Adversary to Hobbes of Malmesbury his Errours and that he had seen him openly oppose him so earnestly as either to depart from him or drive him out of the room c. JOHN MURCOT son of Job Murcot by Joane Townsend his Wife received his first being in the antient Borough of Warwick and his first learning in the Kings School there under Mr. Tho. Dugard who became Schoolmaster in 1633 and after 15 years spent in that employment was made Rector of Barford in that County At 17 years of age our Author Murcot was entred a Student in Merton Coll. in Easter Term 1642 being then committed to the tuition of Mr. Ralph Button Fellow of that house a good Scholar but rigid Presbyterian Soon after Oxford being garrison'd for the King he to avoid bearing Arms for him went thence in a disguise to Mr. Joh. Ley Vicar of Budworth in Cheshire where by continual lucubration for some years he did much improve himself in practical Divinity At length the Wars ceasing he returned to his College and continuing for some time there in godly exercise with his Tutor was admitted Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he returned to Mr. Ley again and became several ways useful to him in his Studies and Profession At length being called to the Ministry at Astbury in Cheshire where the said Mr. Ley had sometimes exercis'd his function he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way at Manchester but continuing not long there he was called to Eastham in Wyrrall in Cheshire where before he was quite setled he took to wife at 25 years of age one Hester the daughter of Ralph Marsden Minister of West Kirby in the said County but before the consummation of Marriage the people of the said place Marsden being dead gave him a call where he preached the Gospel to the beloved people of God From thence after some time he removed to the City of Chester where by his severe carriage he became ridiculous to the wicked So that being in a manner weary of that place he did upon the receipt of another call go into Ireland and at length setled himself and his family at Dublin became one of the Preachers in ordinary to the Lord Deputy and Council and by his often preaching and praying obtained a great flock of People to be his Admirers especially Women and Children The things that he hath written are Several Sermons and Treatises as 1 Circumspect walking a Christians wisdom on Ephes 5.15.16 2 The parable of the ten Virgins on Math. 25. from the first to the 14 vers 3 Christ the Sun of righteousness hath healing in his wings for sinners on Malach. 4.2 4 Christ his willingness to accept humbled sinners on Joh. 6.37 all which were published after his death at London 1657. qu. together with his life cantingly written by Sam. Winter Rob. Chambers Sam. Eaton Joseph Caryll and Tho. Manton all or most Presbyterians From which a common Reader may easily perceive that our Author Murcot was a forward prating and pragmatical Precisian Another Sermon of his is published called Saving faith on John 5.44 Lond. 1656. qu. but that I have not yet seen He gave up the ghost very unwillingly at Dublin on the third day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried with great lamentation of the brethren who always held him to be a pretious young man in S. Maries Chappel joyning to the Choire of Christ Church in the said City of Dublin where as I have been informed is a Monument set up to his memory JOSHUA HOYLE was born at Sorby otherwise Sowerbie within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire received his first academical Education in Magd. Hall and afterwards being invited to Ireland became a Member of Trinity Coll. near Dublin where in his Studies and Writings he directed his course for the Schoolmen In short time he became profound in the fac of Divinity took his Doctors degree therein and at length was made Divinity Professor of the University of Dublin In which Office he expounded the whole Bible through in daily Lectures and in the chiefest books ordinarily a verse a day which work held him almost 15 years Some time before he had ended that Work he began the second Exposition of the whole Bible in the Church of Trin. Coll. and within ten years he ended all the New Testament excepting one book and a piece all the Prophets all Salomon and Job So that his Answer to Malone the Jesuit did in part concur with both these Labours He preached also and expounded thrice every Sabbath for the far greater part of the year once every Holyday and sometimes twice To these may be added his weekly Lectures as Professor in the Controversies and his Answers to all Bellarmine in word and writing concerning the real presence and his finishing in above 8 years time his tome of the 7 Sacraments for there he began and his last tome in 6 years and after that sundry years in the tome or tomes remaining Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1641 he went into England having always been a noted Puritan and retiring to London became Vicar of Stepney near that City but being too scholastical he did not please the Parishioners While he remained there Jerem. Burroughs preached every morning at 7 of the clock and Will. Greenhill at 3 in the afternoon Which two persons being notorious Schismaticks and Independents were called in Stepney Pulpit by Hugh Peters the Theological Buffoon the morning star of Stepney and the evening star but never took notice of Dr. Josh Hoyle About the same time he was constituted one of the Assembly of Divines and became a helper on of the evidence against Archb. Laud when he was to come to his trial as to matter relating to the University of Dublin while he was Chancellour thereof At length by the favour of the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the Univ. of Oxon he became Master or Head of Univ. Coll. and the Kings Professor of Divinity He was a person of great reading and memory but of less judgment and so much devoted to his book that he was in a manner a stranger to the world and things thereof a careless person and no better than a mere scholar However that which was in made him respected by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland in whose Vindication he wrot A Rejoynder to Will Malone Jesuit his Reply concerning the real presence Dublin 1641. in a thick quar Which Reply was printed at Doway 1627. After which time the Author of it Malone was made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Rome which he presided 6 years then he went into Ireland where he was Superior of the whole mission of the Jesuits for 3 years Afterwards he was taken and committed by the Protestants from whom getting loose he went into Spain and being made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Sevil died there an aged man in
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
1690 1690. 1690. 1690. 1690. (*) See also in An impartial Collection of the great affairs of Sâ—ate c. published by Jio. Nalson LL. D. (a) In The Ghost of the laâ—e House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at published about the 19. of March 1680. 1690. (b) See more in a book entit The Lawes subversion or Sir Jo. Maynards case truly stated c. Lond. 1648. qu. written by Joh. Howldin Gent. 169â— 1. 1641. 1641 2. 1641 2 (a) Pat. 21. Jac. 1. p. 27. (b) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 12. 1643. 1644 5. (c) Pat. 15. Car. 1. p. 15. (d) Pat. 16. Car. 1. p. 19. 1644 5. (e) Reg. Matriculat Univ. Oxon. P. p. 473. 1646. (f) Jac. Waraeus in Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae edit 1665. p. 232. (g) Ibid. p. 138. 1648. (h) Ib. p. 121. 1650. 1650. Clar. 1651. (i) See in Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation c. of Ball. Coll. c. Oxon. 1668. p. 121. Clar. 1652. 1653. 1653. (*) Jac. War ut supr p. 219. (a) Gul. Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS sub an 1622. (b) Dr. John Gauden in his Suspiria Eccles Anglicanae c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 614. 1654 1654 5. (c) Jac. War ut supra p. 260. 1655. (d) Mystery and method of his Majesties happy restauration Lond. 1680. oct p. 20. Written by John Price D. D. 1661. 1662. 1662. 1662 3. (f) Dr. Laud in the Breviat of his life or Diary sub an 1632. p 17. (g) Ibid. p. 20. 1663. (h) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 2. p. 304. b. (i) Jac. War ut supra in Com. de Praes Heb. p. 273. 1663. (k) Reg. Electionum soc semicom Coll. Magd. 1664. (l) Ibid in Jac. War p. 268. 1664. 1665. (*) Ibid. p 138. 1665. 1665. 1665. (m) Pat. 13. Car. 1. p. 15. 1666. 1666. (n) Wiltshire visitation book in the Heralds Office an 1623. fol. 118. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1668. 1669. (a) Reg. Matric Univ. Oxon. P. fol. 124. b. 1669. (b) Pat. 6. Car. 1. p. 24. (c) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 14. (d) In his book called Canterburies Doome (e) In his book entit A new discovery of some Romish Emissaries Quakers c. Lond. 1656. qu. p. 32. 1670. (f) Pat. 12. Car. 1. p. 5. 1670. (g) Jac. War in Com. de Praesul Hibern p. 273.279 1671. 1671. (*) Edit Dubl 1665. p. 77. 1671. 1671 2. 1671 2. 1672. 1674 5. (*) Jac. War ut supra p. 190. (†) Hen. Coventry Esq originally of Qu. Coll afterwards Fell. of All 's and Sir Jos VVilliamson (a) Reg. Matric PP fol. 28. b. 1675. 1676. 1677. 1677. 1677. 1678. 1678. 1678 9. 168â— â— (*) Jac. Waraeus in Com. de Praesuiib Hibern p. 260. 1681 2. 1682. 1684 1684. 1684. 1685. 1686. 1686. 1666 7. 1687. 1687 8. 168â— 9. 1688 9. 1689. 1689. 1690. 1690. (a) Hen. Kâ—epe in his Monum Westmonast p. 361. (b) So 't is said among the names of the English Popish Converts set before Dr. Ben. Cariers Mâ—ssive to his Majesty of Gr Britaine K. Jam. 1. c. printed 1640 oct (c) In the preface to Steps to the Temple Lond. 164â— oct second edit (a) Tho. Hâ—bbes in praefat ad Element Philos sect 1. de corpoâ—e (*) Englands Recovery c. written by Josh Sprigg Lond. 1647. p. 45. (a) Joh. Wâ—eâ—er in his Ancient funeral Monuments c. Lond. 1631. p. 678. (*) Sir Robert Byron was Master of the Ordnance of the Kingdom of Ireland 1664 65. (a) Will. Dugd. in Chron. Scrii an 1640. (b) Ibid. (*) So in the Baronage of England tom 3. p. 419. b. (†) Jac. Waraus in Com. de Prasul Hi. Dab 1665. p. 26â— (a) Reg. Convoc S. p. 40. (b) Ibid. (*) Reg. Convoc S. p. 33. (*) At the end of a book of his entit Rationes sereniss Caroli contra effectatam curiae 〈◊〉 dicibatur Justitia jurisdictionem c. Printed in qu. about 1674. (a) Mystery of the good old cause printed 1660. p. 33. (b) James Heaâ—h in his Brief Chron. of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. â—râ—nâ—ed at Lond. 1663 in a thick octavo under the year 1650 p. 496. (c) In the Book oâ— Register of Administrations in the Will Office near S. Pauls C h. Ch. in London beginning in Jan. 1650. fol. 54. â— (*) Book of Certificates in the Coll. of Arms indorsed J. 30. pag. 53. 54. c. (†) Ibid. (*) In The Walkley's New Cat. of Duâ—kes Marquesses Earles Visc c. Printed at Lond. 16â—â— in oct p. 167. (a) Dr. Charles Goodall in his Royal Coll. of Physitians at London c. with a brief Hist of the lives and works of several of the Members of that Royal foundation c. Lond. 1684. qu. (b) In his prâ—f to Clavis Mathemat Oxon. 1652. third edit in oct (*) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1647. (*) See in Will. Prynn's book entit Canterburies Doome c. printed at Lond. 1646. p. 73. c. (a) Reg. Convoc T. p. 43. (b) Ibid. p. 26. (*) An exact and impartial Account of the Indictment Arraignment Tryal and Iudgâ—â—â—â— of 29 Râ—gâ—eâ—des c. Lond. 1660. qu. p. 46. (‖) Jam. Heath in his Brief 〈…〉 pr. aâ— Lond. 1663. under the year 1648. p. 355. (†) Exact and impartial 〈…〉 as before p. 44. (‡) Ibid. (*) In A seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England to petition for a Parliament c. Printed 1677. qu. (a) Josh Sprigge in his Englands recovery being the Hist of the moâ—ions actions c. of Sir Tâ—â— Fairfax Kt. c. Lond. 1647. fol. pag. 8. (*) Idem (b) Clem. Walker in his Hist of Independency c. part 1. §. 3. (c) Ibid. §. 34. (d) Ib. part 2. §. 22. (e) Ib. §. 23. (f) Ib. §. 146. 162. c. (a) Collection of Nativities by Sir Rich. Napiers MS. in the hands of El. Ashmole Esq (b) Flagellum or the life death c. of Ol. Cromwell c. Lond. 1665. third Edit in oct p. 4. (c) Collect. Joh. Vincent MS. nuper in bib Râ—d Sheld nunc in Collâ—â—trm (d) Ibid. (*) Sam. Austin in his Naps upon pernastus c. Lond. 1658. oct (*) See in A seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England to petitiâ—◠〈◊〉 a new Parliament Or a list of the principal Labourers in the great design of Popery and 〈…〉 c. Prâ—nted 1677 qu p. 22. (†) Ibid. (a) So in the Preface of Joh. Ray Esq to The Ornithology of Franc. Willoughly Esq Lond. 1678. fol. (*) Edw. Sherburne Esq in his Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of M. Manilius made an English Poem Lond. 675. p. 113. (*) Anth. Walker in his Virtuous Woman found Fun Serm. of Mary Countess Dowâ—ger of Warwick c. Lond. 1678. oct (*) Baronage of England Tom. 3. p. 1â—8 (*) Joh. Seawen as it seems M. A. of Ch. Ch. (†) He presented a copy of the said Lyricks to Mr. Sheldon when he was at Rome an 1669. (a) Letter from a Gent. in London to his friend in the Country Printed at Lond. in the beginning of Apr. 1676 in two shâ— and a half in qu. pag. 3. (b) Ibid. p. 13. (c) Ibid. (d) Ibid. p. 1.
the year 1592 aged 19 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602 and six years after leaving that House travelled into several Countries beyond the Seas whereby he obtained as well learning as experience At his return he was entertain'd by the Lord Chandois and by him respected and exhibited to After his death our Author with his Wife retired to Gloc. Hall where Dr. Hawley the Principal demised to him Lodgings and then became acquainted so well with Mr. Tho. Allen that by his endeavours the Learned Camden made him his first Reader of the History Lecture which he founded in this University Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall the which with his Lecture he kept to his dying day and was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man and by others a Calvinist He hath written De ratione methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Oxon. 1625. oct printed there again in 1637. in oct with this title Relectiones hyemales de ratione methodo legendi utriusque historias civiles ecclesiasticas c. At length Nich. Horsman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the second Edition and adding thereunto Mantissa de Historicis gentium particularium c. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct and had at the end this Speech of our Author printed with it viz. Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author The said Relectiones with the Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica added thereunto and Justus Lipsius his Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill De Historia set before it They were rendred into English I mean the Relectiones and Mantissa only by Edmund Bohun of Westhall in the County of Suffolk Esq of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know these things following viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the said County being the only Son of Baxter Bohun who with his ancestors have been Lords of the mannour of Westhall ever since 25. Hen. 8. that in the year 1663 he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge and continued there till the latter end of 1666 when then he was driven out of that University by the plague that raged there to his great hindrance in Learning In 1675 he was made one of the Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk and continued so till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was discharg'd In the first year of K. Will. and Qu. Mary he was restored to that office upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then sitting without his seeking and he now serves their Majesties in the said employment This worthy Person hath written An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation in three parts being the History of three Sessions of Parliament The first of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the last of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. 2 A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. against a pamphlet stiled A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments printed with and added to the Address 3 A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer against the mistakes and representations of Algernoon Sidney Esq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there Lond. 1684. in 4. sh and an half in fol. 4 The Justice of Peace his calling a moral Essay Lond. 1684. oct 5 A preface and a conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmers book entit Paetriarcha or the natural Law of Kings c. Added to the second and perfect edition of that book Lond. 1685. oct 6 A Geographical Dictionary representing the present and antient names of all the Countries Provinces remarkable Cities c. of the whole world with a short historical account of the same and their present state Lond. 1688. oct 7 The history of the desertion or an account of all the publick affairs in England from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following Lond. 1689. oct 8 An answer to a piece called The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country Gentleman printed at the end of The Hist of desertion The said Pamphlet called The Desertion discussed was written by Jer◠Collier of Cambridge 10 The Doctrine of Passive Obedience or Non-resistance no way concern'd in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a passage concerning Dr. Ken Bishop of Bathe and Wells which Mr. Bohun is satisfied is not true and therefore he desires that and the whole paragraph in which it is may be cancel'd 11 Life of Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury as I shall tell you by and by He hath also translated into English several things among which is 1 The origen of Atheisme in the Popish and Protestant Churches shewn by Dorotheus Sicurus Lond. 1684. qu. 2 An Apologie of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent Lond. 1685. in oct written by Joh. Jewell sometimes B. of Salisbury To which is added a brief of the Life of the said Jewell collected by Mr. Bohun from the large life of the said Person written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey 3 The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical Histories as I have told you before 4 The universal Historical Bibliotheque or an account of the most considerable books printed in all languages wherein a short account is given of the design of almost every book and the quality of the author if known For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687 Discontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookseller lately living in S. Pauls Ch. yard in London 5 The 25. and 26 th book of the general History of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome began in Germany by Mart. Luther Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. 6 The present state of Germany or an account of the extent rise forme wealth c. of that Empire c. Lond. 1690. oct written in lat by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name What other things he hath written and translated I know not sure I am that our Author Whear hath besides the before-mentioned things published these following Parentatio Historica Sive commemoratio vitae mortis V. C. Guliel Camdeni Clarentii facta Oxoniae in Schola Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Epistolarum Eucharisticarum fasciculus Charisteria These two last are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis
c. He hath also written Lectures on the three books of the Punick War in Luc. Florus which are now about to be published At length departing this mortal life on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried on the third day of the same month in Exeter Coll. Chappel His study of books and collections in MS. came after his death into the hands of his old Friend Francis Rouse Provost of Eaton Coll. near to Windsore and his Lectures in MS. to Bodleys Library He left also behind him a Widow and Children who soon after became poor and whether the Females lived honestly 't is not for me to dispute it HENRY MASON was born in a Market Town in Lancashire called Wygan or Wiggin became a Servitour of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of 1592 elected one of Humph. Ogles Exhibitioners thereof 2. Nov. 1593 took one degree in Arts two years after entred into Holy Orders and became Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. in 1602. The next year he proceeded in Arts and seven years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences At length being made Chapl. to Dr. Jo. King B. of Lond. was by his endeavours as I suppose made Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft in that City where by his exemplary life edifying and judicious preaching and writing he did great benefit and was by all that knew him accounted a true Son of the Church of England His writings are these The new art of lying covered by Jesuits under the veil of Equivocation Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1634. in tw Christian humiliation or a treatise of Fasting with a brief discourse of Lent Lond. 1625. qu. Epicures Fast or a short discourse discovering the licentiousness of the Rom. Ch. in her religious Fasts Lond. 1626. in qu. Tribunal of the conscience or a treatise of examination Lond. 1626. 27. qu. Short discourse declaring the condition of Worldly cares with some remedies appointed for them Lond. 1628. Certain passages in Mr. Sam. Hoards book entit Gods love to mankind c. Answer'd by Dr. Twisse under the name of Additions in his Riches of Gods love to the vessells of mercy c. as I have told you before in Dr. Twisse Hearing and doing the ready way to blessedness Lond. 1635. in tw Rules for right hearing of Gods word printed with the former book Several Sermons as 1 The Christians fast c. on Matth. 4.2 Lond. 1627. qu. 2 Contentment in Gods gifts or some Sermon notes leading to equanimitie and contentation on Joh. 20.3.4.5.6 Lond. 1630. in tw 3 Sermon on Luke 11.28 This I have not seen nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of Divinity which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr. Gilb. Sheldon afterwards Archb. of Cant. From whom it came to Dr. Dolben Bish of Roch. afterwards of York in whose possession it was when he died At length when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant in 1641 our Author Mason through vexation occasion'd by that Party was forced soon after to leave his Rectory of S. Andrew beforemention'd purposely to make room for a godly brother Afterwards he retired with his goods and books to Wygan his native place where living in obscurity for some years not without vexation by the Rebels surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to him that first gave it in his house situate and being in a street there called Scoles in the beginning of August in sixteen hundred forty and seven and in that of his age 74 or thereabouts and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in the yard or cemeterie close to the ground-work of the pillar or buttress at the east end of the Church at Wygan He had before given to the poor of that Town 13 l. per an to bind poor children apprentices his librarie of books to the School and a considerable number of Bibles to the poorer sort of people for their children there JOHN VERNEUIL Vernulius was born in the City of Bourdeaux in France educated in the University of Mountalban till he was M. of Arts flew from his country for religion sake being a Protestant and went into England where he had his wants supplied for a time by Sir Thom. Leigh Afterwards he retired to the University of Oxon. in 1608 and on the fourth day of Nov. in the same year being then 25 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a member of Magdalen Coll. from which House as from others he received relief In 1625 he was incorporated Master of Arts being then second-keeper of Bodleys Library where he performed good service for that place and wrot for the use of the Students there these things following Catalogus Interpretum S. Scripturae juxta numerorum ordinem quo extant in bibl Bodl. Oxon. 1635. qu. sec Edition The first was began by Dr. Tho. James Elenchus authorum tum recentium quam antiquorum qui in 4 libros sententiarum Thomae Aquinatis summas item in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni de casibus conscientiae nec non in orationem Dominicam Symbolum Apostolorum Decalogum scripserunt This is printed with the Cat. Interpretum c. an 1635. Nomenclator of such tracts and sermons as have been printed and translated into English upon any place or book of the Holy Scripture now to be had in Bodleys Library Oxon. 1637. 42. in tw He also translated from French into English A Tract of the Soveraign Judge of controversies in matters of religion Oxon. 1628. qu. written by Joh. Cameron D. D. of Saumaur Divinity Professor in the Academy of Mountalban afterwards Principal of Glascow in Scotland And from English into Latine a book entit Of the deceitfulness of mans heart Genev. 1634. oct written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge The said Joh. Verneuil died in his house within and near the East-gate of the City of Oxon in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried on the last day of the same month in the Church of St. Peter in the East within the said City at which time our publick Library lost an honest and useful servant and his children a good Father ROBERT PINK Son of Hen. Pink of Kempshot in the Parish of Winslade in Hampshire was born there educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1596 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line was admitted Bach. in that faculty 1612 afterward studied Divinity was elected Warden of his Coll. 1617 proceeded in Divinity and was much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. for his dexterity in disputing as by K. Ch. 1. for his eminent loyalty He was a zealous defender of the University privileges and liberties especially when he performed the office of Vicechancellour and esteemed by all that knew him most eminent for his knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity He hath written Quaestiones selectiores in Logicâ Ethicâ
the English Midianite wherein are compared by way of parallel the carriage or rather miscarriage of the Cavaliers c. Lond. 1642. Which Pamphlet tho 't is but one sheet in quarto yet forsooth he had a co-operator in writing it and who should that be but one George Laurence of New Inn as rank a Presbyterian as Love Englands distemper having division and errour as its cause wanting peace and truth for its cure c. Serm. preached at Uxbridge 30. Jan. 1644. on Jerem. 33.6 Lond. 1645. qu. His vindication from those scandalous aspersions cast upon him by the Malignant party who charge him to be a hinderer of the treaty at Uxbridge c. Printed with Englands Distemper and by it self in one sh in qu. at Lond. 1651. Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Will. Dells Sermon preached before the H. of Commons 25. Nov. 1646. on Heb. 9.10 Lond. 1646. and 47. qu. Which animadversions were replyed upon the same year by Dell. The reader is to note that our Author Love preached the same day being a solemn Fast before the said H. of Commons but his Sermon being much displeasing to the Independents and malepert against the then proceedings of Parliament he had neither thanks given him or order to print it but Dell a Minister attending on his excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax being encouraged to print his netled Love so much that he forthwith wrot the said animadversions Answer to an unlicensed Pamphlet annext to the Sermon entit A reply to Mr. Loves contradictions Lond. 1647. oct Which Reply to the contradictions of Mr. Loves Sermon was written as it seems by Dell. His case Pr. 1651. qu. and thereupon followed soon after Quaeries upon it but who wrot them I know not His vindication Printed 1651. qu. pen'd by himself His Advocate Pr. 1651. qu. pen'd as I have been informed by himself Several petitions to the Parl. in Jul. and Aug. Lond. 1651. qu. A full narrative of the late dangerous designe against the state c. Lond. 1651. qu. This is said to be written by him and by him sent to the Parl. Wherein he setteth down his several meetings and several actings with Major Alford c. Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Tho. Cawton Dr. Drake Mr. Rich. Drake Maj. Rob. Huntingdon Mr. Will. Jenkyns c. His Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold on Tower-hill 22. Aug. 1651. Lond. 1651. qu. On which Sp. and Pr. were animadversions made and published by Anonymus and on his decollation a Poem by Dr. Rob. Wild Rector of Ainoe in Northamptonshire intit The tragedy of Christop Love at Tower-hill Lond. 1660 in one sh in qu. Grace the truth and growth and different degrees thereof The sum and substance of the last 15 Sermons preached by him Lond. 1652. in oct there again 1654 and a third time in 1657. qu. The first Sermon is on 1. Kings 14. part of the 13. vers published with an Epistle before them subscribed by Edm. Calamy Simeon Ash Jerem. Whitaker and Will. Taylor dated 13. Feb. 1634. Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. B. being the last Sermon he ever preached on Job 30.23 Printed with the book of Grace beforemention'd Against the said Sermons were great complaints made by divers Officers of the Army and other notorious Independents to the Parliament in 1652 thus several pamphlets have been lately published in vindication of Mr. Love wherein they the Presbyterians account him a Martyr as in the pref to his Sermons and charge the Parliament with injustice in putting him to death c. more particularly Mr. Edm. Calamy in his late Epistle before Mr. Loves Sermons and his funeral Sermon hangs out a flag of defiance to the State proclaiming Mr. Love to die in and for the Lord And the Saints meaning the Independents and Anabaptists he calls Murtherers Traytors Rebels Blasphemers c. and chargeth the highest sins to have ascended into Pulpits and Thrones c. But upon examination Mr. Calamy as 't is said was not the Author of that Preface but another more violent than he Heavens glory Hells terror or two treatises the one concerning the glory of the Saints with Jesus Christ as a spur to duty in 10 Sermons The other of the torments of the damned as a preservative against security in 8 Sermons Lond. 1653. 58. qu. Soules cordiall in two treatises Lond. 1653. oct Treatise of effectual calling and election in 16 Sermons on 2. Pet. 1.10 Lond. 1653. qu. ibid. 1658. oct This treatise hath an Epist commend before it subscribed by E. Calamy Jerem. Whitaker Simeon Ash Will. Taylor and Allen Geere Scripture rules to be observed in buying and selling Lond. 1653. on one side of a sh of paper The true doctrine of mortification and sincerity in opposition to hypocrisie Lond. 1654. in oct Combate between the flesh and the spirit as also the woful withdrawing of the spirit of God with the causes thereof c. being the sum and substance of 27 Sermons Lond. 1654. 58. qu. Ded. by Will. Taylor to Edw. Bradshaw Mayor of Chester and the Epist to the reader is subscrib'd by E. Calamy S. Ash and Jer. Whitaker before-mention'd Sum or substance of practical Divinity or the grounds of religion in a catechistical way Lond. 1654. in tw Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God hath cast him into in 15 Sermons Lond. 1654 and 58 qu. The Epist to the Reader is subscrib'd by Calamy Ash Taylor and Geere before mention'd all Presbyterians The dejected Soules cure tending to support poor drooping sinners c in divers sermons Lond. 1657. qu. The ministry of the Angels to the heirs of Salvation Or a treatise of Angels Lond. 1657. qu. Of the Omnipresence of God in several sermons began 13 May 1649 and ended 3 June following Lond. 1657. qu. The sinners Legacy to their posterity on Lam. 5.8 Lond. 1657. qu. These four last books have an Epist commend before them subscribed by Calamy Ash and Taylor before mentioned as also by Will. Whitaker Math. Poole and Jos Church Presbyterians The penitent pardon'd A Treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the privilege of the pardon of sin Lond. 1657. qu. Discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven wherein the opinion of the Chiolists is considered and solidly confuted Lond. 1657. qu. This with The penitent pardoned c. is the substance of several Sermons Both published by Calamy Ash Taylor and Will. Whitaker before mention'd The natural mans case stated or an exact map of the little world Man in 17 sermons Lond. 1658. oct These are all the things that he hath extant as I conceive and therefore I have nothing more to say only that he was beheaded on Tower-hill on the 22 of August in sixteen hundred fifty and one Whereupon his body being afterwards carried to his house and there reposited for a time was buried with great lamentation by the Brethren
and Church for a long time after But being a man of parts and eminent in the retired Walks of Learning he was looked upon as a person worth the gaining Whereupon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. took upon him to do and at last effected it and to shew what great esteem his Maj. and the Archb. had for the book then lately published Sir Will. Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council was sent with a copy of it to the Barons of the Exchequer in the open Court an 1636 to be by them laid up as a most inestimable Jewel among the choice Records which concerned the Crown In this book he did not only assert the Sovereignty or dominion of the British Seas to the Crown of England but clearly proved by constant and continual practice that the Kings of England used to levy money from the Subjects without help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other Necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty which did of right belong unto them This he brings home to the time of King Hen. 2. and might have brought it nearer to his own times had he been so pleased and thereby paved a plain way to the payment of Ship-money but then he must have thwarted the proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament going before wherein he had been a great Stickler voting down under a kind of Anathema the Kings pretensions of right to all help from the Subject either in Tonage or Poundage or any other ways whatsoever the Parliament not co-operating and contributing towards it But howsoever it was the Service was as grateful as the Author acceptable from thenceforth both a frequent and welcome guest at Lambeth house where he was grown into such esteem with the Archbishop that he might have chose his own preferment in the Court as it was then generally believed had he not undervalued all other Employments in respect of his Studies But possibly there might be some other reason as my Author saith for his declining such Employments as the Court might offer He had not yet forgotten the Affronts which were put upon him about the Hist of Tithes for in the notion of Affronts he beheld them always and therefore he did but make fair weather for the time till he could have an opportunity to revenge himself on the Church and Churchmen the King being took into the reckoning For no sooner did the Archb. begin to sink in power and credit under the first pressures of the Long Parliament but he published a book in Greek and Lat. by the name of Eutychius with some notes upon it in which he made it his chief business to prove that Bishops did not otherwise differ from the rest of the Presbyterrs than doth a Master of a College from the Fellows thereof and so by consequence that they differ'd only in degree not order And afterwards when his Majesty began to decline in the love of the Parliament and that the heats grew strong between them he was affirmed to have written An answer to his Majesties Declaration about the Commission of Array which in effect proved a plain putting of the sword into the hands of the people So hard it is for any one to discern the hearts of men by their outward actions but the God that made them But now let 's proceed to the other books that our learned Author hath written De successionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum leges Hebraeorum Lond. 1631. 36. Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct Franc. ad Oderam 1673. qu. De successione in Pontificatum Hebraeorum lib. duo This is printed and goes with the former book De jure naturali gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. Argentor 1665. qu. Brief discourse concerning the power of Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature Lond. 1640. in two sh in qu. Written either by Selden or by Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Baronet Answer to Harbottle Grimston's Argument concerning Bishops Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects in a conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses an 1628. Lond. 1642. in qu. Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament Lond. 1642. in oct Versio comment ad Eutychii Ecclesiae Alexandrinae Origines Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are added the said Eutychius his Annals with Comments thereon by Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Oxon. De anno civili calendario judaico Lond. 1644. qu. Lugd. Bat. 1683. oct Uxor Hebraica sive de nuptiis ac divortiis lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc. ad od 1673. qu. Fleta seu comment juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus Lond. 1647. qu. Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agendi excipiendique formulis Dissertatio historica ad Fletam These two last are printed and go with Fleta Prefatio ad Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem Lond. 1652. fol. De Synedriis Praefecturis veterum Hebraeorum lib. 3. Lond. 1650. qu. Amst 1679. qu. Which last Edition had divers corrections made to purge out the errors of the former by reason of the many languages 20 in number therein Vindiciae secundum integritatem existimationis suae per convitium de scriptione Maris clausi Lond. 1653. qu. In which are many things said of himself God made man A Tract proving the Nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25 of December Lond. 1661. oct with the Authors picture before it This posthumous book was answer'd in the first Postscript after a book intit A brief but true account of the certain year month day and minute of the birth of Jesus Christ Lond. 1671. oct written by John Butler Bach. of Div. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormond and Rector of Liechborow in the dioc of Peterborough The second Postscript is against Mich. Seneschal D. D. his tract on the same subject This Butler whom I take to be a Cambridge man is a great Pretender to Astrology and hath lately some sharp debates in print in reference thereunto with Dr. Hen. More of the same University Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Lond. 167â— fol. To which is added W. Dugdales Cat. of Lord Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Norman Conquest De nummis c. Lond. 1675. qu. Bibl. nummaria Lond. 1675. qu. Both which are dedicated to that sometimes curious Antiquary for Coynes Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies which he professed and therefore much respected by our Author Selden I shall say these things following of him viz. 1 That he was born at Coxden the inheritance of his Mother near to Chardstock in Dorsetshire on the 18 of Decemb. 1602 according to the Julian Accompt 2 That he was son of Paul D'ewes Esq one of the six Clerks in Chancery by Cecilia his Wife daughter and heir of Rich. Symonds of Coxden before mentioned Which Paul was son of Gerard D'ewes of
certain passages not at all befitting the place especially on such a text which treated concerning the resurrection of our Saviour The truth is this our Preacher was a Person more ingenious than prudent and more apt upon most occasions to display his fancy than to proceed upon solid reason if not he would not in his said Sermon have discanted on the whole life of our Saviour purposely to render him and his Attendants Men and Women objects of scorn and aversion as if they had been a pack of dissolute vagabonds and cheats But the best of it was that tho he then assumed the Person of a Jewish Pharisee and Persecutor of Christ yet presently after changing his stile as became a Disciple of Christ he with such admirable dexterity as 't is said answered all the Cavillations and Invectives before made that the loudly repeated applauses of his Hearers hindred him a good space from proceeding in his Sermon He hath written and published these things following Commentary on the Hebrews Lond. 1646. 47. fol. Published under the Capital Letters of G. M. Animadverted upon by Rich. Porter Bach. of Div. Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and Prebendary of Norwych in his book intit God incarnate shewing that Jesus Christ is the only and most high God c. Lond. 1655. oct In the Epistle dedicatory before it he saith he was drawn to write that book by the importunity of some religious friends and by the iniquity of a most blasphemous book lately printed and called A commentary on the Hebrews written by a nameless D. of D. who now resides in this County Norfolk but formerly in Broadgates Hall so it was then called wherein he hath vented such blasphemies against Jesus Christ as without special revocation and repentance will in the end bring both himself and all his seduced Sectaries to that woful Broad gate of which mention is made Matth. 7.13 Lata est porta quae ducit ad perditionem c. The said Commentary hath laid the axe to the root and foundation of our Christian Religion by ungoding Jesus Christ and blasphemously denying his grand and most gracious work of Redemption And it is to be feared that the pernicious Doctrines therein contained have many Abetters and Favourers in these dangerous times albeit his Commentary is the first of all the Serpents nest that dared to peep out and appear in our English Print who both by his book and by his personal insinuations hath already as we know perverted many from the saving truth of the Gospel to the evident danger both of theirs and his own soul And his impious ambition to be the Ring-leader of this blasphemy hath in this County Norfolk procured to him such a title and character as was fastned on Marcion the Heretick by Polycarpus when he called him Primogenitum Satanae c. Thus the Author before quoted But the Reader must know that the said Commentary on the Hebrews was long since written in the Lat. Tongue by a Foreigner either Joh. Crellius Slightingius or by some other Socinian and was translated into English by this our Author not without some alterations and additions He also published Commentary on the Galathians Lond. 1650. fol. Translated from Crellius and wrot Logica Analytica de principiis regulis usu rationis rectae lib. 3. Lond. 1650. oct dedicated by the Author to Thom. Some Esq his then Patron But the copy coming from the Author into the hands of Nich. Bacon great Nephew to Francis Viscount S. Albans was by him published propter operis perfectionem as he saith in quo nihil dictum quod non statim probatum est vel à principiis primo per se notis vel à propositionibus inde demonstratis deinde etiam propter ejus usum vel fructum eximium There was another part written by the same Author De argumentatione when this was published but whether ever it came to light I know not The resurrection rescued from the Soldiers calumnies in two sermons at S. Maries in Oxon on Math. 28.13 and on Acts 2. latter part of the first verse Lond. 1659 in tw then published under the name of Rob. Jones D. D. Treatise of the passions according to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas Treat upon the Theology of Proclus These two last are written in Latine and go about in MS. from hand to hand and are not as I conceive yet printed At length our Author retiring in his last days to some of his relations living at Sittingbourne near Milton in Kent where he lived for some time in great retiredness surrendred up his soul to God on 22 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and one aged 72 years and was buried in the south Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was soon after set up against the south wall of the said Chancel a comely monument containing an arch of Alabaster supported by two pillars of black marble between which is the statue or bust to the middle of our Author Lushington in his Doctor 's gown holding his right hand on his breast and having in his left a book leaning on a cusheon Over his head is an Urne and under him a square table of black marble with a large Inscription thereon beginning thus Siste viator raro calcabis doctos simul mansuetos cineres c. Under all are piles of books On the stone that covers his grave is another Inscription beginning thus Hic jacet Thomas Lushingtonus olim Collegii Lincolniensis Pembr c. The copies of both which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 335. b. in the first of which is an high character given of him HENRY VAUGHAN Son of John Vaughan Gentleman was born at Cathle or Cathlin in Merionethshire became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in Midsum term 1632 aged 16 years whence being elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. continued there for some time under a severe discipline took the degrees in Arts was made Fellow of that house and afterwards became Preacher while King Ch. 1. kept his Court in Oxon in the time of the grand Rebellion In July 1643 he was presented by the Univ. of Oxon to the Vicaridge of Penteg in Monmouthshire by vertue of an Act made in Parl. began at Westm 5 of Nov 3 Jac. 1. to disinable Recusants to present Persons to Livings in their gifts What other Preferments he had or what he suffer'd for his Loyalty I know not nor any thing else of him only that he wrot Several Sermons as 1 Serm. preached before the H. of Com. at Oxon. on Math. 5.20 Ox. 1644. qu. c. Conference had between him and Jo. Tombes B. D. in S. Maries Church in Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653 touching Infant-baptism Lond. 1656. qu. and that he died and was buried at Abergavenny about sixteen hundred sixty and one as I was some years since informed by his Pupil Sir Leolin Jenkyns sometimes Principal of Jesus Coll. afterwards Judge
from all appearance of evil c. Oxon 1640. 1660. oct and qu. Want of Church-government no warrant for a total omission of the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1650. qu. Ox. 1653. oct Vindication of Dr. Will. Twysse from the Exceptions of Mr. Joh. Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed Oxon. 1653. fol. The Examiner examined or a Reply to Mr. Fulwoods Examination of want of Church-Government no warrant for omission of the Lords Supper Lond. 1653. This Mr. Fulwood is the same with Franc. Fulwood sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Minister of West Alvington in Devonshire Archdeacon of Totness D. of D. and Canon of Exeter an eminent Writer of his time A mixture of scholastical Divinity with practical in several Tractates Oxon. 1656. qu. The titles of those Tracts are 1 Concerning the sinful fear of man 2 Of Christs incarnation 3 Of the resurrection of Christ 4 Concerning the fulness of Christ and 5 Of the excellency of Praise and Thanksgiving being all the effect of certain Sermons Dr. Hammond's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a greater ardency of Christs love of God at one time than another proved to be utterly irreconcileable with his fulness of habitual grace and perpetual happiness and impeccability of the Soul Oxon. 1657. qu. Replyed upon by a third person in a book intit The Refuter refuted See in Will. Creed under the year 1663. Treatise concerning the indifferency of humane actions Oxon. 1659. qu. Brief and scholastical discourse touching the nature of Thanksgiving on Ephes 5.20 Oxon 1660. qu. Mostly the same mention'd in the fifth head of A mixture of scholastical Divinity c. Of original righteousness and its contrary concupisence Oxon. 1660. qu. Written against Dr. Jer. Taylor Sermon enlarged into a Treatise concerning the last and general judgment c. on Rom. 2.16 Oxon. 1660. qu. Certain Letters between him and Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning a passage of his Hen. Jeanes in his farther explication of original sin Oxon 1660. qu. Uniformity in humane doctrinal Ceremonies grounded on 1 Cor. 14.40 Or a reply to Dr. Hammonds Vindication of his grounds of Uniformity Oxon. 1660. qu. Dr. Creed's voluminous defence of Dr. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 briefly examined and the weakness thereof fully discovered Lond. 1661. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The work of heaven upon earth c. Serm. at Taunton in Somersetsh 11 May 1648 being a day set apart for the annual commemoration of the deliverance of that Town by the relief which they received on the 11 of May 1645 on Psal 92. ver 1. Lond. 1649. qu. and others besides what are before mention'd as also an Answer to John Milton's book intit Iconoclasies c. printed 1651. qu. and said to be written by one Jeans which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in the City of Wells some few days before the fatal day of S. Barthelmew in the month of August in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Cathedral Church there At which time one of his perswasion intended to preach a Sermon of Mortality but Dr. Piers the then Bishop of that place who had no affection for Jeanes because he knew him to have been an Heretick and often had call'd him so examined the Sermon least any thing therein might be spoken in commendation of him and his opinions JOHN BIDDLE or Biddellus as he is by some Authors written Son of Edw. Bid. a Taylor was born at Wotton Under Edge in Glocestershire baptized on the 14. of January 1615 and afterwards being a youth of great hopes was by the benevolence and exhibition of George Lord Berkley educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there by John Rugg and John Turner successive Masters thereof Under the last he made so great proficiency in his studies that he englished Virgils Bucolicks and the Two first Satyrs of Juvenal Both which were printed at Lond. in 1634 in oct and dedicated to John Smith of Nibley in the said County Esq Mecaenas of the Wottonian Muses In the beginning of that year having a little before composed and recited before a full auditory an elaborate oration in Latine for the gracing the funeral of an honorable School fellow he was entred a Student of Magd. Hall and for a time if I mistake not was put under the tuition of John Oxenbridge a Person then noted to be of no good principles Before he had taken the degree of Master of Arts being about that time a Tutor in the said Hall he was invited to take upon him the care of teaching the School wherein he had been educated by the Overseers thereof but refused it and after he had compleated the said degree which was in 1641 he became Master of Crypt School within the City of Glocester where for a time he was much esteemed for his diligence in his profession severity of manners and sanctity of life At length the Nation being brought into confusion by the restless Presbyterians the said City garrison'd for the use of the Parliament and every one vented his or their opinions as they pleased he began to be free of his discourses of what he had studied there at leisure hours concerning the Trinity from the holy Scriptures having not then as he pretended convers'd with Socinian Books But the Presbyterian Party then prevalent there having notice of these matters and knowing full well what mischief he might do among his disciples the Magistrate summoned him to appear before him and after several interrogatories a form of confession under three heads was proposed to him to make which he accordingly did 2. May 1644 but not altogether in the words proposed Which matter giving then no satisfaction he made another confession in the same month more evident than the former to avoid the danger of imprisonment which was to follow if he should deny it Afterwards being more satisfied in his mind by reading various Authors he drew up several arguments against the generally received deity of the Holy Ghost which he intended shortly after to print but being betrayed by one whom he took to be his sure friend who had as it seems a copy of them he acquainted the Magistrate and Parliament Committee then in the said City of the matter Whereupon after they had perused them they committed the Author then labouring under a feaver to the common Goal there on the 2. of Decemb. 1645 to remain in that place till the Parliament should take cognizance of the matter But a certain Person of note dwelling in Glocester who had a respect for Biddle for the truth is except his opinions there was little or nothing blame worthy in him he procured his liberty by giving sureties for his appearance when it should please the Parliament to send for him About the month of June in 1646 the learned Usher Primate of Ireland travelled through that City in his way to London and having before heard of spake to and used him with all fairness and
his imprisonment He departed this mortal life on the 12 day of Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Church at Morton-Pinkney in Northamptonshire as I have been informed by his son Hen. Bagshaw D. D. sometimes a Student of Christ Church in Oxon who having published several things ought hereafter to be remembred in the Append. to these Athenae I shall make mention of another Edw. Bagshaw son of the aforesaid Edward under the year 1671. WILLIAM COLE Son of Joh. Cole of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bach. of Div. and sometimes Fellow of New College was born and educated in Grammar learning there entred a Student in the University in 1642 and soon after was made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters of Merton Coll. by his Mothers brother Joh. French one of the senior Fellows of that house and publick Registrary of the University When he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he was made a publick Notary to the end that he might supply the said place of Registrary when Mr. French was either absent or indisposed In the latter end of 1650 he took one degree in Arts his Uncle being then dead left the University retired to London and lived several years at Putney near that City where he became the most famous Simpler or Herbarist of his time At length upon the Kings Restoration in 1660 he was made Secretary to Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winchester in whose service he died His works are these The Art of Simpling or an introduction to the knowledge of gathering of Plants wherein the definitions divisions places descriptions c. are compendiously discoursed of c. Lond. 1656. oct Perspicillum microcosmologicum or a prospective for the discovery of the lesser world wherein Man is a Compendium c. Printed with the former Adam in Eden or Natures Paradise The History of Plants Herbs Flowers with their several original names c. Lond. 1657. fol. Into this book if I am not mistaken is remitted The Art of Simpl. As for the book intit The Garden of Eden or an accurate description of all flowers c. which was printed in 1653 't was written by that learned and great Observer Sir Hugh Plat Knight Our Author Will. Cole died either at Winchester or at Farnham in Surrey in sixteen hundred sixty and two aged 36 or thereabouts but where buried I know not I find another Will. Cole who published a book in t A Rod for the Lawyers who are hereby declared to be the grand Robbers and Deceivers of the Nation c. Lond. 1659. qu. But of what University he was if of any at all I know not THOMAS WEAVER Son of Tho. Weav was born in the City of Worcester applied his poetical genie to Academical Learning in Ch. Ch. an 1633 aged 17 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1640 about which time he was made one of the Chaplains or petty-Canons of the Cathedral from which place being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he shifted from place to place and lived upon his wits a Specimen of which he published to the world intit Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery Printed 1654. in oct In which book is a Ballad intit Zeal over-heated or a relation of a lamentable fire which hapned in Oxon in a religious brothers Shop c. to the tune of Chivey Chase The said religious brother was Tho. Williams a Milliner living sometimes against Allsaints Church where holy Cornish teached that is Hen. Cornish a Presbyterian Minister Canon of Ch. Ch. by Authority of Parliament an 1648. But the said Songs and Poems being looked upon by the godly men of those times as seditious and libellous against the Government he was imprison'd and afterwards tried for his life Whereupon his book being produced in open Court after it had been proved that he was the Author of it the Judge read some pages and then spake to this effect Gentlemen the person that we have here before us is a Scholar and a man of wit Our Forefathers had Learning so much in honor that they enacted that those that could but as much as read should never be hanged unless for some great crime and shall we respect it so little as to put to death a man of parts I must tell you I should be very unwilling to be the person that should condemn him and yet I must be forced to it if the Jury bring him in guilty c. So that upon this harangue too large to be all here set down the Jury brought him in not guilty Whereupon being set at liberty he was ever after highly valued by the boon and generous Royalist He hath also certain Epigrams extant which I have not yet seen and wrot the copy of verses called The Archbishop of York's revolt printed in the Poems of Joh. Cleaveland besides divers pieces of Poetry printed in several books published in his time After his Majesties return in 1660 he was made Excise-man for Leiverpole in Lancashire and was commonly called Captain Weaver but prosecuting too much the crimes of Poets brought him to his grave in the Church there in the prime and strength of his years on the third day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two About the beginning of the year 1656 was a book published entit Choice Drollery with Songs and Sonnets Which giving great offence to the Saints of that time who esteem'd it a lewd and scandalous thing it was order'd by the Protectors Council to be burnt on the 8. of May the same year But who the Author of that book was I cannot yet tell ROBERT SANDERSON a younger Son of Rob. Sanderson was born at Rotheram in Yorkshire on the 19 of Sept. 1587 29 Elizab. educated in the Grammar School there sent by his Relations to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1601 afterwards matriculated a member of the University as a Ministers Son took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Lent term 1604 elected Fellow of the said Coll. 3. May 1606 having then a Metaphysical brain and matchless memory In Mich. term 1607 he was admitted Master of Arts and in July following he compleated that degree by standing in the Act. In 1611 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. King B. of London in 1614 he stood to be Proctor of the University but missed it and the year after he published his Logick Lectures that he had before read in the publick Refectory of Linc. Coll. So that his name being then famous he was elected Proctor with great ease and willingness an 1616. The next year he was admitted Bach. of Div. and the year after that became Rector of Wibberton near to Boston in Lincolnshire but surrendred it up as he did his Fellowship in 1619 because it was a bad air The same year he became Rector of Bothby-paynel in the said County was made Chaplain to Dr. George
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
An. 1637. reprinted in qu. in double columes an 1641. A quench coal with an appendix to it in answer to A coal from the altar and other Pamphlets touching altars and bowing to or towards them An. 1637. An humble remonstrance against the tax of shipâ—money lately imposed laying open the illegality injustice abuses and inconveniences thereof Written 1636. corruptly printed without the authors privity at Lond. 1641. qu. Since which time 't was reprinted by a perfect copy at Lond. 1643 in 4. sh in qu. Additions to the first part of a dialogue between A. and B. concerning the Sabbaths morality and the unlawfulness of pastimes on the Lords day Twice printed in 1636. The antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy both to legal monarchy and civil unity Or an historical collection of the several execrable treasons conspiracies rebellions state-schismes contumacies of antimonarchical English British French Scottish and Irish Lordly Prelates against our King Kingdoms c. Enlarged and published by authority since the authors enlargement and return from exile Lond. 1641. qu. in two parts All the bad things concerning Bishops which Prynne could pick and rake out of Histories he hath at large set down but the good things he hath omitted such was and is the charity of him and the Brethren Those matters also which Dr. Godwin B. of Hereford did out of a puritanical peak collect against the antient Cath. Bishops he also very readily hath collected together to bring an odium on their function Books compiled by Prynne during his close imprisonment in Mount-Orgueil Castle in Jersey Mount-Orgueil or divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplations of these three leaves of natures volume 1. Rocks 2. Seas 3. Gardens Lond. 1641. qu. A poetical description of Mount-Orgueil Castle to the Isle of Jersey The Souls complaint against the bodies encroachment on her and comfortable coâ—dials against the discomforts of imprisonment This is a poem Pleasant purge for a Rom. Catholick to evacuate his evil humours consisting of a century of polemical epigrams These three last things are printed and bound up with Mount-Orgueil or divine c. The reader is to observe that during the time of Prynn's imprisonment was published a book intit Woodstreet-Compters plea for its prisoner Or the sixteen reasons which induce Nathan Wickins late servant to Mr. Will. Prynne but now prisoner in the said Compter to refuse to take the Oath ex officio wherein c. Printed 1638 in 10. sh in qu. Which book tho put out under the name of Nath. Wickins yet it was generally supposed that Prynne was the chief composer because of the many quotations therein Books written by W. Prynne since his enlargement and return from exile not to mention his Petition to be recalled from exile c. which was printed New discovery of the Prelates Tyranny in their late prosecutions of Mr. Will. Prynne Dr. John Bastwick and Mr. Hen. Burton Wherein the joint proceedings against them in the High commission and Star-chamber c. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book he does Archbishop Laud a great deal of injustice especially in this respect that all the things that make against him or sounds ill to his name he with great zeal scrapes together whilst any thing that sounds to his honour or the least good that he hath done he doth omit A soveraign antidote to prevent appease and determine our unnatural destructive Civil Wars and dissentions wherein c. Lond. 1642 in three sh in qu. It was twice printed Vindication of Psal 105. ver 15. Touch not my anointed and do my Prophets no harm from some false glosses lately obtruded on by Priests and Royalists Ibid. 1642 and 44. in 1. sh in qu. The treachery and disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraigns with the soveraign power of Parliaments and Kingdoms in 4. parts Ibid. 1643 in a large qu. Appendix manifesting by sundry Histories that in the antient Roman Kingdom and Empire c. the supreme Soveraignty of power resided not in Emperors and Kings themselves but in their Kingdoms c. This is printed at the end of The treachery and c. Romes Master-piece Or the grand conspiracy of the Pope and his Jesuitical instruments to extirpate the Protestant relâ—gion re-establish popery subvert laws liberties peace parliaments by kindling a Civil War in Scotland c. Lond. 1643 and 44 in 5. sh in qu. see more in Dr. Will. Laud under the year 1644. who made notes in the margin of the said book so far and so much as to vindicate himself from certain aspersions laid upon him in the said book The opening of the great seal of England containing certain brief historical and legal observations touching the original antiquity progress use necessity of the great zeal of the Kings and Kingdom of England hi respect of charters c. Ibid. 1643 in 5. sh in qu. or thereabouts The doom of cowardise and treachery Or a looking glass for cowardly and corrupt Governors and Soldiers who through pusillaminity or bribery betray their trusts to publick prejudice c. Lond 1643 in 10. sh in qu. or thereabouts Written in relation to Nath. Fiennes his surrendring up Bristow for the Kings use See more in Nath. Fiennes and Clem. Walker Popish Royal favourite Or a full discovery of his Maj. extraordinary favour to and protection of notorious Papists Priests Jesuits c. manifested by sundry letters of Grace Warrants c. Ibid. 1â—43 in about 10. sh in qu. Answer'd by N. D. in a book intit Vindiciae Caroli Regis Or a loyal vindication of the King c. Pr. 1645. qu. Moderate apology against a pretended calumny in answer to some passages in The preheminence of Parliaments published by James Howell c. Ibid. 1644 in one sh in qu. Check to Britannicus for his palpable flattery c. Lond. 1644. Written against M. Nedham concerning some passages in one or two of his Merc. Britan. in Vindication of Nath. Fiennes Whereupon came out soon after a pamphl intit A check to the checker c. The falsities and forgeries of the Anonymous author of a Pamphlet intit The fallacies of Mr. Will. Prynne discovered in a short view of his book intit The Soveraignty of Parliaments The opening of the Great Seal c. Ibid. 1644 in 1. sh in qu. Four serious questions touching excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament Lond. 1644. qu. Twelve considerable serious questions touching Church-government Ibid. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. Independency examined unmasked refuted by 12 new particular interrogatories c. Lond. 1644 in two sh in qu. This was answer'd by a brother-sufferer of Prynne Hen. Burton and his late companion in tribulation Lond. 1644. It was twice pr. in that year A fuller reply to certain brief observations and anti-queries on Mr. Prynns 12 questions about Church government c. Ibid. 1644. in tw sh in qu. Brief animadversions on Mr. John Goodwins Theomachia c. Lond. 1644 in one sh in qu.
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
month of July and in the same year he was not only named one of the Kings Serjeants which he refused to accept but was made one of the 3 Commissioners of the new Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England 8. Febr at which time the King Great Seal was publickly broken in the H. of Commons And farther also on the 14. of the said month he was elected one of the 30 persons for the Council of State wherein he sate and acted according to his ability In the month of June 1649 he was made High Steward of the City of Oxon by the Mayor and Citizens thereof in the room of the Earl of Berks Whom they for his Loyalty displaced and about the same time they made him their Recorder In July following he was constituted keeper of the Kings Meddals and Library which in 1647 he had hindred from being sold And that employment he the rather took because he was put upon it by Selden and other learned men and that he himself being accounted learned took great delight in such matters However being not alwaies at leisure to attend those places he had a Deputy allowed him and one John Dury a Traveller did the drudgery of the place On the 24. of Nov. 1651 he was continued one of the Council of State and likewise on the same day in the year following In the beginning of Nov. 1653 he set forth with a gallant retinew in the quality of an Embassador into Sweedland being impowred thereto by Oliver and the Little Parliament and had a thousand pounds per ann for his Salary In which Embassie and Country behaving himself with great prudence to the liking and with the approbation of all Christina Queen of that Country made him a Knight of the honorable Order of Amaranta of which Order the Queen herself is Soveraign and wears the badg thereof which is a rich Jewel tied to a crimson riband under her left breast You may be pleased to see more of this Order in Elias Ashmole's book intit The institutions lawes and ceremonies of the Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. chap. 3. p. 123. and the copy or draught of the badge between pag. 94. and 95. After his return thence which was in July 1654. he was in Aug. following made one of the Commissioners of the Exchequer or Treasury for in his absence alteration or pretended reformation being made in the Chancery he stood off at his return from being any longer Commissioner of the Seal In January 1656 he being then Serjeant at Law was chose Speaker of the H. of Commons pro tempore upon the indisposition of him lately chosen and in the year following he was summoned by Oliver the Protector to sit in the other House by the name of Bulstrode Lord Whitlock which summons he obeying had thereupon a negative voice in that House over the people tho he had helped to put it down when it consisted of King and Lords In Aug. 1659 he was made President of the Council of State in Octob one of the Committee of Safety on the first of Nov keeper of the great seal pro tempore by the appointment of the said Committee and on the 30 of Jan. following he retired into the country for fear of being sent prisoner to the Tower by some prevalent Members in the in the Rump Parl. then newly restored for his being a member of the Committee of Safety At which time he leaving the Seal with his wife lock'd up in a desk she forthwith delivered it to Lenthal the Speaker From which time to that of his death we heard but little of him only that he lived retiredly mostly at Chilton in Wilts near Hungerford in Berks that he had been an observing person thro all changes guided more by policy than conscience and that he had advantaged himself much in Civil affairs by his relation to the publick and his eminent station To which I add that he was an excellent Com. Lawyer was as well read in books as in men and well vers'd in the Oriental Tongues and therefore belov'd of Selden who would have made him one of his Executors and the Virtuosi of his time The things that he hath extant are these Several Speeches viz. 1 Speech at a conference of both Houses 17. Feb. 1641. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Sp. to the Qu. of Sweden an 1653. The beginning of which is Madam by command of my Superiors the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England c. 3 Speech in Lat. to the said Qu. in May or Jun. 1654. The beginning of which is Multo equidem cum taedio ferrem c. 4 A learned and godly speech spoken when Serjeant Willam Steel Recorder of the City of London was made L. Chief Baron in the Court of Exchecquer at Westm 28. May 1655. 5 Sp. to the Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of London 9. Aug. 1659. 6 Another Sp. to them 8. Nov. the same year which two Sp. are published in one sh in qu. Several discourses in the trial of Tho. E. of Strafford See in Jo. Rushworths Trial of Tho. E. of Straff Monarchy asserted to be the best most ancient and legal form of government in a conference had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector and a Committee of Parliament in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct Made good by way arguments in at least five Speeches then by him spoken Memorialls of the English affaires or an historicall account of what passed from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1682. fol. This is no more than a Diary which he began and continued for his private use In this book you 'll find divers of his discourses made on various occasions It was published by Arth. Earl of Anglesie but with a very bad index to it which is a disadvantage to the book in many respects He also left behind him several manuscript volumes of his own writing which are not determin'd by the heir whether they may or shall be published Several things in his life time were fathered upon him among which was a little thing published in Jan. 1659. entit My Lord Whitlocks Reports on Machiavil c. wherein the author tells us that when Whitlock was chose a member of the Long Parl. he had then no interest but contented himself with seeing the fashions of the Parl. house At length Pyms discerning eyes spying that curiosity presently attacqued his unconcerned undetermined mind and with the proffers of greatness and popularity brought him over to his design and became his Second c. Also that when he with other Commissioners attended the King at Oxon with propositions from both houses in order to peace the K. shewed to the Commissioners during their stay there great respect but of Commissioner Whitlock he took small notice c. which implanted in him ever after an implacable malice to him and his posterity c. That he was sent to make speeches against the young King at Guild hall
the Popish Plot was discovered but also wrot and published divers books in vindication of the Church of Rome and thereby gained the character by the men of that party of the prime Champion of England to stand up for their Cause A noted Author of the English Church saith that the author of the Guide in Controversies Ab. Woodhead is a person most highly famed among the Roman Catholicks and that he is in his opinion the most ingenious and solid writer of the whole Rom. Party His Works plainly shew him to have been a person of sound and solid judgment well read in the Fathers and in the polemical Writings of the most eminent and renowned Defenders of the Church of England who have quite down from the Reformation successfully managed the Protestant Cause against Rome He was so wholly devoted to retirement and the prosecutions of his several studies that no worldly concerns shared any of his affections only satisfying himself with bare necessaries and so far from coveting applause or preferment tho perhaps the compleatness of his learning and great worth might have given him as just and fair a claim to both as any others of his perswasion that he used all endeavours to secure his beloved privacy and conceal his name And altho he obtained these his desires in great part yet his calm temperate and rational discussion of some of the most weighty and momentous Controversies under debate between the Protestants and Romanists rendred him an Author much fam'd and very considerable in the esteem of both He hath written very many things some of which were published in his life time and some after his death all without his own name or initial letters of it set to them The Catalogue of most of them follow A brief account of ancient Church Government with a reflection on several moderne Writings of the Presbyterians The Assembly of Divines their Jus divinum Ministerii Anglicani published 1654 and Dr. Blondel's Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi and others touching this subject Lond. 1662 and 85 in four parts in a thin quart This book was generally reported to have been written by him yet a certain R. Catholick who was originally of Univ. Coll and much pretended to know all the Works that Mr. VVoodhead had written which he had with great zeal bought and collected for the honour he had to the author hath several times told me that he was not the author of that book but Obad. VValker The Guide in Controversies or a rational account of the doctrine of the Romane Catholicks concerning the ecclesiastical Guides in Controversies of Religion reflecting on the later Writings of Protestants particularly of Archb. Laud and Dr. Stillingfleet on this subject This book is divided into four discourses the two first of which were printed at London 1666. in qu. But before they could appear in publick they were burnt in the grand conflagration at London except a very few copies that were saved and vended abroad The other two discourses were published at London 1667 qu. and there again altogether with additions and some alterations an 1673. qu. In the composition of this book The Guide I have been credibly informed by several R. Catholicks that one Perkins a learned man of that perswasion did assist the author Part of the third discourse is refuted in a book intit A second discourse in vindication of the protestant grounds of faith against the pretence of infallibility in the Rom. Church in answer to The Guide in Controversies by R. H. and against Protestancy without Principles and Reason and Religion c both written by E. W. I say refuted by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Lond. 1673. oct Exercitations concerning the Resolution of Faith against some exceptions Printed 1674. qu. These Exercitations are in vindication of some part of the third discourse from what was said against it by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet in the Second discourse just before named An appendix to the four discourses concerning The Guide in Controversies Further shewing the necessity and infallibility thereof against some contrary Protestant Principles Printed 1675. qu. Some copies of this book have this title A discourse of the necessity of Church Guides for directingâ—Christians in necessary faith c. The second part of the Appendix printed with the former containeth Annotations on Dr. Stillingfleet's answer to N. O's considerations of his Principles These two parts contain an Answer to what Dr. Stillingfleet in a piece of his called An answer to several late Treatises occasion'd by a book intit A discourse concerning Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome c. hath said against our author Woodhead his book named Dr. Stillingfleets Principles c. considered which I am now about to set down Dr. Stillingfleets principles giving an account of the faith of Protestants considered Paris 1671. oct This is answer'd in Dr. Stillingfleets first part named An answer to several late treatises c. before mention'd Considerations on the Councill of Trent being the fifth discourse concerning The Guide in controversies Printed 1671. qu. 'T is said that there is a sixth part which is concerning the alienation of Church lands but Quaere The Roman Churches devotions vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets misrepresentations Printed 1672. oct The Rom. doctrine of repentance and indulgence vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets mis-representations Printed 1672. oct These three last books were published under the initial Letters of N. O. or O. N And the two last are briefly replyed upon by Dr. Stillingfleet in the general preface to his first above named wherein having only touched on Seren. Cressy's piece entit Fanaticisme fanatically imputed c. wrot against him saith these things of our author N. O. Woodhead compared with Ser. Cressy whose book he affirms to be rayling and the author mad is a meer pattern of meekness and that he writes pertinently without the others bitterness and passion And elsewhere in the same Preface he stiles him a moderate man An historical narration of the life and death of our Saviour Jes Christ in two parts Oxon. 1685 qu. Published by Obad. Walker and then said not to be of his composition but of his Tutor Ab. Woodhead Before it went to the press it was viewed by Dr. Will. Jane the Kings Professor of Divinity who made some deletions and corrections in it yet afterwards they were put in again by Mr. Walker when it was in the Press Several exceptions were made against divers passages therein and great clammoring there was in the University against the book particularly by Dr. George Reynell of C. C. Coll yet on the 13 of Oct. the same year when Mr. Nath. Boys of Univ. Coll. was introduced into his late Majesties K. Jam. 2. presence he his Majesty was not then only pleased to commend him for his Sermon as being an ingenious and well pen'd discourse I mean that Sermon which he had preached in S. Maries Church on 26. Jul. going before being
respected by the Queen that he was a person of excellent parts civil behaviour and of great complisance This acquaintance I presume had its original from our authors desire of having a book of his composition to be licensed for the Press through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell Chaplain to the said Archbishop who soon finding him to be a person of learning and great moderation did acquaint his grace of the man and his work Howsoever it was sure I am that when articles of impeachment were drawn up against Archb. Laud in the beginning of the Long Parliament 't is said in the seventh article that for the advancement of Popery and Superstition within this Realm the said Archb. hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers popish Priests and Jesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Davenport a dangerous person and Franciscan Frier who hath written a popish and seditious book entituled Deus natura gratia c. wherein the thirty nine articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament are much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while he was in writing the said book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Monsieur St. Giles a popish Priest at Oxon c. To which article the Archbishop made this answer I never saw that Franciscan Frier Sancta Clara in my life to the utmost of my memory above four times or five at most He was first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell I did fear he would never expound them the Articles so as the Ch. of England might have cause to thank him for it He never came to me after till he was almost ready to print another book to prove that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right and this was after these unhappy stirs began His desire was to have this book printed here but at his several addresses to me for this I still gave him this answer That I did not like the way which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy And howsoever I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist should be printed here And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling without calling in any aid from Rome and would so do when they saw cause and this is all the conference I ever had with him Our author S. Clara did at that time abscond and spend most of those years of trouble in obscurity sometimes beyond the Seas sometimes at London other times in the Country and now and then in Oxon at the publick Library where he was with great humanity received by Mr. Tho. Barlow Head keeper thereof as our author doth very gratefully acknowledge in one of his works At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 when a marriage was celebrated between him and Catherina of Portugal he became her Theologist or one of the chief Chaplains about her and was the third time chose Provincial Minister of his Order for the Province of England After the expiration of which for it lasts if I am not mistaken but for three years he was once or twice chosen again to that office before his death being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of his order and the onliest person to be consulted about the affairs thereof He was excellently well vers'd in School divinity the Fathers and Counsels Philosophers and in Ecclesiastical and Profane Histories He was a Person of very free discourse but Cressy was reserv'd of a vivacious and quick countenance the other clouded and melancholy and quick of apprehension but the other not or at least would not All which accomplishments made his company acceptable to great and worthy Persons As for the books which this noted author hath published mostly written in Latine are these Tract adversus judiciariam Astrologiam Duac 1626. oct This I have not yet seen nor is it printed among his Works Paraphrastica Expositio articulorum confessionis Anglicae This was printed first by it self and afterwards at the end of Tract de Praedest following This book was much talk'd against by the Jesuits who by all means would have it burnt but being soon after licensed in Rome gave a stop to any farther rumour of it However in Spain it was censur'd and how and why let the author tell you in his own words sent to me thus You told me that Mr. Leiburne shew'd you the Index Expurgatorius of Spain wherein was named the book of articles published by me There was here in London a Spanish Embassador under the Rebels named Alonso who had great malice to the last King and being informed by a knave that the book was dedicated to and accepted by the King whom he esteemed his enemy he surreptitiously procured in Spain to have it censured He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome but they answered as Pilate Non invenio causam and therefore it passed safe This man Alonso had been a Jesuit and was esteemed not only to have left them rudely but to have given himself over to get money c. In a letter also from Mr. Middleton to Archb. Laud dated at Venice in Dec. 1635 I find these passages that the book of S. Clara rellished not well with the Catholicks and that there was a consultation about it and some did extrema suadere and cried ad ignem Father Tho. Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter who talking with the Popes Nuntio at Paris about it he told him 't was the best course to let it dye of it self to which the Nuntio a moderate man was inclinable Tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis peccatorum remissione c. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu. In the year following the said book came out with this title Deus natura gratia sive tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis c. This book was dedicated to K. Ch. 1. to seduce him if you 'll believe Prynne to his religion and induce him to establish the Romish religion amongst us by his royal authority as he pretends to prove it from the dedicatory Epistle also that the whole scope of the book it self with the paraphrastical exposition of the articles at the end of it was to reconcile reduce both our King Church and the articles of our Religion which he comments upon to the Church of Rome He also endeavours to prove that St. Giles before mention'd living in the Venetian Embassadors house in London an 1635 was the author of that book and that it was printed at London but he is much mistaken and makes a confused story of the said two books which is needless now to tell you Systema fidei sive tractatus de concilio universali c. Leod. 1648. qu. Opusculum de definibilitate controversiae immaculatae conceptionis dei genetricis Tractatus de schismate speciatim Anglicano Fragmenta seu Historia minor
soon after laid a black marble stone with this engraven thereon Ricardu◠Allestree Praepositus obiit 28 Jan. 1680 And on the north wall was set up a white marble table with this inscription thereon H.S.I. Ricardus Allestree Cathedrae Theologicae in Universitate Oxoniensi Professor Regius Ecclesiae Christi ibidem Praebendarius Collegii hujus Etonensit Praepositus Muniis istis singulis ita par ut omnibus major In disputationibus irrefragabilis concionibus flexanimus negotiis solers vita integer pietate sanctus Episcopales infulas eadem industria evitavit qua alii ambiunt cui rectius visum Ecclesiam defendere instruere ornare quam regere Laboribus studiisque perpetuis exhaustus morte si quis alius praematura obiit vir desideratissimus Januarii xxviii an MDCLXXX aetatis LXI Nobile sibi monumentum areae adjacentis latus occidentale quod à fundamentis propriis impensis struxit vivu◠sibi statuit Brevem hanc tabellam haeredes Defuncto posuere The fabrick here mentioned was a new Grammar school which cost Dr. Allestry about 1500 l. Dr. Zach. Cradock of Cambridge who had been installed Canon resid of Chichester on the 11 of Febr. 1669 succeeded him in the Provostship of Eaton by vertue of the election thereunto of the Fellows so that Edm. Waller the Poet who had tug'd hard for it was put aside Of the same family with Dr. Allestree was another of both his names of Derby author of several Almanacks before the Rebellion began one of which for the years 1629 and 1633 I have seen but whether he was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell WILLIAM BEN or Benne was born at or near to Egremond in Cumberland in Nov. 1600 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at S. Bee transplanted thence to Qu. Coll. where if I am not mistaken he was a Servitour Afterwards leaving the place without a degree upon the obtaining a presentation to Okingham in Berks he setled there but one Bateman his contemporary in Oxon having got another Presentation thereunto they both rather than go to law did joyntly perform the duties and received the profits thence At length our Author Ben became Chaplain to the Marchiones of Northampton living in Somersetshire left his interest in Okingham to Bateman and continuing in the service of the said Marchiones till 1629 he did by vertue of a call from John White the Patriarch of Dorchester go to that place and by Whites endeavours was made Rector of Allhallowes Church there where he continued in great respect from the precise party till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 excepting only two years in which time he attended the said White when he was Rector of Lambeth in Surrey in the place of Dr. Featley ejected Besides his constant preaching at Allhallowes he preached gratis on a week-day to the Prisoners in the Goale situated in his Parish where being much frequented by the neighbourhood and so consequently the room wherein he held forth not spacious enough to contain the Auditory he caused a Chappel to be built within the Prison walls in good part at least at his own charge After his ejectment from Allhallowes for Nonconformity he lived in Dorchester to the time of his death but for his preaching in Conventicles there and in the neighbourhood he was often brought into trouble and sometimes imprison'd and fined He hath written Answer to Mr. Franc Bampfields letter in vindication of the Christian Sabbath against the Jewish Lond. 1672. 77. oct It is printed with the said Bampfields judgment for the observation of the Jewish Sabbath wherein Bens Answer begins p. 9. and ends in p. 86. Soul-prosperity in several sermons on Joh. 3.2 Lond. 1683. oct This book contains 12 sermons at least He died in the latter end of the year 22 of Mar. as I have been informed of sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the yard belonging to his sometimes Church in the antient Borough of Dorchester in Dorsetshire before mention'd What I have farther to observe of this perperson is 1 That he was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Dorsetsh and Pool for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters 2 That tho he lived to be 80 years of age yet he never used Spectacles tho he read and wrot much writing all his Sermons generally as large as he delivered them except the words of the texts of Scripture cited by him 3 That it was always his custom especially when he was at home to pray in his Study seven times in a day and in his prayers to give God thanks for certain deliverances of him from dangers which hapned 5 June 1636. 23 Oct. 1643 12 Aug. 1645 c. See more in Franc. Bampfield an 1683. JOHN DOBSON a Ministers son was born in Warwickshire became Demie of Magd. Coll. about 1653 perpetual Fellow in 1662 being then Master of Arts and a most celebrated Preacher and in the year after he did repeat memoriter in Dominica in Albis the four Easter sermons to the wonder of the auditory in the University Church of S. Mary In the month of Sept. the same year 1663 he was expel'd the University for being author of a Libel in vindication of Dr. Tho. Pierce against Dr. Hen. Yerbury so that all the credit that he before had gained by his preaching was lost among some but being soon after restored he continued in his Coll took the degree of Bach. of Div. and afterwards became Rector or Cold Higham near to Tocester in Northamptonshire and of Corscomb in Dorsetshire by the favour of Sir Will. Farmor of Easton Neston sometimes his Pupil if I mistake not in Magd. Coll. He hath written Queries upon Queries or Enquiries into Certain Queries upon Dr. Pierce's sermon at Whitehall Feb. 1. Lond. 1663. in two sh in qu. Dr. Pierce his preaching confuted by his practice Sent in a Letter by N. G. to a friend in London This was printed in half a sheet in qu. and was first published in Oxon. 28 Aug. 1663. It is written in prose and verse the beginning of the first is Dear George I send thee a copie of a Lampoon upon the President of Maudlins c. and the beginning of the other which is the Lampoon runs thus Near to the ford o're which an Ass Or an Ox at least did pass c. About 8 or 10 days after was published in Oxon. another libel intit Dr. Pierce his preaching exemplified in his practice Or an antidote to the poison of a scurrilous Pamphlet sent by N.G. to a friend in Lond. c. Which libel tho written by Dr. Pierce yet Dobson took it upon him upon a close inquisition after the author to save the Doctor whereupon the Vicech by his Bannimus dat 10 of Sept. 1663 stuck up in publick places in the University did expel the said Dobson and discommune for ever the Bookseller called Edmund Thorne living near the
Stilling fleets Irenicum c. against his late Sermon entit The mischief of separation against the author of The Christian temper said to be written by John Barret M. of A. in a Letter to a friend I say the respective characters of these five answers to Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon before mention'd together with that of The peaceable design renewed c. wrot by John Humphrey with which Dr. Stillingfleet begins first are to be found in the preface to the said Doctors Unreasonableness of separation c. Which characters as are thus given are reflected on by a short piece entit Reflections on Dr. Stillingfleets book of the unreasonableness of separation Lond. 1681. qu. Written by a Conformist Minister in the Country in order to peace The nature and efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ as typed by all the sacrifices of the Law the erection of the Tabernacle according to the heavenly pattern with the institution of all its utensils and services their especial signification and end c. Lond. 1681. An enquiry into the original institution power order and communion of Evangelical Churches the first part Lond. 1681. qu. Answer to a Discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Stillingfleet Printed with the Enquiry Discourse of the work of the holy spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and formes Lond. 1681. oct An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful Churches and Nations or the only way to deliver a sinful Nation from utter ruin by impendent judgments in a discourse on Luke 13.1 2. 3. 4. 5. Lond. 1681. oct Printed with the Discourse of the work c. The grace and duty of being spiritually minded declared and practically improved Lond. 1681. 82. qu. This is the sum of certain of Sermons A brief instruction in the Worship of God and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers Lond. 1682. oct c. Meditations and discourses on the Glory of Christ in his person office and grace with the difference between faith and sight applyed to the use of them that believe Lond. 1683. 84. c. oct Opus Posth Treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sins reign is discovered in whom it is and in whom it is not how the law supports it how grace delivers from it by setting up its dominion in the heart Lond. 1688. oct The true nature of a Gospel Church and its government wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled 1. The subject matter of the Church 2. The formal cause of a particular Church 3. Of the policy of the Church in general c. Lond. 1689. qu. Afterwards came out certain Animadversions on the said book but by whom written I cannot tell A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the World its strength and weakness with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its publick national profession Lond. 1690. qu. Continuation or the second part of that book formerly printed the difference between faith and sight being the meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto converted sinners and Saints under spiritual decays in two chapters from John 17.24 Lond. 1691. oct Our author Dr. Owen with Dr. Tho. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Dr. Jo. Collings Mr. Pet. Vinke Joh. How Dav. Clarkson and Ben. Alsop did undertake in June 1682 to finish the English Annotations of the Holy Scripture in 2. vol. in fol. which were began by Matthew Pole or Poole and carried on by him to the 58 chapt of Isaiah and there is no doubt but that Owen did his share in that work who also hath written prefaces and epistles before divers books by way of recommendation among which are his and Dr. Tho. Goodwins epist before Dr. T. Taylors works A preface also to the Exposition of the song of Solomon written by Jam. Durham sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Glascow Printed 1669. in qu. An Epist commend with another by Mr. Baxter to The Christians dayly walk in holy security and peace written by Hen. Scudder Printed 1674. the eleventh edit An ep by way of recom to A new and useful concordance of the Holy Bible c. Another before The Ark of the Covenant and a large preface to The true Idea of Jansenisme as I have already told you in Theoph. Gale c. But as for Jo. Bradshawes Ultimum vale being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him as they were delivered in a Sermon preach'd at his interment printed in two sh in qu. and said to be written by John Owen D. D. Time-server general of England is not his but fathered upon him by one who desired then to make sport in the great City At length he the said Dr. Owen having spent most of his time in continual agitation to carry on the cause to promote his own interest and gain the applause of people he did very unwillingly lay down his head and die at Eling near Acton in Middlesex on S. Barthelmews day in sixteen hundred eighty and three having a little before been knowing of and consenting to the Presbyterian Plot that was discovered some time before his death Whereupon his body was conveyed to a house in S. James's where resting for some-time was on the 4. of Sept. following attended by about 20 mourners and 67 coaches that followed to the Fanatical burying-place called by some Tyndales Burying-place joyning on the North side to the New Artillery-garden near London where it was buried at the East end thereof Soon after was an Altar-tomb of freestone erected over his grave covered with a black marble plank with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus Johannes Owen S. T. P. Agro Oxoniensi oriundus patre insigni Theologo Theologus ipse insignior seculi hujus insignissimis annumerandus Communibus humanarum literarum suppetiis ménsura parum communi instructus omnibus quasi ordinata Ancillarum serie suae jussis familiari Theologiae c. Obiit Augusti 24. anno à partu virginio 1683 Aetat 67. Besides this John Owen I find another of both those names Chaplain to Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen author of Immoderate mourning for the dead prov'd unreasonable and unchristian c. Sermon on 2. Sam. 12.21.22.23 Lond. 1680 in oct and perhaps of other things WILLIAM GUISE or Guisius as in his book following he is written Son of John Guise was born of a knightly family living at Abloads Court near to Glocester in Glocestershire became a Communer of Oriel Coll. an 1669 aged 16 years afterwards Fellow of that of All 's Master of Arts and in holy Orders In 1680 he resign'd his Fellowship being about that time married and in great esteem for his Oriental learning but soon after cut off
talking about these Papers that I find him not a little angry with Dr. Joh. Hinckley barely for being so bold and daring as to pretend to write somthing relating to them for he himself saying that he believed no man then viz. 1671. living could give an account of them besides himself he judged questionless that the Doctor herein had too rudely invaded his sole Province Yet notwithstanding this together with a great deal of talk about their Sentiments and reception of his Majesties Declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs the reduction and model of Episcopacy made by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland and that other of Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwych subscribed to by Dr. Rich. Holdesworth either of which they would as he saith have willingly allowed of he with a great deal of confidence repeated in the preliminary introductions to most of his very many late most bitter pieces against the Church as if he could not otherwise by any means begin a treatise unless these hughly beloved relations did kindly usher the following very uneven unconcocted roving often repeated and medley stuff will hardly perswade us to believe that he hath been so little conversant with books especially such as have been wrot against his own party and himself as not to have very well known that Roger L'estrange in a book of his entit The relapsed Apostate c. published not long after those three Papers above mention'd had fully and at large answered his Petition for peace animadverted on many parts of the reformed Liturgy and that moreover he had in a Supplement to his Relapsed Apost refuted the Two papers of proposals concerning the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church together with a single sheet in form of petition to his Majesty and that the Papers compriz'd in The great debate c. were briefly also touched and reflected on in the same Supplement c. Mr. L'estrang taketh notice also of this unwarrantable boast and vaunt of Mr. Baxter concerning these Papers in a late preface to the third edit of The relapsed Apostate c. Lond. 1681. qu therein citing Baxters words to that purpose out of the Preface to his answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Charge of Separation c. Mr. Baxter indeed altho in some of his books he saith expresly that none of the above named Papers were ever answer'd by any confesseth that two small treatises one entit Pulpit conceptions popular deceptions or the grand debate resum'd in the point of Prayer viz in defence of prescribed forms c. Lond. 1662. qu. and the other Concerning Lent-Fast had been wrot against some single parts occurring in those three Papers above mention'd as also that L'estrange had said somthing against their Liturgy and that he had no more to say this last in his answer to a Letter of Dr. Hinckley yet mentions nothing even there of L'estranges answers to any of their other Papers But all this being spoken by the way lets now return to our author Morley and his other writings Epistola apologetica paraenetica ad Theologum quendam Belgam scripta Lond. 1663. in two sh and an half in qu written at Breda 7. Jun. 1659. This came out again with several of our authors treatises which I shall anon mention under this title Epistola ad virum clariss D. Cornelium Triglandium unum ex Pastoribus Hagiensibus Principi Auriaco à studiis conscripta in quâ agitur de sereniss regis Car. 2. erga reformatam religionem affectu c. Lond. 1683. qu. The author of this as writing to a Protestant who was a favourer of his Masters interest and with whom he had before held some correspondence by Letters fully clears K. Ch. 2. from all the least ground of suspicion of his enclining to Popery throughout his whole time of exile contrary to what some English men had reported either thro ignorance or hatred and which was by an easie credulity too greedily entertain'd by some foreigners After this he vehemently presseth the Dutch as desiring that this his Epistle might be communicated to other Dutchmen of the like perswasion with the person to whom it was immediatly directed with strong reasons drawn from the several perswasive heads vigorously to employ their speedy and utmost endeavours to restore his Majesty to his lawful throne and just rights The Summe of a short conference betwixt Fath. Darcey a Jesuit and Dr. Morley at Bruxells 23 June 1649. Stil Nov. Lond. 1683. qu. An argument drawne from the evidence and certainty of sense against the doctrine of Transubstantiation Vindication of the argument drawne from sense against Transubstantiation from a pretended answer to it by the author of a pamphlet called A treatise of the nature of Catholick faith and heresie Answer to Father Cressy's Letter This which is about religion and the Clergy of England was written in 1662. Sermon before the King at Whitehall 5. Nov. 1667 on 1. Cor. 14.33 Answer to a Letter written by a Rom. Priest 1676. Letter to Anne Duchess of York some few months before her death written 24 Jan. 1670. This Duchess who was dau of Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England afterwards E. of Clarendon was carefully principled in the doctrine of the Protestant faith by our author Morley while he continued at Antwerp in the family of her father yet died in the faith of the Rom. Church Ad clarissimum virum Janum Ulitium Epistolae duae de invocatione Sanctorum Written on the first of July 1659. The aforesaid Summe of a short conference c. with all the things that follow to these two Epistles were with the Epistle to Corn. Trigland c. printed together in one vol. in qu. an 1683. Soon after was published by L. W. a book entit A revision of Dr. Morley's Judgment in matters of religion or an answer to several treatises of his written on several occasions concerning the Church of Rome Which book was answer'd by another called The revision revised or a vindication of the right rev father in God George L. Bish of Winton against c. Lond. 1685. qu. Letter to the Earl of Anglesey of the meanes to keep out Popery and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof Lond. 1683 At the end of A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesey Printed in fol. Vindication of himself from divers false scandalous and injurious reflections made upon him by Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his writings Lond. 1683. qu. What else he hath published I know not unless A character of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. in one sheet in qu. then vulgarly reported to be by him written much about which time other Characters were published as that by Dr. Wall Charlton c. He made also an Epitaph on K. Jam. 1. an 1625 which was afterwards printed at the end of Dr. John Spotswood's Church Hist of Scotland At length after this most worthy and pious Bishop had
Actress in the Dukes Play-house an 1680 and after Could I have seen Sir Will. Petty's life written by himself which is in MS. in the hands of his brother in Law Waller I might have spoken more fully and punctually of him but the owner of it living remote from the author of this book and altogether unknown to him he could never gain a sight of it THOMAS PITTIS son of a father of both his names a Captain somtimes of the trained Bands in the Isle of Wight was born at Knighton there became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the latter end of 1652 took one degree in Arts and then translated himself to Linc. Coll. where he was esteemed by his Contemporaries a tolerable Disputant Afterwards he took the degree of Master and was made one of the Terrae Filii but his speech being much disliked by the Godly party of those times he was expel'd the University an 1658. Afterwards he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Gatcombe in the Isle of Wight took the degree of Bach. of Div. 1665 became Vicar of the Parish of Holy Rood in Southampton by the favour of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester made Lecturer of Ch. Church in London being about that time one of his Maj. Chapl. in Ord. proceeded in Div. in 1670 and had the Rectory of Lutterworth in Leicestersh bestowed on him by the King which he exchanged with the successor of Mr. Rob. Clarke somtimes of Linc. Coll. for the Rectory of S. Botolph without Bishopsgate London So that before his death he was Rector of Gatcombe Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty Lecturer at Ch. Church and Rector of S. Botolph before mention'd His works are these A private Conference between a rich Alderman and a poor Country Vicar made public Wherein is discoursed the obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England Lond. 1670. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. before the Artillery Company on Luke 3.14 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 An old way of ending new Controversies preached to the Comptroller and Gentlemen of the Society of the Inner Temple 8. Jan. 1681 on 1. John 2. former part of the 24. ver Lond. 1682. qu. c. A discourse of Prayer wherein this great duty is stated so as to oppose some principles and practices of Papists and Fanaticks as they are contrary to the publick Formes of the Church of England established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parl. Lond. 1683. oct A discourse concerning the trial of Spirits wherein enquiry is made into mens pretences to inspiration for publishing doctrines in the name of God beyond the rules of Sacred Scripture in opposition to some Principles of Papists and Fanaticks as they contradict the Doctrine of the Church of England defined in her Articles of Religion established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parliament Lond. 1684 oct Dedic to Sir Edw. Worsley Kt Deput Gov. of the Isle of Wight This Dr. Pittis died on the 28. of Decemb. Innocents day in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was conveyed from the Parish of S. Botolph before mentiond into the Isle of Wight and there buried at Westcowes as I have been informed CLEMENT BARKSDALE son of Joh. Barks was born at Winchcombe in Glocestershire on S. Clements day 23. Nov. 1609 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School at Abendon in Berks entred a Servitour in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of Lent terme 1625 but making little stay there he translated himself to Gloc. Hall under the tuition and Patronage of Deg. Whear the Principal where continuing a severe Student several years he took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred Function and in 1637 he supplyed the place of Chaplain of Lincoln Coll. at the Church of Allsaints commonly called Alhallowes in the City of Oxon. But being called thence the same year he was made Master of the Free-School at Hereford Vicar Choral there and in short time after Vicar of Alhallowes in that City In 1646 the Garrison of Hereford which had been a little before surprized by the Parliam Forces he was rescued out of the danger of that time and placed at Sudeley Castle near the place of his Nativity where he exercised his Ministry and submitted to the men then in power And after that he sheltred at Hawling in Coltswold where he taught a private School with good success After the Kings restauration he was by his Majesties gift setled in the Parsonage of Naunton near Hawling and Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire which he kept to the time of his death He was a good Disputant a great admirer of Hugh Grotius a frequent preacher but very conceited and vain a great pretender to Poetry and a writer and translater of several little Tracts most of which are meer Scribbles The titles follow Monumenta literaria sive â—obitus Elogia doctorum Virorum ex historiis Jac. Aug. Thuani Lond. 1640. qu and several times after with additions or corrections in oct A short Practical Catechisme out of Dr. Hammond with a paper monument Lond. 1649. oct Adagilia Sacra Novi Testamenti Selecta exposita ab Andr. Schotto Oxon. 1651. in tw They were drawn into a Compendium by Barksdale Nympha Libethris or the Coâ—swold Muse presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of young Scholars In four parts Lond. 1651. oct I have a book in my Study entit Annalia Dubrensia Upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Rob. Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills c. Lond. 1636 qu. This book which hath the running title on every page of Cotswold Games consists of verses made by several hands on the said Annalia Dubrensia but nothing of the Cotswold Muse of Barksdale relates to them which some that have only seen the title of it think it to be the same The said Games were begun and continued at a certain time in the year for 40 years by one Rob. Dover an Attorney of Barton on the Heath in Warwickshire son of John Dover of Norfolk who being full of activity and of a generous free and publick Spirit did with leave from K. Jam. 1. select a place on Cotswold Hills in Glocestershire whereon those Games should be acted Endimion Porter Esq a native of that County and a servant to that King a person also of a most generous spirit did to encourage Dover give him some of the said Kings old clothes with a Hat and Feather and Ruff purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity Dover was constantly there in person well mounted and accoutred and was the chief Director and Manager of those Games frequented by the Nobility and Gentry some of whom came 60 Miles to see them even till the rascally Rebellion was began by the Presbyterians which gave a stop to their proceedings and spoyled all that was generous or ingenious elsewhere The verses in the said book called Annalia Dubrensia were composed by several Poets some of which were