. 1677 was passed the Patent for his Office of Garter and on Thursday 24 of May following being then Holy Thursday he was solemnly created Garter in the College of Arms by Henry Earl of Peterborough who then exercised the Office of Earl Marshal as Deputy to the Earl of Norwych by vertue of his Majesties immediate Warrant for that purpose And the day following 25 May Mr Dugd. being brought before the King in the old Bed-chamber at Whitehall by the Earl Marshall he then received the honor of Knighthood much against his will because of his small estate at which time his Majesty put the badge of his office hung in a gold chain usually worn by Garter K. of Armes about his neck On the first of June following he took his oath of Garter Principal K. of Armes
the Sermons at S. Maries preached by the 6 Ministers appointed by Parliament and other Presbyterian Ministers that preached in other Churches in Oxon and sometimes frequenters of the Conventicles of Independents and Anabaptists The generality of them had mortified Countenances puling Voices and Eyes commonly when in discourse lifted up with hands laying on their breasts They mostly had short hair which at this time was commonly called the Committee cut and went in quirpo in a shabbed condition and looked rather like Prentices or antiquated School-boys than Academians or Ministers and therefore few or none especially those of the old stamp or royal party would come near to or sort themselves with them but rather endeavour to put scorn upon them and make them ridiculous c. This year was a Sojourner and Student in Oxon for the sake of the public Library Pet. Laur. Scavenius a noble Dane who after his return to his own Country became a learned man and a publisher of certain books whereby he obtained an increasing admiration from his Countrymen An. Dom. 1648. An. 24 Car. 1. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Montgomery c. who took possession of the chair in his own person in a Convocation held Apr. 12. Vicechanc. Edward Reynolds sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll who being designed to this office thro the recommendations of the Chancellour by an order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament 18 of Feb. 1647 he was first declared Doct. of Div. by another order and afterwards presented to his office before the Chanc. sitting in his chair in Convocation by Sir Nath. Brent Warden of Mert. Coll on the 12 day of the said month of Apr. Proct. Joshua Cross of Linc. Coll. Adm. 12 Apr. Ralph Button of Mert. Coll. Adm. 12 Apr. The said Proctors who were godly Brethren were designed to their office by the same Authority that the Vicechanc. was without any regard had to the Caroline Cycle which appointed New and Allsoules Coll. to elect Proctors for this year And being admitted on the said day Apr. 12. by the same Authority Will. Bew or Beaw of New Coll. afterwards Bishop of Landaff who had been chosen by the Society of New Coll for their Proctor on the first Wednesday in Lent 1647 was put aside as also one Ed. Allason who as 't is said in the Visitors Register was chose by those of Allsoules yet whether he was of that House or had taken the degree of M. of Arts I cannot yet find Bach. of Arts. Nov. 3. Dan. Greenwood of Brasn Coll. Nov. 3. Rich. Adams of Brasn Coll. Of these two I shall speak more among the Masters an 1651. Mar. 16. Josias Banger of Magd. Coll. Mar. 16. Dan. Capell of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two I shall speak more among the Masters in 1651. The other is mention'd among the Writers Adm. 37. Bach. of Law Aug. 4. Will. Scot of All 's Coll. This person who was the only Bachelaur admitted this year had before spent six years in the study of humane literature and in the Civ Law in Cambridge whence coming to get preferment here from the Visitors was by them made this year Fellow of All 's Coll by the endeavours of his father Thom. Scot who being a great creature of Oliver Cromwell was by him nominated to be one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory in the latter end of this year and accordingly did fit but paid the debt for it after his Majesties restauration Mast of Arts. Jul. 6. George Hopkins of New Inn. Jul. 6. Giles Collier of New Inn. Jul. 6. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. Jul. 20. Sam. Clark of Mert. Coll. Oct. 17. Joh. Chetwynd of Ex. Coll. Nov. 16. Benj. Woodbridge of Magd. Hall Dec. 12. Sim. Ford of Magd. Hall The last of these two was afterwards a Student of Ch. Ch and is now living in Worcestershire a Conformist to the Church of England Dec. 12. Joh. Rowe of New Inn. He was about this time made Fellow of C. C. Coll. 14. Edward Littleton of All 's Coll. This person who was son of Adam Littleton of Stoke S. Mildrid in Shropshire of the antient and gentile family of the Littletons in that County and elsewhere became a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in the beginning of the year 1641 aged 15 years or thereabouts and in 1647 he was elected Fellow of the said Coll. of All 's In 1656 he was installed one of the Proctors and continued in his House as I conceive till his Majesties restauration He hath written and published De juventute Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxoniensibus Lond. 1664. in 10 sh in qu. This Oration was spoken by him when he was Rhetorick Reader of the University of Oxon. The second edit of this came out at Lond. 1689. qu. Which by an Epist before it the author dedicates to Westminster School wherein he was educated in Grammar Learning to All 's Coll wherein he was educated in Academicals to Linc. Inn where he had studied the Common Law and to the Island of Barbadoes where he as a Judge had administred the Law Feb. 13. Will. Ley of Ch. Ch. He occurs not either matriculated of any House or Bach. of Arts of this University and therefore I suppose he was a Stranger put in Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors I take him to be the same Will. Ley son of Joh. Ley mention'd among the Writers an 1662. p. 190. who was afterwards Minister of Wanting alias Wantage in Berks Author of A Buckler for the Church of England in answer to Mr. Pendarves his Queries called Arrowes against Babylon c. Oxon. 1656. qu. Adm. 38. or thereab ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys Bach. of Div Doct. of Law Doct. of Phys or Doct. of Divinity was admitted or licensed to proceed this year INCORPORATIONS The Incorporations this year did mostly consist of Canâ—abrigians who had lately come to this University for preferment from the Visitors when the great rout of Royallists were by them made in this University Bach. of Arts. About 20 were incorporated of which number were these June 10. Rich. Maden of Magd. Coll. in Cambridge This person who afterwards took the degree of Master as a member of New Inn I set down here not that he was afterwards a Writer but to distinguish him from another of both his names who was author of certain Sermons of Christs love towards Jerusalem Lond. 1637. qu. and perhaps of other things Jul. 4. Peter Pett of Sydney Coll. He was soon after made Fellow of All 's Coll became a great Vertuoso and at length a Kt. and a Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers with honour Oct. 10. Jam. Ward of Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England His testimony dated 3 Dec. 1646 is subscribed by Hen. Dunster President and Sam. Danforth Fellow of that Coll but whether this J. Ward published any thing afterwards I know not After he was incorporated he
18. Joh. How of Brasn Coll. He was soon after made Fellow of that of Magd. by the Visitors and is now living a Nonconformist Minister in London and a Preacher in Conventicles He hath written and published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Writers of this University Feb. 19. Thomas Danson Chaplain of C. C. Coll. He was soon after made Fellow of that of Magdalen and is now a Nonconformist Minister living at Abendon in Berks and a Preacher in Conventicles there He hath written and published several Books and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred Feb. 23. Will. Carpender of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Lewis Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Masters an 1652 and of the second among the Doct. that were licensed to proceed an 1660. The last W. Crompton is now a Nonconformist Divine living and holding forth at Columpton in Devonshire and having published several things he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers Thomas Jones of Vniv College was admitted the same day Feb. 23. Adm. 88. or thereabouts Bach. of Law I find but one to be admitted this year named Joh. Gunter somtimes of Queens Coll. in Cambridge now of that of S. Johns in Oxon. He was soon after made Fellow of New Coll by the Committee of Parl. appointed for the reformation of the University and Visitors Mast of Arts. April 11. Edw. Hicks of Oriel Coll. Whether he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts in this Univ. it appears not See more of him among the created Doctors of Div. 1660. 28. Joh. Billingsley of C. C. Coll. This person who was lately made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors was afterwards a Writer and Publisher of several books and is now or at least was lately living a Conformist in Derbyshire and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Writers June 25. Will. Finmore of Ch. Ch. He was installed Archdeacon of Chester on the 6. of March 1666 having been a little more than half an year before made Prebendary of the Cathedral Church there He died in the beginning of 1686 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by John Allen M. of A. Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and Chaplain to Dr. Pearson B. of Chester and author of one or more Sermons that are extant July 14. Rob. Wood of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards made Fellow of that of Linc. by the Visitors 21. Samuel Ladyman of C. C. Coll. He was the Son of John Ladyman of Dinton in Bucks became a poor Scholar or Servitour of the said Coll in Lent term 1642 aged 17 years and in 1648 submitting to the authority of the Visitors he was by them made that year Fellow thereof in a Lincolnshire place Soon after he became a frequent Preacher in these parts and being a noted person among the Presbyterians he received a Call and forthwith went into Ireland and was beneficed there He hath published The dangerous rule Sermon preached at Clonmel in the Province of Mounster in Ireland before the Judges on 2. Sam. 19.29 Lond. 1658 in tw and perhaps other things which is all I know of him Nov. 24. Henry Chapman of Magd. Hall This Bachelaur who was well advanc'd in years was admitted Mast by order of the Presb. Delegates of the University who were well satisfied with the testimonial Letters of John Wallis the Mathematick Professor written in his behalf to them wherein he doth abundantly commend the said Chapmans ingenuity industry and knowledg in various tongues Nov. 27. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll. 29. Edw. Wood or à Wood of Mert. Coll. Dec. 13. Thom. Careles of Ball. Coll. He was the Son of Philip Careles of Lothbury near the Royal Exchange in London became a Student of the said Coll. in the beginning of the year 1640 aged 15 years and was afterwards Scholar and Fellow and in the last year did submit as I conceive to the power of the Visitors In 1651 he being then esteemed an ingenious man as indeed he was he was made choice of to be Terrae filius with Will. Levinz of S. Johns Coll. to speech it in the Act celebrated that year being the first Act that was kept after the Presbyterians had taken possession of the University and soon after having obtained the name of a florid Preacher among the remnant of the Royalists in the University by his preaching often in S. Aldates Church he was preferr'd to be Rector of Barnsley and afterwards to be Vicar of Cirencester in Glocestershire He hath published A Sermon preached at the Cath. Ch. in Glocester on S. Georges day on which day his Majesty was solemnly crown'd on Psal 21.3 Lond 1661. qu. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying 7. Octob. 1675 was buried in his Church at Cirencester Mar. 11. Edm. Hall of Pembr Coll. 14. Henry Hickman of Magd. Coll. The last was originally of Cambridge whence going to Oxon when Bachelaur of Arts he entred himself into Magd. Hall and in 1648 he was made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors He was afterwards a noted Writer a person of great repute among those of the Presbyterian perswasion and is now living in Holland and therefore to be remembred hereafter among Oxford Writers Admitted 39. or thereabouts Bach. of Phys Not one was admitted only three created and one incorporated The famous Mountebank of his time called Joh. Puntaeus an Italian and a Chymical Physitian who for many years before this had exercised his Art in several places within this Kingdom had license given to him to practice chirurgery throughout all England Nov. 16. After his Maj. restauration he lived at Salisbury and died rich and full of years ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. or Doct. of Law was admitted only created and incorporated as I shall tell you by and by Doct. of Phys June 8. Francis Barksdale of Magd. Coll. This person who was lately made Fellow of that Coll. by the Visitors was then admitted by the favour of Fairfax the Gen. and Cromwell the Lieut. Gen. lately at Oxon but with this condition that he perform all exercise requisite for the said degree within an year after his admission It was also their pleasure that Will. Hill sometimes of Mert. Coll might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Physick but whether he did so it appears not July 14. Daniel Malden M. of A. of Qu. Coll. in Cambr. who had studied Physick 7 years at least and had read his solemn Lecturers in the School of Medicine was then admitted by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this Universe which say that he was recommended to him by the Lord General that he had improved his studies by travelling abroad that he is affected to the cause and that he hath engaged himself and shed blood for the Parliament c.