to him especially in regard Gunter himself had learnedly explained its use in a far larger Volume For albeit it were great presumption in Wingate to assume to himself the reputation of having better abilities to describe any of the uses thereof yet he could averr upon his own knowledge that he did forbear to explain its use because he took it for granted none would meddle with it but such only who were already well able to understand how to number upon it having before hand acquainted themselves with the manner of numbring upon Scales and with the nature of Logarithms After our Author Wingates return from France where he taught the Kings daughter Henrietta Maria afterwards Queen of England and her Ladies the English Tongue he importun'd Gunter to make a fuller Explanation how to number upon it viz. the Rule of Proportion to the end that the use thereof might by that means be made more publick but his Answer was That it could not be expected that the rule should speak intimating thereby that the Practitioner should in that point rely much upon discretion and not altogether depend upon precepts and examples Some time before the grand Rebellion broke out he the said Wingate became a Bencher of Greys Inn having a seat then at Ampthill in Bedfordshire afterwards took the Covenant was made Justice of the Peace Recorder of Bedford and had other places of profit confer'd on him In 1650 or thereabouts he took the Oath called the Engagement became known to Oliver and was one of the six persons that were elected for the Town and County of Bedford to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver that met at Westminster 3 Sept. 1654 about which time he was appointed one of the Commissioners for his County of Bedford to eject such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written The use of the rule of Proportion in Arithmetick and Geometry wherein is inserted the construction and use of the same rule in Questions that concern Astronomy Dialing Geometry Navigation Gageing c. printed at Paris in the French Language 1624 in oct and at Lond. in 1645 and 58. in oct Of natural and artificial Arithmetick or Arithmetick made easie in two books Lond. 1630. oct with an Appendix concerning equation of time The first of which books which treats of natural Arithmetick is only a key to open the secrets of the other performed by Logarithms and both borrowed from John Neper Baron of Markiston in Scotland and Hen. Brigges But that way and method which our Author takes is not by Multiplication and Division but by Addition and Substraction by which a man may resolve more questions in one hour than by the other in a whole day In 1650 the first of the said books was reprinted at London in oct and enlarged with divers Chapters and necessary Rules and an Appendix of John Kersey Teacher of the Mathematicks in London and Surveyour born at Bodicot near Banbury in Oxfordshire an 1616 and died in Chandois street near S. Martins lane in Westminster of a Consumption about 1677 after he had published two volumes of Algebra in fol. c. The second book was enlarged and reprinted by our Author Wingate at London 1652. oct c. Tables of Logarithmes of the right Sines and Tangents of all the degrees and minutes of the Quadrant To which is annexed their use for the resolution of all the most necessary Problems in Geometry Astronomy Geography and Navigation c. Lond. 1633. oct It is printed with the Table of Logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 100000. contracted by Nathan Roe Minister of Benacre in Suffolk The construction and use of the Logarithmetical Tables and resolution of Triangles c. This book was first written and published in French afterwards in English Lond. 1635. oct The said Treatise is nothing else but an orderly Compendium as well of the Construction as also of the joint and several uses of Briggs his Logarithmes of the Sines and Tangents of all the degrees and minutes of the Quadrant And altho this our Authors Tables be not the very same as theirs yet are they all taken and collected out of them and do all participate of the self same nature and operation An exact abridgment of all Statutes in force and use from the beginning of Magna Charta untill 1641. Lond. 1642 and 1655. oct continued under all their proper titles of all Acts in force and use untill the year 1670 c. by T. M. Lond. 1670 in a thick oct Thence continued to 1681. oct This abridgment hath been made use of upon divers occasions both in studies and employments especially at the Assizes and Sessions of Peace The body of the Common Law of England as it stood in force before it was altered by Statutes or Acts of Parliament or State together with a collection of such statutes as have altered or do otherwise concern the same Lond. 1655. oct 2d edit Ludus Mathematicus or an explanation of the description construction and use of the numerical table of proportion Lond. 1654. oct Construction and use of the line of proportion whereby the hardest questions of Arithmetick and Geometry in broken and whole numbers are resolved by addition and substraction Lond. in oct Tactometria seu Tetagne-nometria or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed after an exact and new manner with rules for gageing Vessels Lond. in oct The exact Surveighour of Land to plot all grounds to reduce and divide the same by the plain Table Theolodite and circumferentur c. Lond. in oct Maxims of reason or the reason of the common law of England Lond. 1658. fol. Justice revived Being the whole office of a Country Justice of Peace briefly and yet more methodically than ever yet extant Lond. oct said to be written in the title by E. W. of Greys Inn Esq which I take to be our Author Edm. Wingate Statuta Pacis or the table of all the Statutes which any way concerned the Office of a Justice of Peace the several duties of Sherriffs Head Officers of Corporations Stewards in Leets Constables c. Lond. in tw The exact Constable with his original and power in the Offices of Church Wardens Overseers of the Poor Surveyours of the High-wayes Treasurers of the County stock and other inferior Officers c. Lond. in tw said to be written by E. W. of Greys-Inn Esq which I take to be our Author He also published Britton sometimes Bishop of Hereford as 't is said an antient treatise of the Law Lond. 1640. oct 2d edit What other Books he hath written or published I know not nor any thing material of him besides only that he dying in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourne near London was buried in S. Andrews Church there on the 13. day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and six and that as I have been informed he was Master of Arts of this University and born at Sharpenho beforemention'd Both
and are printed in a book intit Gerard. Jo. Vossii clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paul Colomesius I have seen and perused a Ms transcrib'd under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead containing all the passages which concern the University of Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the Chancellourship of the said University It commences 12 Apr. 1630 and ends 14 Dec. 1640 bound up in a vellam cover in fol. and endorsed thus Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Ms was communicated to me when I was composing the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews President of S. Johns Coll. wherein finding many useful things for my purpose which another may do for his and therefore it escap'd Prynn's hands I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here as I could do of many other things under his hand which I have seen reserved in private custody as choice monuments but time calls me away and I must hasten Yet I cannot but let the Reader know that there is a fol. Ms going from hand to hand entit Wholsome Queries resolved by Dr. Laud manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Principle for Protestants c. sed caveat lector At length in the beginning of the civil Distempers this worthy Archbishop was upon suspicion of introducing Popery into the Nation arbitrary Government and I know not what aggravated in an high degree committed Prisoner first to the Black-rod and afterwards to the Tower where remaining about four years was at length by the Votes of a slender house beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in sixteen hundred forty and â—our Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had consecrated remained there entire till July 1663 at which time being removed to Oxon was on the 24 day of the same month deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel Thus died and buried was this most reverend renowned and religious Arch-prelate when he had lived 71 years 13 weeks and four days if at least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue always not only in the minds of men but in the Annals of succeeding ages with renown and fame RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. by Cath. his wife daug of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt. a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent particularly as I have been informed by his daughter at Sissingherst before mention'd entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584 and was matriculated in Mich. term that year as a Kentish man born and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age at which time several of the family of the Scots before mention'd studied then in the said Hall After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties he went to one of the Inns of Court afterwards beyond the seas and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplish'd person In 1594 after the celebration of a most solemn Act he was with other persons of quality actually created Master of Arts and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds at which time this our Author who lived at Highgate near London was esteem'd a most compleat and learned person the benefit of which he reaped in his old age when his considerable estate was thro suretiship very much impaired In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire being then Lord of Middle Aston and of other lands therein and if I mistake not a Justice of the Peace He was a person tall and comely of a good disposition and admirable discourse religious and well read in various Faculties especially in Div. and Hist as it may appear by these books following which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions Cato variegatus Or Catoes moral disticks varied Lond. 1636. 'T is a Poem Meditations and disquisitions on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit qu. A copy of this book in Ms being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press he returned this testimony of it I much admire the very character of your stile which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Austins age full of sweet raptures and of researching conceits nothing borrowed nothing vulgar and yet all flowing from you I know not how with a certain equal facility Med. and disq on the three last Psalmes of David Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the 50 Psal Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the seven penitent Psalmes Lond. 1639. qu. Med. and disq on the first Psal Lond. 1640. qu. Med. and disq on the seven consolatorie Psalmes of David namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103 and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu. Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same I suppose with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity Lond. 1641. in tw Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer printed with the Apology A solliloquy of the soul or a pillar of Thoughts c. Lond. 1641. in tw Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government unto the death of K. James c. Lond. 1641. c. fol. Which Chronicle as the Author saith was collected with so great care and diligence that if all other of our Chronicles were lost this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known c. However the Reader must know that it being reduced to method and not according to time purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices many chief things to be observed therein as name time c. are egregiously false and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser especially if he be curious or critical There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58 in which last was added The history of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps sometimes a student of Magd. Hall Afterwards in 1671 if I mistake not came out another edit in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle extracted from his Excellencies papers c. which as I have been informed were for the most part
also written a seditious book intituled his Last Will and Testament was according to an order of the Committee of Estates in Scotland fetcht from the burial place and on a Market-day broke by the Common-hangman at the cross of Kirkadie where he had formerly been Minister THOMAS FARNABIE the most noted Schoolmaster of his time Son of Tho. Farn. of London Carpenter Son of ... Farnabie sometimes Mayor of Truro in Cornwall was born in London about 1575 became a Student in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of 1590 at which time being a youth of great hope he was entertained by Mr. Tho. French a learned Fellow of that House who made him his Postmaster and so consequently his Servitour being the fashion then for Postmasters to serve those Fellows from whom they received their places But this youth being very wild tho of pregnant parts made no long stay there for being enticed to forsake his Religion and Country he left the Coll. very abruptly went into Spain and was for some time educated there in a certain Coll. belonging to the Jesuits At length being weary of their severe discipline he found a way to leave them and then being minded to take a ramble went with Sir Fr. Drake and Sir Joh. Hawkyns in their last voyage 1595 being in some esteem with the former Afterwards as 't is said he was a Soldier in the Low Countries being more addicted to that employment than to be a Scholar and that being reduced to poverty he made shift to be set on shoare in the Western part of England where after some wandring to an fro under the name of Tho. Bainrafe the anagram of his sirname he setled at Martock in Sommersetshire and taught the Grammar School there for some time with good success For in the year 1646 when Mr. Charles Darby was called to teach that School he found in that Town and in the neighbourhood many that had been his Scholars ingenious Men and good Grammarians even in their grey hairs Among whom it was then reported that when he landed in Cornwall his distresses made him stoop so low as to be an Abcdarian and several were taught their hornbooks by him After he had gotten some feathers at Martock he took his flight to London and taught a long time in Goldsmiths-rents in Cripplegate Parish behind Redcross-street where were large gardens and handsome houses and great accommodations for the young Noblemen and other generous Youths who at one time made up the number of 300 or more The School-house was a large brick building divided into several partitions or apartments according to the distinctions of the Forms and Classes under the care and circumspection of the respective Ushers allotted to attend them In which time while he taught there he was made M. of A. of Cambridge and soon after incorporated at Oxon. At length upon occasion of some underhand dealing of his Landlords and frequent sicknesses in the City he removed about 1636 to Sevenock in Kent in the neighbourhood of which place at Otford he had purchased an estate taught there the Sons of several Noblemen and Gentlemen who boarded with him with great esteem grew rich purchased an estate there also and near Horsham in Sussex Upon a foresight of the Civil War he was esteemed ill affected to the cause for that when the protestation was urged in 1641 he then said it was better to have one King than five hundred Afterwards being suspected to have favoured the rising of the Country for the King about Tunbridge in 1643 he was thereupon imprisoned first in Newgate and thence removed on Shipboard it being then urged in the House of Commons whether he should be sent to America further'd by some of his good neighbours in Kent nay and by some that had been his Scholars as I have heard who sate in the two Houses but at length it being rejected he was removed to Ely-house in Holbourn where he remained for about an year before his death He was the chief Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Latinist and Grecian of his time and his School was so much frequented that more Churchmen and Statesmen issued thence than from any School taught by one Man in England The things that he hath written and published are these Notae ad Juvenalis Persii Satyras Lond. 1612. oct c. Notae ad Senecae tragoedias Lond. 1613. oct c. For which work he is commended by a certain Poet who was his friendly acquaintance Notae ad Martialis Epigrammata Lond. 1615. oct Genev. 1623. 33. c. in tw Notae ad Lucani Pharsal Lond. 1618. oct Index Rhetoricus Scholis institutioni tenerioris aetatis ac commodatus Lond. 1625. oct Phrases Oratoriae elegantiores poeticae Lond. 1628. oct 5th edit Florilegium Epigrammatum Graecorum eorumque latina versu à variis redditorum Lond. 1629. in oct c. Notae ad Virgilium Lond. 1634. in oct Notae in Terentium Lond. in tw Notae in Ovidii Metamorph. libros 12. Lond. in tw c. Ib. 1677. c. Systema Grammaticum Lond. 1641. in oct Index Rhetoricus Oratorius cum formulis Oratoriis indice poetico Lond. 1646. oct Phrasiologia Anglo-Lat Lond. in oct Tabulae Grecae Linguae Lond. in qu. Syntaxis Ib. in oct Epistolae Variae ad doctiss viros Other things he hath written as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Sevenock commonly called Sennock be forementioned over whose grave was this Epitaph put P. M. viri ornatissimi Thomae Farnabii Armigeri causae olim Regiae reique publicae sed literariae vindicis acerrimi Obiit 12 Junii 1647. Vatibus hic sacris qui lux Farnabius olim Vate carens saxo nunc sine luce jacet By his first Wife named Susan Dau. of Joh. Pierce of Launcells in Cornwall he had a Son named John who followed his Fathers martial humour being a Captain in the Kings Army to whom he left his estate in Sussex where he lived in good esteem and died about the beginning of 1673. By his second Wife Anne Daugh. of Dr. John Howson Bishop of Durham he had several children one of which was named Francis to whom he left his estate at Kippington in the Parish of Sennock where he was lately living a Justice of Peace in good esteem from whose mouth I formerly received several passages of his Fathers life which are remitted into the former discourse At which time he aver'd to me that the great Grandfather of his Father viz. the Father of him who was Mayor of Truro was an Italian Musician The memory of this eminent Schoolmaster is celebrated by several Authors among whom is John Dunbar a Scot who stiles himself Megalo-Britannus Rich. Bruch and others DEGORIE WHEAR was born at Jacobstow in Cornwall retired to the habitation of the Muses called Broadgates Hall in the beginning of
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
Scholars of this University was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol. Expeditio Buckinghami Ducis in Ream insulam Written by the Author in 1630 published by Timothy Baldwin Doct. of Law and Fellow of All 's Coll. Lond. 1656. octav Occasional Verses or Poems Lond. 1665. oct published by Hen. Herbert his son and by him dedicated to Edward Lord Herbert Grandson to the Author Others of his Poems I have also seen in the books of other Authors occasionally written particularly in that of Joshua Silvester in t Lacrymae lacrymarum or the spirit of tears distilled for the untimely death of Pr. Henry Lond. 1613 qu. There be others also of Sir Hen. Goodyere Sir Will. Cornwallis Jos Hall c. De religione Gentilium errorumque apud eos causis Amst 1663. qu. At length after our Author Herbert had sided with the Long Parliament and had received satisfaction from the members thereof for their causing Mountgomery Castle to be demolished upon the declining of the Kings Cause he surrendred up his last breath in his house in Queen street near London in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of S. Giles Church in the Fields Over his grave which is under the south wall was laid a flat marble stone with this Inscription engraven thereon Heic inhumatur corpus Edwardi Herbert Equitis Balnei Baronis de Cherbury Castle-Island auctoris libri cui titulus est De veritate Reddor ut herbae vicessimo die Augusti anno domini 1648. He was Father to Rich. Lord Herbert and he to Edward which last dying 21 Apr. 1691. was buried on the 28 of the same month near to the grave of his Grandfather The Reader is to know that one Edward Herbert an Esquires son of the County of Mountgomery was matriculated in the University as a member of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of July 1608 aged 17 years but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former who was Lord Herbert tho Isaac Walton in the life of Mr. George Herbert doth and from him the society of the said Coll. I take him to be the same who was afterwards a Knight and Attorney General temp Car. 1. SAMUEL FELL was born within the Parish of S. Clements Danes without Temple-Barr near London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1601 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1608 elected Proctor of the University in 1614 admitted Bac. of Div. in the year after and about that time became Minister of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight In the month of May 1619 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and the same year proceeded in Divinity being about that time domestick Chaplain to King Jam. 1. In 1626 he was made Margaret Professor and so consequently Prebendary of Worcester which was about that time annected to the Professorship he being then a Calvinist At length leaving his opinion became after great seekings and cringings a Creature of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Canterbury by whose means he was made Dean of Lichfield upon the promotion of Dr. John Warner to the See of Rochester an 1637 Dean of Ch. Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa promoted to the See of Chichester and would without doubt had not the Rebellion broke out been a Bishop In 1647 he was ejected from his Deanery and Vicechancellourship after he had suffered much for his Loyalty and for the preserving of the statutes and liberties of the University Afterwards retiring to his Rectory of Sunningwell near Abendon in Berks spent the short remainder of his life in obscurity He hath written and published Primitiae sive oratio habita Oxoniae in scholâ Theologiae 9 Nov. an 1626. Oxon 1627. qu. Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos die cinerum in Colos 2.8 Oxon. 1627. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the Parsonage-house at Sunningwell before mentioned on the first day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In his Deanery Edward Reynolds M. A. afterwards D. of Div. had violently been thrust in by the Authority of Parliament in April 1648 as I have at large told you elsewhere WILLIAM TIPPING second son of Sir George Tipp of Dreycot and Whitfield in Oxfordshire Knight by Dorothy his wife dau of Joh. Burlacy of Little-Marlow in Bucks Esq was born in Oxfordshire at Dreycot I think became a Commoner of Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Langhorne in the latter end of 1614 aged 16 years where making a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals took a degree in Arts. Afterwards he went to London and spent some time in one of the Inns of Court but his genie being theologically given he retired to Oxon lived a single life many years in Canditch in the north Suburbs thereof for the sake of scholastical company and of books and was a Justice of the peace for Oxfordshire In the beginning of the civil War he sided with the Presbyterians being always puritanically affected took the Covenant and at length was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by the power of Parliament an 1647 and the next year was actually created Master of Arts. He hath written A discourse of Eternity Oxon. 1633. qu. After the publication of which he obtained the name among Scholars of Eternity Tipping to distinguish him from others of his sirname A return of Thankfulness for the unexpected recovery out of a dangerous sickness Oxon 1640. oct A Fathers Counsel or directions to young persons Lond. 1644. oct The preachers plea or a short declaration touching the sad condition of our Clergy in relation to the smalness of their maintenance throughout the Kingdom Lond. 1646. in tw The remarkable life and death of the Lady Apollonia Hall widdow deceased in the 21 year of her age Lond. 1647. in tw He gave way to fate at Waterstock near to and in the County of Oxon on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried on the eighth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there This person tho born to a fair estate and so consequently might have taken those pleasures which the generality of Gentlemen do yet he gave himself solely up to Learning Piety and Charity He gave 20 shillings yearly to Allsaints Parish in Oxon for a Sermon to be preached there every Good Friday and an hundred pounds towards the building of a Bridewell house without the north gate of the City some years before the Rebellion broke out JOHN GEREE a Yorkshire man born became either a Batler or Servitour of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615 and in that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 entred into holy orders and became Minister of a
which I take to be false because that his admission to that degree occurs not in the publick register and that in the book of Matriculation subtit Coll. Reginae he is matriculated as a Yorkshire man born his Father or Uncle having then Lands at Flamburg and Great Kelk in that County as his elder Brother Roger was an 1608. RICHARD STANWIX Son of James Stanw was born of an antient and gentile Family within the City of Carlile in Cumberland educated in the Free-school there under Mr. Tho. Robson somtimes of Queens College admitted a poor serving Child of the said House being then put under the tuition of Mr. Charles Robson Son of Thom. beforemention'd about 1625 aged 17 years where profiting much in good Letters was made one of the Tabarders about the time that he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts and Fellow when Master About that time entring into holy Orders he was soon after through the recommendations of his Provost Dr. Potter made Chaplain to Tho. Lord Coventry L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England and after his death to John Lord Finch who succeeded him in that honorable Office of L. K. our Author then being Bach. of Divinity Soon after the said L. Finch withdrawing himself to the Netherlands upon the approaching troubles in the Long Parliament which threatned his ruin our Author returned to his College where continuing for some time without expectation of any advancement in the Church was at length prefer'd by Sir Rich. Saltonstall somtimes of Qu. Coll. to the rectory of Chipping-Warden in Northamptonshire which he kept during the time of the Civil War to his death He hath written A holy life here the only way to Eternal life hereafter or a discourse grounded on 2. Cor. 10.4 Wherein this truth is especially asserted that a holy life or the habitual observing of the Laws of Christ is indispensably necessary to Salvation Lond. 1652. oct c. Appendix laying open the common neglect of the said Laws among Christians and vindicating such necessity of observing them from those general exceptions that are wont to be made against it printed with the former He had also prepared another book for the press concerning the Socinian controversies which is not yet made publick At length after he had submitted to the men in Power during the times of Usurpation yeilded to the stroke of death in sixteen hundred fifty and six or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Chipping-Warden beforemention'd To which place I did formerly send for his Epitaph thinking therein to receive more knowledge of the Person but no return hath been yet made STEPHEN GEREE elder Brother to Jo. Geree mention'd under the year 1648. was a Yorkshire man born and at 17 years of age an 1611 became a Student in Magd. Hall where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy took one degree in Arts afterwards Holy Orders and was either a Minister or Schoolmaster or both In the time of rebellion I find him Minister of Wonnersh near to Guildford in Surrey at which time being a zealous Brother for the cause that was then driven on by the Saints he was removed to a better place called Abinger in the said County His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The ornament of Women or a description of the true excellency of Women Serm. at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Machel 15. Apr. 1639 on Prov. 31.29.30 Lond. 1639. in tw and others which I have not yet seen The Doctrine of the Antinomians by Evidence of Gods truth plainly confuted In an answer to divers dangerous Doctrines in the seven first Sermons of Dr. Tob. Crisps fourteen which were first published c. Lond. 1644. qu. The golden meane being some considerations together with some cases of conscience resolved for a more frequent administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. qu. What other Books or Sermons he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him ALAN BLANE or Blaney a Cumberland man born Son of Tho. Blaney Rector of Acton or Ayketon in the same County became a poor serving Child of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years afterwards Tabarder but never Fellow took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 Holy Orders and had a Benefice confer'd on him but lost it in the time of Rebellion Afterwards he retired to Standish in Glocestershire lived there with the Tenant of the great farm belonging to Joh. Dutton of Shirburne in the said County Esq preached there and at Whitminster a small Curacy near it but never had any living or was a setled Incumbent in that Diocess only much countenanced in his labours by the said Dutton To whom he dedicated this book following Festorum Metropolis The Metropolitan feast or the birth day of our Saviour Jes Christ proved by Scriptures to be annually kept holy c. Lond. 1652. qu. published under the Name or Letter B. who calls himself Pastor fido in Exile It was printed there again in 1654. oct under the name of Alan Blaney and answered by John Collins Bachelaur afterwards Doctor of Divinity and Minister of S. Stephens Church in the City of Norwich in a book entit A Caveat for old and new profaneness c. Lond. 1653. quart In which book he also answers that of Edw. Fisher Esq entit A Christian Caveat to the old and new Sabbatarians or a Vindication of our old Gospel Festivals c. Our Author Blaney translated also from Latin into English Synagoga Judaica c. Written by Joh. Buxtorsius Lond. 1656. qu. and perhaps other things Much about that time he left Standish and lived near Birkley in Glocestershire At length retiring to London died there as I have been informed by the Chanc. of the Dioc. of Gloc. who made enquiry after him at or near Berkley WILLIAM HIGFORD an Esquires Son was born at or near to Alderton in Glocestershire became a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. in 1595. and being soon after translated to that of Corp. Ch. was put under the tuition of Seb. Benefeild where by the benefit of good discipline and natural parts he became a well qualified Gentleman Afterwards taking a degree in Arts he retired to his Fathers Seat became a Justice of Peace and much respected by the Lord Chandois and other Persons of quality in his Country He left behind him a large book in MS. of his own writing intit Institutions or advice to his Grandson in 3. parts Which being epitomized or contracted by Clem. Barksdale a Minister in Glocestershire was by him published at Lond. 1658. in oct Other matters fit for the press he left behind him which being not understood by his Children were lost He died in his House at Dixton near to Alderton beforemention'd and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Alderton on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and
pity as well as with strength of arguments to convince him of his dangerous error telling him that either he was in a damnable error or else that the whole Church of Christ who had in all ages worshipped the Holy Ghost had been guilty of Idolatry But Biddle who had little to say was no whit moved either by the learning gravity piety or zeal of that good Archbishop but continued as 't is said obstinate After he had remained about six months at liberty in Glocester he was cited to Westminster to make his defence but being put off by the Parliament to a Committee to be examined his crime was by them laid closely to his charge The crime he denied not and desired withal that some Theologist whom they should appoint might dispute with him concerning that criminal matter in hand But it being delayed from day to day Biddle desired a certain Knight Sir Hen. Vane of that Committee that his cause might be heard or he set at liberty The Knight proposed it and shewed himself a friend to Biddle who thereupon was confin'd more close than before Whereupon came out his book for the satisfaction of all People with this title Twelve questions or arguments drawn out of Scripture wherein the commonly received opinion touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly and fully refuted Printed 1647. in qu. Before which is printed a letter tending to the said purpose written to the said Sir Henry Vane a member of the H. of Commons And at the end is An exposition of five principal passages of the Scripture alledged by the Adversaries to prove the Deity of the Holy Ghost These I say being published and making a great noise in the World the Author was summoned to appear at the Bar of the H. of Com. being asked whether he owned that book or Tw questions c. and the opinions therein he answered yea and that they were his Whereupon being remitted to his Prison they ordered on the 6. of Sept. 1647 that the said Book blasphemous against the Deity of Christ be called in and burnt by the hand of the common Hangman and that the Author be examined by the Committee of plunder'd Ministers Both which were done viz. the book burnt on the 8 of the same month and he examined While these things were in doing the book vended so fast that the same year it was printed again in oct and afterwards answer'd by Matthew Poole M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge in his Plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost c. Soon after or at the same time was published of Biddles writing A confession of faith touching the Holy Trinity according to Scripture Lond. 1648. oct It consists of 7 articles each of which is confirmed all along by subjoyned proofs and reasonings on them which for the most part tend to disprove the Deity of our Saviour Before the said confession is put a Preface against the Holy Trinity and about the same time came out of our Authors composition The testimonies of Irenaeus Justin Martyr Tertullian Novatianus Theophilus Origen who lived in the two first centuries after Christ was born or thereabouts as also of Arnobius Lanctantius c. concerning that one God and the Persons of the Trinity together with observations on the same Printed in oct Upon the coming out of which things the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westminster made their endeavours to the Parliament that he might suffer death in the month of May 1â—48 but what hindred it I cannot tell unless it was the great dissention that was then in the said Parliament However his confinement was made close Some time after the publication of Biddles first book it hapned that Joh. Cloppenburch D. D. and Professor in the University of Frisia was at Bristow in England where meeting with Will. Hamilton a Scot lately Fellow of All 's Coll. in Oxon the said William did not only then furnish him with a copy of that book but debated the controversie with him Afterwards upon the return of Cloppenburch to his own Country he did excellently well answer it in Latine which he had translated so much as he answer'd in a small treatise entituled Vindiciae pro Deitate spiritus sancti adversus Pneumatomachum Johan Bidellum Anglum printed at Franeker 1652. qu. It must be also noted that upon the publishing of the said book of Biddle I mean his Twelve questions Samuel Maresius D. D. and chief Professor of that faculty at Gronningen did take occasion in his Epist ded before his first Vol. entit Hydra Socianismi written against Joh. Volkelius and Jo. Crellius to give this account of the growth of Socinianisme Vigesimus jam praeteriit annus ex quo pestilentissima haec nutrix viz. Socinianismus in Sarmaticis paludibus primum nata caput erexit per Germaniam ac Belgiam nostram sibilis halitu faedissimo grassata etiam tetrum suum virus superato oceano intulit in Angliam in quâ tristi hoc tempore dicitur incredibiles progressus fecisse c. As for the Confession of Faith c. beforemention'd it was examined and confuted by Nich. Estwick Rector of Warkton in Northamptonshire in a book published by him in qu. an 1656 Which being dedicated to Edward Lord Montague of Boughton he takes occasion to say that Biddles writings have not been enclosed within the confines of our nation but have taken their wings and have fled beyond the Seas to the disreputation of our dear Country in the reformed Churches insomuch that Maresius Professor of Divinity at Groningen is bold to avouch I cannot say either truly or charitably that Socinianisme hath fixed its seat here in England and displayed openly the banners of its impiety The said Estwick also had some years before held forth an antidote against the Poyson of Biddles Twelve arguments against the Deity of the Holy Ghost Since which as 't is usual in deceivers so Estwick words it Biddle grew worse and worse and levied his forces against the Holy Trinity and published notwithstanding other matters replenished with Socinian Tenents Our Author Biddle continued yet in restraint and none of the Assembly durst venture to give him a visit either out of charity or to convince him of his errors nor indeed any Divine of note of the other party only Mr. Pet. Gunning who had several friendy conferences with him At length some of the Layty of London and others of the Country would come to him either to see or converse with him who being taken with his religious discourse and Saint-like conversation a certain Justice of Peace of Staffordshire prevailed so far with his keeper that upon security given for his appearance upon the least summons he should be surrendred up to him Whereupon he was conveyed into Staffordshire and not only made by him his Chaplain but also Preacher of a Church there These matters soon after being known at London John Bradshaw President of the Council of
State his Capital enemy sent a messenger for and committed him more close than before Soon after the said Justice of Peace died left Biddle a considerable Legacy but in a short time devour'd by the frequent paying of the fees of a Prisoner So that being in a manner reduced to great indigence he was employed by Roger Daniel a Printer of London to correct the Greek Version of the Septuagint of the Old Testament which he was about most accurately to publish And this he did knowing full well that Biddle was an exact Greecian and had time enough to follow it Which employment and another in private did gain him for a time a comfortable subsistance In Feb. 1651 was published by the Parliament a general Act of oblivion that restored among others our Author Biddle to his full liberty which he improv'd among those friends he had gained in London in meeting together every Sunday for the expounding of the Scripture and discoursing thereupon for the clearing of matters therein contained by which means the Doctrine of one God and Christ his only Son and his holy spirit was so propagated that the Presbyterian Ministers in London were exceedingly offended at it but could not hinder it by secular power which then favoured liberty of religion and conscience About that time part of the second impression of his Twelve Arguments the Confession of Faith Testimonies c. which as I have told you were published in oct laying dead on his or the Booksellers hands there was this title put to them The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity revived and asserted c. Lond. 1653. oct but no alterations or augmentation made in them as 't is expressed in the said title set before them which were put and sold together in one volume the Long Parliament being then dissolved Afterwards was written and published by the said Biddle A Twofold Catechisme the one simply called a Scripture Catechisme the other a brief Scripture Catechisme for Children Lond. 1654. The last of which two was printed again by it self in 3 sheets in a little octavo the same year Soon after the Twofold Catechisme coming into the hands of certain Persons elected to sit in the Little Parliament called by Oliver which began at Westminster 3. Sept. 1654 was a publick complaint by some made of it in the House being instigated thereunto by frequent and open preachments against it Whereupon Biddle being sent for he gave answer to their interrogatories and did not deny before them but that he was the Author So that the matter being refer'd to a Committee he was examined by them and in conclusion adhered to the answer that he had before given to the House Reports therefore being made by the said Committee of such things that had passed the House voted on the 12 of Dec. 1654 that the whole drift and scope of the said Twofold Catechisme is to teach and hold forth many blasphemous and heretical opinions and that in the preface of the said Catechisme the Author thereof doth maintain and assert many blasphemous and heretical opinions and doth therein cast a reproach upon all the Catechismes now extant They then voted also that all the printed books entit the Twofold Catechisme be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman That the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to see the same done accordingly in the New Pallace-yard at Westm and at the Old Exchange That the Master Wardens and Assistants of the company of Stationers in London be required immediatly to make search for all the printed books as aforesaid and seize all the said Books and deliver them to the Sherriffs The next day Biddle was brought to the bar of the House and there after it was read unto him what had been done he owned his Books and was thereupon the same day committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster and his Books burnt by the Hangman in the beforemention'd places on the 14 of the same month But this was not all for the members of Parl. perceiving full well what mischief the said Twofold Cat. did do and was likely more to do and that many People were more greedy to buy or obtain it than before the matter was agitated again in January following by the Committee who resolved on the 16. of the same month that the whole drift and scope c. and that it be burnt c. The particulars in the said Catechisme which moved them thereunto were partly these 1 The infinite God is confin'd to a certain place 2 God hath a bodily shape hath a right and a left hand in a proper sense 3 God hath passions in him 4 God is not omnipotent and immutable 5 The three Persons are not to be believed with our whole heart 6 Jesus Christ hath not the nature of God dwelling in him and that he hath only a divine Lordship without a divine nature 7 There is no Godhead of the Holy Ghost 8 Christ was not a Priest whilest he was upon Earth nor did he reconcile God unto us c. At the same time were other particulars gathered from his several books going under the general title of The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity c. The first of which runs thus That God the Father only separated from the Son and Holy Ghost is the first cause of all things that pertain to salvation c. The rest I shall omit for brevity sake These things being reported to the Parliament they ordered the Committee to bring in a Bill for punishing the said Biddle which being accordingly done they ordered as before that the Twofold Cat. be burnt and the Master Wardens c. to seize upon all copies and to deliver them to the Sherriffs in order to their burning c. In the mean time they consulted what to do with Biddle but came to no result tho pressed eagerly on by the Presbyterian Ministers to take away his life On the 10. of Febr. following he the Printer and Bookseller of the said Catechisme with another in the custody of a Messenger as also Theauraw John Tany who burnt the Bible and struck at several Persons with his naked sword at the Parliament door while the members were sitting were upon their petitions to the Upper bench all permitted to have liberty upon sufficient bail which they then put in to appear in that Court on the first day of the next term following where then they were to be tried On the 2. of May 1655 they accordingly appeared but were put off till the next term 28. May following Which day appearing he and they were with much ado set at liberty Afterwards Biddle falling into the company of one John Griffin said to be an Anabaptist teacher discourses pro and con were so high between them that there was a publick dispute appointed to be held to decide the matter The place wherein they were to dispute was the Stone Chappel in S.
1000 l. per an and any thing else that he desired Besides these honourable places he had 6000 l. at one time given to him by the Parliament and at another the Rectory and Demesness of Burford in Oxfordshire with a stately house there lately belonging to Lucius Viscount Falkland as the Author of the Mystery of the good old cause reports but falsly as I suppose for about the year 1634 the said Will. Lenthall did for the sum of 7000 l. or thereabouts purchase of the said Lucius the Priory house the stately house before mention'd and Land belonging thereunto descended to him from Elizabeth Dau. and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfeild Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer sometimes the Wife of Henry Lord Falkland Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Father of Lucius In Aug. 1648 when there was a debate in the Parliament house whether the Treaty should be with the King in the Isle of Wight upon the propositions of Hampton Court there were for it 57 yeas and against it 57 noes Whereupon he as Speaker turn'd the Scales to yeas which was the best thing he ever did Oliver once made a spunge of and squeez'd from him 15000 l. and turning him and his tribe the Long Parliament out of doors in 1653 after he had sate it out in all changes and resisted many storms and high complaints against him he veered about to save himself his great offices and chiefly to avoid a new encounter or frown from the present power So that he that had been so long the Belweather in the H. of Commons was thought fit for his compliance and money to be one of the Other House In 1654 he was elected one of the Knights of Oxfordshire and Burgess for the City of Glocester to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver to meet at Westm 3. of Sept. the same year of which Parliament he was chosen Speaker When that Convention call'd the Rump Parliament was invited by the Army to sit again 6 May 1659 for they had been turn'd out by Oliver in 1653 he became Speaker also as he had been before and on the 23 of the said month he was constituted and appointed Keeper of the Great Seal for the Commonwealth of England for eight days only next ensuing But that Parliament which was filled up by the members secluded thence in 1648 being dissolved on the 16 of March following he endeavoured by his Agents to be chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 25 Apr. 1660 as at one or two places besides where he had canvas'd for votes but missing his design he retired in private and endeavoured to hide or convey away the vast deluge of wealth which he had obtained as also to secure to his posterity that estate he had purchased in the name of other People But being at length to be called to an accompt for what he had done the Healing Parliament that then met resolved on the eleventh of June that he the said Will. Lenthall be one of the twenty to be excepted out of the general Act of indempnity and oblivion to suffer such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to life as shall be thought fit to be inflicted by an Act hereafter to be made for that purpose But that Act being soon after made I find therein that if he the said Will. Lenthall should after the first of Sept. 1660 accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted by name in the said Act. And well it was that he escaped so for had it not been for his money and the mercy of his Prince whereby he got a general pardon he might have been totally sequestred of his Estate and made perpetual Prisoner So that then being free he became a witness on the Kings side against Tho. Scot the Regicide when he and others of that gang were to be tried for their lives And afterwards retiring to his house at Burford before mention'd where he built a pretty Chappel joyning thereunto shewing great love to Scholars and the neighbouring Clergy we heard no more of him till the time of his death He was a Person very inconstant and wavering in his Principles of a slavish temper a taker of all Oathes whether Covenant or engagement or those to be faithful to Oliver and Richard besides what he had before done to K. James and K. Ch. 1. He minded mostly the heaping up of riches and was so besotted in raising and setling a family that he minded not the least good that might accrue to his Prince As for those things that are published under his name as either utter'd or written by him are these following Several Speeches as 1 Sp. to his Maj. in the High Court of Parl. 5. Nov. 1640 when he was presented Speaker 2 Sp. at his presenting these 3 Bills 1. for the shortning of Mich. term 2. For the pressing of Marriners for the Kings Ships 3. For the remainder of 6 intire subsidies 3 Sp. in Parl. 13. May 1641. 4 Sp. in the Lords House of Parl. 22 Jun. 1641. concerning the bill for Tonnage and Poundage 5 Sp. before the K. in the Lords H. of Parl. 3 Jul. 1641. concerning the passing of three bills viz. of Poll-money Star-Chamber and High Commission 6 Sp. to both Houses of Parl. at the passing of the bill for Tonnage and Poundage 2 Dec. 1641. 7 Sp. to Sir Tho. Fairfax Gen. of the Parl. Army to congratulate his success and victories over the Kings Army 14 Nov. 1646. 8 Sp. to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax General after the Army had granted the members of Parl. to sit in safety 6 Aug. 1647. Several Letters as 1 Letter to Sir Jac. Ashley 4 May 1641. 2 Let. to the Vicech and Heads of Houses of the Univ. of Oxon together with the protestation and declaration with it 8 Feb. 1641. 3 Let. to the Sheriffs of several Counties by the command of the H. of C. an 1641. 4 Let. to all Corporations in England and to the Justices of Peace of all Counties written about the same time 5 Let. to the K. concerning the great affairs and state of the Kingdom 6 Let. with that of the Speaker of the H. of Lords to the Lords Justices and Council of the Kingdom of Ireland dat 4 Jul. 1643. Declaration wherein is contained the grounds and reasons that moved him to absent himself from the service of the House on Friday 30 Jul. 1647. Oxon. 1647. in one sh in qu. This Declaration was written upon occasion of his going away with the Mace and a party of the H. of Com. with him to the Army at Windsore Arguments whereby Monarchy is asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference held at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and a Committee of Parl. in Apr. 1657 Printed at Lond. with the Arguments and Speeches
Mathematician an example of great candor and moderation and such as is rarely found among the Nonconformists c. as I have been informed by one of his near Relations JAMES SCUDAMORE Son of Joh. Scud. of Kenchurch in Herefordshire was born in that County educated in Westminst School transplanted to Ch. Ch. in Midsomer term 1661 aged 19 years and soon after was made one of the Students of that house This person who was poetically given wrot Homer a la mode A mock Poem upon the first and second books of Homers Iliads Oxon. 1664. in 9 sh in oct and in the next year he took the degr of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards retiring to his Relations then living in the City of Hereford was drown'd in the River adjoyning to the great reluctancy of all those that were acquainted with his pregnant parts as he was recreating himself by swimming in the month of July in sixteen hundred sixty and six whereupon his body was conveyed to the graves of his Relations where he was with great lamentation inter'd In 1681 was published in oct Homer a-la-mode the second part in English Burlesque or a mock Poem upon the ninth book of Iliads Invented for the Meridian of Cambridge where the Pole of Wit is elevated by several degrees but who the Author of it was I know not WILLIAM STREAT was born of gentile Parents in Devons became either a Batler or Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and was benefic'd in his own Country Upon the change of the times in 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and preached very schismatically being about that time Rector of South-Pool near to Kingsbridge in Devonshire When the Cause of K. Ch. 1. declined he preached bitterly against him and his Followers blasting them with the name of bloody Papists and when his Son K. Ch. 2. was in Exile he became a desperate enemy to and continually preached against him And every trivial thing that he could hear or read in those satyrical Prints called Merc. Politici and other Pamphlets against him be sure he published in the Pulpit to his Parishioners as I have been credibly informed by some Ministers of his Neighbourhood After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 an 1660 he wheeled about as many covetous and poor spirited Saints did sneak'd to the great men then in authority conformed and kept his rectory to his dying day to the great reluctancy of the generous Royalists of those parts He hath written a book entit The dividing of the Hoof or seeming contradictions throughout sacred Scriptures resolved and applied c. Lond. 1654 in a pretty thick qu. dedicated to God and Gods People Other matters they say he hath published but such I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of this Author who should rather have been buried in oblivion than mention'd only that dying at South-Pool was buried in the Church there in sixteen hundred sixty and six leaving then this character behind him among the said Ministers of his neighbourhood that he was as infinite a rogue and as great a sinner that could be and that 't was pity that he did escape punishment in this life ROBERT VAUGHAN was born of an antient and gentile family in Merionithshire was entred a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the year 1612 and in that of his age 20 where passing his course in Logick and Philosophy retired without a degree to his patrimony in the said County called Hengwrt or Hengherst near Dolgethle became noted for his admirable skill in the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country of Wales having had a natural genie to them and took infinite pains in describing the Genealogies of the most antient families thereof The things of his composition that are extant are only these British Antiquities revived Oxon. 1662. qu. Pedegree of the Earl of Carbury Vaughan Lord President of Wales Short account of the five tribes of Cambria These two last are printed with the first He hath also several letters extant which he formerly wrot to the learned and religious Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland in one of which dated 14 Apr. 1651 he tells the said Primate that he had translated into the English Tongue The Annals of Wales which he then sent to him to be perused He died at Hengwrt before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and six being then a Justice of Peace as I have been informed by Mr. Thom. Ellis sometimes Rector of Dolgethle and was buried in the Church of that Parish wherein Hengwrt said to be in Kyntons land in the Lordship of Huntyndon is situated He left behind him a choice Library of MSS. in the British Tongue now as I have been informed in the custody of Sir William Williams of Greys Inn Baronet occasion'd by a Law sute concerning it JOHN FAIRECLOUGH commonly called Featley Son of Joh. Featley of Oxon elder brother to Dr. Daniel Featley was born in Northamptonshire became either Clerk or Choirister of All 's Coll. in Mich. term 1620 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts four years after and in 1626 had the honor to be the first Preacher of the Gospel in the infancy of the Mother Colony of S. Christophers in the Western Indies How long he continued there I know not sure I am that after his return he became beneficed in Surrey Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Prebendary as it seems of Lincoln In the beginning of the Rebellion he lost all was for a time Curate at Acton for his Uncle Dr. Featley and in June 1643 he with his Wife Children and Servants shipped themselves for S. Christophers before mention'd where he and they continued several years After his Majesties return in 1660 he became one of his Chaplains was installed Chantor of Lincoln in the same year was in the next actually created D. of D. and soon after had the Vicaridge of Edwinstow in Nottinghamshire worth about 60 l. per an confer'd on him by the Dean and Chapter of the said Church He hath written and published Several sermons as 1 Serm. to the West-India Company on Josh 1.9 Lond. 1629. qu. 2 Obedience and Submission at S. Saviours in Southwark at a Visitation 8 Dec. 1635. on Heb. 13.17 Lond. 1636. qu. c. A succinct history of the life and death of the learned and famous Divine Daniel Featley D. D. Lond. 1660. in tw Printed at the end of a book intit Dr. Dan. Featley revived proving that the Protestant Church is the only Cath. and true Church A divine Antidote against the Plague or mourning tears in Soliquies and Prayers as 1. For this general Visitation 2. For those whose houses are shut up of the Plague c. Lond. 1665. He also published a book intituled The league illegal Lond. 1660. qu. Written by his said Uncle Dr. Featley and ded to Edw. Earl of Clarendon by the Publisher who
became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628 aged 19 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver whereupon he wrot A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walt. Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts Which book being not permitted to be published after he had made it fit for the Press was at his Majesties return printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living continued there to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven was buried in the Church at Box having then laying by him one or more things fit to be printed as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood GEORGE WITHER Son of George Wither the first Son by a second venter of the house of Wither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County on the eleventh day of June 1588 30 Eliz. educated in Gram. learning under the noted School-master of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner afterwards B. of Roch. whom if I mistake not he serv'd made some proficiency with much ado in academical learning but his genie being addicted to things more trivial was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London and afterwards to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful he did at length make himself known to the world after he had taken several rambles therein by certain Specimens of Poetry which being dispersed in several hands became shortly after a publick Author and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty But so it was that he shewing himself too busie and satyrical in his Abuses stript and whipt was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where continuing several months was then more cried up especially by the puritanical Party for his profuse powring forth of English rime and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass which he pretended to predict In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots and Quarter-master Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain viz. of that Regiment of oâ— next under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the said expedition But this our Author who was always from his youth puritannically affected sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by them an 1642 became an enemy to the King and Regality sold the estate he had and with the moneys received for it rais'd a Troop of Horse for the Parliament was made a Captain and soon after a Major having this motto on his Colours Pro Rege Lege Grege but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers Sir Jo. Denham the Poet some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches desired his Majesty not to hang him because that so long as Wither lived Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire Surrey and Essex which office he kept 16 years and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist After the Kings Restauration in 1660 he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops which he before had either bought or had confer'd upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause And being then look'd upon as a dangerous person to the King and State especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed was committed Prisoner to Newgate and afterwards upon his own confession and the oaths of two persons that he was the Author of it he by order of the H. of Commons was sent in custody and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London to be debarr'd Pen Ink and Paper and about the same time 24 of March 1661 2 an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him In both which Prisons he continued three years and more wrot several things by the connivance of the Keeper of which some were afterwards made publick yet could never refrain from shewing himself a Presbyterian Satyrist He began very early being precisely educated from his childhood to express and publish those conceptions which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with morality and piety as subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to the capacities of young-men who delight to see their own natural passions represented as 't were in a glass wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for but with such notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that thousands especially such youths that were puritannically educated were desirous to peruse his future writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice while others of generous education and of more solid parts looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain and esteemed Taylor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rimes The things that he hath written and published are very many accounted by the generality of Scholars meer scribbles and the fancies of a conceited and confident if not enthusiastical mind The titles of them follow Iter Hibernicum or an Irish Voyage Written in verse Iter Bor. or a northern Journey Written in verse Patricks Purgatory Written in verse Philaretes Complaint Written in verse These four were called his Juvenilia and tho the original MS. of them was lost yet they were recovered and printed more than once Prince Henries obsequies or mournful elegies upon his death Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct A supposed interlocution betw the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britaine Printed with the former Abuses stript and whipt or satyrical essays in two books Lond. 1613. 14.15 and 22. in oct Satyr written to the King Jam. 1. when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book Lond. 1614. 15. 22. in
and advantage of the said Coll. by the Rector and Fellows thereof with the advice of Dr. John Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. if he be then living WILLIAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller Knight Lieutenant or Constable of Dover Castle and chief Butler of England as he is sometimes stiled by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Sampson Lennard Lord Dacre was born at Knolle in Kent matriculated at his first coming to the University as a member of Magd. Hall in Mich. term an 1612 aged 15 years but making no long stay there was translated to Hart Hall where he spent most of his time during his abode in Oxon. Afterwards he went to Paris and in an Academy there he learn'd to fence and manage the great Horse Thence he went to the German Wars where he served in the Army of the confederate Princes against the Emperour After his return he was knighted at Wansted 20. June 1622 and took to Wife Jane Daughter and Heir of Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire Knight who dying at Bathe in the Month of May 1633 was buried in the south trancept of the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there over whose grave is a very fair monument erected and thereon the statua's of her and her husband lying at length Afterwards taking to him a second Wife he was elected a Burgess for Anâ—over in Hampshire to serve in that most unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he shew'd himself an active person against the prerogative and every thing that looked that way Soon after when the rebellion broke out he was for his great knowledge in martial affairs constituted tho little in person by the said Parliament one of their Generals to fight against their King an 1642 in which year and after he performed in the opinion of those of his perswasion many notable exploits yet not without great violation and injury to the Church and its orthodox members and therefore flatter'd and cajoul'd by the Parliament with several sums of money part of which was given as a largess to his soldiers the more to encourage them in their service About that time that he might shew his zeal for the beloved cause he took the Covenant twice in the H. of Commons meerly to put forward some that had not taken it before and was not wanting on all occasions to promote and carry on the War But being soon after very unfortunate by loosing two Armies in the service of the said Parliament caused a diminution of his former fame which was raised up near to a competition or emulation with Robert Earl of Essex the Captain General In Jan. 1646 when Winchester Castle was disgarrison'd it was given to him as part of a reward for his former service but the next year shewing himself active among the Presbyterians in the H. of Commons against the designs of the Independents was one of the eleven members impeached by the Army of high treason Whereupon absconding for a time returned and took his place but in the very next year 1648 he was with forty more members turned out of the House by the Army on the 6. of December and on the 11. of Jan. following he was committed Prisoner to S. James's house and afterwards to Windsore and Denbigh Castles and to the Tower of London during the raign of Oliver as many of his brethren the Presbyterians were least he and they should carry on plots for the bringing in of the King or at least cross the designs of the said Oliver So that all that time being esteemed by the generality of Royalists an honest man and a Patriot of his Country was committed to custody upon suspicion of being engaged in Sir George Booth's Insurrection in Aug. 1659 where continuing till the beginning of Nov. following gave then Bail for his farther appearance What he got by his sufferings at the Kings restauration an 1660 I know not sure I am he was no looser Under this Persons name were printed these things following Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the Parliament forces concerning a great victory obtained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts dated 23. March 1642. Lond. 1643. Mar. 28. in one sh in qu. Tho this victory was very inconsiderable scarce worthy to be taken notice of yet to encourage the party it was made a very bloody matter Full relation of the late proceedings victory and good success obtained by the Parl. Forces under his conduct at the taking of the Town and Castle of Arundell in Sussex Dec. 20. and Jan. 6. an 1643 Sent to Will. Lenthall Speaker of the H. of Com. and printed in one sh in qu. Narration of a great victory obtained by the Parl. forces under his conduct at Alton in Surrey 13. Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643. in 1. sh in qu. Letter of a great victory obtained against Col. Sir James Long High Sherriff of Wilts at the Devises Lond. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. or more It is dated 13. Mar. 1644. concerning these his victories tho little or inconsiderable yet they were highly cried up by the Godly Brethren See more in a book very partially written by a grand Presbyterian named Josiah Ricraft a Merchant of London entit A survey of Englands Champions and truths faithful Patriots Or a Chronological recitement of the principal proceedings of the most prosperous Armies raised for the preservation of Religion the Kings Majesties Person the priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject c. with a most exact narration of the several victories c. with the lively portraitures of the several commanders Lond. 1647. oct with the authors picture before it Divine meditations upon several occasions with a dayly directory Lond. 1680. oct They were written in his retirement from business and publick employ and hath set before them his picture engraven to the life He hath also written Vindication for his taking up Arms against the King This he left behind him in MS but whether publish'd I cannot tell In 1680. was published in one sh in folio Sir Will. Waller his vindication by a friend that understood his life and conversation Military discourse of the ordering of Soldiers This he also left behind him in MS. but whether printed I know not He departed this mortal life in his house at Osterley Park in Middlesex on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the new Chappel near the Chancel in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Whose funeral as to honour being then falsly managed by an Herald Painter without the advice of any of the Officers of the Coll. of Arms his atchievment helmet with a false crest banners c. which were hung over his grave by the said Painter were soon after plucked down by the aforemention'd Officers and thrown aside as false things He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll afterwards a Knight and Justice of Peace for the
True and full relation of the prosecution arraignment tryal and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes late Colonel and Governour of the City of Bristol c. Ibid. 1644. qu. Clem. Walker was half author of this pamphlet Just defence of John Bastwick Dr. of Physick against the calumnies of John Lilbourne Lieut. Col. and his false accusations written in way of reply to a letter of Mr. Vicars c. Lond. 1645. in 5. sh in qu. The lyer confounded or a brief refutation of John Lilbourne c. Ibid. 1645. Truth triumphing over falshood antiquity over novelty or a seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiastical jurisdiction right legislative and coercive power of Christian Emperors Kings Magistrates Parliaments in matter of Religion Church government c. in summoning of and presiding in Councils c. in refutation of John Goodwins Innocencies triumph and his dear brother Bâ—rtons Vindication of Churches commonly called Independent c. Lond. 1645. qu. Hidden works of darkness brought to publick light or a necessary introduction to the history of the Archbish of Cant. Tryal c. Ibid. 1645. fol. Suspension suspended or the Divines of Sion Coll. late claim of the power of suspending scandalous persons from the Lords Supper c. is briefly examined discussed refuted c. Lond. 1646 in 6. sh in qu. Vindication of four serious questions of grand importance concerning excommunication and suspension from the Lords Supper c. against a rev brother of Scotland in a Sermon at S. Margarets Westminster 5. Sept. 1645. Ibid. 1645. 6. in 9. sh in qu. Answer'd by Joh. Saltmarsh in his pamph intit The opening of Mr. Prynns new book called a Vindication or light breaking out from a cloud of differences or late controversies wherein are inferences upon the Vindication c. Lond. 1645 in 6 sh in qu. Fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring blazing stars and firebrands stiling themselves New lights firing our Church and State into new combustions Divided into 10 sections comprising c. Lond. 1646. qu. 2d edit To which are added of Prynn's collection Letters papers and a petition lately sent from the summer Islands touching the schismatical illegal tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there c. Diatrophes catechised or 16 important questions touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures c. Ibid. 1646. in two sh in qu. 3d edit Twelve questions of publick concernment touching the regulation of some abuses in the law and legal proceedings Lond. 1646. qu. Scotlands antient obligation to England and publick acknowledgment thereof for their brotherly assistance and deliverance of them Ibid. 1646. qu. Scotlands publick acknowledgment of Gods just judgments upon their nation for their frequent breach of faiths leagues oathes c. Lond. 1646. qu. Canterburies Doom or the first part of a compleat history of the commitment charge tryal condemnation execution of William Laud late Archb. of Cant. c Ibid. 1646. fol. Minors no Senators Lond. 1646. in 2. sh in qu. Written against young men under age sitting in the House of Commons A Gag for Longhaird Rattle heads Lond. 1646. qu. Plain and short expedient to settle the distractions of the Kingdom Ibid. 1647. Counter-plea to the cowards apologie Ibid. 1647. Account of the Kings Majesties revenues and debts Ibid. 1647. Declaration of the Officers and Armies illegal injurious proceedings and practices against the XI impeached members Lond. 1647. Eight queries upon the declaration and late letter of the Army Ibid. 1647. Nine queries upon the printed charge of the Army against the XI members Ibid. 1647. The Hypocrites unmask'd Lond. 1647. New Presbyterian light springing out of Independent darkness Ibid. 1647. The total and final demands of the Army Ibid. 1647. Brief justification of the XI accused members from a scandalous Libel Ibid. 1647. A plea for the Lords Ibid. 1647. The levellers levell'd c. Lond. 1647. A pamphlet with such a title March Nedham published the same year The sword of Christian Magistracy supported or a full vindication of Christian Kings and Magistrates authority under the Gospel to punish Idolatry Apostacy Heresie Blasphemy and obstinate Schisme with pecuniary corporal and in some cases with capital punishments Lond. 1647 qu. Translated into latine by Wolfgangus Meyerus and printed in Germany an 1650. Vindication of Sir Will. Lewes from his charge Ibid. 1647. The said Sir William was one of the XI accused members Full vindication and answer of the XI accused members viz. Denz Hollis c. to a late printed pamphlet entit A particular charge or impeachment in the name of Sir Tho Fairfax and the Army against the XI members Ibid. 1647. in 6. sh in qu. The Lords and Commons first love to zeal for and earnest vindication of their injuriously accused and impeached members and violated priviledges c. Ibid 1647. in 3. sh in qu. The University of Oxfords plea refuted Or a full answer to a late printed paper intit The priviledges of the Univ. of Oxf. in point of Visitation c. Lond. 1647. in 8 sh in qu. Soon after came out a Pamphlet of one sh intit An account of Mr. Prynne's refutation of the Univ. of Oxf. plea c. Pen'd by Rob. Waring as I have told you before and another in two sh intit A short censure of the book of Mr. Will. Prynne intit The Univ. of Oxf. c. Written by Edw. Bagshaw The said Refutation of Oxf. plea published by Prynne was all taken from the papers of Dr. Laud Archb. which he had seized upon at Lambeth some years before I mean the very same papers which he the said Archb. had collected and framed in 1635 when he endeavoured to visit the Univers of Oxon. as Archbishop of Canterbury Nine proposals by way of interrogation to the General Officers and Soldiers of the Army concerning the justice of their proceedings in law or conscience against the Parliament Lond. 1647. qu. Twelve Queries of publick concernment Ibid. 1647 in half a sh in qu. Publick declaration and solemn protestation of the Freemen of England against the illegal intollerable undoing grievance of Free-quarter Ibid. 1648. in 8. sh in qu. The Machevillian Cromwellist Ibid. 1648. Irenarches redivivus Or a brief collection of sundry useful statutes and petitions in Parliament not hitherto printed concerning the necessity institution office oathes c. or Justices of peace Lond. 1648. in 8 sh in qu. Ardua regni Or 12 arduous doubts of great concernment to the Kingdom Ibid. 1648. The case of the impeached Lords Commons and Citizens truly stated Ibid. 1648. in 3. sh in qu. Practical law controuling countermanding the common law and the sword of war the sword of Justice Printed as 't is said in the title at Exeter 1648. Plea for the Lords Or a short yet full and necessary vindication of the judiciary and legislative power of the House of Peers Lond. 1648. and 58. qu. The petition of right of the Free-holders and Freemen of the Kingdom of England Lond 1648.
Ril of Radbrook in Glocestershire was born at Over-Quinton in that County educated in Grammar learning at Stratford upon Avon in Warwicksh under John Trapp became a Student in Magd. Hall in 1633 aged 14 and soon after of Magd. Coll where taking the degrees in Arts became perpetual Fellow of that House in 1641. Afterwards he submittted to the parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 was made Archdeacon of Coventry by Dr. Frewen B. of Lichfield on the death of Dr. Jo. Arnway Rector of Bilton by Tho. Boughton Esq an 1660 and of Birmingham both in Warwicksh by Sir Sam. Marrow 1665. He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 Dooms-day book opened an Assize Serm at Warwick on Rev. 20.12 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Elias the second his coming to restore all things on Isay 1.26 Oxon 1662. qu. 3 Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of the two contending brethren on Acts 7. 26. Oxon. 1662. qu. 4 Confirmation reviv'd on Psal 1.3 Lond. 1663. qu. 'T is a Visitation Sermon and 't was preached at Coventry before Dr. Hacket B. of Lich. and Cov. He died on the third day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Birmingham before mention'd Over his grave was a marble table fixed soon after to the wall with this inscription Engraven thereon M. S. Johannis Riland nèc non chariss conjugis Ciciliae filiolae unicae Mariae Coventriae Archidiaconi Parochiae hujus Ministri simul ornamenti Qui Atheos pariter Fanaticos quicquid deprivati moris fidei scelerosa aetas non tantum scriptis sermonibus utrisque licet nervosè sed constanti indeflexo vitae inculpatae decursu castigavit Post absoluta Oxoniae juventutis tyrocinia in Coll. Magdal ubi non dudum commoratus est quin socius cooptatus post vitam variisque locis plagis injuriâ temporum peractam hic tandem consedit hic moriebatur 3 o Martii anno Salutis 1672 aetatis 53. RICHARD BRATHWAYTE second son of Tho. Brath of Warcop near Appleby in Westmorland Son and heir of Thom. Brathw of Barnside son of Richard Br. of Ambleside in the Barony of Kendall became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. an 1604 aged 16 at which time he was matriculated as a Gentlemans son and a Native of the County of Northumberland While he continued in that House which was at least three years he avoided as much as he could the rough pathes of Logic and Philosophy and traced those smooth ones of Poetry and Roman History in which at length he did excell Afterwards he removed to Cambridge as it seems where also he spent some time for the sake of dead and living authors and then receeding to the north parts of England his father bestowed on him Barnside before mention'd where living many years he became Captain of a Foot-Company in the Trained-bands a Deputy-Lieutenant in the County of Westmorland a Justice of peace and a noted wit and poet He wrot and published several books in English consisting of Prose and Poetry highly commended in the age wherein published but since slighted and despised as frivolous matters and only to be taken into the hands of Novices The titles of them are these Golden-Fleece with other poems Lond. 1611. oct The Poets willow or the passionate Shepheard with sundry delightful and no less passionate sonnets describing the passions of a discontented and perplexed Lover Lond. 1614. oct Written in Lyrick and Anacreontick measures Annotations upon some of the Sonnets before mention'd These are printed at the end of The Poets Willow The Prodigall's teares or his farewell to vanity a treatise of Soveraigne cordialls c. Lond. 1614 oct The Schollers Medley or an intermixt discourse upon historical and poetical relations c. Pr. 1614. qu. Essayes upon the five senses Lond. 1620. oct there again 1635. in tw Natures Embassie or the wild-mans measures danced naked by 12 Satyres Lond. 1621. oct Divine and moral essayes Printed with Natures Embassie c. The Shephards tales Printed with Natures Embassie c. Omphale or the inconstant Shepheardess Printed with Natures Embassie c. Odes or Philomel's teares Printed with Natures Embassie c. Times curtaine drawne divers poems Lond. 1621. oct The English Gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations tending to direction of every Gentleman of selecter rank and quality how to demean or accommodate himself in the manage of publick or private affaires Lond. 1630. and 33. qu. There again with enlargments 1641. fol. The English Gentlewoman containing c. Lond. 1631. 33. qu. There again with enlargments 1641. fol. Discourse of detraction Lond. 1635. in tw Chistian resolves and divine contemplations Pr. with the Disc of detract The Arcadian princess or the triumph of Justice Lond. 1635. oct Survey of History or a Nursery for Gentry A discourse historical and poetical c. Lond. 1638. qu. Pr. again in 1652. qu. being then I think epitomized A spiritual spicery containing sundry sweet tractates of devotion and piety Lond. 1638. in tw With which was printed a translation of A christian diall by which he is directed how he is to dispose of his houres while he is living c. written by Joh. Justus Lanspergius a Carthusian who died 1539. Mercurius Britanicus or the English Intelligencer Tra. Com. Printed the second time 1641. qu. Times treasury or Academy for the accomplishment of the Englâ—sh Gentry in arguments of discourse habit fashion behaviour c. all summed up in Characters of honour Lond. 1655. 56. qu. Congratulatory poem to his Majestie upon his happy arrivall in our late discomposed Albion Lond 1660. in 2. sh in qu. Tragicemedia cui titulum inscribitur Regicidium perspicacissimis judiciis accuratius perspecta pensata comprobata Lond. 1665. or thereabouts What other things he hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that in his latter days he removed upon an employment or rather a second Marlinge to Appleton near Richmond in Yorkshire where dying on the fourth day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and three was buried in the Parish Church of Catherick near that place leaving them behind the character of a well bread Gentleman and a good Neighbour WILLIAM LACEY was born in a Market Town in Yorkshire called Scarborough became a Student in this University in Magd. Hall as he used to say in 1600 aged 16 years or thereabouts but whether in the condition of a Batler or Servitor I know not nor what continuance he made there After he had left the University without the taking of any degree he retired for a time to his native Country and thence by the perswasion of a certain person to the English Coll. at Rome where a little after his arrival Father Persons the Rector thereof gave up the Ghost Thence he went to Nancy in Loraine where he entred himself into the Society of Jesus an 1611 at which time
a great admirer of the said Hobbes with whom he was intimately acquainted doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis and why he doth so is because as he tells us he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram i. e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines and had been an active Preacher in the first War and decyphered besides others to the ruin of many loyal persons the Kings Cabinet taken at Naseby and as a monument of his noble performances deposited the original with the decyphering in the publick Library at Oxford He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patrons sake In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject but that I suppose was never printed The Savilian Professours case stated Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the publick office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis c. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellours Court for 30 years or more and well vers'd in the Statutes Liberties and Privileges of the University did upon great intreaties stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof but he being esteemed a Royalist Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him tho altogether uncapable of that place because he was one of the Savilian Professors a Cambridge man and a stranger to the usages of the University At length by some corruption or at least connivance of the Vicechancellour and perjury of the senior Proctor Byfield W. was pronounced elected Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an ear-witness of all that had most unjustly passed he therefore wrot and published the said book The Commonwealth of Israel or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's anatomy of the Good old cause Lond. 1659. in oct An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs c. Lond. 1659 oct Vindication of the honorable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter Lond. 1659. oct The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed at Lond. A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate mention'd by them in their proposals to the late Parliament Lond. 1659. qu. Miscellaneous positions concerning Government Lond. 1659. qu. They are I suppose the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations mention'd by his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill A light shining out of darkness or certain Queries c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year the second edition of which hath therein several Additions and an Apology for the Quakers written by the said Stubbe The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a ballance and found too light Or an account of the Republic of Sparta with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model Lond. 1660. qu. The Indian Nectar or a discourse concerning Chocolata c. Lond. 1662. oct Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physick hath learnedly written and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done It was rendred into English by one who call'd himself Capt. James Wadsworth under this title Chocolate or an Indian drink c. Lond. 1652. oct Which book our Author Stubbe had seen and has as I conceive followed him in some things As for the said Wadsworth the Reader may know that he was the same who wrot The English Spanish Pilgrim born in Suffolk son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath. bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers but at riper years left them and returned to the Church of England was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver an 1655 at which time he was characterized by an English Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catch-pole Bayliffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct The miraculous Conformist or an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon c. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes's books I must make a digression and tell you why this book was written and who the subject of it was Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes son of Will. Gr. Esq was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland on S. Valentines day 14 Feb. 1628 was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight his mothers father he was for the present time relieved After his death his mother for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High German Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity and found from his hands much favour and love After 5 or 6 years absence he returned to his native Country at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin where he spent an years time in contemplation and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world as he saith that his life became a burthen to him and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay as ever was Gally-slave of the oar which brought his life even to the threshold of death so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about c. In 1649 or thereabouts he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish Papists and others then called the Rebels and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded he retired to his native country of Affane the habitation of his Ancestors and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Corke Register for Transplantation and Justice of the Peace After his Majesties Restauration he was removed as I have heard from
person of Quality to his friend in the Country c. Lond. 1676. qu. Of which book and its author you may see in another intit An account of the growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England Lond. 1678. in a thin fol. p. 22. Written by Andr. Marvel Esq A second Pacquet of Advices c. occasion'd by several seditious Pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former Pacquet c. Lond. 1677. qu. This answers first a Pamphlet intit Some considerations upon the question whether the Parliament be dissolved by its prorogation for 15 months 2 Another intit The long Parliament dissolved written by Denzill L. Holles the author of which being sought after his Chaplain a Nonconformist named Cary or Carew own'd it to free his Lord whereupon he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London in the beginning of Feb. 1676. This Cary after his Lords death lived in Hatton Garden in Holborne and practised Physick 3 A letter from a person newly chosen to sit in this Parliament to a Bencher in the Temple with a pretended answer of the Bencher to the same 4 A narrative of the cause and manner of the imprisonment of the Lords now close prisoners in the Tower of London The said two Pacquets of Advices were written as 't is said by Nedham and he encouraged thereunto by Edm. Warcup a Justice of Peace and Thomas Earl of Danby Christianissimus Christianandus or reasons for the reduction of France to a more Christian state in Europe Lond. 1678. in 10 sh in qu. Besides all these he hath written several other small things which I have not yet seen He hath translated into English Mare clausum printed in fol. 1652 or thereabouts but he being then no way affected to Monarchy gave himself therefore the license to foist in the name of a Commonwealth instead of the Kings of England and also to suppress the Epist ded to the King He also added an Appendix to it concerning the Soveraignty of the Kings of Great Britaine on the sea intit Additional Evidences which he procured as 't was thought of Joh. Bradshaw All which besides treasonable Comments and false Glosses were done in the life time of the learned author Joh. Selden After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. the English copy was corrected perfected and restored by J. H. Gent. and pr. at London 1662. fol. He the said Nedham also hath written a Preface before the book intit A new idea of the practice of Physick written by Frane de le Boe Sylvius published in English at London in 1675. oct In which Pref. towards the latter end our author Nedham saith that he had then 1675 and before a purpose to publish some Essays to discover what may be done by able men towards an advancement of knowledge in the power of Plants by the examining their natures by the principles and operations of the Chymists also that he was about to form divers Treatises for publick view c. By the way it must be known that our author in the said Preface doth shew himself a great disliker of the common way of the first studying of Physick in the Universities and seems also to run down University promotions or degrees calling them in derision the doctoral confederates the scholastic family of a fine breed who come to town with the learned Cushion Cap and Scarlet The Apothecaries boys are able to tutour them in Town-practice They vaunt and make a noise with their anatomical rattle spend much time in Anatomy neglect the chymical way c. Several things are fathered also upon him of which he was not in the least the author as the publication of The Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Hen. Ireton and Joh. Bradshaw intended to have been spoken at their execution at Tyburne 30 Jan. 1660 c. Lond. 1660. in one sh and half in qu. said in the title to be published by Marcham Nedham and Payne Fisher Servants Poets and Pamphleteers to his infernal Highness At length this most seditious mutable and railing author M. Nedham died suddenly in the house of one Kidder in D'eureux Court near Temple bar London in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 29 of Novemb. being the Vigil of S. Andrew at the upper end of the body of the Church of S Clements Danes near the entrance into the chancel Soon after that Church being pull'd down and rebuilt and the letters on his grave taken away or defaced you shall have in their place this Epitaph made on him an 1647 printed at the end of Merc. Britanicus his welcome to hell Here lies Britanicus Hell's barking Cur That son of Belial who kept damned stir And every Munday spent his stock of spleen In venomous railing on the King and Queen Who though they both in goodness may forgive him Yet for his safety we 'll in hell receive him With this person may well be coupled Henry Care several times reflected upon by Rog. L'estrange in his Observators for a poor sniveling Fellow who after he had wrot several things in the behalf of the Church of England and the Presbyterians and had reflected on both the Universities in several of his Writings as popishly affected was at length prevail'd upon in the time of King Jam. 2. to write for the Rom. Catholicks against the Church which he before had eagerly defended where by it was made manifest that what he wrot was not for Religion or Conscience sake which he before did pretend but meerly for Interest After his death which hapned in Aug. 1688 was an Elegy written in his commendation printed on one side of a sheet of paper and a satyrical thing called Henry Cares last Will and Testament JOHN NEWTON son of Humphrey Newton of Oundle in Northamptonshire and he the second son of Joh Newt in Axmouth in Devoâ—sh was born in Northamptonshire became a Communer of S. Edm. Hall in Mich. term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1641 and in the year following was actually created Master of that faculty among several Esquires Gentlemen and Soldiers that belonged to the K. and Court then residing in this University At which time his genie being naturally inclined to Mathematicks and Astronomy he by continual industry made great proficiency in them which he found advantageous to him in the times of Usurpation After his Majesties return he was actually created Doct. of Div made one of the Kings Chaplains and Rector of Rosse in Herefordshire in the place I think of Mr. Joh. Tombes ejected which he kept to his dying day He hath written these things following mostly printed in qu. Astronomia Britannica Exhibiting the doctrine of the Sphere and theory of Planets decimally by Trigonometry and by Tables c. in 3 parts Lond. 1656. 57. qu. Help to calculation with tables of Declinat Ascensions c. Lond. 1657. qu. Trigonometria Britannica shewing the construction of the natural
both express'd the greatness of their Founders and preserved the splendor of the Kingdom which might at the reformation have in some measure been kept up and converted to sundry pious uses Upon consideration thereof those Gent. declined it and pitch'd upon the Vault where K. Ed. 4. had been inter'd being on the north side of the Choire near the Altar that K. being one his late Maj. would oftentimes make honorable mention of and from whom his Maj. was lineally propagated That therefore induced Mr. Herbert to give order to N. Harrison and Hen. Jackson to have that Vault opened partly covered with a fair large stone of Touch raised within the Arch adjoyning having a range of iron bars gilt curiously cut according to Church work c. But as they were about this work some Noble-men came thither namely the Duke of Richmond the Marq. of Hertford the Earl of Lindsey and with them Dr. Juxon B. of London who had license from the Parliament to attend the Kings body to his grave Those Gent. therefore Herbert and Mildmay thinking fit to submit and leave the choice of the place of burial to those great persons they in like manner viewed the Tomb-house and the Choir and one of the Lords beating gently upon the Paâ—ement with his staff perceived a hollow sound and thereupon ordering the stones and earth to be removed they discovered a descent into a Vault where two Coffins were laid near one another the one very large of an antique form and the other little These they supposed to be the bodies of K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Jane Seymour his third wife as indeed they were The Velvet Palls that covered their Coffins seemed fresh tho they had laid there above 100 years The Lords agreeing that the Kings body should be in the said Vault inter'd being about the middle of the Choir over against the eleventh stall upon the Soveraigns side they gave order to have the Kings name and year he died cut in lead which whilst the Work-men were about the Lords went out and gave Puddifant the Sexton order to lock the Chappel door and not suffer any to stay therein till farther notice The Sexton did his best to clear the Chappel nevertheless Isaac the Sextons man said that a Foot Soldier had hid himself so as he was not discern'd and being greedy of prey crept into the Vault and cut so much of the Velvet Pall that covered the great body as he judged would hardly be missed and wimbled also a hole thro the said Coffin that was largest probably fancying that there was something well worth his adventure The Sexton at his opening the door espied the sacrilegious person who being searched a bone was found about him with which he said he would haâ—t a knife The Governour being therefore informed of he gave him his reward and the Lords and others present were convinc'd that a real body was in the said great Coffin which some before had scrupled The girdle or circumscription of capital letters of lead put about the Kings Coffin had only these words King Charles 1648. The Kings body was then brought from his Bed-chamber down into S. George's Hall whence after a little stay it was with a slow and solemn pace much sorrow in most faces being then discernable carried by Gentlemen of quality in mourning The Noblemen in mouring also held up the Pall and the Governour with several Gentlemen and Officers and Attendants came after It was then observed that at such time as the Kings body was brought out from S. George's Hall the sky was serene and clear but presently it began to snow and the snow fell so fast that by that time the corps came to the west end of the royal Chappel the black velvet Pall was all white the colour of innocency being thick covered over with snow The Body being by the Bearers set down near the place of burial the Bishop of London stood ready with the Service book in his hands to have performed his last duty to the K. his Master according to the order and form of burial of the Dead set forth in the book of Common Prayer which the Lords likewise desired but would not be suffer'd by Col. Whitchcot the Governour of the Castle by reason of the Directory to which said he he and others were to be conformable Thus went the White King to his grave in the 48 year of his age and 22 year and 10 month of his Reign To let pass Merlins Prophecy which some allude to the White Sattin his Maj. wore when he was crowned in Westm Abbey former Kings having on purple Robes at their Coronation I shall conclude this Narrative with the Kings own excellent expression running thus Crownes and Kingdoms are not so valuable as my honor and reputation Those must have a period with my life but these survive to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone a good name being the embalming of Princes and a sweet consecrating of them to an eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity MARTIN LLEWELLIN Lluellyn or Lluelyn so many ways I find him written the seventh son without any daughter between of Mart. Lluellyn was born in London on the 12 of Decemb. 1616 and on the 22 of the said month was baptized in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew near Smithfield In 1636 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 at which time he bore arms for his Majesty and was at length a Captain In 1648 he was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament so that afterward going to the great City he prosecuted then his genius as much to Physick as before it had to Poetry In 1653 he obtained the favour of the men in power then in the University to be admitted Doctor of Physick and so consequently took the Oaths that were then required and afterwards became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians In 1660 he was sworn Physitian to his Majesty at that time newly return'd to his Kingdoms and in the same year he was not only made Principal of the Hall of S. Mary the Virgin but one of the Commissioners appointed by the King for regulating the University of Oxon in which office he shew'd himself active enough In 1664 he left the University and setling with his wife and family in a market Town in Bucks called Great Wycombe practised his faculty there was made a Justice of the Peace for that County and in 1671 was elected Mayor of that Corporation in which offices he behaved himself severe against the Phanaticks He hath written Men-miracles A Poem Printed 1656. in oct Divers Poems Printed 1656. in oct Satyrs Printed 1656. in oct Elegies Printed 1656. in oct Divine Poems Printed 1656. in oct Among his Elegies is one upon Rob. Burton alias Democritus Junior of Ch. Ch another upon the eminent Poet and Orator Will. Cartwright a third upon Dr.
c. These two Speeches are said to be printed at Amsterdam but were not 6 Speech in the H. of Lords 25. Mar. 1679. upon occasion of the Houses resolving it self into a grand Committee to consider of the state of England 7 Speech lately made by a noble Peer of the Realm Printed in half a sheet of paper in fol. like a Gazette in the latter end of Nov. 1680 The beginning of which is this My Lord in the great debate concerning the Kings Speech c. pretended to have been spoken in Parliament but 't was not Which Speech being full of rascallities was by order of the House of Lords burnt by the hand of the common Hangman before the Royal Exchange and in the Pallace-yard at West on the 4. of Dec. following Therein in the Shuboleth of factions which he could truly pronounce he had cajoled the Brethren of Scotland But in the latter end of Jan. following came out an answer to it by Anon. intit A Letter from Scotland written occasionally upon the Speech made by a noble Peer of this Realm written by a better Protestant than the author of it tho a servant to his Royal Highness the Duke of York Two seasonable discourses concerning this present Parliament Oxon alias Lond. 1675. qu. The first discourse is thus entit The debate or arguments for dissolving this present Parliament and the calling frequent and new Parliaments The other discourse is A Letter from a Parliament man to his friend concerning the proceedings of the H. of Com this last Sessions began 13. Oct. 1675. The first discourse contains 10 pages the other seaven And tho no name is set to them yet it was very well known to all that Shaftesbury wrot them who tells us in the said Letter that the said Parliament consists of old Cavaliers old Round-heads indigent Cavaliers and true Country Gentlemen The first of which discourses if not both together with the Speech before mention'd on the 20. of Oct. 1675 and the protestation and reasons aforesaid are all answer'd in the body of a book which I shall anon mention entit A pacquet of Advices c. part 1. A Letter from a person of quality to his friend in the Country Printed 1675. qu. It contains 32 pages and speaks much in the praise of some of the temporal Lords but gibes at the spiritual bench particularly at Ward of Salisbury whom he makes a very rogue It is also chiefly as I remember against the Test and was published after the Parl. had been prorogued 22. of Nov. the same year It was answer'd by March Nedham in his pamphlet entit A pacquet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftesbury c. part 1. As for the Test it self which was the same with the corporation oath and part of the Declaration required to be subscribed in the Act of Uniformity only with this additional clause I do swear that I will not at any time endeavour an alteration of the government either in Church or State was brought into the House by Robert Earl of Lindsey but violently opposed by Shaftesbury altho this very clause too had passed the Parliament long before meeting with little opposition in a particular Bill which concerned only Nonconformist Preachers known by the name of The Oxford or The five-mile Act which hath been ever since so loudly clamoured against by that party His case at the Kings bench on his confinement to the Tower Lond. 1679 in 4. sh in fol. Expedient for the setling of the nation discoursed with his Majesty in the House of Peers at Oxford 24. March 1680. Lond. 1681 in one sh in qu. The expedient was for setling the Crown on James Duke of Monmouth No Protestant Plot or the present pretended conspiracy of Protestants against the Kings Government discovered to be a conspiracy of the Papists against the King and his Protestant Subjects Lond. 1680 in 4 sh and an half in qu. Tho no name is put to this yet the general report was that the Earl of Shaftesbury was the author or at least found materials for it and that his servant who put it in the Printers hands was committed to prison Not long after the publication thereof which was partly answer'd in a pamphlet intit A plea for succession in opposition to popular exclusion c. Lond. 1682 in 5 sh in folio came out by the same hand The second part of no Protest Plot c. Lond. 1682 in 4. sh and an half in qu. great part of which is concerning the duty and power of Grand Juries with reference still to the Earl of Shaftesbury Afterwards came out a third part in qu. containing about 20 sheets written as 't was vulgarly said by Rob. Ferguson a Scot by the appointment and consent of Shaftesbury which mostly reflects on the printed proceedings against Shaftesbury when the indictment of High Treason was charged against him It endeavours also at large to lessen the credit and invalidate the Testimony of those several witnesses which appeared against the said Earl when the before mention'd indictment was charged against him by representing them singly in the blackest and most malicious characters that can be It doth more than ordinarily reflect upon Edmund Warcup a Justice of Peace in Middlesex as if he had corrupted and managed most of the evidences against the said Count. He is also touched upon in the first and second part which I shall now for brevity sake omit and only tell you that all three parts contain chiefly a vindication of Shaftesbury as to his not being in the least concern'd in any plotting design against the King and that they are taken to task by Roger L'estrange in some of his Observators They were written as well as the bad subject of them could bear and the third part which is very libellous was answer'd by a pamphlet entit A letter to a friend containing certain observations upon some passages which have been published in a late libell entit The third part of no Protestant Plot. Lond. 1682. in 3 sh in qu. Written chiefly in vindication of James Duke of Ormonde and his administration of affairs and government in Ireland A modest account of the present posture of affairs in England with particular reference to the Earl of Shaftesbury's case And a vindication of him from two pretended Letters of a noble Peer Lond. 1682 in 5. sh in fol. Which two letters supposed to belong to George Earl of Halyfax were doubtless forged and â—eigned only purposely to give Shaftesbury a greater liberty and scope of railing at and libelling the said Count. But this the reader must know that tho there is no name to this Modest account and therefore it cannot be reasonably fastned upon our author yet the general report was at its publication that 't was his and at that time it was judged to be so by Rog. L'estrange in two or three of his Observators weekly intelligences that then
Ministers thereof just under the Communion Table ROBERT SHARROCH a Ministers son was born at Adstock near to and in the County of Buckingham educated in Wyekhams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1649 or thereabouts took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1661 became afterwards Rector of Horewood in Buckinghamshire Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Bishops Waltham in Hampshire a Justice of Peace for that County and at length Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Walt. Darrell deceased in which Dignity he was installed 28. Apr. 1684 being then accounted learned in divinity in the Civ and Com. Law and very knowing in Vegitables and all pertaining thereunto He hath published The History of the propagating and improvement of Vegitables by the concurrence of Art and Nature shewing the several ways for the propagation of Plants usually cultivated in England as they are increased by Seeds Off-sets Suckers c. Oxon 1660 and 1672 oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 84. p. 5002. Hypothesis de Officiis secundum humanae rationis dictata seu naturae jus unde casus omnes conscientiae quatenus notiones à naturâ supersunt dijudicari possint c. Oxon. 1660. oct In this he writes against the Principia and Rationes of Hobbes of Malmsbury belonging to Ethicks and Politicks This book came out at Oxon again in 1682 in a large octavo with many additions to it with the title a little alter'd and enlarg'd and dedicated to the King Judicia seu Legum censurae de variis in continentiae speciebus c. Oxon. 1662 in a large oct De finibus virtutis Christianae The ends of Christian religion c. justified in several discourses Oxon 1673. qu. contained in ten Sermons He also reviewed and compared with several copies Provinciale vetus provinciae Cantuariensis cum selectioribus Linwodi annotationibus Oxon. 1664. in a thick oct He concluded his last day on the eleventh of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Bishops Waltham before mention'd In his Archdeaconry was installed Tho. Clutterbook D. D. Rector and Vicar of South Stoneham near Southampton in his Prebendship Sam. Palmer M. A. somtimes of Mert. Coll. and in Bishops Waltham succeeded Franc. Morley M. A. of Ch. Ch. great Nephew to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winton who about the said time had a Prebendship bestowed on him in the said Church of Winton on the resignation of Dr. Geo. Beaumont by the said Bishop WILLIAM MASTERS second son of Sir Will. Mast of Cirencester in Glocestershire Knight was born there admitted Bach. Fellow of Mert. Coll. from that of Ch. Ch. by the the Committee of Parliament and Visitors of the University 25. Mar. 1650 being then an Undergraduat took the degree of Master of Arts about two years after and under the name of a Student in Theology did publish these two things following he being then 26 years of age Essayes and observations Theological and Moral Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered and characterized c. Lond. 1653. oct Drops of Myrrhe or Meditations and Prayers These are printed with the former book and are fitted to divers arguments in that work Afterwards the author was beneficed at Woodford Roe in Essex was Bach. of Divinity Rector of S. Vedastus in Foster Lane in Lond. and a Minor Preb. in S. Pauls Cathedral but what else he published I cannot yet find He died in the month of Sept. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Woodford before mention'd By his last will and test he gave to the Univ. of Oxon 5 l. per an to have two Sermons preached every year in S. Maries Church there viz one on Shrove Sunday and the other on the last Sunday in June GEORGE MORLEY son of Francis Morley Esq by Sarah Denham his wife sister to Sir Joh. Denham one of the Barons of his Majesties Exchecquer was born in Cheapside within the City of London on the 27. of Febr. 1597. He lost his father when he was six years of age his mother when 12 and that little Patrimony that he was born to by his father's being engaged in other mens debts At 14 years of age or thereabouts he was elected one of Kings Scholars of the Coll. at Westminster and in the beginning of the year 1615 he became Student of Ch. Ch where with very great industry running thro all the Classes of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts. After he had continued in that royal foundation seven years in the degree of Master he was invited by Robert Earl of Caernarvon and his Lady to be Chaplain in their house where he lived till he was 43 years of age without having or seeking any preferment in the Church After this he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Hartfield in Sussex which being a Sinecure he exchanged with Dr. Rich. Steuart then Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty for the Parsonage of Mildenhall near Marlborough in Wiltshire But before he had that charge he had a Prebendship of Ch. Ch. bestowed on him by the K. to whom he was Chaplain in Ord. an 1641 which was the only preferment he ever desired and of which he gave the first years profit to the King towards the charge of his wars which were then commenc'd against him by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in the Long Parliament At the beginning of which he preached one of the first solemn Sermons before the Commons but so little to their gust and liking that they commanded all the rest of the Sermons but not his to be printed Yet after this he being then Doctor of Divinity he was nominated one of the Assembly of Divines by both Houses as Dr. Prideaux B. of Worcester Dr. H. Hammond c. were but neither he or either of them appeared among them As for his part he always remained with his Majesty did him what service he could as long as the war continued After which he was employed by his Majesty then a prisoner at Hampton Court to engage the University of Oxon not to submit to the illegal Visitation that had been began but for the present intermitted because of the violent proceedings of the Army Which affair he managed with such success that the Convocation did presently pass an Act for that purpose but with one dissenting voice only tho they were then under the power of the enemy that is the Parliament forces After this he was chosen by the Members of the University with some other Assistants named by himself to negotiate the making good of their Articles which were framed at the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the said forces which he did to that degree as to gain time for the getting in of their rents and to dispose of themselves I mean as many of them as were
He was now Rector of Ibstock in Leycestershire where being always esteemed a great Royalist and Episcoparian was therefore forc'd thence by the faction So that flying to Oxon as an Asylum he was created Doctor of the Civil Law and often preached there He died at Ibstock I think an 1647. or thereabouts Daniel Vivian of New Coll. He was a Founders Kinsman and dying at Farndish in Bedfordshire an 1670 was there I suppose buried Brome Whorwood of Halton in Oxfordshire Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. This person tho he stuck close to K. Ch. 1. in his necessities yet he did not to his son K. Ch. 2 after whose restauration he was several times elected Burgess for the City of Ox. He died in the Old Pallace Yard at Westminster 12 Apr. 1684 and was buried in the Church of Halton near to the grave of his father Sir Thom. Whorwood Kt leaving then behind him a natural son named Thomas begotten on the body of his servant named Catherine daugh of Thom. Allen of the Parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon Baker Sir Thom. He le of Devonsh Bt. He was Burgess for Plimpton in the Parl. that began 13 Apr. 1640 and with Sir Joh. Hele both Lords of great Estates in their Country and Walt. He le of Winston did retire to his Majesty at Oxon adhere to him and thereby brought his Cause into great credit for the justness of it as also rich contributions thereunto and many forces to maintain it Will. Dowdeswell of Pembr Coll. This person who was accounted a learned man among those of his Society became Preb. of Worcester in 1660 in the place of Francis Charlet M. A. some years before that dead and had if I mistake not other Spiritualities in the Church In his Prebendship succeeded Dr. George Benson Archdeacon of Hereford an 1671. On the same day Nov. 1. were also created Doctors of the Civil Law Joh. Knotsford a Knight I think Joh. Wandeston Will. Atkyns Joh. Palmer and one Peachy or at least were permitted to be created when they pleased which is all I yet know of them Nov. 10. Will. Smith Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. He was a Burgess for one of the Cinque-Ports called Winchelsey for that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but left it went to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there 1643. Dec. 20. Sir Tho. Manwaring Kt Recorder of Reading in Bâ—rks Hen. Moody sometimes a Gent. Com. of Magd. Hall I take this person to be the same with Sir Hen. Moody Bt son of Sir Hen. Moody of Garsdon in Wilts Knight and Baronet who was now in some esteem at Court for his poetical fancy The father who had been a well bred Gent died in 1630. Dec. 20. Tho. Thory Dec. 20. George Thorald Sir Joh. Heydon or Heyden Kt. Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance belonging to his Majesty He was of the family of the Heydens in Norfolk was as great a Scholar as a Soldier especially in the Mathematicks suffered much for his Majesties Cause and died in the Winter time an 1653. One Joh. Haydon Gent. was entred into the publick or Bodleian Library under the title of Juris Municipalis studiosas an 1627 Whether the same with the former I cannot tell I have made mention of Sir Christop Heyden who perhaps was father to Sir John in the first vol. of this work p. 278. Jan. 31. Edw. Lord Littleton Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Sir John Banks Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law the same day This worthy person was born of honest parents in Cumberland at Keswick as 't is said became a Commoner of Qu. Coll. in this University an 1604 aged 15 years left it before he took a degree entred himself a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London where applying himself most severely to the study of the Common Law became a Barrester and a Counsellor of note In the 6 of Car. 1. he being then a Knight and Attorney to Pr. Charles he was constituted Lent Reader of that house and in the 7 of Car. 1. he was made Treasurer thereof In 1640. 16 Car. 1. he was made L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and soon after following his Majesty when he was forc'd by tumults from Westm he was made one of his Privy Council at Oxon and L. Ch. Just of the Com. Bench or Pleas where dying 28 Dec. 1644 was buried in the north trancept joyning to Ch. Ch. Cathedral See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. p. 289. a. Sir Francis Crawley of Luton in Bedfordsh Kt one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was also then actually created Doct. of the Civ Law You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives and actions of excellent Personages c. published by Dav. Lloyd M. A. Lond. 1668. fol. Sir Rob. Forster Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was then also created He was the youngest son of Sir Thom. Forster Kt. one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the time of K. Jam. 1 was after he had left the University a Student in the Inner Temple where he became a Barrester and Counsellor of note In the 7 of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of that House in the 12 he was made Serjeant at Law and in the 15 of the said Kings Raign one of the Justices of the Kings Bench and about that time a Knight Afterwards he followed his Majesty to Oxon sate in the Parl. there as Sir Joh. Banks and Sir Franc. Crawley did suffered as other Royalists when the Kings Cause declined and compounded for his Estate After his Majesties restauration he was made L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench 31 May 1660 and in Octob. following L. Ch. Just of the Common Pleas. He died on the fourth day of Octob. 1663 aged 74 years and was buried in the Church at Egham in Surrey where there is a comely monument in the wall over his grave in the body of the said Church Febr. 7. Sir Rob. Heath L. Ch. Just of the Com Pleas was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law This noted and loyal person was born in the Parish of Eatonbridge in Kent and baptized in the Church there educated in the knowledge of the Common Law in the Inner Temple made Recorder of London 10 Novemb. 1618 in the place of Rich. Martin deceased Summer Reader of the same Temple in 1619 Sollicitor General in the year following being then of Micham in Surrey and Justice of the Peace for that County Attorney General in 1625 Serjeant at Law 1632 one of the Justices of the Common Bench in 1640 and two years after or more Lord Chief Just of the Common Bench or Pleas he being then with his Maj. at Oxon. He hath extant Objections in a Conference discoursed by the Lords and held by a Committee of both Houses against the
Colonel of the County of Essex was created Doct. of the Civ Law the same day I take this person to be the same with Thom. Coke of Pebmersh in Essex who was chosen one of the Knights for the said County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 1654. Sept. 9. Joachim Matthews created Doct. of the Civ Law Sept. 9. Will. Herlakinden created Doct. of the Civ Law Sept. 9. Christop Earle created Doct. of the Civ Law The first of these three was afterwards a Commissioner of the County of Essex for the ejecting of such whom the godly party then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Minsters and Schoolmasters and the same year he was chosen Burgess for Maldon of which he was Recorder in the same County to serve in Parliament being then a Justice of Peace and an Inhabitant of Havering In 1656 and 59 he was elected Burgess again for the same place to serve in the two Parliaments called in those years by Oliver and Richard being then a leading and forward man for the Cause then drove on and professed He was father to Philip Matthews of Great Gobions within the Liberty of Havering in Essex created Baronet 13 of June 1662. The second Herlakinden was a Commissioner or Committee man for the said County of Essex a godly brother and a leading man in the times of Usurpation as Earle was Sept. 9. Joh. Langley of Essex Sept. 9. Will. German Sept. 9. John Guy These three who are said to be well deserving of the Commonwealth were then actually created Masters of Arts. Feb. 27. Joh. Tickell of Ch. Ch. lately of New Inn was actually created M. of A. by vertue of a dispensation from Oliver Cromwell Chanc. of this Univ. George Croke of All 's Coll. was actually created Master the same day by vertue of the said dispensation This person who was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors was son of Dr. Hen. Croke sometimes of Brasn Coll and heir to his Uncle Sir George Croke of Waterstoke near Oxon. After the return of his Maj. he was Knighted and in 1664 became High Sheriff of Oxfordshire At length having run out of his estate he died at London in 1680 whereupon his body being conveyed to Waterstock was buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to that of Sir George and that of his wife who died 4 years or more before him on the 21 of the said month Mar. 1. Lewis Atterbury of Ch. Ch. was admitted or created in Convoc by vertue of a dispensation from the Chanc. with liberty then allow'd to him to suffragate in Convoc and Congreg An. Dom. 1652. An. 4 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. O. Cromwell who being now in Scotland and sensible how troublesome it was to the Academians to apply themselves to him about their concerns he did by an instrument dated 16 Octob. this year commissionate appoint and delegate Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll Dr. Jonath Goddard Warden of Mert. Coll Thom. Goodwin President of Magd. Coll and Pet. French Preb. of Ch. Ch or any three or more of them to take into consideration all and every matter of dispensation grant or confirmation whatsoever which required his assent as Chanc. of this University At the same time he delegated his power of hearing and determining College differences to the Vicechancellour and Heads of Houses for six months Vicechanc. Joh. Owen M. of A. Dean of Ch. Ch admitted 26 Sept. having been nominated by the Chancellours Letters dated 9. of the same month Proct. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Apr. 28. Pet. Jersey of Pemb. Coll. Apr. 28. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 1. Dan. Nichols of S. Joh. Coll. May 15. Zachary Mayne of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1657 and of the other originally of Ch. Ch. among the Masters 1654. Oct. 12. Will. Sprigge of Linc. Coll. Oct. 12. Franc. Cross of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two hath several things extant but without his name set to them and being now or at least lately living he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers Of the other originally of S. Joh. Coll. you may see more among the Masters an 1655. Feb. 2. Tho. Lawrence lately of Mert. Coll now of S. Alb. Hall See more among the Masters an 1655. Feb. 4. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 4. George Boraston of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards successively Bishop of Bristow and Hereford Of the other you may see more among the Masters 1655 Feb. 3. Thom. Adams of Brasn Coll. 8. Thom. Frankland of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Mast an 1655. The other is mention'd among the Writers an 1690. p. 648. Feb. 17. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch. Feb. 17. Tho. Cartwright of Qu. Coll. The last was afterwards B of Chester Rob. Harrison of Ch Ch. was adm the same day See more among the Masters 1655 Adm. 129. Bach. of Law Nine were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer Bishop or man of note in the Church or State Mast of Arts. May 6. John Rotheram of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Bedfordshire man born and of kin to Archb. Rotheram the second Founder of Linc. Coll was made Fellow thereof by the Visitors in 1648 and afterwards became a Barrester of Greys Inn. In June 1688 he was among other Counsellors Dissenters from the Church of England called by the Writ of K. Jam. 2. to take upon them the state and degree of Serjeant at Law and he being sworn at the Chancery Bar on the 18 of the same month was in the beginning of July following made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer and by the name of Baron Rotheram he went the Oxford Circuit in the latter end of the said month June 18. Theoph. Gale of Magd. Coll. 25. Will. Carpender of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Herefordshire man born was made Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors an 1648 became Proctor of the University in 1656 moral Philosophy Reader in the year following and much about the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Minister of Staunton super Wye or Waga in his native Country and afterwards benefic'd in Bucks He hath written Jura Cleri or an Apology for the rights of the Clergy proving out of antient and modern Records that the conferring of Revenues Honors Titles c. upon Ecclesiasticks is consistent to Scripture c. Oxon. 1661. qu. He was living in 1686 as the Seniors of Ch. Ch. tell me and perhaps may be so still George Annesley of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was son of the Viscount of Mount Norris in Ireland and had before obtained a Students place in the same House by the favour of the Visitors Jul. 9. Joh. How of Magd. Coll. 31. Thom. Tanner of New Coll. Nov. 18. Hen. Hurst Coll. Nov. 18. Rob. Whitehall
Coll. 23. Joshua Stopford of Magd. Coll. The first of these two hath published several ingenious books and is now living in Worcestershire The other was esteemed a good Greecian and would sometimes course in Greek in the publick Schools Mar. 9. Robert Huntingdon of Mert. Coll. In the beginning of the year 1692 he became Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland in the place of Dr. Will. Sherendon a Non-juror who had been consecrated B. of that City on the 19 of Febr. 1681. Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Jul. 4. Thomas Ireland of S. Maries Hall This ingenious person who was son of Will. Ireland Vergerer of the Church of Westminster was bred in the Coll. School there and thence elected Student of Ch. Ch but ejected in the time of Oliver by Dr. Owen his Dean Whereupon retiring to S. Maries Hall he entred upon the Law line and took a degree as a member of that house After the restauration of his Maj. Ch. 2. he obtained his Students place again but took no higher degree yet in the vacancy of the See of Durham between the death of Dr. Joh. Cosin and the translation thereunto of Dr. Crew he had confer'd on him the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Durham He hath extant besides several copies of verses occasionally printed in books Verses spoken at the appearance of the K. and Qu Duke and Dutchess of York in Christ Church Hall Oxford 29 Sept. 1663. Oxon. 1663. qu. They were also about the same time printed at Lond. with this title Speeches spoken to the K. and Qu Duke and c. pr. in qu. After dinner of the same day his Majesty with his royal Consort and their royal Highnesses went from their Lodgings with their respective Retinews purposely to see that spatious Refectory which had been built by the great Cardinal Wolsey where the Dean Canons and Students waiting their coming Mr. Ireland spoke the said Verses in number 116 on his knees Which being well done the K. thanked him for them gave him his hand to kiss and commanded a copy of them This Mr. Ireland who might have done greater matters had not his mind been diverted by the frequent indulgences of Poets died at or near the Golden Lyon in the Strand within the Liberty of Westm during his attendance on his beloved Miss in the middle of Decemb. 1676. Whereupon Dr. Rich. Lloyd of All 's Coll. succeeded him in his Chancellourship Dec. 15. Hugh Davis of New Coll. He hath published an English book in fol intit De jure Vniformitatis Ecclesiasticae c. and therefore larger mention is to be made of him hereafter Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. Apr. 9. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards one of the Proctors of the Univ and Chaplain to Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury who while he was L. Chancellour of Engl. procured for him a Prebendship in the Church of Nerwich and Glocester Another of both his names is a Physitian now living and therefore this Nath. Hodges ought to be mention'd for distinction sake 21. Gabr. Towerson of Qu. afterwards of All 's Coll. May 29. George Castle of All 's Coll. June 11. Tho. Sprat of Wadh. Coll. June 11. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. June 11. Nath. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 12. Rob. South 15. Edw. West of S. Maries Hall 17. Thom. Owen of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of S. David Jul. 4. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. 20. Richard Berry of Brasn Coll. The last of these two was afterwards made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. purely upon the account of his Voice and good Singing but being forced to leave that house upon no good account in the beginning of June 1670 he went into Ireland to seek his fortune but whether beneficed there I cannot tell He hath published A Sermon upon the Epiphany preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin 1672. printed in qu. and perhaps other things Qu. Dec. 15. Dan. Nicols of S. Joh. Coll. This person who had by the Visitors been made Scholar of his Coll of which he was afterwards Fellow conformed after his Majesties restauration and at length became Rector of Scotton in Lincolnshire He hath published A Sermon preached in the Cathedral of Lincolne 18 Jul. 1681 being Assize-Munday on 1 Sam. 12.14.15 Lond. 1681. qu. and perhaps other things Adm. 101. or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was adm this year Bach. of Div. Jun. 18. James Bedford of Queens Coll. This person a young forward Presbyterian who was one of the number of Cambridge men that came to Oxon in 1648 to obtain preferment from the Visitors was by them made Fellow of Queens Coll being then Bach of Arts. So that he and George Phillips another of the same gang afterwards Proctor of the Univ. being Juniors and wanting good chambers they did on the 21 of May 1649 make a motion to the Society of that House that forasmuch as the younger Fellows had bad Chambers they would allow that the outward Chappel which they said was useless might be converted into Chambers for them to lodge in c. Which motion being looked upon by the Seniors there men of the old stamp as a horrid and villanous thing they did not dare to express it so for fear of danger that might ensue but passed it over as a slight matter Afterwards this Mr. Bedford who was a forward and conceited person and presum'd to take his degree of Bac. of Div. before those who were much his Seniors in the House became Pastor of Blunsham and Erith in Huntingdonshire before this year and wrot and published The perusal of an old Statute concerning death and judgment Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. Francis Bedford dau of Sam. Bedford a member of Parliament and Justice of Peace for the County of Bedford who died 18 Jan. 1656 aged 12 years on Heb. 9.27 Lond. 1657. qu. The said Sam. was brother to James Bedford the author who perhaps hath published other things Qu. Jul. 23. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Tho. Lamplugh of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Tho. Tully of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Rich. Rallingson of Qu. Coll. Doct. of Law Jun. 27. Will. Offley of Vniv Coll. He was the only person that was adm this year Doct. of Phys Jun. 18. Pet. Fiott of Exet. Coll. 19. Edw. Stubbe of Pemb. Coll. 23. Will. Quaterman of Pemb. Coll. 30. Elisha Coysh of Pemb. Coll. The last was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May 14. Joh. Collins M. A. of Cambr. Whether he be the same Joh. Collins who was Doct. of Div. and author of Several discourses concerning the actual providence of God divided into three parts c. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. and of other things as 't is probable I cannot yet tell He is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Collinges Bach. of Div. and sometimes Minister of S. Stephens Parish in Norwich a frequent Writer before this time because their names
the taking of their degrees only to have the benefit of the publick Library c. This person who was much addicted to Musick while he studied in Oxon which was about 8 years was made Archdeacon of Ely by his Father after his Majesties restauration had other spiritualities as I conceive confer'd upon him and became a member of the Royal Society He died in 1679 being then of Wilberton in the Isle of Ely and whether he was Doctor of the Laws at Cambridge I cannot tell Aug. 7. Daubigney Tarbervill of Oriel Coll. Aug. 7. Degorie Pollwhele of Exet. Coll. The first who afterwards practised Phys in the City of Salisbury was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters the other who had been ejected his Fellowship of Exeter Coll. by the Parliament Visitors in 1648 was also created by vertue of the said Letters which say that he the said D. Pollwhele had from the beginning of the late unhappy troubles vigorously and faithfully served his Majesty under the command of Ralph Lord Hopton then of Sir Jam. Smith in the quality of a Major of Horse and continued in Armes until the surrender of Pendennis Castle from whence he went to his late Majesty of blessed memory and afterwards followed his now Majesty for some time in Holland and Flanders And in or about the year 1650 he returned into Cornwall his native Country where he betook himself to the study and practice of Physick c. Aug. 10. Edw. Duke of Gloc. Hall Aug. 10. Augustus or Augustine Caesar of the Univ. of Cambr. 16. Will. Jacob of Ch. Ch. He was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say We have received good testimony of his abilities in the Theorie and practice of Physick He hath been formerly a Graduate in Oxon and hath studied in Foreign Countries c. This person who was Son of John Jacob a Physitian of Canterbury was bred in Ch. Ch afterwards practised his faculty with good success for many years in the said City and was if I mistake not a Burgess to serve in one of the Parliaments that began after the discovery of the Popish Plot. Oct. 17. Edw. Hawtaine M. A. of Magd. Coll. 30. John Lamphire M. A. of New Coll. and Camdens Professor of History This person who was Son of George Lamphire an Apothecary of the City of Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Wykehams School there made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1636 entred on the Physick line when Master of Arts ejected his Fellowship by the Parl. Visitors and afterwards practised his faculty with good success in and near Oxford After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship became Camdens Professor of History upon the ejection of Lewis du Moulin Principal of New Inn in the place of Dr. Rogers ejected for Non-conformity and soon after Principal of Hart Hall He hath published of other mens works with Epistles before corrections on and sometimes additions to them these following 1 Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris commentariis c. and Dictata Both written by Hugh Lloyd See in the first Vol. of the Athenae Oxon. p. 269. 2 Monarchia Britannica c Written by Tho. Master See in this sec Vol. of Athenae pag. 19. 3 Rev. Patris Lanc. Andrews Episcopi Winton preces privatae Graecè Latinè Oxon. 1675 in tw Afterwards Dr. Lamphire obtained a more perfect copy of the said prayers which he was about to publish but hindred by other affairs 4 Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita 1592. 'T is the oration of Sir Hen. Savile and 't was published by Dr. Lamphire with the sec edit of Monarchia Britannica See in the first Vol. of Ath. Oxon. p. 397. 5 Questiones selectiores in Logica Ethica c. See in Dr. Pink among the Writers of this Vol. p. 58. This Dr. Lamphire who was Justice of the Peace for the County and City of Oxon a good generous and fatherly man of a publick Spirit and free from pharasaical leven or the modish hypocrisie of the age he lived in died in his Lodgings in Hart Hall on the 30 of March 1688 aged 73 years and was buried in the outer Chappel near the W. door belonging to New Coll. The next day Will. Thornton M. A. of Wadh. Coll. was admitted Principal of the said Hall in his place and on the 2. of Apr. following the learned Hen. Dodwell M. of A. of Dublin was elected Camdens Professor of History to the great content of the generality of the members of the University Oct. 30. Thom Willis of Ch. Ch. Nov. 29. Rich. Franklin of Qu Coll. He was put in among the rest tho no sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 6. Henry Wyat of Pemb. Coll. He was no sufferer but was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 and by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation by Lenthall the Speaker of the H. of Commons he was created M. of A. in 1649. Afterwards he went Physitian with the Lord Rutherford lately made Earl of Tiveot in Scotland to the Garrison of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa and practised his faculty there with good success At length he accompanying the said Count with a select party of horse out of that Garrison to view the Moors Country on the 3. of May 1664 were all some very few excepted cut off after they had passed the Jews River some Miles distant from Tangier by Gayland the chief of the Moors and his party who having had notice by the treachery of a certain person that they would take a view of the Country there was an Ambuscade planted to receive them by Gayland and sheltred by a thick wood and seconded as 't was supposed by his whole Army March 12. Joh. Fisher M. A. of Cambridge Steph. Bowden of Magd. Coll. was nominated by the Chancellors Letters dat 1. Dec. this year to be created Doct. of Physick but whether he was so it appears not Doct. of Div. Aug. 1. Nich. Monke sometimes of Wadh. Coll now Provost of Eaton Brother to Gen. George Monke Duke of Albemarle at this time in high value by the King Church University and all British People was presented by Dr. Rob. Sanderson the Kings Professor of Div. to the degree of Doct. of that faculty and actually created by the Vicechancellour in Convocation by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well satisfied of the full standing sufficiency and merit of Nich Monke M. of A as duly qualified for the degree of D. of D and also well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings and service for our self and the Church during the late distractions c. These persons following till you come to Byrom Eaton were actually created Doctors on the second day of Aug tho several of them had not suffered for the Kings cause Guy Carleton M. A. of Qu. Coll. Anth. Hawles M. A. of Qu. Coll. The last was
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae Fâ—issingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae dâ—tionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii â—landriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored