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The life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Seth, Lord Bishop of Salisbury and chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter with a brief account of Bishop Wilkins, Mr. Lawrence Rooke, Dr. Isaac Barrow, Dr. Turbervile, and others / written by Dr. Walter Pope ...
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Pope, Walter, d. 1714.
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THE LIFE OF THE Right Reverend Father in God SETH Lord Bishop of SALISBURY And CHANCELLOR of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER With a Brief Account of Bishop Wilkins Mr. Lawrence Rooke Dr. Isaac Barrow Dr. Turbervile And others Written by Dr. WALTER POPE Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY Quid foret Iliae Mavortisque Gener si Taciturnitas Obstaret meritis Invida Romuli Hor. LONDON Printed for William Keblewhite at the Swan in St. Paul's Church-yard 1697. To the Honourable Colonel JOHN WYNDHAM of DORSETSHIRE SIR I Might easily bring into the Field and Muster a Brigade if not an Army of Motives which compelld me to Dedicate this Book to you but because I know you love Brevity I shall content my self to declare to the World only one of them viz. Amongst the few Friends I have for Old Men generally out-live their Friends I could not pitch upon any Patron so fit as your Self For you were intimately acquainted with the deceased Bishop the Subject of this Treatise lovd him and was intirely belovd by him I appeal therefore to you as Competent Iudge and an Eye witness whether what I have said concerning his Hospitality his humble and obliging Conversation in Salisbury be not rather less than more than it deservd You also as I find by Experience bear no small Affection to me which I humbly beg you to continue as long as I shall approve my self SIR Your most humble obliged and Grateful Servant Walter Pope ERRATA PAGE 17. Line 23. Read London p. 44. l. 5. for Town r. College p. 45. l. 19. r. Protector p. 76. l. 11. r. is our p. 80. l. 8. r. Chaplain p. 82. l. 18. r. ten pounds p. 145. l. 3. r. omnium or panfarmacon p. 151. l. antep r. Multum p. 156. l. penult r. Absentem THE LIFE OF THE Right Reverend Father in God SETH Lord Bishop of Salisbury c. CHAP. I. The Introduction THE Motives that incouraged me to write this ensuing Treatise were such as these viz. 1. The deceas'd Bishop had conferred many Favours upon me and I thought this was a fit opportunity to publish my Gratitude for them 2. That his Life was worthy to be transmitted to Posterity and that it would be more acceptable to the Learned that it should be done by me as well as I could than not at all for I have not yet heard of any person who has designed or attempted it tho there are more than eight years past since he died 3. I am not altogether unprovided for such a Work having during my long Acquaintance with Him and his Friends inform'd my self of most of the considerable Circumstances of his Life 4. And in the fourth and last place because I shall run no risque in so doing for tho some may blame my Performance yet even they cannot but approve my pious Intention and the worst that can be said against me if I do not attain my end will have more of Praise in it than Reproach 't is what Ovid says of Faeton Magnis tamen excidit ausis i. e. 'T was a noble Attempt but the Success was not answerable I at first design'd to have written it in a continual Narration without breaking it into Chapters making any Reflections or adding any Digressions but upon second thoughts which usually are the best I steer'd another Course I have cut it into Chapters which may serve as Benches in a long Walk whereupon the weary Reader may repose himself till he has recovered Breath and then readily proceed in his way I have also interwoven some Digressions which if they are not too frequent forein impertinent and dull will afford some Divertisement to the Reader But I fear the Gate is too great for this little City CHAP. II. Of the Bishops Parentage Birth and Education till he was sent to Cambridge I Think it not worth my pains to play the Herald and blazon the Arms belonging to the numerous Family of the WARDS or to tell the World the Antiquity of it that that Name came into England with William the Conqueror that there is at present one Lord and very many Knights and Gentlemen of very considerable Estates who are so called For supposing this to be true as it is it makes little if any thing to the Praise of the the Person whose Life I am now writing Vix ea nostra voco Vertuous Actions not great Names are the best Ensigns of Nobility There are now always were and ever will be some bad Men even of the best Families I shall therefore go no further back than to his Grandfather who lived near Ipswich in Suffolk and had the misfortune to lose a considerable hereditary Estate whereupon the Bishops Father whose Name was Iohn settled himself at Buntingford in Hertfordshire following the Employment of an Attorney and was of good Reputation for his fair Practice but not rich His Mothers Maiden Name was Dalton I have often heard him commend her extraordinarily for her Vertue Piety and Wisdom to whose good Instructions and Counsels he used to say he ow'd whatever was good in him And that this Character was due to her I have the testimony of that worthy Gentleman Ralph Freeman Esq of Aspenden in Hertfordshire who has faithfully served his Country as Knight of the Shire for that County in several Parliaments this Mr. Freeman liv'd in the same Parish and well remembers the Bishops Mother I never heard the Bishop speak of his Father possibly he died before his Son came to years of Discretion on the contrary I find Horace never mentions his Mother but is very frequently praising his Father but to proceed Iohn Ward left three Sons and as many Daughters the Sons were Iohn Seth and Clement Iohn died a Batchelour Clement left three Sons and several Daughters to the Care of his Brother Seth who had then no other Preferment or Income than the Place of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in Oxford and even then he gave two hundred pounds to one of his Sisters in Marriage which Summ he borrowed of a Friend of his whom I knew who lent it him upon his own Bond without any other Security 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which let me thus translate since 't is not è Cathedra nothing doubting or not despairing to be repaid as he was in a short time with Thanks and Interest This Friend of his perceived evident signs of a rising Man in Mr. Ward which must infallibly advance him if Merit alone can elevate as it has often without Friends under some Kings and some Archbishops and it will certainly at long run if as the Saying is The Horse does not die before the Grass is grown For all these Male and Female Children and Relations before mentioned he provided more than a competent Maintenance binding some of them Apprentices breeding others at Schools and Universities till they were fit for the Ministry and then placed them in good Benefices whereof he had the Presentation He also took
sunt novem That is Were there not Ten cleansed but what 's become of Nine of them not any returning Thanks besides this one There are yet two other good Friends of the Bishops and mine also who must not be passd over in silence Persons of that Eminency for Learning Piety and Vertue that I never thought my self worthy to unloose their Shâ—o-latchets tho' they did not make that figure in the World as those great ones mentiond in the last Chapter These were Mr. Laurence Rooke Professor of Geometry in Gresham-College and Dr. Isaac Barrow of whom we shall treat in order in the ensuing Chapters only begging leave for a small digression between concerning Dr. Turbervile CHAP. XVI Of Doctor Turbervile HAving casually mentiond Dr. Turbervile in the precedent Chapter I should esteem my self unpardonable as guilty of the greatest Ingratitude to dismiss him in so few words him to whom under God I owe my Sight a blessing in my opinion equal if not preferable to Life it self without it It was he who twice rescued me from Blindness which without his aid had been unavoidable when both my Eyes were so bad that with the best I could not perceive a Letter in a Book nor my Hand with the other and grew worse and worse every day Therefore tho I might treat of him as a Friend to the Bishop I chose rather to introduce him as mine because I was more intimately acquainted with him and as it appears by what has been said before infinitely obliged to him Dr. Turbervile was born at Wayford in Somerset-shire Anno. Dom 1612 of an ancient Equestrian Family there being in the Church of Beer only the Tombs of no less than fifteen Knights of that Name as I am credibly informd for I confess I have not seen them By his Mothers side he was Nobly extracted from the Family of the Daâ—bignies which has afforded this Kingdom many Peers this Name did his Mothers Father who was also his Godfather give him when he was Baptized Upon his going to the University his Mother advisd him to make the Diseases of the Eyes his principal study assuring him he would find it turn to a good account He was admitted in Oriel College in Oxford and there took the Degree of Dr. of Fysic When the Civil Wars broke out he left the University and bore Arms in defence of the King Church and the Establisht Laws he was in Exeter when it was besiegd and till it was surrendred to the Parliament Forces Whilst he was shut up therein he and his Comrade run in Debt a hundred pounds each in Chalk behind the Door he told me that his Landlord came into their Chamber leading his Daughter by the hand and courteously profferd to Cancel the Debts of either of them who should Marry her The Dr. valiantly resisted this Temptation and chose rather to pay his Debts in ready Money which he did shortly after the other accepted the Terms and had his Wifes Portion presently paid him viz. His Scores wiped out with a wet Dishclout By the Articles the Garison might return to their Dwellings and live there unmolested he accordingly went to Wayford and Married his only Wife by whom he had no Children and who died a few Months before him At his own House and at Crâ—okhorn the next aâ—jacent Market-Town he practisd some time but finding those Places not capable to entertain the multitude that resorted to him he removd to London with an intent to reside there but the Air of that City not agreeing with his Constitution he left it and fixd his abode in Salisbury whence he made several Journeys to London either upon his own occasion or calld thither by some Persons of Quality wanting his Advice Once he was sent for by the Dutchess of York to Cure the Princess of Denmark then a Child labouring under a dangerous Inflammation in her Eyes and a breaking out in her Face the Cure of which had been attempted in vain by the Court Fysicians These despisd Dr. Turbervile looking on him as a Country Quack and demanded what Method he would use and to see approve or reject his Medicaments before he applyd them which he refusd telling her Royal Highness that if she pleasd to commit her Daughter to his sole management he would use his utmost endeavour to Cure her but he would have nothing to do with the Fysicians He told me he expected to learn something of those Court Doctors but to his amazement he found them only Spies upon his Practice and wholly ignorant as to the Ladys Case nay farther that he knew several Midwives and Old Women whose Advice he would rather follow than theirs The Dutchess yielded the Surgeons and Fysicians were dismissd and he alone intrusted with the Lady whom to his great reputation and some profit in few months fewer than could be expected he perfectly cured of both those Distempers I said some profit for tho the Duke orderd him six hundred pound he could never receive more than half of it which considering the Quality of the Patient the Expence of the Doctors Journey to and from London and for Lodging and Diet there his long attendance at Court and neglecting other Patients cannot be esteemd a competent Gratuity Many Years after he was calld up again by one of the greatest and ancientest Peers of this Kingdom to whom after having attentively inspected his Eye he spoke after this manner My Lord I might bear you in hand a Western Frase signifying to delay or keep in expectation and feed you with promises or at least hopes that I should Cure you in some competent time and so cause your Lordship to be at great expence to no purpose I cannot Cure you and I believe no Man in England can The Earl answerd Such and such will undertake it for a hundred pound To which the Dr. replied I have so great an Honour for your Lordship and so much wish your Welfare that I will joyfully give a hundred Guineas out of my own Purse to the Person who shall restore your Sight in that Eye I confess I am not able to Cure it but I can reduce it to a better figure Thus they parted this Nobleman is living and in a very Eminent Station at my writing this but has not recoverd that Eye nor is in any hopes of it being long since convincd it is incurable Dr. Turbervile was no boaster nor would he promise to Cure any Distemper but when Patients came he would first look into their Eyes then tell them their Diseases and his opinion concerning thâ—m to some he would say you 're Incurable and would not meddle with them to others that he had often Cured such a Malady and sometimes faild of it but if they would make use of him he would do his best He generally prescribd to all shaving their Heads and taking Tobacco which he had often known to do much good and never any harm to the Eyes He did not rely upon