72 persons Members of the House of Commons Officers of the Army and Citizens of London sate upon benches some degrees above one another as Judges Hacker I say by order of the Court which was erected in the same place where the Judges of the Kings-bench use to hear causes brought his Majesty to a velvet chair opposite to the President at which time John Cook the Sollicitor General was placed on the Kings right hand I shall pretermit the Judges names the formality of the Court and the proceedings there by way of charge as also his Majesties replies in regard all those particulars have been published at large by several writers Nor indeed was much to be observed seeing his Majesty having heard the allegations against him would sometimes smile but not acknowledge their jurisdiction or that by any known law they had any authority to proceed in that manner against the King it being without example also whereupon the Court made no farther proceedings on that day Afterwards his Majesty was conveyed to Cotton house where Sir Tho. Cotton the Master thereof and Mr. Kinnerslie of the Wardrobe did make the best accommodation they could in so short a time in the Kings Chamber The Soldiers that were upon the Guard were in the very next Chamber to that of the King which his Majesty perceiving he commanded Mr. Herbert to bring his pallet and place it on one side of the Kings bed which he did and there slept Sunday the 21. of Jan. Dr. Will. Juxon the good Bishop of London had as his Majesty desired the Liberty to attend the King which was much to his comfort and as he said no small refreshing to his spirit especially in that his uncomfortable condition The most part of that day was spent in prayer and preaching to the King Munday 22. Jan. Col. Hacker brought his Majesty the second time before the Court then sitting as formerly in Westminster Hall Now the more noble the person is the more heavy is the spectacle and inclines generous hearts to a sympathy in his sufferings Here it was otherwise for assoon as his Majesty came into the Hall some Soldiers made a hideous cry for justice justice some of the Officers joyning with them At which noise the King seemed somewhat abashed but overcame it with patience Sure to persecute a distressed soul and to vex him that is already wounded at the heart is the very pitch of wickedness yea the utmost extremity malice can do or affliction suffer as the learned Bishop of Winchester Bilson saith in one of his Sermons preached before Qu. Elizabeth upon Good Friday which was here very applicable As his Majesty returned from the Hall to Cotton house a Soldier that was upon the Guard said aloud as the King passed by God bless you Sir The King thank'd him but an uncivil Officer struck him with his cane upon the head which his Majesty observing said The punishment exceeded the offence Being come to his apartment in Cotton house he immediatly fell upon his knees and went to prayer which being done he asked Mr. Herbert if he heard the cry of the Soldiers in Westminster hall for justice he answer'd he did and marvell'd much at it So did not I said the King for I am well assur'd the Soldiers bare no malice towards me the cry was no doubt given by their Officers for whom the Soldiers would do the like if there were occasion His Majesty likewise demanded of him how many there were that sate in the Court and who they were he replied there were upward of threescore some of them members of the House of Commons others Commanders in the Army and others Citizens of London some of whom he knew but not all The King then said he viewed all of them but knew not the faces of above eight and those he named The names tho Mr. Herbert told me not yet they were generally supposed to be Thomas Lord Grey of Grobie William L. Monson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir John Danvers Oliver Cromwell who had shew'd seeming civility to him at Childerlie Newmarket and Hampton Court Major Harrison Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond c. Tuesday 23. Jan. The King was the third time summoned and as formerly guarded to the Court where as at other times he persisted in his judgment that they had no legal jurisdiction or authority to proceed against him Upon which Cook the Solicitor began to offer some things to the President of the Court but was gently interrupted by the King laying his staff upon the Solicitors arme the head of which being silver hapned to fall off which Mr. Herbert who as his Majesty appointed waited near his Chair stoop'd to take it up but falling on the contrary side to which he could not reach the King took it up himself This was by some looked upon as a bad Omen But whereas Mr. Herbert puts this passage under the 22 of Jan. is a mistake for it hapned on the first day of the Trial when the charge was read against the King The Court sate but a little time that day the K. not varying from his principle At his going back to Cotton house there were many men and women crouded into the passage behind the Soldiers who as his Majesty pass'd said aloud God almighty preserve your Majesty for which the King returned them thanks Saturday 27. Jan. The President came into the Hall and seated himself in his Scarlet Gown whereupon the K. having quick notice of it he forthwith went seated himself in his chair and observing the President in his red Gown did imagine by that sign that it would be the last day of their sitting and therefore he earnestly press'd the Court that altho he would not acknowledge their jurisdiction for those reasons he had given yet nevertheless he desired that he might have a conference in the Painted Chamber with a Committee of Lords and Commons before the Court proceeded any farther whereupon the President and Court arose and withdrew In which interval the K. likewise retired to Cotton house where he and Dr. Juxon were private near an hour and then Colonel Hunks gave notice that the Court was sate The King therefore going away he seated himself in the Chair The President told his Majesty that his motion for a conference with a Committee of Lords and Commons had been taken into consideration but would not be granted by the Court in regard he would not own their jurisdiction nor acknowledge them for a lawful assembly Whereupon the King with vehemency insisted that his reasonable request might be granted that what he had to offer to a Committee of either House might be considered before they pronounced sentence His Majesty had the former day mov'd the President that the grounds and reasons he had put in writing for his disavowing their authority might be publickly read by the Clerk but neither would that desire be granted The President then gave judgment against the King who at the Presidents pronouncing it
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â—5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
married to Sir Edw. Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordsh Bt afterwards Earl of Lichfield 10 Mary begotten on the body of Mary Davies a Comedian in the Duke of Yorks Play-house She had afterwards the Sirname of Tuder given to her and on the 18 of Aug. or thereabouts an 1687 she was married to the Son of Sir Francis Radcliffe afterwards Earl of Derentwater 11 James begotten on the body of the said Eleanor Quinn was born in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westminster on Christmas day or thereabouts an 1671 and died in France of a sore leg about Michaelmas in 1680. Here are eleven natural Children set down but whether in order according to Birth I cannot justly tell you There was another Daughter begotten on the body of the said Barbara Duchess of Cleveland which the King would not own because supposed to be begotten by another and whether he own'd it before his death I cannot tell He also adopted for his Daughter the Daughter of the said Rog. Palmer E. of Castlemaine which was born of Barbara his Wife before she had knowledge of his Majesty After her adoption she was married to Thomas Lennard Lord Dacres Earl of Sussex But now after this digression le ts proceed to the rest of the incorporations Feb. 13. Joh. Heaver D. D. of Cambr. He had been Fellow of Clare Hall in that University was now Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton Coll and dying 23 of June 1670 was succeeded in his Canonry by Tho. Viner Bach afterwards Doct. of Div. Mar. 15. Anthony Horneck a German of Qu. Coll Mast of Arts of Wittemberg He is now an eminent Minister in Lond hath published several books of Divinity and Sermons and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers CREATIONS By the command of the Chancellour of the University were Creations made in all faculties in the latter end of Sept. at which time the King and Queen were in Oxon. Bach. of Law Sept. 28. Joh. Baylie of S. Johns Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Dr. Rich. Baylie President of that Coll was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of B. and Wells He died at or near Wells about the 20. of Jan. 1688. Mast of Arts. These following persons were created on the 28 of Sept. in a full Convocation then celebrated James Howard Earl of Suffolk John Greenvill Earl of Bathe chief Gentleman of his Majesties Royal Bedchamber He was before the Wars began a Gent. Com. of Gloc. Hall and after they began a Commander of note in his Majesties Army against the Rebels and at length entrusted by his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in the great affair of his restauration c. John Middleton Earl of Middleton in Scotland and L. High Commissioner thereof Henry Hamilton a young Nobleman of Ch. Ch E. of Clanbrazill Son of James sometimes E. of Clanbrazill Henry Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland He was afterwards Marq. of Worcester and Duke of Beaufort Charles Berkley Visc Fitz-Harding He was now Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold and one of the Lords of the Privy Council and dying in Whitehall of a short apoplectical distemper on the 12 of June 1668 Sir Thomas Clifford succeeded him in his Treasurership William Lord Cavendish Son of the Earl of Devonshire He was afterwards Earl of Devonshire Joh. Hales of Ch. Ch. Bts. Franc. Hen. Lee of Ditchley Bts. Sir Allen Apsley Kt. He was originally as 't is said of Trinity Coll. in this University and afterwards a faithful adherer to his Majesties cause in the worst of times After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made Captain Lieutenant in the Regiment of James Duke of York Falconer to his Majesty and Treasurer of the Houshold and Receiver general to the said Duke This person who died in S. James Square near London about the 15 of Octob. 1683 hath written and published a Poem entit Order and disorder or the world made and undone Being meditations upon the Creation and the Fall as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis Lond. 1679. in five Cantoes He was a Burgess for Thetford in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. May 1661. Henry Guy Esq sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Cup-bearer to the Qu. He was afterwards an Officer of the Excise in the North was a Recruiter for Headon in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 became Secretary to the Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury 26. Mar. 1679 and in the same year one of the Gromes of his Majesties Bedchamber upon the resignation of Col. Silas Titus Afterwards he was made a Commissioner of the Custom-house c. Sidney Godolphin Esq This person who is of the antient family of Godolphin in Cornwall was afterwards a Recruiter for Helston in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 one of the Gromes of his Majesties Bedchamber and the last of the four Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury on the 26. Mar. 1679 about which time Thomas Earl of Danby was discharg'd of his place of Lord Treasurer In the middle of Apr. 1684 he succeeded Sir Leol Jenkyns in the place of Secretary of State and on the 17 of that month he was sworn to that office at a Council held at Hampton Court On the 24 of Aug. following he was by his Majesty declared the first Commissioner of the Treasury and thereupon Char. Earl of Middleton succeeded him in his Secretaryship and in the beginning of Sept. following he was by his Majesty created a Baron by the title of Lord Godolphin of Rialton in Cornwall About the 16 of Feb. 1684 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then newly dead he was by K. Jam. 2. made Lord Chamberlain to his Queen and about the 5 of Jan. 1686 he with John Lord Bellasyse Henry Lord Dover Sir Joh. Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were appointed Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer of England Laurence Earl of Rochester being about that time removed from that great office On the 15 of Nov. or thereabouts an 1690 his Majesty K. Will. 3. was pleased to order a new Commission to pass the Great Seal constituting the said Sidney Lord Godolphin the first Commissioner of the Treasury The other Commissioners then appointed were Sir Joh. Lowther of Lowther Bt. Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold Richard Hamden Esq Chanc. of the Exchecquer Sir Steph. Fox Kt. and Tho. Pelham Esq Sir Franc. Drake of Exeter Coll. Bts. Tho. Cobbe of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bts. Charles Berkley Knight of the Bath a Noble man of Ch. Ch. and eldest Son to George Lord Berkley Grevill Verney of Compton Murdack in Warwickshire Knight of the Bath He died at Lond. 23. July 1668. Bernard Greenvill Esq He was afterwards a Recruiter for Leskard in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 and one of the Groomes of his Majesties Bedchamber Sir
dying 26. Sept. 1607. aged 23 was buried at the upper end of the S. isle joyning to the body of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards Christian put up a monument over his grave which is yet remaining but defaced Mark Zeiglier a German was entred into the Coll. about 1624. Wibbo Jansonius Artopaeus Finsoendensis Civis Gen. was admitted into the Coll. in June 1635 aged 20. Hieronimus Ernesti Erffurtoâ—Thuringus was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of Aug. 1638 and continued in the College till July 1641. Besides these and many more which shall now be omitted have been several of the Scotch nation that have been received into the said House upon the same account among which have been 1 Joh. Balcanquall see in the Fasti 1612. among the Incorporations 2 .... Gilman who studied there 1613 and some time after 3 Sam. Balcanquall 1616. One of both his names occurs Fellow of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge 20 years after See in the Fasti 1618 among the Incorporations 4 Rob. Spotswood M. of Arts of Glascow was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of the year 1613. He was afterwards raised by the favour of K. James and K. Ch. 1. unto great honours as his singular virtues did merit K. Jam. made him a Knight and a Privy Counsellour K. Charles advanced him to be Lord President of the Sessions and at length Principal Secretary of Scotland in the place of William Earl of Lanerick afterwards Duke of Hamilton when he revolted to the Covenateers of that Kingdom After James Marquess of Montross had gained great victories against the said Cov. the said Sir Rob. Spotswood conveyed from the King at Oxon to him the said Montross letters pattents whereby he was made Vice-Roy of Scotland and General of the Army there But being soon after taken prisoner upon the defeat of Montross near Silkerke he was conveyed to S. Andrews where at length they found him guilty of High Treason lamented by many because he never bore arms against them for his eminency laid in the way of peace and knew not what belonged to the drawing of a sword His treason being for conveying the said let pat he was beheaded at S. Andrews in 1645 leaving then behind him the general character of a most excellent and good man He was a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and study of the law hath written things in nature of our Reports of the law which have been highly valued among Lawyers in Scotland His Father was Dr. Joh. Spotswood the famous and orthodox Theologist of Scotland consecrated Archbishop of Glascow in the Archbishps Chappel at Lambeth near London according to the ceremonies of the Church of England on the 20. of Oct. 1610. At which time Gawen Hamilton was consecrated Bishop of Galloway and Andr. Lamb B. of Brechin The said Dr. Spotswood was afterwards translated to St. Andrews and dying on the fourth of the Cal. of Dec. an 1639. aged 74 years was buried in the Abbey Church at Westminster 5 James Hamilton Earl of Arran Baron of Evenu in Scotland and of Ennerdale in Cumberland eldest Son of James Marquess of Hamilton was admitted a Noble man under the said Dr. Prideaux his tuition 6. Jul. 1621. He was afterwards Marquess and Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Cambridge 6 James Baylie Governour to the said Count was admitted at the same time to the Fellows table with him See in the Fasti 1621. among the Creations It is farther also to be noted that as the said College did send out many eminent men into the Church and State that had been under the Government of Prideaux so also many that did great mischief and were enemies to them as you may see at large in this work in the lives and characters of several that had been educated in the said College Some also of the English Nobility having been sent thereunto have by the Principles that they have sucked in proved no great friends either to the Church or State Among such have been John Lord Roberts E. of Radnor a severe predestinarian and a Promoter of the grand Rebellion Philip Lord Wharton another Promoter Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury of whom shall be large mention made elsewhere Philip the second Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who lived and died little better than a Quaker c. HENRY TOZER was born at North Tawton in Devonshire entred into Exeter Coll. in 1619 and in the year of his age 17 took one degree in Arts and then was made Prob. Fellow of his House 1623. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty took holy orders and became a useful and necessary Person in the society by moderating reading to Novices and lecturing in the Chappel At riper years he was admitted Bach. of Div became an able and painful Preacher had much of the Primitive Religion in his Sermons and seem'd to be a most precise Puritan in his looks and life which was the true reason why his preachings and expoundings in the Churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were much frequented by Men and Women of the Puritanical party In 1643 he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines but refused to sit among them choosing rather to exercise his function in Oxon before the K. or Parliament or in his cures there than venture himself among rigid Calvinists In 1646 a little before the garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he was one of those noted Theologists who had either preached at Ch. Ch. before his Majesty or at S. Maries before the Parliament that were nominated by the Chancellour of the University to have the degree of D. of D. bestowed upon them but that also he as others refused In 1647. and 48 he behav'd himself a stout Champion against the unreasonable proceedings of the Visitors appointed by Parliament For which being by them posted up for an expell'd Scholar revoked their sentence so far that by an order dated 2. Nov. 16â—8 they impower'd him to have liberty to use his Chamber in Exeter Coll. as also that he enjoy a Travellers allowance for three years Afterwards he went into Holland and became Minister to the worshipful company of English Merchants at Roterdam His works are these Directions for a godly life especially for communicating at the Lords table Oxon. 1628. oct There again the tenth time 1680. oct Several Sermons as 1 A Christian amendment Serm. on New-years-day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. on 2. Cor. 5.17 Oxon. 1633. oct 2 Christian Wisdom or the excellency c. of true wisdom Serm. on 1. Kings 10.24 Oxon. 1639. oct 3 Sermon on Joh. 18.3 Ox. 1640. c. Dicta facta Christi ex quatuor Evangelistis collecta in ordme disposita Oxon. 1634. oct He gave way to fate on the eleventh day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred and fifty old stile and was buried in the English Church at Roterdam appropriated to
set forth It is a thousand pities that so worthy a piece should lose its grace and credit by an ill expositor since those Persons who read that translation taking it for genuine and upon that presumption not regarding the Latine Edition are thereby rob'd of that benefit which if you would please to undertake the business they might receive This tendeth to the dishonour of that noble Lord and the hindrance of the advancement of learning c. The said Dr. Wats also did translate from Ital. into Engl. Davila's book containing The History of the Civil Wars of France but Sir Ch. Cotterell and William Aylesbury Esq having had the start of him in that work prevented him from printing it He died at Erinsham near to Oxon in his return from the City of Bathe where he had overcome his antient body by too much sweating on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in that Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon commonly called the College Chancel as belonging to Linc. Coll. and not to the Parish of Allsaints At which time he left behind him these three MSS. of his composition which would have been published by the Author had he lived a little longer viz. 1 Digressions on the advancement to learning 2 An Apologie for the instauration of sciences 3 Imperial Politicks JOHN LANGLEY was born near Banbury in Oxfordshire became a Com. or Batler of Magd. Hall about the year 1612 took the degrees in Arts and some years after was made Master of the College School in and Prebendary of the Cath. Church of Glocester In which School teaching about 20 years was elected Chief Master of that of S. Paul in Lond. in the room of Dr. Alex. Gill in Jan. 1640 where as at Gloc. he educated many who were afterwards serviceable in Church and State He was learned in the whole body of learning and not only an excellent Linguist Grammarian Historian Cosmographer and Artist but a most judicious Divine and so great an Antiquary that his delight and knowledge in antiquities especially those of our own Nation doth deserve greater commendation than I can now in a few lines express He was beloved of learned men particularly of Selden and those that adhered to the Long Parliament but had not much esteem from the Orthodox Clergy because he was a Puritan and afterwards a witness against Archb. Laud at his trial as may be elsewhere seen He hath written Totius Rhetoricae adumbratio in usum Scholae Paulinae Lond. 1644. Camb. 1650. c. oct Introduction of Grammar Several times printed He also translated from Lat. into English the Book of Polid. Virgil intit De rerum inventoribus which book had been translated by Joh. Bale in the time of K. Ed. 6. but in old and rude English Our Author Langley also had made several collections of Histories and Antiquities that he had gathered in his travels through several parts of England which after his death coming into the possession as 't is said of his Brother living near Banbury he sold them with his collection of Coins merely for money sake He died in his house joyning to S. Pauls School on the 13. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in Mercers Chappel in Cheapside At which time a Funeral Sermon on Acts 7.22 touching the use of humane learning was preached by Dr. Edw. Reynolds sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. wherein he said much to the honor of the Defunct The reader is to note that one John Langley was Minister of West Tuderley in Hampshire was elected one of the Ass of Divines in 1643 and afterwards became a publisher of several matters of Divinity but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former Joh. Langley JOHN GUMBLEDEN a Hampshire man born was entred a Batler of Broadgates Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 18 years made Student of Ch. Ch. soon after took the Degrees in Arts preached at Longworth in Berkshire several years and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1632. Upon the turn of the times he sided with the Presbyterians became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards for a short time Rector of Coytie in Glamorganshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Gen. 6.5.6.7 printed 1626. qu. 2 Serm. on Gen. 22.1.2 print 1627. qu. 3 Gods great mercy to mankind in Jesus Christ at Pauls cross 1628 on Isa 53.6 Oxon. 1628. qu. 4 Two Sermons preached before the Univ. of Oxon on Matth. 11.28 and on Acts 10.3.4 Lond. 1657. qu as also another on Acts 1. from 1. to 5 which I have not yet seen Christ tempted the Devil conquered or a short exposition on a part of the fourth chapt of S. Mathews Gospel Lond. 1657. qu. He concluded his last day in Sept. or Oct. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Coytie beforemention'd He had other things of the like nature fit for the press laying by him which had he lived he would have published JOHN FRENCH Son of Joh. Fr. of Broughton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire was born at Broughton entred into New Inn 1633 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line practiced his faculty in the Parliament Army by the encouragement of the Fiennes men of Authority in the said Army and at length became one of the two Physicians to the whole Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight In 1648 at which time the Earl of Pembroke visited this University he was actually created Doctor of Physick being about that time Physician to the Hospital called the Savoy and one of the Coll. of Physicians His works are these The Art of Distillation or a treatise of the choicest spagirical preparations performed by way of Distillation c. in 6. books Lond. 1651. 53. c. qu. The London Distiller exactly and truly shewing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Strong-waters printed with The Art of Distillation c. The Yorkshire Spaw or a treatise of four medicinal Wells viz. the Spaw or Vitrilone Well c. their causes virtues and use Lond. 1652. in tw One J. F. Med. Doct. hath translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 A new light to Alchymie and a treatise of Sulphure Lond. 1650. qu. written by Mich. Sandivogius 2 Nine books of the nature of things Lond. 1650. qu. written by Paracelsus 3 A Chymical Dictionary explaining hard places and words met withal in the writings of Paracelsus c. Lond. 1650. qu. Which J. F. this translator I take to be the same with our Author Joh. French who died in Oct. or Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven at or near Bullogne in France he being then Physician to the English Army there He had a Brother named William French of Caies Coll. in Cambridge said also to be Doctor of Physick and Physician
sacris liberarum Windsorensis Wolverhamptonensis capellarum à restitutione sereniss Caroli 2. Regis Decanus primus nobilissimi ordinis à Periscelide Scriba Fide in rebus Regis promovendis Zelo in rebus Ecclesiae promovendis Affectu in rebus Regni promovendis Toto nuperae rebellionis tempore nemini secundus celeberrimis hujus seculi concionatoribus à primo juventutis flore ad extremam usque senectam annumeratus hic sepultus jacet beatam expectans resurrectionem Obiit Julii 13. an dom 1677. aetatis suae 81. Some are pleased to say that this Dr. Ryves hath written An exposition on the Church Catechisme printed in qu. but mistaken as I conceive because it seems to have been written by one Edm. Reeves Quaere WILLIAM BERKLEY a Knights son was born of an ancient and honorable family near to and in the Diocess of London elected probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1625 and four years after was admitted Master of Arts. In 1630 he travelled into various Countries and at his return he was much valued for his experience and knowledge in many matters In 1646 he was sent to Virginia about publick concerns and in 1660 when Colonel Mathews the then Governour of that Country died this our Author being then a Knight was in consideration of the service he had done there in defending the people thereof from being kill'd by the Natives and destroying the great number of the Indians without the loss of three men of his own made Governour thereof by the unanimous Votes of all that Country and there continued in that honorable Office till 1676 in which year he was sent for into England where he soon finished his course He hath written The lost Lady a Trag. Com. Lond. 1639. fol. Description of Virginia Printed in fol. and said in the title to be performed by an eye-witness The Laws of Virginia now in force collected out of the Assembly records and digested into one vol. Revised and confirmed by the grand Assembly 23 Mar. 1661. c. Lond. 1662. fol. Published by Franc. Moryson and by him dedicated to Sir Will. Berkley in whose Epistle 't is said that Sir William was Author of the most and best of the said Laws and that little addition had been made to what he himself had done during the time of his Government only what vitious excrescencies had grown in the body of them by the corrupt humour of the times This Sir Will. Berkley was buried in the middle Chancel of the Par. Church of Twittenham or Twickenham near Hampton Court in Middlesex on the 13 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven Afterwards a Vault being made for the Lord J. Berkley in the south Chancel of the said Church Sir William's body was removed to it and there deposited 4 Septemb. 1678. TIMOTHY WOODROFFE son of Rich. Woodr sometimes Vicar of Sherton and afterwards Rector of Garsdon near Malmsbury in Wilts was born in that County at Sherston as it seems educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under Rob. Latymer who taught school there 40 years and was Master to Tho. Hobbes the famous Philosopher In 1610 T. Woodr being then 16 years of age he was sent to Balliol Coll. in Lent term and â—hen matriculated as a Ministers son After he had taken the degrees in Arts he translated himself to S. Albans Hall and as a member thereof he was admitted and proceeded Master of that faculty About that time he entred into holy orders and became Chaplain in the family of the St. Johns of Lidyard St. Johns in his own Country but before he had continued long there he by the favour of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England was prefer'd to the Vicaridge of Inglesham near Highworth in Wilts which being about 14 or more miles from Oxon gave him the opportunity of spending much of his time in Ball. College where he set up a Divinity Lecture and himself read it for several years he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much by both Armies and was plundered of a very good library whereupon he left his Living and removed to London and thence without his seeking he was invited to Great Dunmow in Essex where he was recieved as an Angel and became a frequent Preacher Not long after he was invited by Sir Rob. Harley Knight of the Bath to be one of the Preachers in the Minster or Cath. at Hereford from whence by his favour he was again in the year 1649 removed to the Parsonage of Kingsland in the same County where after many years painful preaching and much good done in the Neighbourhood by the practice of Physick wherein he always gave his advice and remedies gratis he finished his course He hath written and published Heavens Alarum c. Serm. on Hosea 4.3.4 Lond. in tw A religious Treatise upon Simeons song or instructions advertising how to live holily and dye happily Lond. 1659. oct Built on Luke 2.29.30 and composed for the use of Sir Rob. Harley before mentioned when weakness and old age confin'd him to his chamber Before this book is a commendatory Epistle subscribed by Joh. Row and S. Wood who stile the said book a sound and savoury discourse and such that wanteth not a pleasant quickness to hold on the Readers appetite c. He died in the month of August in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Church of Kingsland before mentioned Among several Children that he left behind him at the time of his death were Tim. Woodroffe sometimes of Magd. Coll now a Physitian at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and Benj. Woodr D. of D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. JOHN WAGSTAFFE son of John Wags Citizen of London descended from those of his name of Hasland Hall in Derbyshire was born in Cheapside within the City of London became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the latter end of 1649 took the degrees in Arts and applied himself to the study of Politicks and other learning At length being call'd from an academical life to the inheritance of Hasland by the death of an Uncle who died without male-issue he spent his life afterwards in a single estate But before he left Oxon he wrot and published Historical reflections on the Bishop of Rome chiefly discovering those events of humane affairs which most advance the Papal Usurpation Oxon. 1660. qu. This book tho much commended at its first appearance yet the author was laughed at because that he being a little crooked man and of a despicable presence should adventure to encounter with so great person as the Pope After he had left the University he wrot and published The question of Witchcraft debated or a discourse against their opinion that affirm Witches Lond. 1669. oct To which is added Lucians dialogue called Lovers of lyes translated by another hand But an answer coming out against the said book intit The opinion of
Keeper and Chancellour Speech at the sentence of Will Visc Stafford 7. Dec. 1680 Printed in one sh in fol. and in The Trial of the said Visc p. 212.213 At which time he performed the office of L. High Steward of England Answers by his Majesties command upon several Addresses presented to his Maj. at Hampton Court 19 May 1681. Lond. 1681. in 1. sh in fol. His Arguments upon which he made the Decree in the cause between the honorable Charles Howard Esq plaintiff Henry late Duke of Norfolk Hen. Lord Mowbray his Son Henry Marq. of Dorchester and Richard Marriott Esq Defendants wherein the several ways and methods of limiting a trust of a term for years are fully debated Lond. 1685 in 9 sh in fol. He also left behind him written with his own hand Chancery Reports MS in fol. in the hands of his Son Daniel Earl of Nottingham At length his body being worn out with tâ—o much business which his high station and office required he yeilded to nature in his house in Queen-street near Covent Garden on the 18. of Decemb. in the afternoon in sixteen hundred eighty and two whereupon his body was buried on the 28 of the same month in the Church of Raunston before mention'd near Oulney in Bucks On the 20 of the said month his Majesty was pleased to commit the custody of the Great Seal to the right honorable Sir Francis North Lord Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas with the title of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and on the 22 he was sworn at the Council-board and took his place as Lord Keeper This noble Earl of Nottingham left behind him several Sons the eldest of which named Daniel who had been sometimes Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. succeeded his Father in his honors having been before a Parliament Man one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Privy Counsellour The second is named Heneage bred also in the said House and afterwards in the Inner Temple who became Sollicitor General in the place of Sir Franc. Winnington but removed thence about the 21 Apr. 1686 and Sir Tho. Powis put in his place about five days after He hath been several times elected Burgess by the University of Oxon. to serve in Parliaments for the members thereof ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER Baronet Son of Sir John Cooper of Rockbourne in Wilts Kt. and Bt by Anne his Wife Dau. and sole Heir of Sir Anth. Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire was born at Wimbourne on the 22. of July 1621 19. Jac. 1. became a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1636 under the tuition of Dr. Prideaux the Rector thereof and continued there about two years Afterwards he went to Lincolns Inn to study the municipal Law and in the latter end of 1639 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Tewksbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. In 1642 he sided with his Majesty being then as 't is said High Sherriff of Dorsetshire became Governour of Weymouth and raised some forces for his use But the mind of this person being mutable he left the royal cause went in to the Parliament and served them was made Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and took the Covenant But when the Presbyterians thought themselves sure of him whip he was gone as one saith and in a trice commenced a Brother Independent which was a wise part and no trick of a changling to shift principles like shirts and quit an unlucky side in a fright at the noise of a new prevailing party with whom he staid till he grew up to the size of a great Commonwealths man and made hay in the Sun shine until the Commonwealth and Cromwell were brought to bed of a strange new kind of Monarchy in the House of Commons a three or four hundred-headed Monarchy called The Fifth Monarchy and in those days it was also called Cromwells little Parliament in which his little Lordship became one of the Princes among a Drove of Changlings c. In 1645 he was elected Sherriff of Norfolk and the next year Sherriff of Wilts both approved of and consented to by the members of Parliament In Jan. 1651 he having before taken the Engagement he was one of those 21 persons who were appointed by Parliament to sit as a Committee to consider of the inconveniences which were in the Law c. and soon after he was chose one of the Council of State to Oliver in which high office he continued till that person was Protector In June 1653 he was constituted Knight for Wilts to serve in the said Little Parliament that began at Westm on the 4. of July the same year but therein having spied out Olivers purpose of matching to another sort of Monarchy of his own Sir Anthony then resolved like a constant steady man to his own main point to trepan his fellow members and strike in with him and lent him thereupon a helping hand towards the confounding of Fifth Monarchy to make way for a new one under the name of Protector in which seene of affairs he was made a Protectorian Privy-counsellour In Aug. 1654 he was appointed by ordinance one of the Commissioners for Wilts Dorsetshire and Pool for the ejection of such whom the Godly Party then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time he was elected a. Burgess for Pool before mention'd and for Tewkesbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver then Protector that began at Westm 3. of Sept. the same year At which time he aspiring to become the Protectors Son-in-Law Cromwell who well enough understood him either disdaining or not daring to take him so near into his bosome took occasion also to quit him out of his Council So that being out of such publick employs he was at leisure to make court to all private Malecontents against the Protector and wheresoever he found a sore there he rub'd hardest till the end of the Raign of Richard In 1656 he was elected a Parliament man for Wilts to serve in that convention that met at Westminster 17 of Sept. the same year and in 1658 he was elected again for that which began at the same place 27. of January In both which the friends and favourites of Sir Anthony say that he endeavoured to cross the designs of Oliver and Richard But the last being soon after laid aside Sir Anthony thought it high time of necessity to turn back to the old honest point of the compass and get in again to be thought a new man of his Majesties party To this end notwithstanding he had been nominated one of the Council of State after the deposing of Richard May 15 1659 he joyned partly with the Presbyterians and privately engaged with Sir George Booth was of the Cabal kept intelligence with him and had a party in Dorsetshire which should be ready to assist him if little success
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
1667 at which time William Albert Count of Dona Embassador from Sweedland was here in England was broken and thereupon an alliance was made with France In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry Secretary of State for his pains if his own affirmation may be credited when he went into Sweedland 1671. In the same Session of Parliament Shaftesbury had a principal hand in promoting and establishing the Test to render Papists uncapable of publick employments And this he did as 't is thought because he perceiving the Court to be sick of him provided himself by having a hand therein with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy On the 9. of Nov. 1673 he being then President of his Majesties Council for trade and plantations the Great Seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James Duke of York who found him untractable and not fit according to moderation for that high place or as another tells us for his zeal and activity in promoting the Bill for the aforesaid Test and thereupon he grew much discontented and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance On the 16. of Feb. 1676 he with George Duke of Buckingham James Earl of Salisbury and Philip Lord Wharton were sentenced by the H. of Lords to be committed Prisoners to the Tower under the notion of contempt for that they refused a recantation for what the day before was spoken by them viz. that Buckingham just after the King had ended his Speech to both Houses at their then meeting endeavouring to argue from Law and reason that the long prorogation was null'd and that the Parliament was consequently dissolved was seconded by Salisbury Shaftesbury and Wharton For which reason I say and for endeavouring to raise sedition they were sent to the Tower Buckingham Salisbury and Wharton were by petition to his Majesty freed thence in the beginning of May following but Shaftesbury remained there till the beginning of Dec. next ensuing notwithstanding he before Jun. 22. an 1677 had moved for a Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench which was granted yet the Judges declared they could not release him In Sept. 1678 upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot he became head of the factious party who making it more terrible than 't was endeavoured all ways imaginable to promote their interest thereby To stop Shaftesbury's mouth therefore and so consequently please his party his Majesty vouchsafed to constitute him Lord President of his Privy Council consisting then but of 30 21. Apr. 1679 but he shewing himself too busie and forward and little or not at all to keep pace with the Kings moderate humour he was laid aside on the 5 of Octob. following and was succeeded in that honorable office by John Lord Roberts who behaving himself much like a Gentleman was soon after created Earl of Radnor After this Shaftesbury plays his old game by recurring to the People remov'd into the City and to vent his spleen became the most bitter enemy in the H. of Lords against the Duke of York especially at that time 15. of Nov. 1680 when William Lord Russell eldest Son of William Earl of Bedford did in the head of more than 200 of the House of Commons carry up a Bill to the House of Lords for the disinheriting the said Duke of the Imperial Crown of Britaine Then and there I say he was so heated with passion being excellently well opposed in what he then said by George Earl of Halyfax that he talked almost all the time being ten of the Clock at night before they gave over But all that he then and afterwards said effecting nothing he wrot or caused to be written abusive Pamphlets and endeavoured with others by an Association to depose the King in case he and his Parliament held at Oxon in Mar. 168â— should disagree which he fully expected But his trayterous designs being discovered he was seized on in his House in London by one of his Majesties Serjeants at armes on the 2. Jul. 1681 examined by the Council the K. being then present and forthwith was committed close Prisoner to the Tower for High Treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King and endeavouring to depose him from his Crown and Dignity and to raise armes to that purpose On the 24. of Nov. following there was a Bill of indictment of High Treason against him read before his Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie London and afterwards proved by several sufficient Witnesses but the fanatical Jury pack'd on purpose by the then fanatical Sheriffs Tho. Pilkington and Sam. Shute they returned the Bill Ignoramus and so forthwith Shaftesbury was set at liberty Upon which deliverance the seditious party made Bonefires and caused a medal to be cast of which medal Dryden the Poet Laureat made a witty Poem In Octob. 1682 when Dudley North and Pet. Rich the loyal Sheriffs of London were sworn a Warrant was issued out against to apprehend him Whereupon he sculk'd for a time till an opportunity wafted him over the Seas to Holland where he remained to the time of his death He hath written divers things of which these are some The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Lond. in 7. sh in fol. These constitutions are in number 120 and at the end are eleven rules of precedence to be observed in Carolina When these constitutions were printed it appears not either in the title or at the end of the book They are dated on the first of March 1669 and so I presume they were soon after printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Lord Treasurers Clifford taking his Oath in the Exchecquer 5. Dec. 1672. Printed in one sh in fol. 1672. 2 Several Speeches to both Houses at the opening of the Parliament 4 and 5. of Feb. 1672. Printed in fol. papers 1672. 3 Speech to Serj. Edw. Thurland in the Exchecquer Chamber when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer 24. January 1672. Pr. in one sh in fol. Reprinted afterwards in half a sheet in fol. at Lond. 1681 because it was much for the Kings Prerogative and contained therein as 't is said a good character of the Duke of York shewing thereby the great mutability in opinion of this our author who then 1681 was a severe enemy against both 4 Speech to both Houses of Parliament 27. oct 1673. pr. in a fol. sheet 5 Speech in the House of Lords 20. Octob. 1675. upon the debate of appointing a day for the hearing Dr. Thom. Sherley's ease Lond. 1675. qu. This case of Dr. Sherley was against Sir John Fagge who detained a large Estate from him in Sussex With the said Speech was printed that of George Duke of Bucks spoken in the House of Lords on the 16. of Nov. the same year for leave to bring in a Bill for Indulgence to all Protestant Dissenters together with the protestation and reasons of several Lords for the dissolution of that Parliament
Peter in the East in Oxon under the South wall joyning on the S. side of the tomb-stone of Silv. Wood. ROBERT WHITEHALL son of Rich. Whiteh somtimes Bach. of Div. of Ch. Church afterwards Rector of Agmundesham commonly called Amersham and of Addington in Bucks was born at Amersham educated mostly in Westminster School under Mr. Rich. Busby became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1644. or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 for giving this answer to when required of them whither he would submit to their authority My name 's Whitehall God bless the Poet If I submit the King shall know it But he cringing afterwards to his Countrymen and Neighbours the Ingoldesbies especially to Rich. Ingoldesbie the Regicide before whom he often acted the part of a Mimick and Buffoon purposely to make him merry he was upon submission made to the Committee for regulating the Univ. of Oxon put in by them Bachelaur-fellow of Merton Coll an 1650. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts was Terrae Filius with Joh. Glendall of Brasn Coll. 1655 entred on the Physick line and by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chancellour of this Univ. of Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Phys in 1657. Since which time he made divers sallies into the practice of Physick but thereby obtained but little reputation and lesser by his Poetry to which he much pretended having been esteemed no better than a meer Poetaster and time-serving-Poet as these things following partly shew The Marriage of Arms and Arts 12. Jul. 1651 being an accompt of the Act at Oxon to a friend Lond. 1651. 'T is a Poem in one sh in qu. and hath in the title the two Letters of R.W. set down being then as since generally reported to be his and he would never positively deny it The occasion of the writing of it was this viz. that an Act having not been solemnized for several years before it became such a novelty to the then Students of the University most of which had been put into places by the Visitors that there was great rudeness committed by them and the concours of people in getting into places and thrusting out strangers during all the time of that solemnity in S. Maries Church Whereupon the Vicechancellour Dr. Greenwood of Brasenose a severe and cholerick Governour was forced to get several Guards of Musquetiers out of the Parliament Garrison then in Oxon to keep all the doors and avenews and to let no body in only such whom the Vicech or his Deputies appointed There was then great quarrelling between the Scholars and Soldiers and thereupon blowes and bloody Noses followed Carmen gratulatorium Olivero Cromwell in Protectorem Angliae inaugurato 1653. Printed in half a sheet on one side Carmen Onomasticon Gratulatorium Richardo Cromwell in Cancellarii officium dignitatem faeliciter electo an 1657 Pr. in half a sh on one side The Coronation a Poem Lond. 1661. in one sh in qu. Carmen gratulatorium Edvardo Hide equiti aurato summo Angliae optato Oxoniae Cancellario c. Printed on one side of a sh in Lat. and English an 1660. Urania or a description of the painting of the top of the Theater at Oxon as the Artist lay'd his design Lond. 1669 in 3. sh in fol. c. Verses on Mris. Mary More upon her sending Sir Tho. Mores Picture of her own drawing to the Long Gallery at the public Schools in Oxon. Oxon. 1674. on one side of a large half sheet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iconicum quarundam extranearum numero 258 explicatio breviuscula clara apprimè Epheborum aliquot proenobilium in usum exculta quâ ad SS Scripturas alliciantur Quibus singulis accessit symbolum cum sententiolâ concinnâ ex autoribus Graecis Latinis depromptâ Being an Epigrammatical explanation of the most remarkable stories throughout the Old and New Testament after each Sculpture or cut Oxon. 1677 in a large and thick quarto It must be noted that the author had bought from Holland as many Cuts of the Old and New Test that cost him 14 l. Each Cut he caused to be neatly pasted in the middle of a large quarto paper on which before was printed a running title at the top and six English verses at the bottom to explain the Cut or Picture Which being so done in twelve copies only he caused each to be richly bound and afterwards presented a very fair copy to the King and the rest mostly to persons of quality of which number was Charles son and heir of Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester for whom he pretended 't was chiefly compos'd Gratulamini mecum Or a congratulatory Essay upon his Majesties recovery Lond. 1679. in one sh in fol. Written upon his Majesties being freed from an Ague at Windsore in Sept. 1679. The English Recabite or a defyance to Bacchus and all his Works A Poem in 67 Hexasticks c. Lond. 1681. in four sheets in fol. See more of him in his old friend Edm. Gayton p. 271 a Poet of the like stamp This Mr. Whitehall died on the eighth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five and was buried the next day in the south part or Isle of Merton College Church having for several years before hang'd on that house as an useless member JOHN ROBERTS son and heir of Richard Lord Roberts of Truro in Cornwall was born in that County entred a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. John Prideaux an 1625 where he continued two years or more and after his fathers death he succeeded him in his honour In the beginning of the grand rebellion raised by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in that unhappy Convention afterwards called the Long Parliament he adhered to the cause that was then by them carried on was made a Colonel in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex and Governour for a time of the Garrison of Plymouth in Devonshire against his Majesties forces but when he afterwards beheld how things would terminate he withdrew and acted little or nothing during the times of Usurpation After his Majesties restauration he retired to the Court and in 1662 he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of William Lord Say deceased but giving not that content which was expected he was sent into Ireland to be Lord Lieutenant there in Sept. 1669 and his Government being disliked he was recalled in May following In Octob. 1679 he was made Lord President of his Majesties Council upon the removal of Anthony Earl of Shatfsbury and soon after he was made Earl of Radnor He hath written A discourse of the vanity of the creature grounded on Ecclesiast 1.2 Lond. 1673. oct and one or more books as I have been enform'd fit for the Press He died at Chelsey near London on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon about 8 days after his body was conveyed to Lanhedriock near Bodmin in Cornwall and buried
Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom at which time he was esteem'd well vers'd in the Ecclesiastical Laws On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin and going soon after into England was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there and suffer'd much for the royal cause but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return was in requital of his sufferings made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom to which Sees being consecrated in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh now Archb. of Cashiells who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees JOHN EARLE sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll afterwards Dean of Westminster was consecrated Bishop of VVorcester on the death of Gauden in the latter end of Nov. 1662 and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an 1663. He died in Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 251. In VVorcester succeeded Dr. Skinner and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde as I shall tell you hereafter GEORGE WILDE sometimes Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660 by John Archb. of Armagh Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Mossâ—m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books c. and him Dr. Mich. Ward and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637 the temporalities of which See were delivered to him on the 30 of the said month and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D of whom I have made mention among the said Writers GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 270. He succeeded in the said See after it had laid void 9 years one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled c. which I took from Mercurius Publicus published 4. June 1663 wherein 't is said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author it proves an errour for David Owen was the writer of it as I have told you in the said vol in the Fasti p. 803 wherein the first part of the title is omitted for whereas the title there is The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled or the concord of a Papist c. Camb. 1610. qu reprinted under Dr. John Owens name in 1663 and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the errour by me made ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire was born in S. Maries Parish within the said City of Salisbury educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1617 aged 20 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman he being then possest of a Benefice elsewhere What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion if any or his merits afterwards to be advanced to a Bishoprick let others speak while I tell you that after his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England not only made Dean of Winchester an 1660 in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton an 1616 but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earle to the See of Salisbury To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel 31. Dec. 1665 the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant assisted by the Bishops of Winchester Gloc Peterb Limerick and Oxon enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge Canon of Windsore Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex was installed in his place 9. Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde he died to the great grief of his Relations on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave with an inscription thereon the beginning of which is this Siste viator hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum c. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq was of Heale near Salisbury whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle an 1651 when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France The next was Sir Rob. Hyde who by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mention'd was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70 and was buried in the said Isle Soon after was erected on the wall near his grave a splendid monument with his bust in white marble and a large inscription thereon beginning thus H. S. E. ordini par paterno fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus c. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde who adheering to
his Maj. K. Ch. 2 in his exile was by him sent Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople and demanding audience in his name he was by bribes given delivered to some of the English Merchants there who shipping him in the Smyrna Fleet was conveyed into England Soon after he being committed to the Tower of London he was brought before the High Court of Justice where he desired to plead in the Italian Language which he said was more common to him than the English But it being denied him he was at length condemned to die whereupon he lost his head on a Scaffold erected against the Old Exchange in Cornhill on the fourth day of March an 1650. It was then said by the faction in England that he did by vertue of a Commission from Charles Stuart as K. of Great Britaine act in the quality of an Agent to the Court of the Great Turk with intent to destroy the trade of the Turkey Company and the Parliaments interest not only in Constantinople but also in Mitylene Anatolia and Smyrna That also he had a Commission to be Consul in that matter with an aim likewise to seize upon the Merchants goods for the use of Charles King of Scots For the effecting of which design he presumed to discharge Sir Tho. Bendish of his Embassie being Leiger there for the state of England c. The said faction also reported and would needs perswade the People in England that those that abetted Sir H. Hyde at Smyrna had the heavy hand of judgment fell upon them This Sir Hen. Hyde after his decollation was conveyed to Salisbury and buried there in the Cathedral among the graves of his Relations Another Brother younger than him was Edward Hyde D. D sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berkshire From which being ejected in the time of Usurpation he retired with his Wife and Children to Oxon and hiring an apartment within the precincts of Hart Hall lived there several years studied frequently in Bodlies Library and preached in the Church of Halywell in the suburbs of Oxon to the Royal Party till he was silenc'd by the Faction In 1658 he obtained of his exil'd Majesty by the endeavours of Sir Edw. Hyde before mention'd his kinsman then tho in banishment Lord Chancellour of England Letters Patents for the Deanery of Windsore in the place of Dr. Chr. Wren deceased dated in July the same year but he dying at Salisbury of the Stone a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was never installed in that Dignity He hath written and published several books which were taken into the hands of and perused by the Royal Party as 1 A Christian â—egacy consisting of two parts preparation for and consolation against death Lond. 1657. oct 2 Christ and his Church or Christianity explained under seven Evangelical and Ecclesiastical heads Oxon. 1658. qu. 3 Vindication of the Church of England Ibid. 1658. qu. 4 Christian vindication of truth against errour Printed 1659. in tw 5 The true Catholick tenure c. Cambr. 1662. oct and other things as you may see in Joh. Ley among these Writers an 1662. Another Brother the tenth in number was Sir Frederick Hyde Knight the Queens Serjeant an 1670 and one of the chief Justices of South Wales who dyed in 1676. Also another called Francis who was Secretary to the Earl of Denbigh Embassador and died at Venice without issue And among others must not be forgotten Dr. Thomas Hyde Fellow of New Coll afterwards Judge of the Admiralty and also the eleventh and youngest Brother of them all named James Hyde Dr. of Physick lately Principal of Magd. Hall HUGH LLOYD was born in the County of Cardigan became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an 1607 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts translated himself to Jesus Coll of which I think he became Fellow and in 1638 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Archdeacon of S. David and well beneficed in his own Country In the times of Usurpation and Rebellion he suffered much for the Kings cause was ejected and forced to remove from place to place for his own security In consideration of which and his episcopal qualities he was consecrated to the See of Landaffe on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday of that month an 1660 by the Archb. of York Bishops of London Rochester Salisbury and Worcester at which time six other Bishops were also consecrated He died in June or July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was as I suppose buried at Matherne in Monmouthshire where the House or Pallace pertaining to the Bishop of Landaff is situated In the said See succeeded Dr. Francis Davies as I shall tell you elsewhere JEREMY TAYLOR originally of the University of Cambridge afterwards Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in this University was consecrated Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland an 166â— and died in Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 282. GEORGE HALL sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll became Bishop of Chester in the room of Dr. Henry Ferne deceased an 1662 and dying in sixteen hundred sixty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 297 was succeeded in that See by Dr. Joh. Wilkins of whom I have largely spoken elsewhere already HENRY KING sometimes Canon of Ch Church afterwards Dean of Rochester was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1641. and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 308. In the said See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Pet. Gunning as I have elsewhere told you HENRY GLEMHAM a younger Son of Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham in Suffolk Knight by Anne his Wife eldest daughter of Sir Tho. Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset was born in the County of Surrey became a Commoner of Trin. Coll in 1619 aged 16 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Robert Skinner Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became well beneficed before the rebellion broke out at which time suffering more for his loyalty than merits was upon his Majesties restauration made Dean of Bristow in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas promoted to the Deanery of S. Pauls Cath. in London where continuing till 1666 he was by the endeavours of Barbara Dutchess of Cleavland made Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of that year in the place of Dr. George Griffith deceased He gave way to fate at Glemham Hall in Suffolk on the seventeenth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Vault that belongs to the Family of Glemham in the Parish Church of Little Glemham in the said County To the said See of S. Asaph was translated Dr. Is Barrow Bishop of the Isle of
was esteemed by those thereof a learned man as were his contemporaries Jam. Birch Philip Flower and Dan. Evans all three Bachelaurs of Div. and fellows of the said Coll. No. 1. Jaspar Mayne of Ch. Ch. No. 1. Rob. Joyner of Pemb. Coll. The last succeeded Will. Cartwright in the Succentorship of Salisbury Jan. 16. Aylmer Lynch of Cambridge Jan. 16. Edw. Fulham of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16. Henry Myriell of Cambr. Jan. 16. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll. The first of these four was after his Majesties restauration made Prebend of Stratford in the Church of Salisbury and of Welton-Westhall in the Church of Linc. The third Hen. Myriell died 22. Apr. 1643 aged 33 years and was buried in Allsaints Church in Oxon. As for Fulham and Gurgany there will be mention made of them in these Fasti an 1660. Tho 't is said that Nath. Conopius a Greecian and about this time one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch. was actually created Bach. of Div yet no thing appears in the University register of that matter Doct. of Law From the first of Nov. to the 21. of Febr. were actually created 60 or more Doctors of the Civil Law the names of most of which do follow Nov. 1. Rob. Lord Pierpont Vicount Newark and Earl of Kingston upon Hull sometimes a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. was actually created Doct. of the said faculty He was now Lieutenant General of all his Majesties forces within the Counties of Lincolne Rutland Huntingdon Cambridge and Norfolk and lost his life in his service near to Gaynsborough in Lincolnshire 30 of July 1643. The most Loyal Sir Franc. Wortley hath an Elegy on him in his Characters and Elegies which being just and deservedly spoken of him I shall refer the Reader to it but the book I doubt is scarce to be seen or had This most noble Count Pierpont was Father to Henry Marq. of Dorchester born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire an 1606 educated for some time in Eman. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards was a hard Student for 10 or 12 hours every day Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642 he adhered to his Majesty was with him at Oxon after the battel at Edghill and had a degree confer'd on him or at least was incorporated tho neglected to be registred by the common scribe of the University He was then esteemed a learned man as being well read in the Fathers Schoolmen Casuists the Civil and Can. Law and reasonably well vers'd in the common Law having about that time been admitted a Bencher of Greys Inn. In 1649 he applyed his study to Medicine and Anatomy and in 1658 he was admitted Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond and became their pride and glory He hath published 1 Two speeches spoken in the House of Lords One Concerning the rights of Bishops to sit in Parliament 21 of May and the other Concerning the lawfulness and conveniency of their intermedling in temporal affairs on the 24 of the same month Lond. 1641. in one sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to the Trained-bands of Nottinghamshire at Newark 13 July 1642 Lond. 1642. qu. 3 Letter to John Lord Roos written the 13 and printed on one side of a sheet of paper on the 25 of Feb. 1659. It was written upon occasion of some differences between the said Lord Roos and his Wife Anne Daughter of the said Marquess From which Lord the said Anne was afterwards for her whorishness lawfully divorced by sentence of the Court-Christian and then commonly known by the name of the Lady Anne Vaughan As soon as the said Letter was received by the Lord Roos he wrot another in answer to it in a buffooning stile 25 Feb. 1659 assisted therein by Sam. Butler afterwards known by the name of Hudibras which being printed also on one side of a sh of paper the Marq. made a reply with another paper entit 4 The reasons why the Marq. of Dorchester printed his letter 25. Feb. 1659 together with his answer to a printed paper called A true and perfect copy of the Lord Roos his answer to the Marquess of Dorchesters Letter written 25. Februar 1659. Printed 20. of March 1659 on one side of a sh of paper He the said Marquess hath as 't is probable other things extant or at least fit to be printed which I have not yet seen He died in his house in Charterhouse yard near London 8. Decemb. 1680 whereupon his body after it had laid in state for some time was conveyed to his antient Seat called Holme-Pierpont in Nottinghamshire where it was buried in the Church of that place among the sepulchers of his name and family Soon after was published an Elegy on this noble and generous Marquess by John Crouch sometimes his domestick servant which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Rob. Dormer Earl of Caernarvan was actually created at the same time Nov. 1 This most loyal Count who was Mercurio magnus sed Marti major was kill'd the next year at Newbury fight and soon after had an Elegy made on him by Sir Francis Wortley before mention'd which is printed among his Characters and Elegies His body was for the present deposited in Jesus Coll. Chappel but soon after removed to his seat in Bucks James Lord Compton He was afterwards Earl of Northampton Lieutenant of the County of Warwick as also of the City of Coventry Recorder likewise of the said City as also of Northampton and of Tamworth and did excellent service for his Majesty in the time of the Rebellion especially by his routing the Parliament Forces near Banbury 6 of May 1643. He died at Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire 15 Dec. 1681 and was buried in a Vault by his Ancestors under the Church of Compton Winniate commonly called Compton in the hole in Warwickshire He had a younger brother named Sir Charles Compton a most valiant person and one that had done his Maj. great service in the said Rebellion He died in the latter end of Nov. 1661 being then a Parl. man for the Town of Northampton and was buried at Sywell in Northamptonshire Robert Lord Rich. The same if I mistake not that was afterwards Earl of Holland Colonel Sir John Byron Knight of the Bath lately Lieutenant of the Tower of London He was about this time made Field-Marshal of all his Majesties Forces in the County of Worcester Salop Chester and North-Wales and in the 19 of Car. 1. was advanced to the title of Lord Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire Sir Will. Le Neve Kt Clarenceaux King of Arms. This person was of the antient family of his name living at Aslacton in Norfolk received some Academ education in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards by the favour of the Earl Marshal of England was created Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray 29 June 1624. Soon after he was made York Herald was imployed into France in the first of Car. 1 and from thence attended Qu. Henrietta Maria into
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
Earl Marshal to whom he was then or lately Secretary was sworn Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray because no person can be King of Armes before he is Herald and on the 23 of Dec. the same year he was created Norroy King of Armes at Arundel-house in the Strand in the place of Sir Rich. S. George created Clarenceaux On the 17 of July 1624 he received the honour of Knighthood and in 1634 he was made Garter King of Armes in the place of Sir Will. Segar deceased This learned and polite person who writes his Sirname in Latine Burrhus hath written 1 Impetus juveniles quaedam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolae Oxon. 1643. oct Most of the epistles are written to Philip Bacon Sir Franc. Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam Thom. Farnabie Tho. Coppin Sir Hen. Spelman c. 2 The Soveraignty of the British Seas proved by records history and the municipal laws of the Kingdom Lond. 1651. in tw It was written in the year 1633. He hath also made A collection of records in the Tower of London which I have not yet seen He died in Oxon to which place he had retired to serve his Majesty according to the duty of his office on the 21. of Octob. 1643 and was buried the next day at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church in the University Of Oxon. Octob 31. Sir George Radcliff Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Vniv Coll was after he had been presented by Dr. Rich. Steuart Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation celebrated in the north Chappel commonly called Ad. Bromes Chap of S. Maries Church He afterwards suffered much for the Kings cause as he in some part had done before for the sake of the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford was with him in his exile and died some years before his restauration You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives actions c. of excellent personages c. by Dav. Lloyd M. A. pag. 148. 149 c. Nov. 18. Thom. Bird a Captain in the Kings Army and about this time Governour of Eccleshal in Staffordshire was then actually created After his Majesties restauration he became one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and on the 12 of May 1661 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty Jan. 31. Sir Rich. Lane Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law with more than ordinary ceremony This worthy person who was the Son of Rich. Lane of Courtenhall in Northamptonshire by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Clem. Vincent of Harpole in the said County was educated from his youth in the study of the Com. Law in the Middle Temple where he made great proficiency beyond his contemporaries was called to the Bar and became a Counsellour of note In the 5. of Char. 1. he was elected Lent Reader of his Inn but did not read because of the pestilence and when the Long Parliament began he was so much esteemed for his great knowledge in the Law that the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford made use of him to manage his cause when he was tried for high treason in the latter end of 1640. Soon after he was made Attorney to Prince Charles at which time seeing what strange courses the members of Parliament took when the King had given them leave to sit he entrusted his intimate friend Bulstrode Whitlock a Counsellour of the Middle Temple with his Chamber there all his goods therein and an excellent Library and forthwith leaving London he retired to the King at Oxon where in 1643 he was made Serjeant at Law Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer a Knight on the 4 of Jan. the same year and about the same time one of his Majesties honourable Privy Council In the latter end of the next year he was nominated one of the Commissioners by his Maj. to treat of Peace with those of the Parliament at Vxbridge and on the 30 of Aug. 1645 he had the Great Seal delivered to him at Oxon on the death of Edward Lord Littleton In May and June 1646 he was one of the prime Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and soon after conveyed himself beyond the Sea to avoid the barbarities of the Parliament In his absence his Son was conducted to the said B. Whitlock then in his greatness to the end that the said goods of his Father then in his possession might be delivered to him for the use of his said Father who then wanted them but Whitlock would not own that he ever knew such a Man as Sir Richard and therefore he kept what he had of his to the great loss of him the said Sir Richard who died as a certain author tells us in the Isle of Jersey before the month of Aug. 1650 but false as I presume because that on the 22 of Apr. 1651 a Commission issued forth from the Prerogative Court to the Lady Margaret his Relict to administer the goods chattels and debts of him the said Sir Richard late of Kingsthorp in Northamptonshire who died in the Kingdom of France This Sir Rich. Lane who was an eminent Professor of the Law hath written Reports in the Court of Exchecquer beginning in the third and ending in then ninth of K James 1. Lond. 1657 fol. On the 29 of Jan. 1657 the Great Seal was delivered by his Majesty at Bruges in Flanders to Sir Edw. Hyde Knight Sir John Glanvill Kt Serjeant at Law was created the same day Jan. 31. and admitted in the house of Congregation and Convocation as Sir Rich. Lane was This Sir John was a younger Son of John Glanvill of Tavistock in Devonshire one of the Justices of the Common Bench who died 27 July 1600 and he the third Son of another John of the same place where and in that County their name was gentile and antient When he was young he was not educated in this University but was as his Father before him bred an Attorney and afterwards studied the Common Law in Lincolns Inn and with the help of his Fathers notes became a great proficient When he was a Counsellour of some years standing he was elected Recorder of Plymouth and Burgess for that place to serve in several Parliaments In the 5. of Char. 1. he was Lent Reader of his Inn and on the 20 of May 1639 he was made Serjeant at Law at which time having engaged himself to be a better Servant to the King than formerly for in several Parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westm on the 13 of April in which he shew'd himself active to promote the Kings desires On the 6 of July the same year he
a constant Actor and as 't was observed had made it his choice to take his share in the warmest part of those services On the 12 of June 1668 died Charles Visc Fitzharding Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold whereupon Sir Tho. Clifford changed his White staff and was by his Maj. advanced to that place the day following and Francis Lord Newport succeeded Clifford as Comptroller Much about which time his Maj. by Patent made him one of the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury In 1671 his Maj. gave him a lease of 60 years of the Pastures of Creslow in Bucks and in the same year he finished a new Chappel at Vgbrook which was consecrated and dedicated to S. Cyprian by Anthony Bishop of Exeter Upon the death of Sir Joh. Trevor and in the absence of Henry Earl of Arlington he executed the office of Secretary of State in the year 1672 until the return of the said Earl from his Embassy into Holland and Mr. Hen. Coventry from his Embassy into Sweden On the 22 Apr. 1672 his Maj. by Patent created him Baron Clifford of Chudleigh in Devonsh and in June following he gave him and his heirs males the mannours of Cannington and Rodway Fitzpayne in Somersetshire On the 28 of Nov. the same year his Maj. valuing his many eminent services and his great abilities in experience in the affairs of his Treasury he was pleased to advance him to the place of L. High Treasurer of England which had remained void since the death of Tho. late Earl of Southampton At which time his Maj. confer'd the place of Treasurer of the Houshold on the L. Newport beforemention'd and the place of Comptroller on Will Lord Maynard On the 29 Mar. 1673 an Act of Parl. pass'd for the entailing of Vgbrook and the Rectory of Chudleigh on his Lordship and the heirs of his body and on the 19 of June following he resigning into his Majesties hands his staff as L. Treasurer because he as 't was said refused the Test it was thereupon given by his Maj. to Sir Tho. Osborne Kt. and Bt. In the beginning of the Winter following the L. Clifford died and was as I suppose buried at Chudleigh ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted incorporated or created this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Joh. Johnson of New Coll. He afterwards lived a Nonconformist and hath published a Serm. at the funeral of Steph. Charnock mention'd among the Writers under the year 1680. p. 492. and perhaps others Quaere One John Johnson Gent. hath written The Academy of Love describing the folly of Youngmen and the fallacy of Women Lond. 1641. qu. But whether he was of this or of any other University I know not yet Nov. 19. Zachary Bogan of C. C. Coll. 30. George Swinnock of Ball. Coll. Jan. 14. Tho. Neast of New Coll. This person who was originally of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge was lately made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors and afterwards by his Warden and Society presented to the Rectory of Hardwick in Bucks Thence going to London lived for some time after his Majesties Restauration a Nonconformist and preached in Conventicles Afterwards conforming he became Minister of S. Martins Ch. in Ironmonger-lane and a little before the grand Conflagration was presented to S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet London He hath extant Serm. on Ephes 6.24 printed in The Morning exercise at Cripplegate c. Lond. 1661. qu published by Sam. Annesley or Anely and perhaps other things Feb. 20. Tho. Jones of Vniv Coll. Feb. 20. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only Benj. Wells M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was admitted to practise that faculty 10 Dec. Bach. of Div. ..... George Kendall of Exeter Coll was admitted to the reading of the Sentences this year but the day or month when it appears not Doct. of Law Oct. 19. John Wainwright of All 's Coll Chancellour of the Dioc of Chester ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Doctor of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May .... Christoph Tearne or Terne Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London hath published something of his faculty and died about 1685. He was as it seems originally of Cambridge May 11. Sam. Collins Doct. of Phys of Cambridge This person who was son of Dan. Collins sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University was lately Fellow of that House also but now of New Coll. in Oxon by the favour of the Visitors Afterwards he travelled into remote parts of the World resided at the Great Tzar's Court of Mosco for the space of nine years and wrot The History of the present state of Russia in a letter written to a friend in London Lond. 1671. oct illustrated with many copper plates and published under the name of Dr. Sam. Collins of the Coll. of Physitians in London and Fellow of Kings Coll. I have made mention of another Sam. Collins in the first vol. of this work p. 538 and shall make mention of another Samuel in these Fasti July 6. Thom. Jeanes or Janes Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge This person who took that degree in Camb. 1649 was now or soon after Fellow of Magd. Coll. in this Univ. See more in the year 1652 and 59. 18. Joh. Baber Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Anger 's in France This Gent. who had that degree confer'd on him in the said Univ. in Nov. 1648 was son of Joh. Baber of the City of Wells was educated in Westm School elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1642 and travelled during the time of the War Afterwards he practised his faculty in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster became Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. after his restauration and on the 19 of March 1660 he received the honour of Knighthood from him See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 894. Nov. 29. George Swinnock Bach. of Arts of Cambr. The next day he was admitted M. of A as before I have told you Dec. 16. Peter French Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time made Canon of Ch. Ch. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell whose Sister he had married See more among the created Doctors of Div. 1653. Feb. 4. Tho. Tanner lately Bach. of Arts of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge He was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors Mar. 18. John Parry lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin He was now or soon after made Fellow of Jesus Coll. in this Univ. Creations Mar. 8. Cuthbert Sydenham lately of S. Alb. Hall now a Presbyterian Preacher at Newcastle upon Tyne was created Master of Arts. 12. John Waterhouse who had been a Student for 18 years in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. was then created Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Letters of Ol. Cromwell Gen. of the Parl. Army and Chanc. of this Univ. which partly run
Dauphine of whom the Qu. was delivered Nov. 1. stilo novo About that time he the said Laurence Hyde was made by the endeavours of his father Master of the Robes to his Majesty and in 1676 or thereabouts was sent Embassador to Poland In Oct. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Wotton Basset in his own Country of Wilts to serve in that Parl. which was to begin on the 17 of the said month and on the 19 of Nov. following he became the first Commissioner of the Treasury being the second of the four that were by his Majesty appointed on the 26 of March going before upon the removal of Tho. Earl of Danby from the office of Lord Treasurer and being then sworn a Privy Counsellor he took his place accordingly at the Board This was done when his Majesty on the same day was pleased to declare in Council that he had given leave to Arthur Earl of Essex to resign his place of first Commissioner of the said Treasury and that he intended his Lordship should continue of his Privy Council In the month of Apr. 1681 his Maj. was pleased in consideration of his faithful Services in that Office and other Employments of eminent trust to create him Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in Warwickshire and Baron of Wotton Basset in Wilts and soon after upon the death of Charles the young E. of Rochester to make him an Earl by the title of Earl of that City in Nov. or thereabouts 1682. On the 24 of Aug. 1684 his Maj being then at Windsore did declare in Council the said Earl of Rochester Lord President of his Council in the place of John Earl of Radnor whom his Majesty had given in consideration of his great age leave to retire Wnereupon Sidney Godolphin Secretary of State was made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place and Charles Earl of Middleton in Scotland Secretary in Godolphin's place In Feb. following K. Jam. 2 who was then newly proclaimed King did constitute him L. High Treasurer of England and on the 16 of the said month his Majesty gave him the White Staff On the 29 of June 1685 he was elected Kr. Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter and was then invested with the George and Garter having been first Knighted by the Soveraign and on the 22 of July following he was installed in the Royal Chappel of S. George at Windsore at which time were also installed Henry Duke of Nâ—rfolk Earl Marshal of England and Hâ—nry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stole to his Majesty In the beginning of Jan. 1686 he was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer and soon after John Lord Bellasyse Sidney Lord Godolphin Henry Lord Dover Sir John Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were constituted Commissioners for executing the said Office On the first of March 1691 he was with Richard Earl of Ranelagh Charles Lord Cornwallis and Sir Edw. Seymour Bt sworn of their Majesties hon Privy Council c. Bach. of Phys Aug. 7. Will Cole of Gloc. Hall Aug. 7. Will. Hawkins of Pemb. Coll. The first of these two hath published several things of his faculty and therefore hereafter he is to be remembred among the Writers The other had practised Phys 20 years before this time but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell Bach. of Div. Eighteen were created of whom were these Aug. 2. Thom. Smith M. of A. of Qu. Coll. He is now B. of Carlile 7. Henr. Pigot of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Staffordshire man born was afterwards Minister of Rochdale in Lancashire and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Lancaster 19 Mar. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu. Sept. 20. Thom. Long of Exet. Coll. Doct. of Law Aug. 2. Will. Fuller sometimes of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick and at length of Linc. 7. Will. Parsons of New Coll. He had been a great Sufferer by the Presbyterians and had been kept in Jayl at Cambridge 19 weeks for his Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. during the Rebellion Afterwards retiring to his small Living at Birchanger in Essex did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of Usurpation and therefore beloved of the loyal Gentry in those parts After his Majesties restauration he became Prebendary of Chichester Rector of Lambourne and Vicar of Great Dunmow in Essex At the last of which places he dying of an Apoplexy was buried there on the eleventh of July 1671 aged 72 years This person tho said in the Register to be actually created Doct. of the Civil Law yet in the Letters of the Chanc. of the University written in his behalf it is said that when he was Subwarden of New Coll. and Bachelaur of Law he read his Lectures for Doctorship according to the Statutes an 1635. Joh. Lowen of Ch. Ch. who had been ejected thence for his Loyalty by the Parl. Visitors in 1648 was actually created the same day Aug. 7. He was afterwards of Doctors Commons and usually lived at Rainham in Essex where I think he died in the latter end of 1677. Dec. 6. Pet. Mews of S. Johns Coll. Feb. 16. Leolin Jenkyns of Jesus Coll. This person who was the son of a father of both his names living at Llanblethian in Glamorganshire was born at Llanthrished in the same County and at 16 years of age in 1641 he became a Student in Jesus Coll but the Troubles in the Nation soon after following he retired to his own Country and afterwards became a Tutor to several Welsh Gentlemen of Quality in the house of Joh. Aubrey at Llantrithied in Glamorganshire Esq which was then left void by Sequestration where continuing from 1648 to 1651 he removed with his charge to Oxon and there sojourned in an house opposite to Vniv Coll then possess'd by Sampson White a Mercer afterwards Mayor of the City and a Knight where he educated them as in Glamorganshire before according to the way of the Church of England In 1655 they were dispersed because they were obnoxious to the then schismatical Members of the University and forthwith travelled beyond the seas for 2 or 3 years After Mr. Jenkyns his return and delivery up of his Pupils to their respective Parents and Relations he was invited by the most loyal Sir Will. Whitmore of Apley in Shropshire to live with him an 1658 the most ingenious Rob. Waring whom he had for some years kept in his Family being then dead where continuing till his Majesties restauration in 1660 he then returned to Jesus Coll of which he was first made Fellow and soon after upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell Principal and Dr. of the Civ Law as before 't is told you Afterwards he retired to London and in the time of the Dutch War he executed the office of Judge of the Admiralty for Dr. Joh. Exton which he managed with great dexterity and prudence and at length was Judge in his own right and when Dr. Will.
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
the Elector of Brandeburg as also of the Hall and Judicial Chamber Chamberlain and Chieftain of the Province or County of Ruppin Knight of the order of Johamites and Envoy extraordinary to the King of Gr. Britaine from the said Elector of Brandeburg was created the same day Sir Joseph Williamson Kt Mast of Arts and Fellow of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son of the County of Cumberland had been Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas and afterwards under Hen. Earl of Arlington while they were Principal Secretaries of State and on the 24 Jan. 1671 he was sworn one of the Clerks of the Council in Ordinary and Knighted About that time he was Clerk of the papers or Keeper of the Paper Office at Whitehall and a Recruiter for Thetford in Norfolk to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661. Afterwards he was sent twice in the quality of a Plenipotentiary once to Holland and another time to Colen in Germany and after his return he was sworn Principal Secretary of State upon the promotion of Henry Earl of Arlington to be Lord Chambeâ—lain of his Majesties Houshold and a Privy Counsellour on the eleventh of Sept. 1674. Both which offices he keeping till Feb. 1678 did on the 9 of the same month resign the seals of his Secretaryship into the hands of his Majesty who forthwith giving them to Rob. Earl of Sunderland he was sworn the next day Secretary and Privy Counsellour This Sir Jos Williamson who was then President of the Royal Society hath been a great Benefactor to his Coll. and may be greater hereafter if he think fit The illustrious Lord Ignatius Vitus Baron ot Vicque a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under his Catholick Majesty in Flanders was created the same day June 27. One Ignatius Vitus alias White second Son of Sir Dominick White of Limerick in Ireland was created a Baronet on the 29 of June 1677 and for want of issue male that title was to descend to his Nephew Ignatius Maximilian Vitus and to the heirs male of his body This Sir Ignat. White is the same as I conceive with him that was Baron of Vicque D. Car. Gabr. de la Salle Eq. Grome of the Chamber to the King of Sweedland was also then created In a Convocation held 30 of May this year were the Chancellours Letters read in behalf of Sam. Speed formerly a Student now Canon of Ch. Ch. to have the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him but whether he was created or admitted notwithstanding he had formerly suffer'd for his loyalty it appears not On the sixth of the said month of May this year he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Seb. Smith deceased and dying at Godalming in Surrey of which he was Vicar about the 22 of January 1681 Henry Aldrich M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. was installed Canon in his place on the 15. of Febr. following One Sam. Speed a pretender to Poetry hath written Prison-piety or meditations divine and moral c. Lond. 1677. in tw and other trivial things but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former In the month of January this year came to this University J. Secbaldus Frabricius an old Professor of Heidelberg who was forced to leave his Country because of the Wars between the Emperour and the King of France He lived for some time here in a studious condition had a collection of moneys made throughout the University to relieve his wants And while he continued among us he published De unitate Eccles Britannicae Meditationes Sacrae Oxon. 1676 oct and wrot and drew up another book entit Dissertatio Historica Dionis Cassii Scriptoris Graec. Selectiora Commata c. Lond. 1678. oct An. Dom. 1675. An. 27. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Ralph Bathurst Oct. 7. Proct. Joh. Jones of Ch. Ch. Apr. 14. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Arts. June 8. Thom. Tully of S. Edm. Hall See among the Masters an 1678. 10. Will. Gough commonly called Goff of S. Alb. Hall lately of Exeter Coll. Oct. 26. Will. Hallifax of Corp. Ch. Coll. Jan. 18. Tho. Pigott of Wad Coll. 29. Joh. Bagley of Ball. Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1687 and of the other two among the Masters 1678. Feb. 23. Will. Nicholson of Qu. Coll. He hath written and published several things and therefore he ought at large to be remerabred among the Oxford Writers hereafter Adm. 149. Bach. of Law Four were only admitted of whom Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. was one See among the Doct. of Law following Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Jonathan Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. June 8. Joh. Knight of New Inn He afterwards was made Vicar of Banbury in Oxfordshire upon the removal thence of Richard Knight sometimes Proctor of the University of Oxon to a good Parsonage in Worcestershire and was author of The Samaritan Rebels perjur'd by a Covenant of Association in a Sermon at the Assizes held at Northampton 30 March 1682 on Hosea 10 the former part of the 4th vers Lond. 1682 qu. He is a good Scholar very loyal and of good name and esteem where he lives and might have been Preb. of Linc. which he much deserves had not Dr. B. Bish thereof shew'd him a Dog-trick Nov. 23. Jam. Parkinson of Linc. Coll. Jan. 19. Joh. Massey or Measey of Mert. Coll. This person who was originally of Vniv Coll was one of the Proctors of the University in 1684 and then and after did not look for or expect preferment At length after K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown he was by the endeavours of Mr. Obad. Walker Master of Vniv Coll advanced by his Majesty on the death of Dr. Fell to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon about the middle of Octob. 1686. Whereupon renouncing his religion for that of Rome which he was so to do before he could be setled in it he received the Patent for it on his bended knees from his Majesty on the 19 of Decemb. and on the 29 of the same month 1686 he was installed in that Dignity in his own person Afterwards he set up and furnished a Chappel for the R. Cath. use in Canterbury Quadrangle within the Precincts of Ch. Ch and was put into the Commission of Peace for the County of Oxford At length upon the arrival of the Prince of Orange in the West parts of England and the committing thereupon by the Mobile great outrages in several parts of the Nation on R. Catholicks and their Houses the said Mr. Massey did to avoid them together with Mr. Thom. Deane a R. C. Fellow of Vniv Coll. withdraw himself privately before break of day on the 30 of Nov. 1688 went to London and there continued privately till an opportunity carried him over the Sea to France where I think
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Mr. William Walker of Cliffords Inn. Mr. William Wickins Tho. Wyatt D. D. Rector of Bromhang Wiltsh Edm. Wayle M. A. Rector of Sommerfield magna VVilts Isaac VValton M. A. Rector of Polshott VVilts James Wight of the Middle Temple Esq Francis VVhite B. D. Fell. of Bal. Coll. Oxon. Robert VVinne B. D. of Jesus Coll. Oxon. John VVinne M. A. of Jesus Coll. Oxon. Mr. William Winne Mr. John Walker Mr. Williams Mr. John Williams of West-Chester Mr. Rich Walker of Oxford Vintner Mr. Christopher Wilkinson Bookseller Mr. Geo. West Bookseller in Oxon. Mr. Joseph Wats Bookseller Mr. Weld Bookseller Mr. Roger Warne of Chippenham Y. ARchibald Young Esq Mr. Charles Yardley Minister of Ex. Hall Warwicksh Charles Yaulding M. A. of Ch. Ch. in Ox. Matthew Yate A. M. Mr. Ch. Yeo. Bookseller in Exeter Z. MR. Zouch FINIS 1641. (a) Arth. d ee in his Preface to the Students in Chymistry to his Fasciculus Chimicus c. 1641. 1641. 1641. 1641. 1641. (a) Pat. 4. Car. 1. p. 37. 1641 2. 1641 2. 1641 2. Clar. 1641. (a) Pag. 123.124.125 (b) In his book intit Canterburies Doome c. p. 217. (c) pag. 123.124 (d) p. 51.54 Clar. 1641. Clar 1641. (e) By Anon. in a book intit The surfeit to A. B. C. Lond. 1656. in tw p 22. (*) Id. Anon. (f) Ms in bib Cottoniana sub Tito A. 13. 1642. 1642. 1642. (a) Sir Joh. Borough in his book in t Impetus juveniles epistolae p. 136. 1642. 1642. 1642 3. 1642 3. (a) George Kendal in Tuissii Vita Victoria c. and Sam. Clarke in his Lives of Eminent persons c. printed 1683. fol. p. 16. 1642 3 Clar. 1642. Clar. 1642. 1643. 1643. (a) Reg. congreg Univ. Ox. notat in dors cum litera O fol. 3. a. (b) Sober sadness or historical observations c. of a prevailing party in both Houses of Parl. Lond. 1643. in qu. p. 33. (c) The Author of Merc. Aulicus in the fortieth week an 1643. p. 576. 1643. (d) Idem ibid p. 640. (e) The other two brothers were Obadiah and Joseph (f) Robert Earl of Essex 1643. (*) See in a book intit Ayres and Dialogues for one two and three Voices Lond. 1653. fol. composed by the said Hen. Lawes and in another intit Select Ayres and Dialogues to sing to the Theorbo-Lute and Bass Viol. Lond. 1669. fol. composed also by the said Hen. Lawes 1643. 1643. (a) Edw. Knott in his Direction to be observed by N. N. c. Lond. in oct p. 37. c. (b) Ibid. p. 40. (c) In the preface to the author of Charity maintain'd c. sect 43. (d) sect 42. (e) sect 44. (f) sect 29. 40. (g) Franc. Cheynell in his book intit A discussion of Mr. Joh. Fry's tenents lately condemned in Parliam c. p. 33. (h) Hug. Cressy in his Exomologesis chap. 22. (i) In his Epistle Apologetical to a person of honour sect 7. p. 82. (k) Tho. Long in his pref before Mr. Hales his
hands of Dr. G. Kendall to perfect and afterwards to publish it but never done 2 Answer to a book intit A Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion Written by Sir Ken. Digby 3 Answer to the respective books concerning the Sabbath written by Dr. Fr. White Dr. Gilb. Ironside and Mr. E. Breerword He hath also either answer'd or animadverted upon certain matters of Nich. Fuller Jos Mede the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker Dr. Christ Potter Dr. Tho. Godwin Dr. Tho. Jachson and Mr. Joh. Goodwin the Titles of which I shall now pass by for brevity sake At length after he had lived 71 years departed this mortal life in Holborn in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried on the 24 of July the same year near to the upper end of the poor folks Table next the Vestry in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster On the 14 of Sept. 1661 his body â—ith those of Thom. May the Poet Will. Strong Steph. Marshall Ministers c. which were buried in the said Church of S. Peter were taken up and buried in one large pit in the Ch. yard of S. Margaret just before the back door of the Lodgings belonging to one of the Prebendaries of Westminster having been unwarrantably buried there during the times of Rebellion and Usurpation THOMAS HAYNE Son of Rob. Hayne was born in a Town commonly but corruptly called Thurciston near to and in the County of Leicester At the last of which places having received his juvenile learning was sent to the University and matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Coll. in Mich. Term 1599 and in that of his age 17 where being put under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor obtained great knowledge in Philosophy and the more for this reason that he was taken off from various Recreations and Rambles by a lameness in his Legs from his Cradle After he had taken a degree in Arts 1604 he became one of the Ushers of the School in the Parish of S. Laurence Pountney in London erected by the Merchant Taylors and afterward being M. of Arts Usher of the School belonging to the City of London in Ch. Church Hospital He was a noted Critick an excellent Linguist and a solid Divine beloved of learned Men and particularly respected by Selden He hath written Grammatices Latinae Compendium an 1637 c. Lond. 1640. in oct To which are added two appendices Linguarum cognatio seu de linguis in genere de variarum linguarum harmoniâ dissertatio Lond. 1639. oct It was also printed if I mistake not in 1634. Pax in terrâ seu tractatus de pace ecclesiasticâ c. Lond. 1639. oct The equal ways of God in rectifying the unequal ways of man Lond. 1639 c. in oct General view of the holy Scriptures or the times places and persons of holy Scripture c. Lond. 1640 fol. sec Edit Life and death of Dr. Mart. Luther Lond. 1641. qu. He gave way to fate on the 27. of July in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Parish Church of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the City of London Soon after was put a monument over his grave about the middle of the Church on the North side and a large inscription thereon which about 20 years after was consumed and defaced with the Church it self when the great fire hapned in London In the said inscription he is stiled Antiquitatis acerrimus investigator antiquitatem praematuravit suam Publicis privatisque studiis sese totum communi bono coelebem devovit Pacis Ecclesiae Irenicus pacificus jure censendus c. In the Library at Leicester is another inscription put up to his memory which being perfect you may take instead of the other See Hist et Antiq Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b. By his will which I have seen he gave to the said Library all his Study of books except some few which he gave to the Library at Westminster He gave also 400 l. to be bestowed in buying Lands or Houses in or near Leycester of the yearly Rent of 24 l. for ever for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster in Thurciston alias Thrushington or some Town near thereunto to teach ten poor Children c. and for the maintenance of two poor Scholars in Linc. Coll. to come from the Free-School at Leycester or in defect of that from the School at Milton c. The Schoolmaster to have 12 l. yearly and the two Scholars six pounds yearly c. In the said Will are other acts of Charity mentioned which for brevity sake I now pass by EDWARD LITTLETON Son and Heir of Sir Edw. Littleton of Henley in Shropshire Knight was born in that County an 1589. became a Gentleman Commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of the year 1606 where by the care of an eminent Tutor he became a proficient in Academical learning took a degree in Arts an 1609 and from Ch. Ch. removed to the Inner Temple where he made such admirable progress in the Municipal Laws and was of such eminence in his Profession in a short time that the City of London took early notice of and chose him their Recorder being also about that time Counsellor to University of Oxon. In the 8. of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of his Society and in the 10. of the said King Oct. 17. he was made Sollicitor-General After which upon the 6. of June next ensuing he received the honor of Knighthood at Whitehall at which time and some years before he was a Member of the Commons House of no small reputation On the 27. of Jan. 15. Car. 1. he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and on the 23. of Jan. the next year his Majesty confer'd upon him the utmost honor belonging to his Profession by giving the Great Seal into his custody In less than a month after upon the 18. of Feb. he made him a Peer of England by the name of the Lord Littleton Baron of Mounslow in his Native Country being then in great esteem for integrity and eminence in his Profession Shortly after the troubles in this Realm taking their rise partly from the insurrection of the Scots and their entrance into this Realm which hapned in Aug. next ensuing an 1640 and partly from the predominancy of certain Members in the Long Parliament then called by reason of that invasion he retired to the King at York in June 1642 having first conveyed the Seal thither From which time to his death which hapned in Oxon where in 1642 he was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law he constantly attended his Majesty with great fidelity He was Author of Several Speeches as 1 Speech at a conference with the Lords in Parliament concerning the Liberty of the Subject and propriety in their Goods 3. Apr. 1628. See in Jo. Rushworths Collections Vol. 1. p. 528. an 1628. This with other Conferences were published by themselves
the aforesaid Merchants as I have been informed by Dr. Tho. Marshall lately Rector of Linc. College who succeeded him in that office of Preacher there HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an antient and gentile family in a Market Town in Sommersetshire called Dulverton became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1606 took a degree in Arts as a member of that House made Fellow of Wadham Coll. by the Foundress thereof an 1613 and the year after proceeded in Arts being the first of all that Coll. that took that degree Afterwards he entred into the sacred function was made Priest by Lewis Bishop of Bangor in 1621 had the Rectory of Ashbrittle in Sommersetshire bestowed on him by the presentation of his Majesty an 1627 and three years after that of Pokington in the said County by the same hand About that time he was made Chaplain to Edward Lord Howard of Escrick so that thereby being capacitated to hold several Benefices had the Rectory of Odcombâ— in the same County given to him by his Maj. in Dec. 1644 Sir Joh. Sydenham Bt. to whom that Rectory did belong being then in his minority and a Ward Which three Benefices or at least two he lost soon after by the Parliamentarian commissioners of Sommersetshire He was a Person of a quaint and curious stile better at practical than School Divinity and was so eloquent and fluent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongue Sydenham He hath published these Sermons following Five Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1627. qu. 1 The Athenian Babler on Acts 17.18 2 Jacob and Esau c. on Rom. 9.18 3 Arraignment of an Arrian on Joh. 8.58 4 Moses and Aaron c. on Exod. 4.12 5 Natures overthrow and deaths triumph on Eccles 12.5 preached at the funeral of Sir Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimpton 15. Dec. 1625. Other Sermons Lond. 1630. qu. The first of which is called The passing bell on Psal 32.6 2 The rich mans warning peece on Psal 62.10 3 The waters of Marah and Meribah on Rom. 12.1 Sermons upon solemn occasions preached in several auditories Lond. 1637. qu. They are 8 in number and the first is entit The well-tun'd Cymbal on Psal 15.16 preached at the dedication of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in Sommersetshire All which Sermons were at their preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by most People of understanding but books have their credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers as they please to like or dislike He paid his last debt to nature in Sommersetshire in sixteen hundred and fifty or thereabouts but where buried unless at Dulverton I cannot tell nor whether he had any other Sermons published after his death JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Maries Hall where he was observed by his contemporaries to be studious and a good Disputant Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Minister of Broadclist in Devonshire and wrot A discovery of the World to come according to the Scriptures c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick oct What other things he hath publish'd I know not nor any thing else of him SAMUEL YERWORTH or Jeruvorthus as he writes himself in the title of the book following was born in Dorsetshire became a Student in Oriel Coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards being noted for his excellency in the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue taught and read it privately divers years in Oxon to young Students and for their benefit wrot Introductio ad linguam Ebraeam brevissima praecipua duntaxat ejus documenta eaque ex optimis Grammaticis collecta complectens c. Oxon. 1650. oct At the time when it was published he gave notice to the Reader that if the said introduction should be kindly received he would put forth a more full and compleat Grammar with Scholia added to each Chapter as need should require but whether the Grammar was acceptable among Scholars and so consequently the Author stood to his promise I know not WILLIAM HEMMINGS Son of John Hemmings a Comedian or Actor of playes with Will. Shakespear was born in London elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1621. aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1628 and at hours of recess from happier employments than the delight of poetry composed The fatal contract comedie Lond. 1653. qu. printed from the original copy by the care of A. T. and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was revived not many years since under the title of Love and revenge with some alterations and in 1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the title of The Eunuch a Trag. This being founded on a French Chronicle was said in the first edition of it 1653. to be a French Comedie The Jewes Tragedy or their fatal and final overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his Son Lond. 1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentick History of Josephus Our Author Hemmings left behind him greater monuments of his worth and ability but whether they are yet published I cannot tell However the Fatal contract having justly gained an esteem with men of excellent judgments by several copies of it that flew abroad in Ms was therefore published for the satisfaction of all Persons especially such who had lighted upon imperfect copies CHRISTOPHER LOVE Son of a Father of both his names was born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire became a Servitour of New Inn in Midsommer or Act term 1635 aged 17 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders and would with great impudence and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the Church of S Peter in the Baylie joyning to the said Inn and there hold out prating for more than an hour before Academical as well as Lay auditors In 1642 he proceeded Master of Arts and was Junior of the Act then celebrated at which time he performed the exercise of that office with more confidence than was seemly He himself tells us that when he was a Scholar in Oxon and Master of Arts he was the first Scholar that he knew of or ever heard of in Oxon that did publickly refuse in the Congregation house to subscribe unto those impositions or Canons imposed by the Archb. touching the Prelates and Common prayer For which tho they would not denie him his degree yet he was expelled the congregation never to sit as a member among them c. About that time he left the University went to or near London and became a sedulous preacher up of treason and rebellion About the beginning of the Wars saith he I was the first Minister that I knew of in England who was accused of preaching treason and rebellion meerly for maintaining in a Sermon in Kent at Tenterden the lawfulness of a defensive War at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles c So that being
said elaborate Treatises and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger tho more spiritual manchild did cost him his life They are and have been both taken into the hands of learned men and by them often quoted The Author is stiled by the head of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist and by others of moderate perswasion a most profound Clerk He died at Burton commonly called Burton place before mention'd on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church which Sir Will Goring denied because he left him not those Legacies he expected but in the body under the Readers seat Over his grave tho there be no monument with inscription on it which the Testator desir'd yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mention'd is fastned a Tablet of Free-stone with this written on it which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds with two hundred fourscore and four pounds whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton as is worth twenty pounds per an And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue according to a Decree in his Majesties Court of Chancery remain in the hands of the Church-wardens and other Officers of Hagborne the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity bounty or piety for the good of this Parish But he expresly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widdows burdned with many children toward their sustentation He died Decemb. 2. an dom 1652. Thus far the inscription He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalmes the History of Tobit in Hebrew with Rodolphus his Postills bound up with Lyra Clemens Romanus with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings JOHN DIGBY was born of an antient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire in the month of Febr. 1580 became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595 and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and returned a well-qualified Gentleman So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of his Majesties Carvers in the year 1605 being then newly created Master of Arts of this University On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honor of Knighthood and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain as he was afterwards again in 1614. In the beginning of January about the third day 1615 Sir Franc. Cottington was sent into Spain to call him home and about the middle of March following he returned into England On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was admitted one of the Kings Privy Council and Vicechamberlain of his Majesties Houshold in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope who was persuaded by the Kings Letters to give up that Office In July 1617 he was sent again into Spain and the next year upon his return he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nov. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in Octob. 1621 he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles who followed him in few months after and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristow After his return he shew'd himself right able to appear before the English Parliament where he worsted the greatest Minion Buckingham the Folly Love or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation As thro a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time tho they drove on if not contrary divers designs From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament we find no great matter of him when then he being found guilty of concealing some say of promoting a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent which was to be delivered to the Parliament he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause for which at length he suffer'd Exile and the loss of his Estate He hath extant these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spake another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges 2 Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords he thereupon spake 3 Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former and of accommodation Lond. 1642. in 1 sh in qu. Repr at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. 4 Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight and was reprinted at Lond. the same year Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion Oaths Laws Loyalty and Gratitude which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England Tract wherein he vindicateth his honor and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apologie Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract meaning his Motives and tyes of Religion with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited The said two Tracts with the Appendix
having before been accounted by all those that well knew him to have been a person well vers'd in the Greek and Lat. Poets in Musick whether practical or theoretical instrumental or vocal and in other things befitting a Gentleman Some of the said persons have also added in my hearing that his common discourse was not only significant and witty but incomparably graceful which drew respect from all Men and Women Many other things I could now say of him relating either to his most generous mind in his Prosperity or dejected estate in his worst part of Poverty but for brevity sake I shall now pass them by At the end of his Posthume Poems are several Elegies written on him by eminent Poets of that time wherein you may see his just character FRANCIS ROUS a younger son of Sir Anth. Rous Knight by Elizab. his first wife daugh of Tho. Southcote Gent. was born at Halton in Cornwall and at 12 years of age became a Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1591 where continuing under a constant and severe discipline took the degree of Bach. of Arts which degree being compleated by Determination he went afterwards as it seems to the Inns of Court tho some there be that would needs perswade me that he took holy orders and became Minister of Saltash in his own Country Howsoever it is sure I am that he being esteemed a man of parts and to be solely devoted to the puritanical Party he was elected by the men of Truro in his own Country to serve in Parliaments held in the latter end of K. James and in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. In 1640 also he was elected again for that Corporation to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov wherein seeing how violently the Members thereof proceeded he put in for one and shew'd himself with great zeal an Enemy to the Bishops Prerogative and what not to gain the Populacy a Name and some hopes of Wealth which was dear unto him In 1643 he forwarded and took the Covenant was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines and for the zeal he had for the holy cause he was by authority of Parliament made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore the same year in the place of Dr. Rich. Steuart who then followed and adhered to his sacred Majesty In the said Parliament he afterwards shew'd himself so active that he eagerly helped to change the Government into a Commonwealth and to destroy the negative Voice in the King and Lords In 1653 he was by the Authority of Ol. Cromwell nominated a Member of the Little Parliament that began to sit at Westm 4 July and was thereupon elected the Speaker but with a collateral Vote that he should continue in the Chair no longer than for a month and in Decemb. the same year he was nominated one of Olivers Council But when the good things came to be done which were solemnly declared for for the not doing of which the Long Parliament was dissolved He as an old bottle being not fit to leave that new wine without putting it to the question he left the Chair and went with his Fellow old bottles to Whitehall to surrender their Power to General Cromwell which he as Speaker and they by signing a Parchment or Paper pretended to do The colourable foundation for this Apostasie upon the monarchical foundation being thus laid and the General himself as Protector seated thereon he became one of his Council and trusted with many matters as being appointed in the latter end of the same year the first and prime Tryer or Approver of publick Preachers and the year after a Commissioner for the County of Cornwall for the Ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he sate in the following Parliaments under Oliver and being an aged and venerable man was accounted worthy to be taken out of the H. of Commons to have a negative Voice in the other house that is House of Lords over all that should question him for what he had done and over all the people of the Land besides tho he would not suffer it in the King and Lords This person who was usually stiled by the Loyal Party the old illiterate Jew of Eaton and another Proteus hath divers things especially of Divinity extant wherein much enthusiastical Canting is used the Titles of which follow The art of Happiness consisting of three parts whereof the first searcheth out the happiness of Man The second c. Lond. 1619. oct at which time the Author lived at Lanrake in Cornwall The diseases of the time attended by their remedies Lond. 1622. oct Oyl of Scorpions The miseries of these times turned into medicines and curing themselves Lond. 1623. oct Testis veritatis The Doctrine of K. James of the Ch. of England plainly shewed to be one in the points of Predestination Free-will and certainty of Salvation Lond. 1626. qu. Discovery of the grounds both natural and politick of Arminianisme Printed with Test ver The only remedy that can cure a People when all other Remedies fail Lond. 1627. in tw The heavenly Academie Lond. 1638. in tw dedicated to John L. Roberts of Truro Catholike Charity complaining and maintaining that Rome is uncharitable to sundry eminent parts of the Cath. Church and especially to Protestants and is therefore uncatholike And so a Romish book called Charitie mistaken though undertaken by a second is it self a mistaking Lond. 1641. oct Meditations endeavouring the edification and reparation of the house of God The great Oracle Even the main frame and body of the Scriptures resolving the Question Whether in mans free will and common grace stands the safety of man and the glory of God in mans safety The mystical marriage or experimental discoveries of the heavenly marriage between a Soul and her Saviour Lond. 1653. in tw All which treatises in number eleven were reprinted in one folio at Lond. 1657. under the title of Works of Francis Rous Esq Or Treatises and meditations dedicated to the Saints and to the excellent throughout the three Nations Before which works is the picture of the Author aged 77 years an 1656 engraven by the curious hand of Will. Faithorne Parliamentarie Speeches as 1 Sp. concerning the goods liberties and lives of his Maj. Subjects c. Lond. 1641. in one sh in qu. 2 Sp. before the Lords in the upper house 16. of March 1640 against Dr. Jo. Cosin Dr. Roger Manwairing and Dr. Will. Beale upon the complaint of Mr. Pet. Smart Lond. 1641. in one sh in qu. 3 Sp. in the H. of Commons against making Dr. Jo. Prideaux Dr. Th. Winniff Dr. R. Holdsworth and Dr. Hen. King Bishops till a setled Government in Religion was established Lond. 1642. in one sh in qu. Mella Patrum nempe omnium quorum per prima nascentis patientis ecclesiae tria secula usque ad pacem sub Constantino divinitûs datam scripta prodierunt atque adhuc
true which he delivers Duppa an Englishman cannot be the Author yet Quaere He surrendred up his pious soul to the great God that first gave it on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred sixty and two having the day before been visited by his Maj. out of his wonted piety and goodness He died as he lived honoured and beloved of all that knew him a person of so clear and eminent candor that he left not the least spot upon his life or function maugre the busie sedition of those Brethren who then as before black'd the very Surplice and made the Liturgy profane He had a more than ordinary affection to live at Richmond where he privately resided several years in the late broken times as I have before told you but especially because it was the place where first he conveyed the Principles into the Prince Afterwards his body being conveyed to York-house in the Strand where it laid in state for some time was decently conveyed thence on the 24 of April following to the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster where it was buried in the Area on the North side of the Chappel of S. Edward the Confessor At which time Dr. Hen. King B. of Chichester a most admirable and florid Preacher in his younger days preached a Sermon to the great content of the Auditory containing many Elogiums of the Defunct which as also his monuments of piety and charity I shall for brevity sake now pass by Soon after was a fair mon. mostly of white marble fastned to the Wall over his grave with an inscription thereon In the Church Register of Lewsham in Kent I find one Brian Son of Jeffry Duppa to be baptized there 18 March 1580 having been born in the Vicaridge-house of that place Which Jeffry Duppa who was Vicar I take to be Father of Dr. Duppa and Brian to be his elder brother deceased HAMLETT PULESTON was born at Old Ailresford in Hampshire admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 20 Aug. 1647 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then was made Fellow of Jesus Coll. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a Preacher in these parts He hath written a book intit Monarchiae Britannicae singularis protectio or a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial Providence over the British Monarchy c. Lond. 1660. qu. He died at London in a poor condition and in an obscure house in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two but where buried I cannot tell His Father Rich. Puleston was a learned Doct. of Div. was Parson of Abbotsworthy in Hampshire and tho born at Bircot in the Parish of Dorchester in Oxfordshire yet he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Pulestons commonly called Pilstons in Flintshire WILLIAM FIENNES was the nearest Kinsman to William of Wykeham Founder of New Coll as being lineally descended from William Lord Say killed in the battle at Barnet 2 Ed. 4. Dom. 1471 by his Wife Margaret dau and heir of Will. de Wykeham Lord of the Mannour of Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire Son of Sir Tho. de Wykeham Knight Son of Will. Perot by Alice his Wife Daughter of Will. Champneis by Agnes his Wife Sister to Will of Wykeham B. of Winton and Founder of New Coll. before mention'd This person Will. Fiennes whom we are farther to mention was born at Broughton aforesaid being the eldest Son of Sir Rich. Fiennes to whom King Jam. 1. in the first year of his Reign had recognized and confirmed the dignity and honour of the Baron Say and Sele was trained up in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Fellow Commoner of New Coll. at about 14 years of age in 1596 where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals was called home for a time Afterwards he travelled beyond the seas and at his return being invested in a fair Estate did some years after give and obtain a vast sum of money towards the Waâ— in the Palatinate which was very pleasing to his â— â— K. Jam. 1. yet shewing kindness to his neighbours by leaving it to their pleasure to pay towards that War what they thought fit he was on notice given to his Majesty committed to custody in the month of June 1â—22 whence being soon after released he was on the 7 of July 22 Jac. 1. Dom. 1624. advanced from a Baron â—o be Viscount Say and Sele at which time he stood up 〈◊〉 the Privileges of Magna Charta but after the grand Rebellion broke out he looked upon it as a ridiculous 〈◊〉 such was the mutability of the man The truth is he being ill natur'd cholerick severe and rigid and withal highly conceited of his own worth did expect great matters at Court but they failing he sided therefore with the discontented party the Puritan and took all occasions cunningly to promote a Rebellion For so it was that several years before the Civil War began he being looked upon at that time the Godfather of that Party had meetings of them in his house at Broughton where was a room and passage thereunto which his Servants were prohibited to come near and when they were of a compleat number there would be great noises and talkings heard among them to the admiration of those that lived in the house yet could they never discern their Lords Companions At other times he would be present at their meetings in the house of Knightley at Fawsley in Northamptonshire where as at other places in the Kingdom they had their Council Chambers and chief Speakers And what Embryo's were conceived in the Country were shaped in Greys-Inn-Lane near London where the Undertakers for the Isle of Providence did meet brought them to pass and put them out to Nurse in London In 1639 he was a great Favourer of the Scotch Covenant and had much correspondence with the Scotch Commissioners and when the Long Parliament began in 1640 for the continuance of which he perswaded as 't is said his Majesty to consent shewed himself soon after so active therein as in others before that he with Pym Hamden and Strode three of the five Members were esteemed Parliament-drivers or Swayers of all the Parliaments wherein they sat Whereupon his Majesty being fully satisfied that he was discontented as indeed he was for want of Offices he had ran himself much into debt he confer'd upon him the Mastership of the Court of Wards 17 May 1641 in the place of Francis Lord Cottington who some months before had given it up to please a new Favourite and admitted him to be one of his Privy Council But all this satisfying not he grew more active in the House when it was to be continued and when the King was forced from his Parliament to take up Arms in his own defence then did he cause his House at Broughton to be fortified for the use of the Parliament shewed himself an enemy to Prelacy to Archb. Laud an incliner to
a Republick and I know not what to advance himself In the month of Aug. the same year he was made Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the Parliament and was persuaded almost to fortifie the City of Oxon for their use and to make Bulstrode Whitlock sometimes of S. Johns Coll. then a Member of Parliament Governour thereof but for what reasons he could not be overcome it appears not At the same time he did endeavour to engage the People of the said County in a Rebellion not only at Oxon but afterwards at Woodstock where he did protest upon his honour after Edghill Fight that the King had neither men nor money nor arms but the Parliament had all these c. On the 27 of Dec. and 8 of Febr. in 1642 his Maj. published two Proclamations commanding all the Officers of the Court of Wards to attend him at Oxon but this Lord Say refusing to come was outlaw'd and attainted of Treason So that he being put out of his place and a new Seal made for the use of the said Court it was ordered then to remain in the custody of the said Francis Lord Cottington In 1646 the Court of Wards was taken away by the Parliament sitting at Westminster the Members of which did recompence the Lord Say for his loss as being Master with the sum of 10000 l and Sir Ben. Rudyard the Surveyour of the said Court with the sum of 6000 l and both with Lands from the Earl of Worcester's Estate In 1648 he shew'd himself a zealous enemy in the House against a personal Treaty with his Majesty and the same year was present with the Parliament Commissioners in the Isle of Wight when they treated in order for Peace with the King At which time this Lord Say did boldly urge to his Maj. a passage out of the three last and corrupted books of Mr. Rich. Hocker's Ecclesiastical Polity that tho the King was singulis major yet he was universis minor which was answer'd with great prudence and dexterity by his Maj. as may be elsewhere seen At that time the Kings Arguments concerning several matters did so much work upon him that at his return to London he sided with that party in the House that voted that the Kings Answers to the Propositions were a firm ground for them to proceed upon for a Peace After the King's death he altogether sided with the Independents as before he had done with the Presbyterians became great with Oliver who made him one of the other House that is House of Lords After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. at what time he had acted as a grand Rebell for his own ends almost 20 years he was rewarded forsooth with the honorable Office of Lord Privy Seal while others that had suffered in estate and body and had been reduced to a bit of bread for his Maj. cause had then little or nothing given to relieve them for which they were to thank a hungry and great Officer who to fill his own Coffers was the occasion of the utter ruin of many A person of the Lord Say's persuasion who had run with the times as he did purposely to raise a family saith that he was a person of great parts wisdom and integrity and another who was taken to be a Puritan in his time tells us that Say and Sele was a seriously subtil piece and always averse to the Court ways something out of pertinaciousness his temper and constitution ballancing him altogether on that side which was contrary to the wind so that he seldom tack'd about or went upright though he kept his course steady in his way a long time c. As for the things that he hath published the titles of them are these Several Speeches as 1 Two Speeches in Parliament One upon the Bill against the Bishops and the other touching the Liturgy of the Church of Engl Lond. 1641. in two sh in quart 2 Sp. in the Guildhall London 27 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1642. qu. This was spoken just after Edghill Fight to encourage the Citizens to raise more money to carry on the War At which time also were very earnest in their Speeches for that purpose Philip Lord Wharton Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Holland and Will. Strâ—de one of the 5 Members 3 Speech in Parliament against the Supremacy of the Bishops and their power in civil Affairs Lond. 1642. qu. This with the former against the Bishops were much applauded among the patriotical Party whose sense they spoke out to the full and were the core of the Canker bred in them against the Church These Speeches also did the Clergy take to be their chief reason of their several years of Persecution that followed and why they were banished from their Livings for fear forsooth they should preach the People then in a great manner deceived into obedience to the King After the War was ceased and no Malignants there were as he called the Cavaliers to oppose him he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Quakers with whom he was much troubled at or near Broughton and thereupon wrot certain books against them as I shall tell you by and by The Scots designe discovered relating their dangerous attempts lately practised against the English Nation with the sad consequence of the same Wherein divers matters of publick concernment are disclosed and the book called Truths manifest is made apparent to be Lies manifest Lond. 1653 qu. This is usually called Vindiciae veritatis or an Answer to a Discourse intit Truth it 's manifest c. Folly and madness made manifest Or Some things written to shew how contrary to the word of God and practice of the Saints in the Old and New Testament the doctrines and practices of the Quakers are c. Oxon. 1659. qu. This I think was printed before The Quakers reply manifested to be rayling or a pursuance of those by the light of the Scriptures who through their dark imaginations would evade the truth c. Oxon. 1659 60. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen At length this noble Author after he had spent 80 years mostly in an unquiet and discontented condition had been a grand promoter of the Rebellion which began in 1642 did die quietly in his bed but whether in conscience I cannot tell on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two whereupon his body was buried in Broughton Church among the graves of his Ancestors and had over it soon after a rich and costly monument erected more befitting a Hero than a Rebell He left behind him several sons living at the time of his death among whom James his eldest son was one who succeeding him in his Honours was made L. Lieutenant of Oxfordshire having always been reputed an honest Cavalier and a quiet man Nathaniel the second son whom I shall mention elsewhere c. ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in Academical Learning in Linc. Coll. as it seems but leaving the University
all of them with great respect save only by Archb. Abbot and William Earl of Exeter the first of which disliked the argument and the other snapped him up for a begging Scholar which he was after much asham'd of when it came to be known Soon after the said History was much impugned by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill which was as Heylyn saith full of most base and malicious calumniations both against the Person and Religion of the Author Whereupon his Maj. having received notice of it from Laud who had a copy of it sent to him from Oxon by Dr. W. Smith the Vicechancellour of that place and he from Hakewill to be approved before it was to go to the press commanded Heylyn to consider of the matter and withal sent him to Windsore to search into the records of the Order of the Garter there Which command he accordingly obeying occasioned a second edition of the said History an 1633 as I have before told you wherein he answer'd all Hakewills allegations letting pass his slanders Upon the coming out of which Heylyn heard no more of Hakewill till a second edition of his book of the supposed decay of nature entit An Apol. or Declaration of the Power c. wherein Heylyn found a retraction of the passages which concerned S. George About the same time Hakewill thinking better to sit silent than to come out with a reply yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what sentiments he had of the said second edition of The Hist of S. George in several letters sent abroad one of which speaketh thus In the second impression of his book The Hist of S. George where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers especially the Legendaries he magnifies them more and when he mentions our men he villifies them more than he did in his first edition But the matter is not much what he saith of the one or of the other the condition of the man being such as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or slander c. From the said Hist of S. George written by Heylyn is a little Pamphlet taken and stoln entit The Hist of that most famous Saint and Soldier S. George of Capadocia c. Lond. 1661 in 7. sheets in qu. Also another for the most part intit The Hist of the life and Martyrdome of S. George the titular Patron of England c. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh in qu. written in verse by Tho. Lowick Gent. And many things are taken thence also with due acknowledgment by E. Ashmole in his book of The Institutions Laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. An Essay called Augustus Printed 1632 since inserted into Heylyns Cosmography History of the Sabbath in two books Lond. 1636. qu. twice printed in that year Written to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided zealots who turned the observation of the Lords day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at About that time was published A letter to the Vicar of Grantham by Dr. Jo. Williams Bishop of Linc. against the Communion Table standing Altar-ways whereupon Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply entit A coal from the Altar or an answer to the Bishop of Lincolns letter to the Vicar of Grantham Lond. 1636. qu. To which the Bishop in a year after return'd an answer under this title The holy table name and thing c. pretending withal that it was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Qu. Maries raign whereupon Heylyn made a reply as I shall anon tell you Brief discourse in way of Letter touching the form of prayer appointed to be used by preachers before their Sermons Can. 55. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester in the year 1636 and afterwards printed in the first part of Ecclesia Vindicata Brief and moderate answer to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Hen. Burton late of Friday-street in two Sermons preached by him on the 5 of Nov. 1636 and in the Apologie set before them Lond. 1637. qu. Antidotum Lincolniense or an answer to a book entit The holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1637. 38. qu. Another answer came out against the said Holy Table c. entit Two looks over Lincolne or a view of his holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1641. in 4. sh and an half written by Rich. Day who stiles himself Minister of the Gospel yet seems rather to be an enemy to the Ceremonies of the Church In which book also Heylyns Coal from the Altar is sometimes animadverted upon An uniform book of articles to be used by all Bishops and Archdeacons in their Visitations Lond. 1640 qu. De jure paritatis Episcoporum MS. written 1640 upon a proposition in the Lords house whether Bishops should be of the Committee for the preparatory examinations in the cause of Tho. Earl of Strafford Printed afterwards and involved in his Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts Reply to Dr. Hakewills dissertation touching the sacrifice of the Eucharist Lond. 1641. qu. See more in George Hakewill under the year 1649. An help to English history containing a succession of all the Kings of England and the English Saxons the Kings and Princes of Wales c. As also of all the Archbishops Bishops Dukes Marquesses and Earles within the said dominions In three tables Lond. 1641 c. in oct Published under the name of Rob. Hall Gent. Several additions to this book were made by Christop Wilkinson a Bookseller living against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street London the first edition of which additions with the book it self came out in 1670. in oct with the name put to the book of Pet. Heylyn who made use of Dr. Franc. Godwins Commentarie of the Bishops of England in his succession of Archb. and Bishops and of Ralph Brook and August Vincent their respective Catalogues of the succession of Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls c. 'T is said also that in the same year 1641. our Author Heylyn wrot and published a book intit Persecutio Undecima c. Lond. 1641. 48. quarto 1681. fol. but finding no such thing in his Diary which I have several times perused I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was the Author History of Episcopacy in two parts Lond. 1642. qu. Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman This makes the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata c. Lond. 1657. qu. Historical narration of Liturgies c. written 1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata c. Relation of Lord Ralph Hoptons victory near to Bodmin in Cornwall on the 19 of Jan. 1642. Oxon. 1642 3. in one sh in qu. Brief relation of the remarkable occurrences in the northern parts viz. The landing of the Queens Majesty in the Bay of Burlington from Holland
Redeeming the time serm on Ephes 5.16 Lond. 1658. qu. Looking unto Jesus A view of the everlasting Gospel or the Souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation Lond. 1658. qu. Printed with the former In the penning of which he took most delight as being a subject as he complains almost wholly neglected by all others Warre with Devils Ministration of and Communion with Angells Printed also with the former At the end of this Treatise are subjoined two Letters the first written by Rich. Baxter dat at Lond. 29 Nov. 1661. and the other by Will. Cole dat at Preston 8 Oct. 1661. He hath also a Sermon extant preached at the funeral of the Lady Houghton which I have not yet seen nor others He died suddenly of an Apoplexy as I have heard but when I know not JAMES HEATH Son of Rob. Heath the Kings Cutler living in the Strand leading from London to Westminster was born I presume there educated in Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term 1646 aged 17 ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 lived afterwards upon his Patrimony and adhered to K. Ch. 2. in his Exile till it was almost spent and then married which hindred his restoration to his Students place in 1660. About that time having several Children he was forced to write books and correct the Press for bread to maintain them He was a good School-scholar had a command of his Engl. and Lat. pen but wanted a head for a Chronologer and was esteemed by some a tolerable Poet. He hath communicated to the World A brief Chronicle of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. Lond. 1661. oct enlarged by the Author and compleated from 1637 to 1663 in four parts Lond. 1663. in a thick octavo Some Copies have in them the pictures of the most eminent Soldiers in the said War which makes the book valued the more by some Novices But this Chronicle being mostly compiled from lying Pamphlets and all sorts of News-books are innumerable Errors therein especially as to name and time things chiefly required in History To this Chronicle is added a Continuation from the end of 1662 to 1675. by Joh. Philipps Nephew by the Mother to Joh. Milton Lond. 1676. fol. Which Continuation is mostly made up from Gazets Another Edit is continued to 1691. Elegy upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable Writer who deceased 15 of Aug. 1661. Lond. 1661. on one side of a sheet This Dr. Th. Fuller was Author of The Ch. Hist from the time of Christ till the year 1648 and and of divers other things The glories and magnificent triumphs of the blessed restitution of K. Ch. 2. from his arrival in Holland 1659 till this present c. Lond. 1662. in a large oct It reaches to the month of May 1661 and hath added to it the names of the then Companions of the Order of the Gaâ—ter the Nobility Archb. and Bishops Judges Baronets and the Marriage of Catherina of Portugal to K. Ch. 2. and their noble reception by the City of Lond. by water from Hampton Court to their Landing at Whitehall 23 Aug. 1662. Flagellum or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Ol. Cromwell the late Usurper Lond. 1663. The third Edit came out with additions at Lond. 1665. all in oct Elegy with Epitaph on the much lamented death of Dr. Sanderson late L. Bishop of Lincolne who deceased in the latter end of Jan. 1662. Lond. 1663. on one side of a sh of paper A new book of Loyal English Martyrs and Confessors who have endured the pains and terrors of death arraignment c. for the maintenance of the just and legal Government of these Kingdoms both in Church and State Lond. 1663. in tw Brief but exact survey of the Affairs of the United Netherlands comprehending more fully than any thing yet extant all the particulars of that Subject c. Printed in tw but when I know not for I have not yet seen it He died of a Consumption and Dropsie in Well-Close near to the Lame Hospital in the Parish of S. Barthelmew the Less in London on the 16 of August in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was the third day after buried in the Church of that Parish near to the Skreen-door leaving then behind him several Children to be maintained by the Parish as also the foundation of other matters which he intended to have published if life had been spared JOHN L'ISLE son of Sir Will. L'isle of Wootton in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire Knight was born there became a Communer of the upper Order of Magd. Hall in the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took a degree in Arts went to one of the Temples and at length became a Barrister and Counsellor of note In the year 1640 he was chose a Burgess for Winchester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13 of Apr. and again for the same place in that unhappy Convention that met on the 3 of Nov. following In which last Parl. he improved his interest to the purpose bought State lands good cheap was made Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester which belongs to a Divine upon the Ejectment of Dr. Will. Lewis which Office he voluntarily surrendring up into the hands of the Parliament in the latter end of June 1649 it was confer'd upon John Cook the then Sollicitor General In Dec. 1647 he was appointed one of the Commons to carry to his Maj. in the Isle of Wight the four Bills dethroning Bills and in Jan. 1648 was one of the Judges to condemn to death his said Majesty Soon after he was constituted a Member of the Council of State and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary and from that to Kingly again and did swear Oliver Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate contrary to the four Acts of Parliament which he helped to make with others that made it Treason so to do In 1654 he by the name of John L'isle one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal and Recorder of Southampton was chose Burgess for that place to serve in the Parliament which began 3 of Sept. the same year was afterwards taken out of the House to have a negative Voice in the other House that is House of Lords and made President of the High Court of Justice for a time by whose violence acted there fell many gallant and heroick Spirits some of which I am now about to mention He hath extant under his name Several Speeches as 1 Speech spoken in a common Hall London 3 Jul. 1645. concerning observations on the Kings Cabinet of Letters See more in Tho. Browne under the year 1673. 2 Speech while he was Pres. of the High Court of Justice at the pronouncing of sentence of death on Sir Hen.
by the death of Dr. Isaac Bargrave Dean of Canterbury Which being accordingly done as much as laid in the Arbishops power Mr. Reading did not receive any profit from it or from a Prebendship of Canterbury about that time bestowed on him because much opposed by Sir Nath. Brent Vicar-General In the month of July 1644 Sir Will. Brockman did freely bestow upon him the Parsonage of Cheriton in Kent and about the same time he was appointed by the Ass of Divines to be one of the nine Divines to write Annotations on the New Test Not long after upon the discovery of a plot for the taking of Dover Castle by the Cavaliers he was inhumanely seised on in a cold winter night in his house in Cheriton by the command of Major Boys Son of Sir Edw. before mention'd and hurried to Dover Castle and the next day sent to that of Leedes with many others of the Town of Dover Where continuing for some time he composed the book called The guide to the holy city At length being discharged from his imprisonment by the Committee of those parts they ordered also his Goods that had been plundered should be restored to him However Boys of Chilham a Sequestrator different from either of the former had money of him before he would part with them On the 10 of March 1650 he publickly disputed upon the receipt of a Challenge some days before with Sam. Fisher an Anabaptist in Folkston Church in Kent The subject of the debate was Whether all Christians indefinitely were equally and eternally obliged to preach the Gospel without ecclesiastical ordination or contrary to the commands of the civil Magistrate or to that purpose Fisher pleaded the affirmative fetching most of his Arguments from Jer. Taylors Discourse of the liberty of prophecying After the debate was ended our Author Reading thought himself obliged to answer several passages in the said book of Dr. Taylor which gave too great a seeming advantage to Fanaticism and Enthusiasm In the year 1660 May 25 about which time he was restored to his Cure at Dover he spake a short Speech to his Maj. Ch. 2 at his first landing there to take possession of those Kingdoms from whence he by a barbarous Usurpation had been ejected Which being done he presented to him a large Bible with gold Clasps in the name of the Corporation of Dover About that time he was restored to his Prebendship of Canterbury and Rectory of Chartham near it which he kept to his dying day He was in the opinion of many a severe Calvinist and one who had not only defended the irresistability of Grace in several Sermons in opposition to what Joh. Goodwin had delivered in the same Parish Ch. of S. Mary in Dover but in his oral disputes with Fisher the Anabaptist being then as zealous in disproving that mans tenet of Universal Redemption as he was in asserting Paedobaptism against Reading Farther since his Maj. return he did in a publick Sermon in the Cath. Ch. at Canterbury reprehend and disprove some doctrine to that effect which had been in the same place then lately delivered by Dr. Thom. Pierce Prebendary of that Church He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 A fair warning after sickness Lond. 1623. qu. 2 Job's hour a funeral Sermon at Dover 10 Mar. 1623. Lond. 1624. qu. 3 Moses and Jethro or the good Magistrate preached at S. Maries in Dover on the election day on Exod. 18.24 Lond. 1626. qu. 4 Davids soliloquy containing many comforts for afflicted minds in sundry sermons at S. Maries in Dover on Psal 42.11 Lond. 1627. in tw 5 Characters of true blessedness preached in the same Church 21 Sept. 1637 at the funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall wife of Anth. Percivall Esq on Psal 84.4.5 Lond. 1638. in tw dedic to the said Anthony then Captain of Arcliff Bulwark near Dover Comptroller for his Majesties Customs in Kent c. with several other sermons printed 1621. 1642. c. which I have not yet seen Brief instruction concerning the holy Sacrament for their use who prepare themselves to receive the Lords Supper Lond. 1645. oct A guide to the holy city or directions and helps to an holy life c. Oxon. 1651. qu. An antidote against Anabaptisme in a reply to the plea for Anabaptists Or animadversions on that part of Liberty of prophecying which in sect 18. p. 223. beareth this title A particular consideration of the opinions of the Anabaptists Lond. 1654. qu. In another title of this book which bears date 1655 it runs thus A particular answer to all that is alledged in favour of the Anabaptists by Dr. Jer. Taylor in his book called The liberty of prophecying In the 18 Section of which the Doctor hath mention'd more or things in more plausible terms than ever the Anabaptists have alledged for their own opinions Survey of the controverted points concerning 1 Infant baptism 2 Pretended necessity of Dipping 3 The dangerous practice of reâ—baptizing This was printed with the Antidote 1654. qu. and is sometimes called Anabaptisme routed c. An Evening sacrifice or prayers for a family in these times of calamity Speech made before K. Ch. 2. on the shore where he landed at Dover 25 May 1660. Lond. 1660. on one side of a sh of paper To which is added a Lat. copy of Verses with their English by Rich. Bradshaw This our Author Mr. Reading who had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in affliction surrendred up his last breath on the 26 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 30 of the said month in the chancel of his parish Church of Chartham near to Canterbury before mention'd leaving then behind him fit for the press 1 Several Sermons preach'd before the King 2 Comments on the whole Bible The former are in the hands of Joh. Reading his son living in Essex and the other in those of William another son living in Dover 3 A whip for sacriledge Written in answer to a Pamphlet of Anth. Parsons intit The great case of tithes This Whip is contained in 13 sheets and is now in the hands of Basil Kennet M. A. of the University of Dublin Rector of Dimchurch and Vicar of Postling in Kent 4 A Lat. MS. in fol. containing a large Comment Paraphrase and Explication on the whole New Testament dedic to General George Monke and sent to be printed at Lond. in 1666 but being prevented by the great fire that hapned there that year it was delivered into the hands of Dr. Wrenn Bishop of Ely and whether it be recovered from the hands of his heirs or executors I know not The said Mr. Kennet hath also another Tract concerning Proper sacrifice in vindication of Sir Edw. Deering from the attempts of a popish Priest or Jesuit but being imperfect 't was not design'd I presume by the Author Mr. Reading for the press WILLIAM THOMAS was born in a mercate Town in Shropshire called Whitchurch
became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vilâ—ains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ— to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at Justiceâ—Hall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga
a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines alias Fenys alias Fienes but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations he was pardoned and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March Nedham he was justified for what he had done as to that matter See more in the Works of W. Prynne Afterwards tho he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter yet he became an active man in the Parliament and was made a Commissioner in several matters But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them whereof he was one by Col. Tho. Pride he struck in with the Independents took the Engagement became great with Oliver a Member of all or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2 was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal after Oliver was installed L. Protector one of his Privy Council Lord Privy Seal in June 1655 a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords and tho before he had shew'd himself an Antimonarchist yet then when he saw what Oliver aimed at became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy purposely to gain honor and riches for the establishing a family which he and the rest of the godly party aimed at His Works are these Several Speeches in Parliament as 1 Speech in the House of Commons in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of Londons petition spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641 in 4 sh in qu. The beginning is Mr. Speaker two things have fallen into debate this day c. 2 Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subjects liberty against the late Canons and the new oath Lond. 1641. in tw sh and an half in qu. 3 Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland Lond. 1641. qu. 4 Speech containing unparallel'd reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mention'd and shews that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy 5 Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow 5 Aug. 1643 with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear Lond. 1643 in 3 sh and an half in qu. This was answer'd by Clem. Walker True and exact relation of both the â—â—ttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh the other at Worcester by Col. Browne Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others c. Lond. Nov. 9. an 1642. in two sh in qu. Letter to the Lord General Essex concerning Bristoll Lond. 1643. in 1 sh in qu. Reply to a Pamphlet intit An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes's relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. Other Speeches in Parl. as 1 Speech before his Highness Ol. Protector and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657 being the first day of their sitting Lond. 1657. in 3 sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament c. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an author a Legend or Romance intit Anglia rediviva being the Hist of the motions actions and successes of the Army c under Sir Tho. Fairfax c. published by Joshua Sprigge as I shall elsewhere tell you but how true that report is I cannot tell At length our Author Fiennes retiring after his Majesties return to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife Frances daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire continued there to the time of his death which hapning on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth who both died in the flower of their age This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John who was a Colonel for the Parliament and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords and tho a Sectary yet he was no great stickler notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel but more by old subtilty the Father Another there was who was the fourth brother named Richard of whom I know no great matter only that he had a daughter named Mary who was married to William the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes which Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676 was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry son of Sir Dav. Foulis of an antient family in Scotland Baronets was born at Ingleby Mannour in Clievland in Yorkshire educated in Grammar learning and in the Presbyterian way within the City of York became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully 6 June 1654 aged 16 years and thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1659 and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entring into holy orders he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclin'd to the study of certain parts of History he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty The products of which do evidently shew him to have been a true son of the Church of England a hater of Popery Presbytery and Sectarism He was endowed with a most happy memory understood books and the ordering of them so well that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius He had also in him a most generous and public spirit a carelesness of the world and things thereof as most bookish men have a most becoming honesty in his dealings a just observance of collegiate discipline and a hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time He hath written and published The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints the Presbyterians c. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674 both in fol. Which book tho full of notable girds against that party yet it hath been
1971. On the plank of black marble which covers the monument are the Armes of Bagshaw impaling the pretended Armes of Peacock the said Bagshaw having some years before his death taken to wife a virtuous and superannuated maid but perfectly blind named Margaret the daugh of John Peacock of Chawley in the parish of Comnore near Abendon in Berks but had no issue by her WILLIAM NICOLSON son of Christop Nicolson a rich clothier was born at Stratford near to Hadleigh in Suffolk on the first day of Nov. 1591 educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Madg. Coll being then choirester of that House Afterwards having made an entrance into the Logical Class he was made one of the Clerks took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 at which time I conceive he was Chaplain to Henry Earl of Northumberland then a prisoner in the Tower of London and Tutor to his son the Lord Percy But his cheif delight being exercised in the fac of Grammar and therefore noted by many for it he was made Master of the Free-School at Croydon in Surrey to which office he was admitted 3 Jul. 1616 in the place of one Robert Davys Bach. of Arts of Oxon then displaced for his frequent hunting with dogs and neglecting the School From that time to the beginning of 1629 he continued there doing great benefit by his instruction and then being succeeded by one Joh. Webb M. of A. of Madg. Hall our author retired into Wales where having a little before obtained the rectory of LLandilo-vaour or LLandellovar in Caermerthenshire was made soon after Residentiary of S. David and Archdeacon of Brecknock in the place of one Isaac Singleton in the beginning as it seems of the rebellion In 1643 he was elected one of the Ass of Divines but never as I conceive sate among them and soon after loosing his spiritualities he taught a private School in Caermerthenshire and by his writings defended and maintained the Church of England then exceedingly clouded against its Adversaries After the Kings restauration he was by the endeavours of Edward Earl of Clarerdon L. Chanc. of England designed Bishop of Glocester by his Majesty by vertue of whose letters he was diplomated Doct. or Div. in the beginning of Dec. 1660. and on the sixth of Jan. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster after it had laid void several years by the death of Godfrey Goodman Which Bishoprick he kept without any translation to another See to his dying day keeping in Commendam with it the Archdeaconry of Brecknock and the Rectory of Bishops-Cleeve in Glocestershire He was a right learned Divine well seen and read in the Fathers and Schoolmen but above all most excellent he was in the critical part of Grammar in which faculty none in his time or perhaps before went beyond him His writings which shew him to be a person of great erudition prudence modesty and of a moderate mind are these A plain but full exposition of the Catechisme of the Church of England enjoyned to be learned of every child before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop Lond. 1655. 61. 63. 71. qu. c. Apologie for the discipline of the antient Church intended especially for the Church of England Lond. 1659. qu. Exposition on the Apostles Creed delivered in several Sermons Lond. 1661. fol. An easie Analysis of the whole book of Psalmes Lond. 1662. fol. He died in the Bishops Pallace at Glocester on the fifth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried on the eigth day of the same month in a little isle joyning on the South side to the Virgin Maries Chappel in the Cathedral there Over his grave was afterwards a blew stone laid and on the wall near it a table of black marble erected with this inscription following in golden letters Aeternitati S. In spe beatae resurrectionis hîc reverendas exuvias deposuit Theologus insignis Episcopus verè primitivus Gulielm Nicolson in agro Suffolciano natus apud Magdalenenses educatus ob fidem Regi Ecclesiae affictae praestitam ad sedem Glocestrensem meritò promotus an 1660. In concionibus frequens in Scriptis nervosus legenda scribens faciens scribenda Gravitas Episcopalis in fronte emicuit pauperibus quotidianâ Charitate beneficus comitate erga Clerum literatos admirandus gloriae ac dierum satur in palatio suo ut vixit piè decessit Febr. 5. anno aetatis LXXXII Dom. MDCLXXI Elizabetha conjux praeivit in hoc sacello sepulta Apr. xx an Dom. MDCLXIII Owenus Brigstock de Lechdenny in Comitatu Caermerthen Armiger praedictae Elizabethae nepos hoc grati animi monumentum executore recusante propriis sumptibus erexit an MDCLXXIX The said Brigstock was Grandson to the said Elizabeth GRIFFITH WILLIAMS was born in the parish of Llanruc near to Caernarvon in Caernarvonshire educated in a private School in Caernarvon applyed his muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church in the latter end of 1603. aged 16 years but before he was honoured with a degree he left that House and by the perswasions of John Williams afterwards B. of Lincoln he removed to Cambridg where he prefer'd him to a Tutor patroniz'd him further'd his entrance into the Ministry and after he had attained to the degree of M. of A. got him to be Chaplain to Philip Earl of Montgomery being about that time also 1614. Parson of S. Bennet Sherhogg in London About the time that he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences he was made Parson of Lhan-Lhechid in Wales where he received good encouragement in the Ministry from Sir John Wynne Baronet and Sir Rich. Wynne his son and was infinitely admired for his excellent way in preaching and for his religious life and conversation He was then accounted a person very well read in scholastical and historical Divinity as also in the Fathers Schoolmen and Councils and therefore it was that he was made one of the Chaplains to K. Ch. 1. he being then D. D. In 1628 he became Prebendary of the eighth Stall in the collegiate Church of Westminster in the room of Dr. Laud who till then had kept it in commendam with his Bishopricks and in 1633 he was made Dean of Banger installed therein 28 Mar. 1634. and Archdeacon of Anglesy which Deanery had before been enjoyed by Edm. Griffith Afterwards he was designed to be Tutor to Pr. Charles but Archb. Laud commending to his Majesty Dr. Duppa for that Employment our Author Williams who had been Tutor to the Lord Charles Herbert Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery I mean that Charles who died at or near Florence an 1634. was then put aside to his great discontent In 1641 he was at the motion of his ever honored Lord the said Earl made to the King constituted Bishop of Ossory in Ireland to which See being consecrated
on the â—â— of Sept. in the same year had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause 〈◊〉 his Majesty and the first book that he wrot in his 〈◊〉 against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum c. for which he was fetch'd away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton where the Committee that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there had the said book in their hands Afterwards he retired to Oxon and printed his Discovery of Mysteries and on that very day he was preaching at S. Maries before the House of Commons the Soldiers from Northampton went and plunder'd his House and all his Houshold-stuff at Apethorp where his Wife and Children then resided and sequestred his Lands for the use of the Parliament The next winter following he wrot his Jura Majestatis and according to his poor abilities out of the means he had in Wales he gave unto his Majestys own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power Upon the the declining of the Kings cause this our author being then brought very low the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament but he refused it as he did also the importunat invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose Soon after he retired into Wales where for 12 years together as he saith having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means nor 20 l. per an in all the world to maintain himself and servants of any temporal estate he was forced to live upon a little Tenement for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann to Sir Gr. Williams and 4 l. Land per ann besides of his own So that he lived worse than a poor Curat with oaten-bread barley-bread buttermilk and somtimes water being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lusters of years He went attir'd in very mean cloaths as he farther adds and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House Garden and Cattel And all this he did as he said rather than accept of means benevolence or maintenance from the Usurpers Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church He then also perswaded as he had done before some of the Earl of Pembrokes children who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty altho their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament but they refused Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland while his Father was Protector of England offer'd him as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann if he or they would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry but he scorn'd that motion also as he farther tells us After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick Deanery and Archdeaconry but rose no higher or was translated to any other place because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation paying a small Rent to the Usurpers and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruine but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor Afterwards he retired into Ireland lived as privately as might be obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishoprick to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto The Works that he hath written and published are these The delights of the Saints A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace c. Lond. 1622. oct Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion Lond. 1627. qu. The true Church shewed to all men that desire to be members of the same in 6. books Lond. 1629. fol. The best religion wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least which he had formerly preached and mostly published besides some treatises among which is The delights of the Saints before mention'd Vindiciae Regum or the grand rebellion that is a looking glass for Rebels whereby they may see how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the heighth of their design c. Oxon. 1643. qu. The discovery of Mysteries or the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion c. Printed 1643. qu. Jura Majestatis the rights of Kings both in Church and State granted 1. By God 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth Oxon. 1644. qu. The only way to preserve peace Sermon at the publick fast 8. March at S. Maries in Oxon before the H. of Commons on Amos 5.6 Oxon. 1644. qu. The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single Person nor the succession of any one Monarch or Tyrant in any policy but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture c. Lond. 1660. fol. Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days to prevent the seven last vials of Gods wrath that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel 16. c. Lond. 1661. fol. The declaration of the just judgment of God 1. Upon our late Kings friends 2. Upon the Kings enemies that rebell'd and warr'd against him c. This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises c. Four Treatises suffering of the Saints burning of Sodom c. Lond. 1667. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The happiness of Saints on Joh. 20.26 Printed 1657. qu. 2 Gods war with the wicked Rebels and Murtherers on Isa 57.21 3 The property and prerogative of true Saints on Joh. 10.27.28 4 The monstrous murther of the most holy Jesus parallel'd to the murther of Kings on Acts 7.32 5 The four chief duties of every Christian man on 1. Pet. 2.17 6 The chiefest cause why we should love God on 1. John 4.19 7 The lively picture of these hard times on Jer. 14.10 8 The grand rebellion c. Psal 106.16 9 The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King that was his Master on 2. Kings 9.31 All these Sermons except the first with others were printed in folio an 1662. Other Sermons as 1 Description of the four Beasts explained in 4 Sermons on Rev. 4.8 Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The ejection of four devils on Matth. 17.21 Lond. 1664. qu. 3 The saving Serpent on John 3.14 Ibid. 1664. qu. 4 The monstrous murther of two mighty Kings on 2. Cor. 24.23 Ibid. 1665. qu. 5
restauration he lived in and near London a Nonconformist to his dying day being in high value for his edifying preaching among the Brethren in Conventicles Under his name are published Several sermons as 1 How we must govern our tongues on Ephes 4.29 'T is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Purgatory a groundless and dangerous doctrine on 1. Cor. 3.15 'T is the 24 sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. c. His Legacy being a discourse of the perfect man Lond. 1679. in a small oct 'T is grounded on Psal 37.37 At length this zealous person having preached twice to his congregation on the Lords day being then the 30. of January and finished his work departed this life in the night of the same day and went to his rest in the 41 year of his age in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was buried towards the West end of Tindals Cemetery commonly called the Fanatical burial place joyning to the New Artillery Yard or Garden near London Over his grave was soon after erected an Altar-monument of white stone built on a brick foundation with this inscription engraven thereon The Saint whose dust this stone doth hide Sung Epicedium first then dy'd His life he spent lost man to save And yet 's not silent in the grave Reader no more but underneath he lies Who whilst he liv'd th' world had one good one wise EDWARD TURNOUR son of Arthur Turnour of Little Parendon in Essex Serjeant at Law was born in Essex educated in Grammar learning partly under a private Tutor but chiefly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks. under Dr. Tho. Godwin the famous Schoolmaster there became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1632 aged 15 years where spending about 10 terms in Logicals and Philosophicals he afterwards retired to the Middle Temple applied himself severely to the studies of the Municipal Laws and took the usual degrees belonging thereunto After his Majesties restauration he became Attorney to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood was elected Speaker for the Parliament that began at Westminster 8. May 1661 afterwards made Solicitor Gen. to his Majesty Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer 1671 and the same year Serjeant at Law Under his name were printed Several speeches as 1 Sp. to the House of Commons when they chose him Speaker 8. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in one sh in fol. 2 Sp. to his Maj. when he was presented to him by the House of Com. to be their Speaker 10. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. sh in fol. 3 Sp. after the L. Chanc. had declared the Kings approbation of the choice of the H. of C. Lond. 1661. in 2. sh in fol. 4 Sp. to the King at the passing of the bill for confirmation of the Act of oblivion 8. July 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. or 2. sh in fol. 5 Sp. to the K. at the adjournment of the Parl. 30. July 1661. Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh in fol. 6 Sp. upon the Parliaments adjournment 20. Dec. 1661 Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh fol. In which Speech as 't is said he compared the restitution of our monarchy to the return of the tide after a very low ebb at which very time there hapned at London-bridge a very strange double tide which by the troublesome and factious party was looked upon as a prodigie 7 Sp. upon the Commons reasons and address presented to hiâ— Maj. 28. Feb. 1662. As also his report of the substance of his Majest gracious answer thereunto Lond. 1662. in two sh in fol. or thereabouts 8 Sp. to his Maj. representing the humble thanks of the H. for his gracious acceptance of their endeavours in the service of his Maj. and of the publick c. 17. May 1664. 9 Sp. to his Maj. and both Houses of Parl. at Oxon at the prorogation of the Parl. 21. Oct. 1665. Oxon. 1665. in fol. 10 Sp. to the Kings Majesty at the prorogation of the Parliam 8. Feb. 1666 Lond. 1666. in 2. sh in fol. or thereabouts These are all that I have seen besides several of his discourses in the trial of the Kings Judges an 1660 and therefore I have no more to say only that he the said Sir Edw. Turnour with Justice W. Ellis being appointed to go as Judges of the Assize for the Norfolk Circuit in the month of Feb in the Lent then ensuing died at Bedford on the fourth of March following in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body being conveyed to London laid there for some days in state After which he was dignâ pompâ carried to Little Parendon before mention'd and according to his own command he was inter'd in the Chancel of the Church there under the marble stone that covered the grave of his first Wife THOMAS GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652 p. 87. was born at Colmore in Hampshire mostly educated in the Charterhouse School near London admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 15. Mar. 1627 where making great progress in Log. Phil. and other learning he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he became Deputy Professor of the Arabick Lecture in the absence of Mr. Edw. Pocock an 1637 Bach. of Div. in 1641 Rector of Dunsby in Lincolnshire in the times of Usurpation and of another place near London had the degree of D. of D. confer'd upon him in 1661 and a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough in the place of Mr. Will. Towers deceased an 1666 being then Rector of Benyfield in Northamptonshire Which last he resigned some years before his death through trouble from his Parishioners who because of his slowness of speech and bad utterance held him insufficient for them and it notwithstanding he was a man of great learning His works are these De Linguae Arabicae utilitate praestantia oratio Oxonii habita 19. Jul. 1637. c. Ox. 1639. in 3. sh in qu. Observationes quaedam in Persicam Pentiteuchi versionem They are in the sixth Tome of Bib. Polyglot p. 48. Annotationes quaedam in Persicam interpretationem Evangeliorum In the said sixth Tome p. 56. Which annotations were translated into Lat. by Sam. Clerk This learned person Dr. Greaves did in his latter days retire to Weldon in Northamptonshire where he had purchased an Estate and dying there on the 22. of May in sixteen hundred seventy and six was buried in the Chancel of the Church at that place Over his grave was soon after a plain gravestone laid in the N. East corner of the said Chancel with this inscription thereon Thomas Gravius S. Th. D. Ecclesiae Petroburg Praebend vir summae pietaâ—is eruditionis in Philosophicis paucis secundus in Philologicis peritissimis par in Linguis Orientalibus plerisque major quarum Persicam notis in appendice ad Biblia Polyglotta doctissime illustravit Arabicam
Ap. 1646. and once as it seems before the Commons 30. July 1645 and his sermons without doubt were published but such I have not yet seen nor a little thing printed in tw going under the name of Thom. Ford entit The Anatomy of the times This Tho. Ford of Exeter died in the latter end of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried on the 28 day of the same month in the Church of S. Lawrence before mention'd near to the bodies of his Wife Bridget and several of his Children that had been there buried before him I find one Thomas Ford who entitles himself Philothal to be author of Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on our late K. Ch. 1. c. attended with several other pieces from the said pen viz. 1 A theatre of Wits being a collection of Apothegms 2 A century of familiar Letters 3 Loves Laberynth a Trag. Comedy 4 Fragmenta Poetica or poetical diversions concluding with a Panegyrick on his sacred Majesties return Lond. 1660. oct But whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot yet tell nor whether he was the same T. Forde who translated into English Lusus fortunae c. Lond. 1649. oct GEORGE DIGBY son and heir of John Digby Earl of Bristow was born in the City of Madrid in Spain in the month of Oct. 1612 made his first entry into Magd. Coll. 15. Aug. 1626 and was then entred a Noble man there At which time and so long as he continued there he was very familiar and held great correspondence with Pet. Heylyn Fellow of that House by whose directions and conversation he improved himself much in several sorts of learning In 1636 just after his Majest had left Oxon where he had been splendidly entertained by the members of the University and by the Archbishop at S. Johns Coll he was among other Persons of honor actually created Master of Arts being then esteemed a Person of good parts and in hopes to do the State service In the beginning of the Long Parliament of which he was a member he became one of the eminent Darlings of the People as being a Person discontented and therefore was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a charge against the most noble and eminently conspicuous Thomas Earl of Strafford 11. Nov. 1640 and appointed one of the managers of the evidence against him But upon a discovery of the unjust practices against him he became his Advocate tho all the advantage he got by it was that he lost his own esteem both among the House of Commons and among the Faction From that time he became their declared enemy by being a bold friend of truth and justice which he shewed in a Speech at the passing of the Bill of Attainder against the said Earl 21. Apr. 1641 ordered to be burnt as I shall tell you anon and therefore was posted up by some in the head of those called Straffordians He was also a friend to the Bishops and their function when both were called into question about that time and a zealous enemy to the Covenant All which do appear in speeches uttered in good language and sweetness On the 10. of June 1641. he was expell'd the House of Commons not only for exceptions taken by them for words spoken concerning an oath which Colonel G. Goring confessed he had taken to be secret to saying he was a perjur'd Person but because he was the day before made a Baron and introduced into the upper House the very same 10. of June In the beginning of January following he went on a message from his Maj. to Kingston upon Thames to certain Gentlemen there some say to give Coll. Tho. Lundsford a visit in a Coach with 6 horses and no other equipage with him save only a servant riding by him and a Companion in a Coach But his appearance there being represented to the Parliament as in a warlike manner and every Coach horse reckoned for a Troop the House of Commons made a complaint thereof on the 10. of the same month to the House of Lords Whereupon it being voted that he then took up Arms for his Majesty he was proclaimed Traitor banished and made the publick hatred of the Puritans or Presbyterians But the King soon after leaving the Parliament because of their desperate proceedings he drew by degrees many Lords and Commons after him together with this Lord from beyond the Seas and therefore he was excepted by the Parliament in a treaty of peace with the King at Oxon in the latter end of the year 1642. In 1643 he was made one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty and high Steward of this University in the place of Will Lord Say who adher'd to the Parliament and in the next year he would have been question'd for an Incendiary by the Parliament sitting at Oxon because of a Mutiny that hapned among the Soldiers of the Garrison there but it was dissolved before the members could do any thing in the matter In the latter end of 1645 he being then a stirring active man he went into Ireland where he did good service for his Majesty and underwent great hazards of his life but upon the declining of the Kings cause he left that place and on the 24. of Oct. 1648 he was exempted from pardon by the Parliament Afterwards upon the death of his Father he became Earl of Bristow and Knight of the Garter being then in exile beyond the Seas suffering much by the loss of his Estate After the Kings return he was restored to what he had lost and the year after was installed with others Knight of the said Order became a frequent Speaker in Parliaments and an enemy to Clarendon while he was Lord Chancellour Under his name were printed these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in Parl. 9. Nov. 1640. concerning grievances and a triennial Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Printed in the 1. vol. of John Nalson's Impartial Collection c. p. 505. 2 Speech in the H. of Com. to the bill of triennial Parliaments 19. Jan. 1640. Lond. 1641. qu. Remitted into the third part of Joh. Rushworth's Historical Collections 3 Sp. in the H. of Com. concerning Bishops and the City Petition 9. Feb. 1640. Lond. 1640. in 4. sh in qu. Remitted into the said 3d. part of Hist Coll. with other discourses of our author Digby This Sp. spoken 9. Feb. is called the L. Digby's third speech 4 Sp. in the House of Com. to the bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford 21. Apr. 1641. Lond. 1641. in two sh in qu. Remitted into John Rushworth's Trial of the E. of Strafford p. 50. and into Joh. Nalson's Impart Coll. vol. 2. p. 175. On the 13 of July following it was ordered by the H. of Com. that one part of the said speech should be publickly burnt on Friday after at 10. of the clock in the morn by the hands of the common hangman in the Pallace-yard at Westminster and another part
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in â—â— a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street Coventâ—Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of Eastâ—Lavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hyghâ—Wycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on thâ— ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years choâ—e probationerâ—fellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
of another because Byrd had been dead several years before Whereupon Charnock began anew with the help of a servant and again by himself alone in which work continuing 9 months which was within a month of his reckoning the Crows head began to appear black but a War being proclaimed against the French an 1557 and he thereupon by the malice of a Gentleman who was his neighbour prest for a Soldier his operations were frustrated and all cast aside On the first of January the same year he began to write The Breviary of natural Philosophy and on the 20. of July following he ended it In the title and end of which he stiles himself an unlettered Scholar and Student in the most worthy science of Astronomy and Philosophy This Breviary is written in old English verse which in the next Century coming into the hands of the most renowned Mercuriophilus Anglicus who sometimes writes himself James Hasolle Elias Ashmole was among other authors of the like nature published by him under this title Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum In 1562 Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-Bristow four miles from Bridgwater in Somersetshire being then or soon after setled there but afterwards at a place called Comadge and in the year after he buried Absolon his Son In 1566 he finished his book called The principal rules of natural Philosophy figuratively set forth to the obtaining of the Philosophers stone In which year also he dedicated a book of The Science to Qu. Elizabeth and dated the Rolle at Stockland as he himself saith which Rolle is written in Latine being the same I presume with the Emblematical Scrowle supposed to be invented by George Ripley the inside of which was composed as Charnock says by a great Master of the Hermetick Philosophy and written by a Master of his pen. Some notes in the void spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand which shew that he did not or at least throughly understand it In 1572 he wrot the Poesie of the Rolle which Rolle seems to me to have been a kind of a Vade mecum or a Manual that the Students of the Hermetick Science carried about with them and also to be taken from Raymandus Lullius The same year he wrot Aenigma ad Alchimiam and Aenigma de Alchimia both in English Verse and printed in Theat Chem. before mention'd In 1573 he wrot as himself saith the fragment Knock the Child on the head See Theat Chem. pag. 425 and in the year after he confessed that he never saw The white ferment to the red till the fiftieth year of his age In 1576 appeared The difficulty of the Philosophical number in the Rolle This Rolle so often mentioned is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge before mention'd where for his Studies and carrying on of his Operations he made a little room and contrivance for the keeping his Work and so ingeniously ordered that no accident of fire could befall him as it did on New-years day 1555. It joyns as a Closet to that which was his Chamber to make a Servant needless and the work of giving attendance more easie to himself On the door was drawn by his own hand with course Colours but rudely an Emblem of his Work So likewise about the walls in his Chamber are several pieces of his painting differing from each other some of which are obscure and almost woren out Several fragments written by him are published in the said Theat Chem Brit. but therein are omitted Charnocks Poesie upon the white and red rose and verses on the Philosophers Dragon which eateth up her owne tale c. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt to nature in his house at Comadge and was buried within the precincts of the Church at Otterhampton near to Bridgwater 21. Apr. 1581. HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry Marten son of Sir Hen. Mart. mention'd among these writers under the year 1641 p. 4. was born within the City of Oxford particularly as I conceive in the parish of S. John Bapt in an house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church then lately built by Hen. Sherburne Gent. and possess'd at the time of Harry's birth by Sir Henry his father After he had been instructed in Grammar learning in Oxon he became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in the beginning of 1617 aged 15 years where and in public giving a manifestation of his pregnant parts had the degree of Bach. of Arts confer'd upon him in the latter end of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the Inns of Court travelled into France and at his return his father found out a rich wife for him whom he married somthing unwillingly and therefore afterwards living a part from her and following other creatures she was for sometime distemper'd In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected one of the Knights of Berks to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr and again tho not legally in Oct. to serve in that unhappy Parliament that began at the same place on the 3. of Novemb. following In which last Parliament he shew'd himself out of some little pique the most bitter enemy against the K. in all the House as well in action as speech for which being first reprimanded while the Presbyterians swayed therein was afterwards for the incontinence of his tongue committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but soon after released He was an enemy also to the Kingly Office and all belonging thereunto especially the Regalia which he caused to be sold for being authorized by the said Parliament about 1642 he forced open a great iron Chest within the College of Westminster and thence took out the Crown Robes Sword and Scepter belonging antiently to K. Edw. the Confessor and used by all our Kings at their inaugurations and with a scorn greater than his lusts and the rest of his vices he openly declared that there should be no further use of those toyes and trifles c. And in the jollity of that humour he invested George Wither an old puritan Satyrist in the royal habiliments who being crown'd and royally arrayed as well right became him did first march about the room with a stately garb and afterwards with a thousand apish and rediculous actions exposed those sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter Had the abuse been stript and whip'd as it should have been the foolish fellow possibly might have passed for a Prophet tho he could not be reckoned for a Poet. The said H. Marten was a taker of all Oaths whether that of Allegiance Covenant Engagement c. The last of which being by him taken he would by all means as the Independent Gang did make the Covenant an old Almanack out of date to the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of preserving his Majesties person and authority c. as the Presbyterians would with regret frequently say He was also an eager enemy against Lords Gentry Lawyers and Clergy and a
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
Presbyterian Plot was discovered to bring into England K. Ch 2. an 1651 at which time Chr. Love who was the chief man in that Plot and our Author Case another were to be brought to their Trial. The Sermon is all for revenge of blood innocent blood spilt and 't is in a most high and desperate manner a downright provocation to do justice upon Delinquents that is Cavaliers or those that adhered to the King to spare not one of them living c. 5 The quarrel of the Covenant with the pacification of the quarrel in 3 Sermons on Lev. 26.25 and on Jer. 50.5 Lind. 1644. qu. 6 The vanity of vain glory funeral Sermon at the burial of Kingsmyll Lucy on 1 Cor. 1. ver 29. with 31. Lond. 1655. in tw 7 Sensuality dissected Serm. before divers Citizens of London born in Kent Lond. 1657. qu. 8 Eliahs abateman or corruption in the Saints Sermon at the funeral of Walt. Roswell M. A. at Chatham in Kent on Jam. 3.17 Lond. 1658. in tw 9 Serm. on Prov. 31.19 Lond. 1658 oct 19 Fun. Serm. on Malack 3.17 Lond. 1659. qu. 11 Farewell Sermon at Barthelmewtyde on Rev. 2.5 Lond. 1662. oct 12 How the Sabbath ought to be Sanctifyed on Isa 58.13.14 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 'T is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate 13 Sermon on 2. Tim. 1.13 preached in the Morning Exercise at S. Giles in the feilds in May 1659 which Serm. is extant in a book entit The morning Exercise methodized published by our author Case with his Epistle before it Lond. 1676 qu. Besides these and other Sermons which I have not yet seen he hath published The Morning Exercise or some short notes taken out of the Morning Sermons which divers Ministers of the Gospel in the City of Lond. preached at S. Giles in the fields in the month of May 1655. Lond. 1655. in tw Imitation of the Saints opened in practical meditations Lond. 1666. qu. Mount Pisgah or a prospect of heaven Being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first Epistle of S. Paul to the Thess from the 13 verse to the end of the chapt Lond. 1670. qu. Dedicated to Sir Rob. Booth L. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland whose Mother the author Case had married Correction instruction or a treatise of afflictions first conceived by way of privat meditations after digested into certain Sermons Lond. 1671. in tw At length after our author had lived in continual agitation for carrying on the cause he professed died in sixteen hundred eighty and two whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Church called Christ Church within Newgate in London and had soon after laid over his grave a large white stone just below the steps going to the altar with this Inscription thereon Heic molliter dormit Thomas Case fideliss Jesu Christi Minister in hâc urbe alibi perquam plurimos annos egregius Concionator In Aede Christi Oxon educatus in hoc templo Christi tandem sepultus Obiit 30. Maii an aetatis 84. annoque Domini 1682. BENJAMIN NEEDLER son of Tho. Needl of Lanum in Middlesex was born in that County elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merch. Taylors School an 1642. aged 18 years afterwards fellow and a cringer to the Presbyterian Visitors of the University in 1648 by submitting to their power and accepting of by way of Creation the degree of Bach. of the Civ Law Whether he afterwards took orders from a Bishop I know not sure I am that he being a well gifted brother for praying and preaching he was some years after made Minister of Margaret Moses in Friday street within the City of London where continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity an 1662. He hath written Expository notes with practical observations towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Genesis delivered by way of Exposition in several Lords dayes Exercises Lond. 1655 in a large oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Math. 5.29.30 'T is the third Serm. in the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate preached in Sept. 1661. Lond. 1661. qu. 2 Serm. on Math. 4.10 'T is the thirteenth Serm. in the Morning Exercise against Popery preached in Southwark c. Lond. 1675. qu. 3 The Trinity proved by Scripture Serm. on 1. Joh. 5.7 in the Morning Exercise Methodized c. preached in S. Giles in the fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. What other things goe under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Northwarnborough in Hampshire where for some years he had exercis'd his function in privat in the month of May or June in sixteen hundred eighty and two was according to his will as I presume buried frugally in some Church yard I think in that of Northwarnborough before mention'd At which time he left behind him a son called Culverwell Needler another named Benjamin and a Brother in Law called Rich. Culverwell Minister of Grundesburgh HENRY MUNDY was born in a Market Town called Henley in Oxfordshire became one of the Portionists of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the rebellion took one degree in Arts in 1647 and kept pace with the interrupted times to enjoy some petit employment In 1656 May 20 he was elected Master of the Free-Grammar School at Henley before mention'd which being well endowed and replenish'd with Scholars was very beneficial to him At length following the practice of Physick it fell to decay and had not death prevented Justice he would have been ejected He hath written and published Commentarii de aere vitali 2 De esculentis 3 De potulentis cum corallario de perergis in victu Oxon. 1680. in a large oct He died by a fall from his horse in his return to Henley from the house of John Lord Lovelace at Hurley on the 28. of June in sixteen hundred eighty and two aged about 58 years and the next day his body was buried in the North Chancel of the Church at Henley In the said School succeeded Dan. Ashford M. A. and Vice-Pr of Hart Hall somtimes of Wadh. Coll. who by his industry and vigilancy made it flourish PHILIPP HUNTON son of Ph. Hunt of Andover in Hampshire was born in that County became either Batler or Servitour of Wadham Coll. in Lent terme 1622 of which House he was afterwards Scholar and Master of Arts. At length entring into the sacred function he became successively Schoolmaster of Aburie in Wilts Minister of Devises afterwards of Hatchbury and in fine of Westbury in the said County and as Minister of the last place he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians Independents and other factious people called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654. In the beginning of the year 1657 he was appointed the first Provost of the new College at Durham erected by
of Boston 9 Oct. 1663 at the Archd. Visitation on Isa 16.13 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 Elohim or God and the Magistrate on Psal 82.6 Ibid. 1663. qu. c. In 1674 our author Howe accumulated the degrees in Divinity became much respected for his learning in Lincolnsh and dying in the winter time in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in his Church at Boston before mentiond I find one Will. Howe to have been Minister of Gedney in Linc. a grand Presbyterian and Independent in the time of Oliver but what he hath written I know not Since I wrot this I find one O. H. Minister of the Gospel to have written Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations on Col. 1.12 c. Lond. 1690. in tw Designed for a funeral Legacy by the said O. H. but whether the same with Ob. Howe I know not Qu. HENEAGE FINCH the eldest Son of Sir Heneage Finch of Kensington in Midd. Kt Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London by Frances his Wife Dau. of Sir Edm. Bell of Beaupre in Norfolk Kt was born in Kent particularly I presume at Eastwell on the 23. of Dec. 1621 educated in Westminster School became a Gent. Communer of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1635 continued there two or three years went to the Inner Temple where by his sedulity and good parts he became a noted proficient in the municipal Laws was successively Barrester Bencher Treasurer Reader c. In 1660 on the 6 of June he was made Sollicitor general to his Majesty and on the day after being then a Knight he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Sir Heneage Finch of Raunston in Buckinghamshire The next year he was Autumn or Summer Reader of the Inner Temple choosing then to read upon the Statute of 39. Elizab. concerning The payment and recovery of the debts of the Crown which Statute tho ever seasonable and then most necessary was never before read upon as 't was then reported by any but himself The reading and entertainment lasted from the 4th to the 17 of Aug. The former was with great strength of reason depth of Law and admirable sense and the other with as great variety as could be imagined carried on The first days entertainment was of divers Peers of the Realm and Privy Counsellors with many others of his noble friends The second of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London The third which was two days after the former of the whole College of Physitians who all came in their caps and gowns The fourth was of another long robe for all the Judges and Advocates Doctors of the Civil Law and all the Society of Doctors Commons The fifth was of the Archbishops Bishops and chief of the Clergy and the last which was on the 15 of Aug. was of the King Duke of York Lord Chancellour most of the Peers and great Officers or Court the Lords Commissioners of Scotland and Ireland c. In Apr. the same year 1661 he was chosen Parliament man for this University but did us no good when we wanted his assistance for the taking off the tribute belonging to Hearths In 1665 after the Parliament then sitting at Oxon had been prorogued he was created in a full Convocation Doctor of the Civil Law he being then one of the four members of Parliament that had communicated the thanks of the honorable H. of Commons lately sitting in the said Convocation House to the members of the University for their Reasons concerning the solemn League and Covenant negative Oath c. made 1647. Which creation being concluded in the presence of several Parliament Men besides the said four the Vicechancellour stood up and spoke to the publick Orator to do his office Whereupon he making a most admirable harangue said among other things to this effect that the University wished they had more Colleges to entertain the Parliament men and more Chambers but by no means no more Chymneys c. at which Sir Heneage changed his countenance and drew a little back In 1670 he was constituted the Kings Attorney General and upon the removal of Shaftesbury from being Lord Chancellor he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 9. Nov. 1673. Shortly after which he was advanced to the degree of a Baron of this realm by the title of Lord Finch of Daventre in Northamptonshire and upon his surrender of the Great Seal to his Majesty on the 19. of Dec. 1675 he received it immediatly back again with the title of Lord high Chancellor of England In the most boisterous and ticklish times when the swoln waves beat highest occasion'd by the Popish Plot he behaved himself with so regular exactly pois'd and with such even steadiness whilst others whose actions not being so justly ballanced either were discharged from their Offices or else they themselves by an ungenerous cowardise voluntarily resign'd them up as unwilling manfully to encounter approaching difficulties of which they pretended to have prospects that he still stood firm in the good opinion of his Prince and which is more to be admired at that time when many worthy Ministers of State were by the malice of designing men branded with the old infamous character of Evil Counsellours in order to have them to be run down and worried by the violent outrages of the unthinking giddy and head-strong multitude During all which time and clamour against persons which continued from Oct. 1678. to the beginning of the year 1681 after the Oxford Parl. was dissolved he was neither bandied against or censur'd in the more private seditious Cabals nor was his Master publickly addressed to for his removal In 1681. May 14 or thereabouts he was created Earl of Nottingham as a mark of the great satisfaction his Majesty had in the many faithful services which his Lordship had rendred the Crown being then a person of so eloquent and fluent speech and of so great sapience that he was usually stiled the English Roscius and the English Cicero A noted author tells us that his great parts and greater vertues are so conspicuous that it were a high presumption in him to say any thing in his commendation being in nothing more eminent than in his zeal for and care of this Church of England See his character most excellently described under the name of Amri in the second part of a poem entit Absalom and Achitophel Lond. 1682. first edit p. 30. Under the name of this worthy person are published Several speeches and discourses in the trial of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. He being then Sollicitor General See in the book entit An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment arraignment trial and judgment according to Law of 29 Regicides c. Lond. 1660. qu. 1679. oct Speeches to both Houses of Parliament 7. Jan. 1673 13. of Apr. and 13. Oct. 1675. 15. Feb. 1676. 6. March 1678 and 30. of Apr. 1679. These were spoken while he was Lord
relating only to himself in the margin of the Preface before his Body of Divinity Lond. 1674. fol. What other books our author Durell hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that dying on Friday the 8 day of June about 8 of the clock at night in sixteen hundred eighty and three was buried on the 12 day of the same month about the middle of the north isle joyning to the choire of the Chap. oâ— Ch. of S. George within the Castle at Windsore in a small Vault of brick built for that purpose and intended for his wife also after her decease Soon after was a flat black marble stone laid with a little inscription thereon containing his name title and obit as also his age when he died which was 58. In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Franc. Turner and in his Prebendship of Durham Dr. Jo. Montague Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Brother to the present Earl of Sandwych WILLIAM BELL was born in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London on the 4 of Feb. 1625 educated in Merch. Taylors School elected Scholar of St. Johns Coll. in 1643 afterwards Fellow but in 1648 ejected thence by the Visitors appointed by Parliament he being then Bach. of Arts and well skill'd in the practical part of Musick Afterwards he lived in several places as opportunity served was in France an 1649 and about 1655 he had a small benifice in Norfolk confer'd on him but could not pass the Triers When his Majesty was restored in 1660 he became Chaplain in the Tower of Lond. to Sir Joh. Robinson Lieutenant thereof and in the year after he was actually created Bach. of Divinity In 1662 he was presented by the President and Society of S. Johns Coll. to the Vicaridge of S. Sepulcher in London void by the Nonconformity of Tho. Gough sometimes of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who died 29 Oct. 1681 aged 77 years and in 65 he was made Prebendary of S. Pauls Cathedral by Dr. Henchman Bishop of London In 1667 he had the Archdeaconry of S. Alban confer'd upon him by the said Bishop was the same year sworn Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and in 1668 he proceeded Doctor of his faculty and was for his eminence in preaching made soon after one of the Lecturers of the Temple c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 City security stated preached at S. Pauls before the Lord Mayor on Psal 127. latter part of the first vers Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Joshuahs resolution to serve God with his family Recommended to the practice of the Inhabitants of S. Sepulchers Parish from 24 of Josh 15. latter part Lond. 1672. qu. sec edit 3 Serm. preached at the funeral of Mr. Anth. Hinton late Treasurer of S. Barthelmews Hospital 15 Sept. 1678 at S. Sepulchers Lond. 1679. qu. He the said Dr. Bell was buried in the Chancel of S. Sepulchers Church before mentioned on the 26 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and three leaving then behind him a precious name among his Parishoners for his Charity Preaching and other matters of which they could not speak enough and was soon after succeeded in the said Vicaridge by Edw. Waple Bac. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon. On the marble stone which covers the said Dr. Bell's grave I find this written M. S. Heic jacet Gulielmus Bell SS Theologiae Professor Ecclesiae hujus Pastor vigilantissimus vir optimus ingens Ecclesiae Anglicanae ornamentum si primaevam spectes pietatem faelicissimum ingenii acumen morum suavitatem integritatem partibus regiis inconcussam fidelitatem vel charitatem denuo vix imitabilem Nec plus dicere decorum nec fas minus I tu fac similiter Pientissimam exhalavit animam Julii 19. an Chr 1683. aetatis 58. As for Th. Gough before mentioned who was D. D. he was buried in the Church of S. Ann Blackfriers 4 Nov. 1681 at which time Dr. Joh. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury preached his funeral sermon which with an account of his life therein being extant you may if you please satisfie your self more of the person who as t is said did translate several things into Welsh as the Bible Whole duty of man A catechisme c. Besides the said Will. Bell I find another of both his names Master of Arts and late preacher of the word at Hyton in Lancashire author of The excellency necessity and usefulnes of patience As also of The patience of Job and the end of the Lord or the glorious success of gracious suffering opened and applyed Both which were printed at Lond. 1674 in oct with a pteface to them written by Mr. Rich. Baxter Which Will. Bell who was a Nonconformist and living at Sinderland in the Parish of Ashton-Underline in Lancashire in June 1668 I take to be the same with him who was author of 1 Well doing well done to Serm. on Jer. 22.15 Printed 1650. qu. 2 Enucks Walk on Gen. 5.24 Printed 1658. oct 3 Incomparable company keeping or a conversation on earth in heaven Pr. in oct Whether this Will. Bell be the same W. Bell son of Joh. Bell of Chigwell in Essex who was matriculated in this University as a member of Ch. Ch. an 1634 aged 17. years but took no degree there I know not Quaere JOHN BARNARD or Bernard the son of a father of both his names Gent was born in a Market Town in Lincolnshire called Castor educated in the Grammar School there whence going to Cambridg he became a Pensioner of Queens Coll and thence journying to Oxon to obtain preferment from the Visitors there appointed by Parliament in the latter end of 1647 was actually created Bach. of Arts in the Pembrokian creation 15. Apr. 1648 and on the 29 of Sept. following he was by order of the said Visitors then bearing date made fellow of Linc. Coll. In 1651 he proceeded in Arts and about that time became a preacher in and near Oxon. At length wedding the dau of Dr. Pet. Heylyn then living at Abendon became Rector of a rich Church in his own Country called Waddington near Lincoln the perpetual advowson of which he purchased and held for some time with it the Sinecure of Gedney in the same County After his Majesties restauration he conformed and not only kept his Rectory but was made Preb. of Asgarby in the Church of Lincoln In 1669 he took the degrees in Divinity being then in some repute in his Country for his learning and orthodox Principles He hath written Censura Cleri or against scandalous Ministers not fit to be restored to the Churches livings in point of prudence piety and fame Lond. 1660 in 3 sh in qu. This was published in the latter end of 1659 or beg of 1660 to prevent such from being restored to their Livings that had been ejected by the Godly party an 1654. 55 c. His name is not set to this pamphlet and he did not care afafterwards when he saw how
Stilling fleets Irenicum c. against his late Sermon entit The mischief of separation against the author of The Christian temper said to be written by John Barret M. of A. in a Letter to a friend I say the respective characters of these five answers to Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon before mention'd together with that of The peaceable design renewed c. wrot by John Humphrey with which Dr. Stillingfleet begins first are to be found in the preface to the said Doctors Unreasonableness of separation c. Which characters as are thus given are reflected on by a short piece entit Reflections on Dr. Stillingfleets book of the unreasonableness of separation Lond. 1681. qu. Written by a Conformist Minister in the Country in order to peace The nature and efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ as typed by all the sacrifices of the Law the erection of the Tabernacle according to the heavenly pattern with the institution of all its utensils and services their especial signification and end c. Lond. 1681. An enquiry into the original institution power order and communion of Evangelical Churches the first part Lond. 1681. qu. Answer to a Discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Stillingfleet Printed with the Enquiry Discourse of the work of the holy spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and formes Lond. 1681. oct An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful Churches and Nations or the only way to deliver a sinful Nation from utter ruin by impendent judgments in a discourse on Luke 13.1 2. 3. 4. 5. Lond. 1681. oct Printed with the Discourse of the work c. The grace and duty of being spiritually minded declared and practically improved Lond. 1681. 82. qu. This is the sum of certain of Sermons A brief instruction in the Worship of God and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers Lond. 1682. oct c. Meditations and discourses on the Glory of Christ in his person office and grace with the difference between faith and sight applyed to the use of them that believe Lond. 1683. 84. c. oct Opus Posth Treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sins reign is discovered in whom it is and in whom it is not how the law supports it how grace delivers from it by setting up its dominion in the heart Lond. 1688. oct The true nature of a Gospel Church and its government wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled 1. The subject matter of the Church 2. The formal cause of a particular Church 3. Of the policy of the Church in general c. Lond. 1689. qu. Afterwards came out certain Animadversions on the said book but by whom written I cannot tell A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the World its strength and weakness with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its publick national profession Lond. 1690. qu. Continuation or the second part of that book formerly printed the difference between faith and sight being the meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto converted sinners and Saints under spiritual decays in two chapters from John 17.24 Lond. 1691. oct Our author Dr. Owen with Dr. Tho. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Dr. Jo. Collings Mr. Pet. Vinke Joh. How Dav. Clarkson and Ben. Alsop did undertake in June 1682 to finish the English Annotations of the Holy Scripture in 2. vol. in fol. which were began by Matthew Pole or Poole and carried on by him to the 58 chapt of Isaiah and there is no doubt but that Owen did his share in that work who also hath written prefaces and epistles before divers books by way of recommendation among which are his and Dr. Tho. Goodwins epist before Dr. T. Taylors works A preface also to the Exposition of the song of Solomon written by Jam. Durham sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Glascow Printed 1669. in qu. An Epist commend with another by Mr. Baxter to The Christians dayly walk in holy security and peace written by Hen. Scudder Printed 1674. the eleventh edit An ep by way of recom to A new and useful concordance of the Holy Bible c. Another before The Ark of the Covenant and a large preface to The true Idea of Jansenisme as I have already told you in Theoph. Gale c. But as for Jo. Bradshawes Ultimum vale being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him as they were delivered in a Sermon preach'd at his interment printed in two sh in qu. and said to be written by John Owen D. D. Time-server general of England is not his but fathered upon him by one who desired then to make sport in the great City At length he the said Dr. Owen having spent most of his time in continual agitation to carry on the cause to promote his own interest and gain the applause of people he did very unwillingly lay down his head and die at Eling near Acton in Middlesex on S. Barthelmews day in sixteen hundred eighty and three having a little before been knowing of and consenting to the Presbyterian Plot that was discovered some time before his death Whereupon his body was conveyed to a house in S. James's where resting for some-time was on the 4. of Sept. following attended by about 20 mourners and 67 coaches that followed to the Fanatical burying-place called by some Tyndales Burying-place joyning on the North side to the New Artillery-garden near London where it was buried at the East end thereof Soon after was an Altar-tomb of freestone erected over his grave covered with a black marble plank with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus Johannes Owen S. T. P. Agro Oxoniensi oriundus patre insigni Theologo Theologus ipse insignior seculi hujus insignissimis annumerandus Communibus humanarum literarum suppetiis ménsura parum communi instructus omnibus quasi ordinata Ancillarum serie suae jussis familiari Theologiae c. Obiit Augusti 24. anno à partu virginio 1683 Aetat 67. Besides this John Owen I find another of both those names Chaplain to Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen author of Immoderate mourning for the dead prov'd unreasonable and unchristian c. Sermon on 2. Sam. 12.21.22.23 Lond. 1680 in oct and perhaps of other things WILLIAM GUISE or Guisius as in his book following he is written Son of John Guise was born of a knightly family living at Abloads Court near to Glocester in Glocestershire became a Communer of Oriel Coll. an 1669 aged 16 years afterwards Fellow of that of All 's Master of Arts and in holy Orders In 1680 he resign'd his Fellowship being about that time married and in great esteem for his Oriental learning but soon after cut off
by the small pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of Astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turn'd into Lat. and illustrated with a Commentary entit Misnae pars ordinis primi Zeraim tituli septem Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the translation into Latine by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonides praefatio in Misnam Mr. Guise died in his House in S. Michaels Parish in Oxford on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in that Chancel called the College Chancel in St. Michaels Church within the said City Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his Widow named Frances Daughter of George Southcote of Devonshire Esq with an inscription thereon beginning thus MS. Gulielmi Guise Equestri apud Glocestrenses familia orti è Coll. Oriel in Coll. Omn. Anim. asciti Linguar praecipue Orientalium peritissimi Critici Rhetoris Mathemat Theologi in omnibus adeò eximii ut raro quisquam in singulis in juventute ut raro quisquam in senio quem ne perfectionis humanae apices transiret c. HENRY BOLD fourth Son of Will. Bold of Newstead in the Parish of Buriton in Hampshire sometimes Capt. of a Foot company descended from the antient and gentile family of the Bolds of Bold-hall in Lancashire was born in Hampshire elected Probationer-fellow of New Coll. from Winchester School 1645 or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 and afterwards going to the great City became a member of the Examiners office in Chancery and excellent at translating the most difficult and crabbed english into latine verse He hath written Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique c. Lond. 1664. oct Ded. to Col. Hen. Wallop of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton and to The ingenious he saith thus If thou wilt read so if not so it is so so and so farewell Thine upon liking H. B. Among these Poems is Scarronides or Virgil Travestie c. He hath also written Latine Songs with their English and Poems Lond. 1685. oct Collected and perfected by Capt. Will. Bold his Brother This Hen. Bold died in Chancery-lane near Lincolns inn on the 23. of Oct. being the first day of the Term in sixteen hundred eighty and three aged 56 or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Twyford West Twyford near Acton in the County of Middlesex I shall make mention of another H. Bold in the Fasti an 1657. WILLIAM SCROGGS son of Will. Scroggs was born in a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Dedington became a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 aged 16 years but soon after was translated to that called Pembroke where being put under the tuition of a noted Tutor became Master of a good Latine stile and a considerable Disputant Soon after tho the Civil War broke forth and the University emptied thereupon of the greatest part of its Scholars yet he continued there bore arms for his Majesty and had so much time allowed him that he proceed Master of Arts in 1643. About that time he being designed for a Divine his Father procured for him the reversion of a good Parsonage but so it was that he being engaged in that honorable tho unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 wherein as I have been credibly informed he was a Captain of a Foot Company he was thereby disingaged from enjoying it So that entring himself into Greys inn studied the municipal Law went through the usual Degrees belonging to it was made Serjeant at Law 25. June 1669 and Knighted and the same year on the 2 of Nov. he was sworn his Majesties Serjeant In 1678 May 31. he was made L. Chief Justice of the Kings Bench upon the resignation of Sir Richard Rainsford but not long after his advancement the Popish conspiracy was discovered So that his place obliging him to have the chiefest hand in bringing some of the principal conspirators concern'd therein to publick justice he in several trials of them behaved himself with so undaunted a courage and greatness of spirit giving such ample testimony of his true zeal for the Protestant cause that he gained thereby for a while an universal applause throughout the whole Nation being generally esteemed as a main Patriot and support of his Country whose all seem'd then especially to the fanatical party to lay at stake and to be threatned with apparently impendent ruin But at length the implacable and giddy headed rabble being possess'd with an opinion that he had not dealt uprightly in the trials of some of the conspirators he mitigating his zeal when he saw the Popish Plot to be made a shooing-horn to draw on others which caused articles of impeachment to be drawn up against him read in the H. of Commons and ingrossed and on the 17 of Jan. 1680 sent up to the H. of Lords he was removed from his high office about the eleventh of April 1681 meerly to stop their mouthes and so obtain quietness Whereupon Sir Francis Pemberton Kt. was sworn to the said office on the next day as it seems and the day following that he paid his duty to his Majesty Soon after Sir William retired to his Estate at Weald hall near Burntwood in Essex where he enjoyed himself for a time in a sedate repose He was a person of very excellent and nimble parts a good Orator and a fluent Speaker but his utterance being accompanied with some stops and hesitancy his Speeches effected more in the reading than they did when heard with the disadvantage of his delivery Under his name were printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech before the L. Chancellor when he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench Printed in half a sh in fol. 2 Sp. in the Kings Bench in Westm hall on the first day of Mich. term 1679. Lond. 1679 in 3 sheets in fol. Answer'd by an idle fellow and remarks made on it in one sh in fol. entit A New years gift for Justice Scroggs c. He hath other Speeches extant as I shall tell you by and by Notes on the writing found in the pocket of Laur. Hill when he and R. Green were executed 21. Feb. 1678. Pr. in one sh in fol. Answer to the Articles against him given in by Titus Oates and Will Bedlow in Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680 in two sh and an half in fol. He hath also several discourses arguings and speeches printed in divers Tryals and Condemnations while he was Lord Chief Justice as in 1 The Tryal of William Staley Goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against his Majesty c. 21. Novemb. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 2 Tryal of Edw. Coleman Gent. for conspiring the death of the King subversion of the government c. 28. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. This Coleman was as I have heard a Ministers Son had been
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
ordered that a copy of it should be sent to Anglesey and that he return an answer thereunto on the 20 of the said month at Hampton Court But no Council being then held notwithstanding Anglesey had made answer to Ormond's particular charges against him the next day the matter was defer'd till the 27 of the same month Another Council being therefore there held on that day the charges and answers were debated Which done and the Lords concerned being withdrawn this resolution passed by the Council on Anglesey's letter to the Earl of Castlehaven viz. That it was a scandalous libel against his late Majesty against his now Majesty and against the Government When the Parties or Lords concern'd were called in again the Lord Chancellour only told Anglesey that the King conceived him faulty in the clause pag. 32. of the said Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven wherein the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were mention'd as having been in at the intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court. After which a farther hearing was appointed to be on the 3 of Aug. following but Anglesey continuing extream ill of the Gout and finding himself prejudg'd by the Lords of the Council on the 27 of July he wrot a Letter on the 2 of Aug. to his Majesty which being openly read in Council the next day he did in some manner as 't was said resent it for some passages therein yet nothing appear'd entred to be done thereupon Afterwards the Earl of Castlehaven James Touchet was called in several times and question'd about his Memoires which he acknowledging to be his the said book in conclusion was by his Majesty and Council judged to be a scandalous Libel against the Government On the 9 of the said month of Aug. 1682 the Privy Seal by command from his Majesty was taken away from Anglesey by Sir Leolin Jenkins Principal Secretary of State without any farther hearing and was given to George Marquess of Halyfax Besides the aforesaid Letter of the E. of Anglesey written to the Earl of Castlehaven containing Observations c. was another book published intit Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires c. written by Dr. Edm. Borlase Author of The Hist of the execrable Irish Rebellion c. and printed at London 1682. oct But the said Author who commends Anglesey's Letter was not regarded Afterwards our Author Anglesey wrot A true account of the whole Proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesie before the King and his Council c. Lond. 1682 in 18 sh in fol. and A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian Lond. 1683. in two sh in qu which Jovian was wrot by Dr. George Hicks Dean of Worcester In the beginning of the year 1686 he began to be admitted into the favour of King James 2 but being about that time seized with a Quinsey in his throat died soon after as I shall anon tell you leaving behind him The History of Ireland MS. and The Kings right of indulgence in spiritual matters with the equity thereof asserted Which book being put into the hands of Hen. Care he caused it to be published at Lond. in Nov. 1687. in 10 sh and an half in qu. with the date of 16S8 put at the bottom of the title So that that person who in the time of the Popish Plot had shew'd himself the most bitter enemy in the Nation against the Papists and Duke of York by publishing The weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome and other things was when the said Duke came to the Crown taken so much into favour as to be made a Tool to print matters for the abolishing of the Test and Penal Laws the publishing of which book was one At length after our Author Arthur Earl of Anglesey had acted the part of a Polititian for more than 45 years he gave way to fate in his house in Drury-lane within the Liberty of Westminster on Easter Tuesday the 6 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body being conveyed to Farnborough in Hampshire where he had an Estate was buried in the Church there He left behind him a choice Library of Books which were exposed to sale by way of Auction in Oct. Nov. c. following JOHN DOLBEN son of Will. Dolb. D. D. was born at Stanwick in Northamptonshire of which his father was Rector elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. school an 1640 aged 15 years bore arms for a time in Oxon when made a Garrison for his Majesty and having made proof of his Courage in that service he was appointed an Ensign and at length a Major in one of the Armies belonging to his Majesty but after the surrender of Oxford the declension of the Kings Cause and his Army disbanded he returned to Christ Church again and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1647 and the next year was ejected from his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Soon after he took to wife Catherine daughter of Ralph Sheldon elder brother to Dr. Gilb. Sheldon then lately Warden of All 's Coll. with whom he lived during the time of Usurpation in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon and assisted Mr. Joh. Fell in keeping up the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England in a private house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church After the Kings restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. 27 Jul. 1660 in the place of John Pointer then ejected and soon after was created Doctor of Divinity At which time the Uncle of his Wife being Bishop of London and in great favour with the King he was upon his recommendation deservedly made not only Archdeacon of London in the place of Dr. Thom. Paske deceased but afterwards Clerk of the Closet and Dean of Westminster upon the promotion of Dr. Earle to the See of Worcester in which last dignity he was installed 5 Dec. 1662. In 1666 he was made Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner deceased to which See being consecrated in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25 of Nov. the same year he had then liberty allowed him by his Majesty to keep his Deanery in commendam Afterwards he became Almoner to his Majesty and at that time and before that place was manag'd to the benefit of the Poor with great justice and integrity At length upon the death of Dr. Sterne Archb. of York he was by vertue of the Kings Conge d'eslire elected to that See 28 Jul. 1683 and soon after viz. Aug. 16. being translated thereunto in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth was on the 23 of the same month enthronized He was a man of a free generous and noble disposition and withall of a natural bold and happy Eloquence As he imitated his Uncle Bishop Williams in the greatness of his parts and abilities so he by a certain hereditary right succeeded him in his Honours both in his Deanery of Westminster and his Archbishoprick of York He was not very careful
Gregory wrot a whole book De cura Pastorali to tell us it should be done By which means he ever obtained the love and respects of the City of Coventry and his ends for their good amongst the Citizens thereof Of his integrity and courage also they farther add this instance viz. In the year 1648 when Oliv. Cromwell then Lieut. Gen. of the forces in England was at Coventry upon his March towards London the said Ob. Grew took his opportunity to represent to him the wickedness of the design then more visibly on foot for taking off the King and the sad consequences thereof should it take effect earnestly pressing him to use his endeavours to prevent it and had his promise for it And afterwards when the design was too apparent he wrot a letter to him to the same purpose and to mind him of his promise Which letter was conveyed by an honest Gent. since Mayor and Alderman of Coventry now or lately living to a Messenger then waiting at Whitehall and by him delivered into Cromwells own hand c. In 1651 he accumulated the degrees in Divinity and in the next year he compleated that of Doctor by standing in the Act much about which time he preached the Concio ad clerum with applause In 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Warwickshire for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and continued after till his Majesties restauration in good repute among the Precisians He hath written A Sinners justification by Christ or the Lord Jesus Christ our righteousness Delivered in several Sermons on Jer. 23.6 Lond. 1670. oct Meditations upon our Saviours parable of the prodigal son being several sermons on the 15 Chapter of S. Lukes Gospel Lond. 1678. quart Both written and published at the request and for the common benefit of some of his quondam Parishioners of S. Michael in Coventry What other things he hath written that are fit for the Press I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the 22 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and that his body was buried in the Chancel of the said Church of S. Michael This Divine was the Father of Dr. Nehemiah Grew a Physitian of good note and practice in London whose publish'd works are so well known and valued that divers of them have been translated into Latin and French by learned forraigners and many eminent persons both at home and abroad have returned him their thanks with great respect and it is believed that he hath still much under his consideration relating both to Philosophy and the practice of Physick Among several things that he hath written and published are 1 Musaeum Regalis Societatis Or a description of the natural and artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Societie and preserved at Gresham Coll. Lond. 1681. fol. 2 The Anatomy of the History of Plants and Vegetables Lond. 1683. fol. c. JOHN GOAD son of Joh. G. of Bishopsgate street in London was born in St. Helens Parish there 15 Febr. 1615 educated in Merchant Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. and admitted in his due course and order by the just favour of Dr. Juxon the then President an 1632. Afterwards he became Fellow Master of Arts Priest and in 1643 Vicar of S. Giles's Church in the North Suburb of Oxon by the favour of the Pres and Fellows of his College where continuing his duty very constant during the time that the Garrison was besieged by the Parliament Forces did undergoe great dangers by Canon Bullets that were shot from their Camp adjoyning in the time of Divine Service On the 23. of June 1646 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Yarnton near Oxon by the Chancellour and Masters of this University by vertue of an Act of Parliament begun at Westm 5. Nov. 3. Jac. 1 disinabling Recusants from presenting to Church Livings and in the year following he was in consideration of his Sermons preached either before the King or Parliament at Oxon or both actually created Bach. of Divinity In 1648 he was sollicited by Dr. Franc. Cheynell one of the Visitors appointed to visit the University of Oxon to return to his College and Fellowship he having heard of and partly known the great worth and merit of him but because he would not conform himself to the new Directory he refused to go and with much ado keeping Yarnton till the Kings restauration did then contrary to his friends expectation take the offer of Tunbridge School in Kent But being scarce setled there he was in July 1661 made chief Master of Merchant Taylors School in London In which place continuing with good success and great applause till Apr. 1681 at which time the great and factious City was posses'd by the restless Presbyterian Ministers of the sudden introduction to Popery among them he was summoned to appear before the chief Heads of the Society of Merchant Taylors In obedience to which summons he appearing and then charged with certain passages savouring of Popery in his Comment on the Church of England Catechisme which he had made for the use of his Scholars he was by them discharged with a considerable gratuity in Plate from them The particulars of this affair being too many for this place you may see them at large in a Postcript to a book entit Contrivances of the Fanatical Conspirators in carrying on the treasons under umbrage of the Popish-Plot laid open with Depositions c. Lond. 1683. in 8 sh in fol written by Will. Smith a Schoolmaster of Islington near London who stiles therein Mr. Goad a pious and learned person so extraordinarily qualified for his profession that a better could not be found in the three kingdoms Mr. Goad being thus dismist he took a house in Piccadilly in Westminster to which place many of the gentiler sort of his Scholars repairing to be by him farther instructed he set up a private School which he continued to or near the time of his death In the beginning of 1686 K. Jam. 2. being then in the Throne he declared himself a Rom. Catholic having many years before been so in his mind for in Dec. 1660. he was reconcil'd to that Faith in Somerset house by a Priest belonging to Hen. Maria the Qu. Mother then lately return'd from France This person who had much of Primitive Christianity in him and was endowed with most admirable morals hath written Several Sermons as 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An advent Sermon preached at S. Paules on Luke 21.30 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sermon of the tryal of all things preached at S. Paules on 1 Thes 5.21 Lond. 1664. qu. c. Genealogicon latinum A previous method of Dictionary of all Latine words the compounds only excepted that may fruitfully be perused before the Grammar by those who desire to attain the Language in the natural clear and most speedy
a Batler of Madg. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Parliament forces and being Puritannically educated from his childhood he submitted to the power of the Visitors when they came to reform or rather deform the University an 1648. In the latter end of the next year he was made by them Probationer-Fellow of Mert. College where as in the public Schools he shew'd himself a quick dexterous and smart Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a frequent preacher in these parts without any Orders from a Bishop especially in the Church or Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell in the Suburbs of Oxon where he was much frequented by those of his perswasion and somtimes by others too for his edifying way of Preaching Much about the time of his Majesties restauration he left the College and preached in London with the good approbation of those of his party So that upon the vacancy of the Church of S. Matthew in Fridaystreet in London he was by the majority of the Parishoners votes elected the Rector thereof In 1662 he was ejected at Barthelmew-tide for Nonconformity whereupon taking all opportunities he preached in Conventicles for which he was somtimes brought into trouble In the latter end of the year 1671. when then an Indulgence of Liberty was granted to Nonconformists he preached openly in London and somtimes at his native place where those of his party would usually say that the Gospel was then come among them But that Indulgence being soon after annul'd upon the petition of the Parliament made to his Majesty he return'd to his customary preaching in private and about 1675 his preaching being much admired by Elizabeth Countess or Anglesey he was taken into the service of her Family and made Chaplain to her Lord with whom he continued several years Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot in Sept. 1678 he shewed himself very active in aggrevating the concerns thereof in his preachments and common discourses And it was usual with him to vent his mind in Conventicles not without some passion many things savouring of Treason But when the Fanatical which was generally call'd the Presbyterian Plot broke out in June 1683 he sculk'd being closely sought after and was several times in danger of being brought into trouble When K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown and another Indulgence was soon after allowed he preached openly again and continued his Lectures in and near London to the time of his death His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The inability of the highest improved natural man to attain a sufficient and right knowledge of indwelling sin discovered in three Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxford all on Rom. 7. latter part of the 7 verse Oxon. 1659. oct The running title on the top of every page is The natural mans blindness In an Epistle to the Reader set before them which cut the very sinews as t is said of Pelagius and Socinus in some of their doctrines written by one of the authors perswasion named Hen. Wilkinson D. D. Princ. of Magd. Hall is this Character given of the author viz. that he was sufficiently known to him and many others to be a godly learned and orthodox Divine and that through his modesty and low opinion of himself did deny for a long time his consent to the making of those Sermons of publick use c. 2 Whether well composed religious vowes do not exceedingly promote religion on Psal 116.12 and 14. This is the thirteenth Sermon in The Morning Exercise at Cripplegate preached in Sept 1661 Lond. 2661. qu. 3 Kings and Emperours not rightful Subjects to the Pope on Acts 26.2 This is the third Sermon in The Morning Exercise against Popery preached by Nonconformists in Conventicles in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 The faithful and diligent Servant of the Lord a funeral discourse on the death of Mr Tho. Cawton on Luke 12.43 Lond. 1677. qu. 5 How we may best cure the love of being flattered on Prov. 26.28 in the continuation of The Morning Exercise 1682. 6 How we may enquire after news not as Athenians but as Christians for the better managing our prayers and prayses for the Church of God on Acts 17.21 Preached in Oct. 1689. The revival of Grace in the vigour and fragrancy of it by a due application of the blood of Christ a Sacrifice a Testator and bearing a curse for us particularly each for the exciting and increasing the graces of the believing Communicant Lond. 1678. oct Dedicated to his Patron Arthur Earl of Anglesie Annotations upon Ezekiel and the twelve lesser Prophets In continuation of M. Poole's Annotations of the holy Scripture At length this learned and religious Nonconformist preaching on the Lords day in a Conventicle or Meeting-House in or near Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster on a Lords day Apr. 13 was taken with an apoplectical fit whereupon being conveyed to a Goldsmiths house adjoyning expired the next day ascending as t were from the Pulpit to the Throne in sixteen hundred and ninty aged 61 or thereabouts Afterwards his body was buried in the yard near the Sun-Dial within the Railes belonging to the Church of S. Paul within the said Cov. Garden wherein he before had buried 3 of his children at which time Rich. Adams M. A. somtimes Fellow of Brasn Coll. a Nonconformist Divine preached his funeral Sermon Which being extant the Reader may see more of the person at the latter end thereof p. 21.22 c. ABRAHAM WRIGHT son of Rich. Wr. Citizen and Silk dier of London son of Jeffr. Wr. of Longborough in Leycestershire was born in Black-Swan Alley in Thamestreet in the Parish of S. James Garlickhith in Lond. on the 23. of Decemb. 1611 educated in Grammar learning partly in Mercers-Chapel School in Cheapside but mostly in Merchant-Taylors School under Dr. Nich. Grey elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1629 by the endeavours of Dr. Juxon President there who finding him to be a good Orator especially in proper and due pronuntiation which in his elderly years he retained in his Sermons and public Offices favoured him then and afterwards in his studies In 1632 he was elected Fellow and having then a Genie which enclined him to Poetry and Rhetorick did while Bach. of Arts make his collection of Delitiae Poetarum being then esteemed also an exact master of the Latine tongue even to the nicest criticisme On the 30. Aug. 1636 at which time Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. entertained the King and Qu. at S. Johns Coll he spoke an English Speech before them when they entred into the Library to see and be entertained in it at a dinner and after dinner he was one of the principal persons that acted in the Comedy called Loves Hospital or The Hospital of Lovers presented before their Majesties in the public refectory of that House The chief Actor was the author Mr. Geor. Wilde and the others who were all of that House
use of him he having then an eye upon his Brother George in Scotland whom his family had obliged likewise I say that this good benefice being bestowed on him he was by his Brothers interest fix'd therein and ready to perform what laid in his power to serve the interest of the Royal Family In 1659 he agitated with his said Brother by Letters to and soon after in Person in Scotland in order to influence him for the restauration of K. Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms being put upon it chiefly by the said Sir Jo Greenvill and some of the Gentry in the West who were of kin to Monke So happy it was for his Maj. to employ the said Sir John and so lucky for him to send his Clerk Mr. Monke thither where he omitted nothing of his instructions but prudently managed them as may reasonably be inferred from the good effect they had Thus did the sense of allegiance and the love of his Country prevail with his Brother against all hazards And if I should speak right the revenge of slights was some part of grain in the Scales In the year following 1660 his endeavours and desires being effected he was by the interest of the said Sir John minded thereunto by Gen. Monke made Provost of Eaton Coll in the month of June then or lately enjoyed by Nich. Lockyer sometimes Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell lately Protect In the beginning of Aug. following he was actually created Doctor of Divinity by vertue of the Kings Letters sent to the University for that purpose and soon after being nominated by his Majesty to the See of Hereford which had laid void for 14 years by the death of George Cook he was consecrated thereunto on the sixth day of January Epiphany day in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Archb. of York Bishops of Durham Chichester Lincolne and Peterborough But before he had enjoyed that See a full year he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in the Old Pallace-yard in Westminster on the seventeenth of December in sixteen hundred sixty and one whereupon his body was buried on the twentieth of the said month in S. Edmunds Chappel within the Precincts of the said Church of S. Peter In the See of Hereford succeeded Dr. Herbert Croft of whom may future mention be made and of his works as to learning BRIAN DUPPA sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1638 translated to Salisbury in 1641 and thence to Winchester in 1660. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 176. He was so bountiful in his Legacies to Ch. Church that the money might serve to found a new and not to compleat an old College He left Legacies to Allsouls Coll to the Cath. Churches of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester and erected an Hospital at his own charge in the place of his nativity as I have elsewhere told you Over the door of which may this be engraven That a poor Bishop vowed this House but a great and wealthy one built it In the See of Winchester succeeded Dr. George Morley of whom I have made large mention among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 581. JOHN GAUDEN sometimes of Wadham College was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the 2. of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent an 1660 and translated thence to Worcester on Morleys going to Winchester in the beginning of 1662 in which year in Septemb. he died See more of him among the Writers under the same year p. 207. In the said See of Worcester succeeded Dr. John Earle and him Dr. Rob. Skinner as I shall tell you anon under the year 1670. ROBERT SANDERSON sometimes Fellow of Lincolne College was consecrated Bishop of Lincolne on the 28 of Octob. 1660 and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 213. He was succeeded in the said Bishoprick by Dr. Benj. Laney Bishop of Peterborough who after he had sate there four years was translated to Ely WILLIAM JUXON son of Rich. Juxon of Chichester son of John Juxon of London was born as 't is said within the City of Chichester in Sussex educated in Merchant Taylors School became Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in 1598 and Bach. of the Civil Law in 1603 being about that time a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London Soon after he took holy Orders and in the latter end of the year 1609 he was made Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon where continuing about six years he was much frequented for his edifying way of preaching In 1621 he was elected President of his College and in the next year he proceeded in the Civil Law In 1626 and after he did execute the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in January 1627 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Jos Hall promoted to the See of Exeter On the 10. of July 1632 he was at Dr. Lauds suit then Bishop of London sworn Clerk of his Majesties Closet which office was by that great person procured for him to the end that he might have one that he might trust near his Majesty if he grew weak or infirm In the beginning of the year 1633 he was elected Bishop of Hereford in the place of Dr. Franc. Godwin deceased was about that time made Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the translation of Dr. Laud to the See of Cant. which was on the 19 of Sept. the same year he was translated to London that City being then in its height of giddiness and faction About that time he was called to be one of his Majesties Privy Council who finding him to be a person of uprightness and justice did confer upon him the great office of Lord Treasurer on Sunday the sixth of Mar. 1635. Which office no Churchman had since Hen. 7 time as Doct. Laud observes who adds this I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour and the King and the state service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more In this office which he enjoyed till 1641 he kept the Kings Purse when necessities were deepest and clamours loudest to the great content of all that had to do with him In the time of the rebellion began and carried on by the restless Presbyterians he suffer'd as other Bishops did was outed of the House of Lords with his Brethren and lost the Lands belonging to his Bishoprick as the rest did In 1648 he had the honour and happiness if it may be so called to attend K. Ch. 1.
Man on the 21. of March 1669 to the great rejoycing of the true Sons of the Church in the Diocese thereof After he was setled he repaired several parts of the Cathedral Church especially the North and South Isles and new covered them with lead and caused the East part of the choir to be wainscoted He laid out a considerable sum of money in building and repairs about his Pallace at S. Asaph and the mill thereunto belonging In the year 1678 he built an Almes house for eight poor Widows and did endow it with twelve pounds per an for ever The same year he procured an Act of Parliament for the appropriating of the Rectories of Llaurhaiader and Mochnant in Denbighshire and Mountgomeryshire and of Skeiviog in the County of Flint for repairs of the Cathedral Church of S. Asaph and the better maintenance of the choire there and also for the uniting several Rectories that were Sinecures and the Vicaridges of the same Parishes within his said Diocese of S. Asaph He also intended to build a Free-school and to endow it but was prevented by death Yet since that time his successor Dr. Will Lloyd Bishop of S. Asaph did recover from Bishop Barrow's Executors 200 l. towards a Free-school at S. Asaph an 1687. This most worthy Bishop Dr. Barrow died at Shrewsbury about noon of the 24 of June Midsomer day an 1680 and on the 30 of the said month his Corps was lodged in his house called Argoed hall in Flintshire and from thence carried on the first of July to his Palace at S. Asaph and the same day to the Cathedral Church there where after Divine Service and a Sermon the said Corps was decently inter'd by Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph on the South side of the West door in the Cathedral Church yard which was the place he appointed Over his grave was soon after laid a large flat stone and another over that supported by Pedestals On the last of which is this inscription engraven Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita Obiit dictus reverendus Pater festo Divi Johannis Baptistae anno Domini 1680 Aetatis 67 Translationis suae undecimo On the lower stone which is even with the ground is this inscription following engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which was made by the Bishop himself Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita O vos transeuntes in Domum Domini Domum orationis orate pro Conservo vestro ut inveniat miserecordiam in die Domini The said brass plate was fastned at first as 't is there reported over the said West door but afterwards taken down and fastned to the lower stone next the body But so it was that as soon as this last Epitaph was put up the contents thereof flew about the nation by the endeavours of the godly faction then plump'd up with hopes to carry on their diabolical designes upon account of the Popish Plot then in examination and prosecution to make the world believe that the said Bishop died a Papist and that the rest of the Bishops were Papists also or at least popishly affected and especially for this reason that they adhered to his Majesty and took part with him at that time against the said Faction who endeavoured to bring the Nation into confusion by their usual trade of lying and slandering which they have always hitherto done to carry on their ends such is the religion of the Saints But so it is let them say what they will that the said Bishop was a virtuous generous and godly man and a true Son of the Church of England And it is to be wished that those peering poor spirited and sneaking wretches would endeavour to follow his example and not to lye upon the catch under the notion of religion to obtain their temporal ends private endearments comfortable importances filthy lusts c. The said Bishop was Uncle to a most worthy religious and learned Doctor of both his names as I have elsewhere told you who dying 4. May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the great or south cross Isle of Westm Abbey near to the monument of the learned Camden sometimes Clarenceaux K. of Armes WILLIAM PIERS son of William Piers a Haberdasher of Hats Nephew or near of kin to Dr. John Piers sometimes Archb. of York and a Native of South Hinxsey near Abendon in Berks was born in the Parish of Allsaints within the City of Oxon in Aug and baptized there on the 3. of Sept. an 1580. In 1596 he was made Student of Ch. Church and taking the degrees in Arts fell to the study of Divinity and was for a time a Preacher in and near Oxon. Afterwards being made Chaplain to Dr. King Bishop of London he was prefer'd to the Rectory of S. Christophers Church near to the Old Exchange in London and Vicaridge of Northall in Middles In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Divinity Reader in S. Pauls Cathedral and in 1618 he was made Canon of Ch. Church and soon after Dean of Chester In 1621. 22. 23. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellour of this University wherein behaving himself very forward and too officious against such that were then called Anti-Arminians he gained the good will of Dr. Laud then a rising star in the Court and so consequently preferment In 1622 he was made Dean of Peterborough in the place of Hen. Beaumont promoted to that of Windsore and in 1630 had the Bishoprick thereof confer'd on him by the death of Dr. Tho. Dove to which being elected he had the temporalities thereof given to him on the 30 of Oct and installation on the 14 of Nov. the same year While he sate there which was but for a short time he was esteemed a man of parts knowing in Divinity and the Laws was very vigilant and active for the good both for the ecclesiastical and civil estate In Oct. 1632 he was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells upon the translation of Dr. Curle to Winchester the temporalities of which See being given to him on the 20 of December the same year he continued there without any other translation to the time of his death As for his actions done in his Diocese of Bath and Wells before the grand rebellion broke out which were very offensive to the puritanical party who often attested that he brought innovations therein and into his Church suppressed Preaching Lectures and persecuted such who refused to rail in the Lords Table c. in his Diocese let one of them named William Prynne a great enemy to the Hierarchy speak yet the reader may be pleased to suspend his judgment and not to believe all what that partial cropear'd and stigmatized person saith When the Bishops were silenc'd and their Lands sold by that
great a stranger to Covetousness that he hardly understood money which yet he took care to employ to the best uses His memory was prodigious in his younger years not only natural but acquired for he had studied and wrot of the Art of memory and improv'd it to great advantage He wrot several Treatises curious and learned which were designed to see the light but were all lost together with his great Library of many years collection and several Mss which he had brought from forreign Countries partly by the Irish and partly by the Protestant Army in the time of K. Will. 3. an 1689.90 He died in sixteen hundred seventy and one aged an hundred years and more being then as 't was computed the antientest Bishop in the world having been above 50 years a Bishop His death hapned at his Seat called Castle Lesley alias Glaslogh and was there buried in a Church of his own building which he had made the Parish Church by vertue of an Act of Parliament for that purpose in Ireland Which Church was consecrated to S. Salvator Sir James Ware in his Commentary of the Irish Bishops tells us that this Bishop Lesley was Doct. of Div. of Oxon and his Son named Charles Lesley a Minister in Ireland hath informed me that he was not only Doct. of Div. but of both the Laws of Oxford How true these things are I cannot tell sure I am that I cannot find his name in any of the registers of Congreg or Convocation or that he took any degree there GILBERT IRONSIDE sometimes Fell. of Trin. Coll was made B. of Bristow in the year 1660 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 357. In the said See succeeded Dr. Guy Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1685. WILLIAM NICOLSON sometimes one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll succeeded Dr. Godfrey Goodman in the See of Glocester an 1660 and died in the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 362. In the said See succeeded John Prichett as I shall tell you under the year 1680. GRIFFITH WILLIAMS sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards of the Univ. of Cambr. became Bishop of Ossory in 1641 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 363. In the said See succeeded Dr. John Parry as I have told you among the said Writers an 1677. p. 448. JOHN WILKINS sometimes of New Inn afterwards of Magdalen Hall was consecrated Bish of Chester an 1668 on the death of Dr. George Hall and died in Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers p. 370.371 In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creake in Norfolk bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631 commenced M. of A became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter Preb. of Sarum Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap and afterwards at S. Christophers in London In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey after it had laid void about eleven years being then D. of D. was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely Chapl. in ord to his Maj and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester was consecrated to that See with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells on the ninth day of Febr. an 1672 having before published an Exposition on the Creed c. After his death which I have mention'd elsewhere succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard born also at Creake bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646 was afterwards M. of A Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll and kept his Fellowship with it went out Doct. of the Civ and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669 he being then Under-keeper of his Maj. Library at S. James He was a most excellent Scholar a most admired Greecian and a great Traveller He died in the summer-time an 1670 being then as 't was vulgarly reported a Rom. Cath. FRANCIS DAVIES a Glamorganshire man born became a Student of Jes Coll. an 1628 aged 17 years took the degr in Arts and was made Fellow of the said House About that time entring into holy Orders he became beneficed in Wales and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards suffering much for the Kings Cause lived as opportunity served and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were But being restored to what he had lost after his Maj. restauration he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661 being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year and about that time was consecrated He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes Coll in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675 where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw he was translated to Peterborough and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforemention'd Franc. Davies was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted but before him in time author of A Catechism wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lords Prayer and Creed c. Lond. 1612. oct ded to Mr. Tho. Digges but whether he was of Oxford I cannot yet tell Qu. WILLIAM FULLER son of Tho. Fuller was born in London educated in the Coll. School at Westminster became a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1626 or thereabouts aged 18 years took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law six years after as a Member of S. Edm. Hall having translated himself thither some time before About that time he entred into holy Orders was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch and when the K. had taken up his head quarter at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion he became Chapl. to Edw. L. Littleton L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal there Afterwards upon the declension of the Kings Cause he suffer'd as others did taught a private School at Tâ—â—ttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean
favour he had free access Nor was he less careful to obtain the like access for him to the Records in the Tower of London by his interest with old Mr. Collet the chief Clerk at that time there under Sir John Burroughs whom he amply rewarded with sundry kind gratuities for his friendliness in assisting Mr. Dugdale with what he thought proper for his purpose from those rarities there reposed He also about that time was introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Sir Tho. Cotton Baronet whereby he had free access to that incomparable Library in his house near Westminster Hall began and set up by his father that noted Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton Baronet where finding rare MSS. and original Charters in that incomparable Treasury made such Collections thence as were of singular use in several Volumes which have since been made publick by the press He was likewise introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Mr. Scipio Squire then one of the Vicechamberlains of the Exchequer thro whose kindness and favour he had access to that venerable Record called Domesday-book as also to the Fines Plea-Rolls and sundry other Records remaining in the Treasury there Nor was Sir Christ Hatton backward in giving him all possible encouragement in those his studies For having seconded Sir H. Spelman in recommending him to the Earl of Arundel that Earl sent for him in Septemb. following an 1638 and obtained the Kings Warrant to create him a Pursevant at Arms extraordinary by the title of Blanch Lyon and thereupon so created him at the Kings royal Pallace of Richmond in Surrey upon the 24 of that instant Sept. Also upon the removal of Mr. Edw. Walker then Pursevant called Rogue-Croix to the Office of Chester Herald his Lordship obtained his Majesties Letters Pat. for creating him Rogue-Croix Pursevant in ordinary bearing date 18 of Mar. 1639. By which means having a Lodging in the Heralds Office and some benefit by funerals and other ways with the yearly Salary of 20 l. out of the Kings Exchequer for his support he thenceforth spent the greatest part of his time in London in order to the augmenting his Collections out of the Records in the Tower and other places in and near the said City till by the influence of a very forward and predominant Party in the most unhappy Parliam that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which aiming at the subversion of Religion established which came afterwards to pass and unjustifiable extirpation of monarchick Government whereby nothing less could be expected than the profaning of all places of Gods publick Worship destruction of monuments in Churches and defacing whatsoever was beautiful and ornamental therein the said Mr. Dugd. therefore receiving encouragement from Sir Chr. Hatton before mention'd then a member of the H. of C. for Higham-Ferres in Northamptonsh who timely foresaw the near approaching storm did in the summer time 1641 taking with him one Will. Sedgwick a skilful Arms-painter repair first to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London and next to the Abbey Church of Westminster and there made exact draughts of all the monuments in each of them copied the Epitaphs according to the very letter as also of all Arms in the Windows or cut in stone All which being done with great exactness Mr. Dugdale rode to Peterborough in Northamptonshire Ely Norwich Lincoln Newark upon Trent Beverley Southwell Kingston upon Hull York Selby Chester Lichfield Tanworth Warwick and did the like in all those cathedral collegiate conventual and divers other parochial Churches wherein any tombs and monuments were to be found to the end that the memory of them in case if that ruin then eminent might come to pass might be preserved for future and better times As it was feared so it soon after fell out all things thro the influence of the predominant party in that Parliament looking every day more and more that way insomuch as in the middle of January following the King himself his Queen and royal issue forc'd by tumults were constrained to betake themselves for safety to other places viz. the King Prince and Duke of York unto the City of York and the Queen to her own relations in France His Majesty being therefore necessitated at that time to continue in those northern parts where many of the Nobility attended him he did by his Warrant under his royal Signet manual bearing date 1 June 1642 command the said Mr. Dugdale forthwith to repair thither to him according to the duty of his place Upon the reception of which he obeyed and continued at York till about the middle of July at which time he received his Majesties farther command to attend Spencer Earl of Northampton then L. Lieutenant of the County of Warwick who was endeavouring to secure the chief places of that County and near it and to disperse the Forces under the Lord Brook which he had gathered together for the Parliament by the Trained-Band Soldiers and other loyal persons under him But they having secur'd the Castles of Banbury and Warwick Mr. Dugdale did by command from his Maj. who was advised at York of their proceedings in his Coat of Arms with a Trumpet sounding before him repair to those Castles and required them to disband and to deliver up their Arms requiring also the said L. Brook and his Adherents to disband c. Accordingly the Castle of Banbury with all the Arms and Ammunition therein were delivered up but the Castle of Warwick being a place of more strength and defended by a greater number of Soldiers under the command of Sir Edw. Peto of Chesterton in that County Knight they did contemn the said Summons c. Afterwards when the King marched southward from York and had taken up his quarters for some time at Stonley house about 4 miles distant from Coventry on the 19 of Aug. 1642 Mr. Dugdale did by his Majesties special Warrant dated the next day summon the said City of Coventry a little before taken in for the use of the Parliament with his Coat bearing the Kings Arms thereon and a Trumpet sounding before him to the end that the Defenders deliver up their Arms to his Majesty and depart peaceably to their respective homes c. but they obstinately denying his Summons he proclaimed them Traytors and forthwith returned Afterwards he attended the King at Kineton commonly called Edghill in Warwickshire where the grand battel between him and his Army and that belonging to the Parliament was fought on the 23 of Oct. 1642. Which battel being finished and the royal party victorious he attended his Maj. to Oxon and thence to Reading and Brainford his Maj. intending for London but finding the power of the Rebels much recruited by the Inhabitants of that populous City he did after some skirmishes had at Brainford where the royal party took many Prisoners return to Oxford fix his chief residence there and fortified that City with Bulwarks for the better
in the Parliament sitting at Westminster being then Serjeant Major and in the next year he sate as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon. George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire He also left that Parliament retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliam 1643. On the said first of Nov. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts among whom towards the latter end of the solemnity when it grew dark some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created which was signed by his Majesty One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot mostly educated in France but at this time 1642 actually in Armes for his Majesty and soon after was an Officer Some years after the declining of the Kings cause he setled for altogether in Oxon read and taught the French language to young Scholars and for their use wrot and published 1 Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae Oxon 1659. in tw Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner 2 Dialogues in French and English c. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was had his principles been sound which were not and therefore in some respects he debauched young men died by a fall down stairs in S. Johns Coll. where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society on the 28. of January 1668 whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon. Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Maries Hall He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ Law Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesties Attillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning was born in his Fathers house in Goldsmiths Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London on the 18. of Sept. 1618 Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq a Native of the City of Oxon and Clerk of his Majesties Ordnance within the Kingdom of England Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University but descended from the antient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire After our author Edw. Sherburne whom I am farther to mention had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned he was privately instructed for a time in his Fathers house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrot a Poem entit The battle of Crescy and Poictiers and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh Lond. 1638 oct written in verse also with The battle of Bosworth who dying about 1640 was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France and was intended for a journey into Italy but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Fathers sickness who not many weeks after his return dyed some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediatly after his death he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesties Ordnance granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince where he lay for several months at great expences and charge of fees till having in the beginning of Oct. following gain'd his Liberty he went immediatly to the King who made him Commissary General of his Artillery In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill and during the four years Civil War while in the mean time he was depriv'd of an estate of 160 l. per an till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland his house plundered and all his personal estate and houshold goods taken away among which was the loss of a study of books as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesties restauration which was great and choice and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in or near London After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention While he continued there you cannot but imagine that he was liable as indeed he was to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication as being a Cavalier which the godly party then called Malignant till at the return of Sir George Savile afterwards Marquess of Halyfax from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns and sometime after by his honorable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad In the beginning of March therefore in 1654 he left England with his charge ran through all France Italy some part of Hungary the greater part of Germany Holland and the rest of the Low Countries and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination by conference with learned persons when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse more than what he could obtain at home After his Majesties restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England after his old sequestrators were dead by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken I mean by that busie man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury so that he was forced to plead the â—ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance After some time of the Kings settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former for by the politick Reducers of the charge of his Majesties revenue and treasure he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an and never received any consideration
Creation of Masters made to the number of about eleven Among whom were Paul Boston of Cambridge After his Majesties return he became Minister of S. Brides Parish in London whence being forced by the dreadful fire that hapned in 1666 he became Reader of S. Giles in the Fields in Middlesex Rich. Powell a Retainer to the Lord Mowbray Will. Jay a Retainer to the Marq. of Hertford Charles Whittaker Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State c. Aston Cockaine was also about the same time created but neglected to be registred Bach. of Phys From the first of Nov. to the 31. of Jan. were actually created 17 Bach. of Phys or more of which number were Nov. 1. Hen. Jacob of Mert. Coll. Nov. 1. Edw. Buckoke of Trin. Coll. Nov. 1. Will. Croot of Exet. Coll. Nov. 1. Hen. Sawyer of Magd. Coll. Nov. 1. Steph. Boughton of Magd. Coll. The aforesaid Edw. Buck. was created Dr. of the same faculty in 1645. Dec. 10. Jam. Hyde of Corp. Ch. Coll. Dec. 10. George Rogers of Linc. Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards the Kings professor of Phys and the other a publisher of certain things of his faculty and is now or at least lately was living Jan. 31. Nich. Oudart Jan. 31. Tho. Champion or Campion Jan. 31. Tho. Johnson Of the first I have spoken already in the Fasti under the year 1636. p. 887. Of the second I know nothing only that one of both his names was a noted Poet in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. see in the Fasti under the year 1624 p. 848. And of the other you may see more among the created Doctors of Phys 1643. Bach. of Div. From the first of Novemb. to the 21. of Feb. were about 70 Bachelaurs of Div. actually created of which number were these following Nov. 1. Caesar Williamson lately M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge After the declining of the Kings cause he went into Ireland became Fellow of the College at Dublin where being esteemed a good Orator was put upon several Harangues ex tempore and wrot a Panegyrick on Henry Cromwell Lord Lieutenant of the said Kingdom which I have seen several times quoted Afterwards the College gave him a Living at or near Tredagh where he ended his days in a craz'd condition about 4 or 5 years after his Majesties restauration Edw. Sylvester of Ball. Coll. was created the same day This person who was a professed Tutor in the Latin and Greek tongues for many years in a private house in Allsaints Parish in Oxon was born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire and had his sole education in the said Coll. He was the common drudge of the University either to make correct or review the Latine Sermons of certain dull Theologists thereof before they were to be delivered at S. Maries as also the Greek or Latin verses of others as dull as the former that were to be put in or before books that occasionally were published He lived to see several of his Scholars to be heads of Houses in this University Among whom were John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch John Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall who with other Scholars of his that were Doctors Bachelaurs of Div. Law and Phys and Masters of Arts had an annual feast together to which their Master was always invited and being set at the upper end of the table he would feed their minds with learned discourses and criticisms in Grammar He died on the first of Dec. 1653 aged 67 or more and was buried in the Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon. Near to his grave was afterwards buried his Brother Henry Sylvester sometimes Mayor of the City Rob. Wild of Cambridge was also created the same day Nov. 1. He was afterwards a Covenantier Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire in the place as I conceive of an honest Cavalier sequestred â—rom it ejected thence for Nonconformity after the Kings restauration being then D. of D. and much celebrated for his Poetry which he wrot in behalf of the Presbyterians as John Cleavland did against them Some of his works are 1 The tragedy of Christ Love at Tower-hill Lond. 1660. 'T is a Poem in one sh in qu. 2 Iter boreale Attempting something upon the successful and matchless March of the L. Gen. George Monck from Scotland to London c. Lond. 1660. A Poem in 2 sh and an half in qu. Another Iter boreale you may see in Rich. Eedes in the first vol. p. 280 a third in Rich. Corbets Poems and a fourth in Thomas Master in this vol. p. 19. There is extant an ingenious Lat. Poem entit Iter australe a Regimensibus Oxon an 1658 expeditum printed the same year in 3. sh and an half in qu. Which Poem was written by Thom. Bispham a Gent. Com. of Qu. Coll. Son of Dr. Sam. Bispham a Physitian of London and by him dedicated to the Provost thereof Tho. Barlow who had the author in his company when he and some of the society of that House went the College progress into Hampshire and other places Dr. Wild hath also written 3 A Poem upon the imprisonment of Mr. Edm. Calamy in Newgate printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper an 1662 whereupon came out two Poems at least in answer to it viz. First Anti-boreale An answer to a lewd piece of Poetry upon Mr. Calamy's late confinement Secondly Hudibras on Calamy's imprisonment and Wilds Poetry both printed the same year and each on one side of a sheet of paper In 1668 and 1670 was published in oct Iter boreale with large additions of several other Poems being an exact collection of all hitherto published written by the said Dr. Wild author also of 4 A Letter 〈◊〉 Mr. J. J. upon his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience Lond. 1672. qu Against which came out soon after Moon-shine being an answer to Dr. Wilds letter and his poetica licentia pr. in qu. the same year 5 Certain Sermons as 1 The arraignment of a sinner on Rom. 11.32 Lond. 1656 qu. 2 Sermon on Rom. 1.32 Ib. 1656. qu. c There are extant some of his Poems with some of John Wilmots Earl of Rochester and others in a collection intit Rome Rhym'd to death but whether genuine I cannot tell This Dr. Wild who was a fat jolly and boon Presbyterian died at Oundle in Northamptonshire about the beginning of Winter an 1679 and soon after had a Poem written on his death intit A pillar on the grave of Dr. Wild besides another called A dialogue between Death and Dr. Wild both printed in folio sheets an 1679. In the month of May 1672 there had like to have been a Poetical war between this Dr. Wild and Tho. Flatman but how it was terminated I cannot tell Nov. 1. Christop Ayray of Qu. Coll. Nov. 1. Nich. Greaves of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Jonathan Edwards of Jes Coll. The last who was fellow of his House
of March 1674 aged 74 years was buried in the Parish Church of Churchill before mention'd Sir John Monson or Mounson of South Carleton in Lincolnshire Knight of the Bath and Baronet This person who was son of Sir Tho. Mounson of the same place Baronet was born in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in London not bred in any University only spent some time in one of the Inns of Court whereby he became as good a Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any now 1642 in Oxon when then he assisted in all Councils and was in all Treaties particularly in that concerning the surrender of the Garrison of Oxford to the Parliament an 1646. He afterwards suffered much for his Loyalty and at length was permitted a quiet retirement He hath written 1 An Essay of afflictions by way of advice to his only son Lond. 1661. 62. Written in the time of the unhappy Wars 2 Antidote against the errors of opinions of many in their dayes concerning some of the highest and chiefest duties of religion viz. Adoration Almes Fasting and Prayer Printed with the former book 3 Supream power and common right c. This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give you a fuller title nor the time when printed He died in the year 1684 aged 84 or more and was buried in the Church of South Carleton before mentioned among the graves of his Ancestors The report among his Relations at this day is that when he was in Oxon in the War time he was made Doctor of Physick but false for he being versed in the Common thought it convenient to be created Doctor of the Civil Law and among those doth his name stand Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath He was created Lord Hatton of Kirbye in Northamptonshire by Let. Pat. bearing date at Oxon 29 Jul. 1643 and about that time was made privy Counsellor to K. Ch. 1. and Controller of his Houshold he being then accounted a friend to all that loved the King and Ch. of England for which he suffered in a high degree Some time after the restauration his Majesty was pleased of his own accord in consideration of his vast Sufferings and eminent Loyalty to make him one of his privy Council and as a testimony of further favour he not only made him Governour of the Isle of Guernsey for his life but confer'd the reversion of that Government on his son as a lasting mark of honour on his family This Christop L. Hatton was a principal Mecaenas of Learning and more especially of Antiquities wherein his skill and knowledge did far surpass any within the compass of his orb the Nobility that I know Sir Brian Palmes of Ashwell or Astwell in Rutlandshire Kt. This loyal Knight son of Sir Guy Palmes who had been educated in Trin. Coll was chose a Burgess for Aldbuâ—g in Yorkshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 13 Apr. 1640 but whether he did sit in the Parl. at Oxon 1643 I know not He died in 1654. Sir Will. Brounker Kt late Commissary general of the Musters in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 now Vicechamberlain to Prince Charles and one of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1 was then also Nov. 1. actually created Doctor of the Civil Law This loyal Knight who was son of Sir Hen. Brounker President of Mounster in Ireland by Anne his wife sister of Henry Lord Morley was created Vicount of Castle-Lyon in the said Kingdom 12 Sept. 1645 and dying in Wadham Coll. in the middle of Nov. following was buried on the 20 of the said month in the isle joyning on the west side to the north Trancept of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon leaving then behind him a son named William aged 25 years or thereabouts of whom I shall speak at large under the year 1646. Winefrid the widow of the said L. Brounker dau of Will. Leigh of Newenham in Warwickshire died 20 July 1649 after she had lost and won vast sums of money by gaming whereupon her body was conveyed to Oxon and buried by that of her husband Many years after was a large marble stone laid over their graves and in the wall near it was erected a splendid monument of Aladaster containing their Statua's sitting both leaning on a table that stands between them Sir Nich. Byron of Norfolk was also then created Doctor of the Civ Law He was Uncle to John Lord Byron was a Colonel and an excellent Commander of foot K. Ch. 1. did so much value him that in all warlike engagements he would have him always near to him I have been told by persons that had degrees confer'd upon them in these Creations that Thomas Robert and William Byron all Knights valiant Colonels for his Majesty and brothers to the most couragious Lord Byron before mention'd had degrees confer'd on them but in what faculty they knew not nor are they registred For the truth is the public Scribe or Registrary of the University that now was being given more to bibbing and smoaking than the duty of his Office many learned and valiant persons are omitted by him Nay those also that are by him remembred have only their bare names and sometimes only their Sirnames set down without the addition of their Titles Quality Office or place of habitation Sir Tho. Byron before mentioned was buried on the left side of the grave of William Lord Grandison in a little isle joyning on the south side of the choire of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon 9 Feb. 1643. Wingfield Lord Cromwell He was after the death of his father Earl of Arglas in Ireland Sir Thom. Salisbury Baronet sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University Will. Chadwell Esq He was a Burgess for Michel in Cornwall to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which Parliament he leaving because of the violent proceedings therein retired to his Majesty at Oxon and sate in the Parl. there Ferdinando Stanhope Esq He was a Burgess for Tamworth in Staffordshire for the said Parliament but leaving it he retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliament This worthy person who was a younger son of Philip Earl of Chesterfield was made a Colonel of Horse in the Kings Army and was soon after slain at Bridgford in Nottinghamshire John Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq He was one of the Knights for that County to sit in the said Parliament but being frighted thence by the tumults that came up to the Parliament door as other Royalists were he conveyed himself away privately to Oxon and sate there He was a learned and a prudent man and as one of the richest so one of the meekest men in England He was active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxon when the Garrison was to be surrendred to the Parliament for which and his steddy Loyalty he afterwards was forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmiths Hall at London John Lufton of S. Johns Coll.
dignified with the Deanery of Durham which he held a few months and afterwards of S. Pauls which he enjoyed three years tho either of them too short a season yet discharged both with singular care and fidelity living and dying a Batchellour and strictly chast and sanctimonious both in soul and body And being much debilirated by a long and lingring consumption here he rests in the Lord and deposits his last remains among those ruinous ones of S. Pauls Church being confident of the resurrection both of the one and other He died in the 53 year of his age and of our Lord 1664. Reader if thou desirest to know more of this reverend Church-man go home and learn by the conspicuous copy of his sincere devotion what it is to be a true Christian indeed After his death succeeded in the Deanery of S. Pauls Dr. Will. Sancroft Dean of York in Oct. or thereabouts in 1664. Doct. of Law Apr. 16. Colonel Will. Legge Governour of the Garrison of Oxford He was afterwards one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 1. and 2. Apr. 16. Colonel George L'isle Governour of the Garrison of Faringdon in Berkshire On the 21. of Dec. following he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him being then as 't is said Master of the Kingsâ—Houshold and highly valued for his great valour and prudent conduct in martial affairs This person I take to be the same with the most magnanimous Sir George L'isle who was afterwards deeply engaged in that as honorable as unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 in which last place he with the Forces under him for his Majesty being besieged by Fairfax the Parliament General and those under his conduct he was after the surrender thereof shot to death in cold blood with the most renowned Sir Charles Lucas on the 28 of Aug. the same year At which time they being both obscurely buried their funeral was afterwards viz. on June the 7 an 1661 with great solemnity celebrated at Colchester by the loyal Inhabitants thereof and Gentry adjoyning The particulars being too many for this place must for brevity sake be now omitted Apr. 22. Colonel Will. Leighton who hath this character given of him in the publick register fide fortitudine pro Principe pro Patria insignis was actually created with due solemnity on that day in Convocation He was descended from or at least near of kin to Sir Will. Leighton Kt an excellent Musitian author of a Poetical piece entit Vertue triumphant or a lively description of the four Cardinal vertues Published in 1603 and dedic to K. Jam. 1. See more of him in the first vol. p. 342. Nov. 28. Sir Thomas Gemham Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University now Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was actually created in the House of Convocation with very great solemnity At which time the Vicechancellour spoke a short and pithy speech to the assembly before he was presented shewing to them the holiness of his life and conversation the invincibleness of him and his party at York and Carlile of which Cities he was successively Governour and tho brought to famine and pestilence yet yielded neither but upon honourable conditions c. This right valiant and prudent commander was the Son of Sir Hen. Glemham of Little Glemham in Suffolk Kt by Anne his Wife eldest Daugh of Sir Thomas Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset and after he had thrown off his gown betook himself to the German Wars then the great nursery for English Gentlemen where gaining much experience was made fit for the service in the Wars at home In 1639 he was a Lieutenant Col. in the regiment of the Earl of Arundell in the Scotch expedition then undertaken as also in the next if I am not mistaken that was took in the year following Afterwards taking part with his Majesty against his rebellious Subjects in England did him admirable service in the Garrisons before mention'd and was highly venerated by all military Men. When he died I cannot justly say sure I am that by his last Will and Test dated 22. Jan. 1647 and proved 13 Mar. 1649 he appointed his younger Brother Dr. Hen. Glemham his Executor who caused his body to be buried at Little Glemham before mention'd as I have been enformed by some of his relations Doct. of Phys May 6. Adrian Metcalfe Bach. of Phys was then created Doct. of that faculty In 1642 Nov. 1. he was actually created M. of Arts and perhaps is the same but mistaken by the Registrary with Franc. Metcalf created Bach. of Phys an 1643 as before 't is told you Aug. 12. the most noble ... Seymour was then actually created and admitted to give his suffrage in the house of Congregation and Convocation Whether this person be the same with Henry Lord Seymour who was created M. of A. an 1642 as I have before told you I know not nor yet to the contrary but that he may be Robert Seymour another Son of William Marquess of Hertford who became a Noble man of Christ Church an 1635. aged eleven years Oct. 30. Edward Buckoake Bach. of Phys was created Doctor by vertue of the Chancellours letters which say that his Majesty hath thought him worthy to serve his Highness Prince Charles in the place of Physitian and therefore that he might be the more capable of that honour he desires that the Convocation would confer on him the honour of Doctor of Physick c. He was afterwards a Physitian of some note in Yorkshire Doct. of Div. July 10. Edward Aylmer or Elmer M. A. of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was created D. D. by vertue of the Letters from the Chanc. of the University and Prince Rupert This person who was Grandson to John Aylmer or Elmer sometimes Bishop of London being forced from his station by the barbarities of the Presbyterians took refuge in Oxon and under the said Prince He had a kinsman named Joh. Aylmer Rector of Bletneso and Melchbourne in Bedfordshire before the Civil Wars broke out who was Son of Tobell the fifth Son of the said Bishop Aylmer Dec. 17. Philip King was then actually created D. of D. This person who was a younger Son of Dr. John King sometimes Bishop of London was originally a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Orator of the University Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Billingsgate in London Prebend of S. Pauls Cathedral Church and Archdeacon of Lewes But being sequestred of S. Botolphs and forced to fly by the faction he took sanctuary at Oxon lived afterwards in a retired condition till his Majesties return at which time being restored to what he had lost lived for some time in a quiet and sedate repose At length paying his last debt to nature on the 4 of March 1666 was buried at Langley in Bucks where he had a Sister married to Sir Rich. Hobart Besides this Ph. King I find another of Cambr. who was incorporated M.
several copies of verses that are extant in various books which shew him to have been a good Poet. He was put out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 was restored in 1660 but was no gainer by his sufferings as many honest Cavaliers were not by theirs He is now living and will tell you the reason why c. Others were created this year which for brevity sake I shall now omit to set down However the Reader must know that several persons besides were allowed to take the same degree of Bach. of Div among whom were Obadiah Walker of Vniv Coll. and Ant. Hodges Chapl. of New Coll but they refused that favor Doct. of Phys April 9. Peter Massonet lately of the City of Geneva now second or under Tutor to James Duke of York was then actually created June 23. Charles Scarborough of Merton Coll lately Fellow of that of Caies in Cambr. was then actually created by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University in which 't is said that he was Master of Arts of Cambridge of 7 years standing and upwards and that he was spoiled of his Library in the beginning of these troubles and afterwards for his conscience deprived of his Fellowship at Cambridge c. His Letters testimonial under the hand of the famous Dr. Will. Harvey say also that he is well learned in Physick Philosophy and Mathematicks c. While he abode in Mert. Coll he did help the said Dr. Harvey then Warden of that House in his Chamber at the end of the Library there in the writing his book De generatione Animalium which was afterwards published by the said Harvey Afterwards he became a most learned and incomparable Anatomist one of the Coll of Physitians principal Physitian to K. Ch. 2. from whom he received the honour of Knighthood on the 15. of Aug. 1669 and to his royal Highness James his Brother while Duke of York and when King Physitian to the Tower of London and afterwards to K. Will. 3. c. He was the first that introduced Geometrical and Mechanical speculations into Anatomy and applyed them as well in all his learned conversation as more particularly in his famous Lectures upon the Muscles of humane Bodies for 16 or 17 years together in the publick Theater at Surgeons Hall which were read by him with infinite applause and admiration of all sorts of learned men in the great City He is also most admirably well skill'd in the Mathematick Arts and was so esteemed by the famous Mr. Will. Oughtred who speaks thus of him after he had given a just character of Mr. Christop Wren Accessit alter Hortator vehemens D. Car. Scarborough Doctor Medicine suavissimis moribus perspicatissimoque ingenio Vir cujus tanta est in Mathesi solertia supra fidem faelix tenaxque memoria ut omnes Euclidis Archimedis aliorumque nonnullorum ex Antiquis propositiones recitare ordine in usum proferre potis sit c. He hath extant under his name 1 Syllabus Musculorum which is added to The Anatomical administration of all the Muscles of an humane body as they rise in dissection c revived with additions by Will. Molins Master in Chirurgery This book which hath been several times printed in oct is and ever will be used as having a prospect of two excellent ends especially one to shew all the Muscles as they naturally rise in dissection the other to place every one of them by his proper Antagonist 2 Trigonometry printed in qu. He hath also compendiously methodized the Grammar of the famous Will. Lilye which shews him to have been a critical Grammarian as indeed he is but this I have not yet seen nor his Elegy upon Mr. Abr. Cowley which goes from hand to hand in Ms This worthy person is now living in great repute and veneration at Court within the liberty of Westminster of whom you may see more in the discourse of Dr. Seth Ward among the Writers in this vol. num 522. June 23. Rob. Mead M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Captain in his Majesties service William Lord Brouncker Vicount of Castle Lyons Son of Sir Will. Brouncker mention'd among the created Doctors of the Civil Law under the year 1642 was actually created Doctor of Physick the same day This noble person did then solely addict himself to the study of Mathematicks and at length became a very great Artist in that faculty He was afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society and President thereof for about 15 years which society he did much honour and advance by his learning and experience The places of honour and profit which he held were the Chancellourship of her Majesties Courts and keeping of her Great Seal one of the Lords Commissioners for the executing the office of the Lord High Admiral and the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London which last place he obtained in Nov. 1681 after a long suit of Law had depended between him and Sir Rob. Atkins a Judge concerning the right thereof He hath extant under his name Experiments of the recoiling of Guns mention'd in the Hist of the Royal Society and Several Letters to Dr. Jam. Vsher Primate of Ireland which are at the end of his life published by Dr. R. Parr He died in his house in S. James-street within the liberty of Westm on the 5. of April early in the morning an 1684 aged 64 years and was buried on the 14 of the same month in a little vault which he had caused to be made eight foot long and four broad in the middle of the choir belonging to the Hospital of S. Catherine before mention'd Which choir he a little before had divided in the middle with a good skreen set up at his own charge whereby he hath spoiled the beauty and state of it Hen. Brouncker younger brother to the said L. Brouncker was created the same day Jun. 23. After the death of Will Lord Brounker this Henry succeeded him in his honour and dying about the 4 of January 1687 was buried at Richmond in Surrey where there is a mon. over his grave Doct. of Div. Jun. 6. In a Convocation then held the Vicechancellour signified to the Members thereof c. as before under the title of Bach. of Div this year Whereupon these persons following were created either for their preaching before the Court or Parl. at Oxon or for their Sufferings for the Royal Cause Jun. 17. Matthew Brookes of Mert. Coll. Jun. 17. Jasp Mayne of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Thom. Swadlin of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 17. Tho. Philpot of New Coll. This last Tho. Philpot son of Dav. Philpot was born at Michel Dever in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School near Winchester made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1609 and afterwards taking holy Orders he became Rector of Turveston and Akeley in Buckinghamshire In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much for his Loyalty and a
good Conscience suffer'd also by the loss of his Goods and Imprisonment and therefore retiring to Oxon was there actually created D. of D. He hath published 1 An adieu to the Duke of Glocester or a Sermon preached in a poor Parish Church Turweston or Turveston near Buckingham 23 Sept. 1660 on Eccles 3.20 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The Cripples Complaint c. Sermon on S. Joh. 5.7 Lond. 1665. qu. He died in 1669 or thereabouts and was I suppose buried at Turveston Jun. 22. Ger. Langbaine Prov. of Qu. Coll. Jun. 22. Thomas Bravell of Magd. Coll. 23. John Croft now of Wadham Coll. He was a younger son of Sir Hen. Croft of Teddington in Bedfordshire was first a Com. of Linc. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules M. of A. and beneficed but suffering for his Majesties Cause he retired to Oxon and was there created D. of D. as 't is here said After his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of William Lord Croft his brother promoted to the Deanery of Norwich in the place of Dr. Joh. Hassall some years before deceased in which being instal'd 7 Aug. 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapning on the 27 Jul. 1670 he was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Norwich His said Brother Will. Lord Croft died either in Aug. or Sept. 1677. Will. Stutevile of Ch. Ch. who had lately done his Maj. special service in the West was actually created the same day June 23. Tristram Sugge of Wadh. Coll. was also created the same day This person who was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire had been public Metaphysick Reader and Proctor of the University Afterwards he was ejected by the Visitors in 1648 and suffer'd much in the interrupted times for his Loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and dying on the 27 of January in the same year was buried in the Chappel of Wadham Coll. He was esteemed by all that knew him a profound Philosopher and Divine and very fit to publish what he had written of those Subjects but since his death his papers are gotten into such hands that it is doubted whether ever they will see light Jul. 1. Edward Boughen of Ch. Ch. Aug. 13. Joh. Pottinger of New Coll the famous Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester He resigned the said Mastership soon after was succeeded by Mr. Will. Burt and died in 1659. This year it was allowed by the Members of the ven Convocation that Hen. Tozer Joh. Proctor and Baldwin Acland of Exeter Coll Rob. Barker of New Coll Rich. Washington of Vniv Coll Edm. Diggle of Magdalen and John Good of New Coll might have liberty when they pleased to be created Doctors of Divinity but they all refused then and the next year to accept of that favour At the same time also Isaac Basire and Rich. Dukeson of Cambr. Thom. Bunbury of Ball. Coll Rob. Sibthorp of Linc. Coll Will. Haywood of S. Johns Coll c. who had fled to Oxon as an Asylum and there had several times preached before his Majesty and the Members of Parliament had each a license given to them under the public Seal of the Univ. to preach the word of God throughout England This year Jun. 24 being Wednesday and Midsummer day the Garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time marched out in a body eastward about 3000 Soldiers besides 500 or thereabouts northward and a little before and after them five hundred more mostly Horsemen and private persons engaged in the Siege On Munday going before Prince Rupert and Pr. Maurice his brother with their attendants departed and those that followed them the next day were about 300 persons most of them of quality and their attendants When the forces belonging to the Parliament were entred who were all Presbyterians Independents or worse were among them their Chaplains of the same perswasion who forthwith upon all occasions thrust themselves into the pulpits purposely by their rascally doctrine to obtain either Proselites or to draw off from their loyal Principles and orthodox Religion the Scholars and Inhabitants Among them were Hugh Peters that diabolical Villain and Pulpit-buffoon Will. Dell Chapl. to Sir Tho Fairfax John Saltmarsh Will. Erbury c. and what they did there besides during their stay is too large a story now to tell you In Sept. following were seven Presbyterian Ministers who had formerly their education in this University appointed by Parliament sent to Oxon to preach at S. Maries and elsewhere to draw off the Scholars from their loyal principles but Edw. Corbet one of them being about that time called thence the six carried on the work yet found opposition by the Independents and other Sectaries of whom Will. Erbury was one yet all upon any occasion would joyn together to pluck down and persecute the Malignants that is Cavaliers and Royalists So that whereas before the surrender there was no place in England more loyal to their Prince orthodox and observant of the Ceremonies of the Church of England than the Scholars and the generality of the Inhabitants of Oxon were so after the entry of the said Parliamenteers there appeared nothing but confusion darkness c. Hell was broke loose upon the poor remnant and they were over-run by Sectaries Blasphemers Hypocrites Exciters to Rebellion Censurers Covetous persons men of self-pride envy and what not So that those of the Gown that could not brook such persons did either leave the University or abscond in their respective houses till they could know their doom by the approaching Visitation The Soldiery did declare their impudence so much that they forbore not to preach in some of the Pulpits and to thrust themselves into the public Schools and there in the places of Lecturers speak to the Scholars against humane learning and challenge the most learned of them to prove their Calling from Christ c. But let the restless Presbyterians be thanked for the original of all these Evils and others that followed who to fill their coffers raise families please and cherish their private lusts and endearments and nothing else care not what mischief they do or what ruin they bring upon this poor Nation so that they might obtain their own unworthy ends An. Dom. 1647. An. 23 Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. William Marquess of Hertford c. who continuing in his office till the beginning of February Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery was about that time restored and according to an order of the Lords in Parl. dated 2 March he was desired to go to Oxford and re-take possession of his place According to which order he went in the beginning of the next year as I shall tell you by and by Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell without any nomination by the Chanc. So that being discharged of his office by order from the Visitors 8 Oct. this year because as they said he was neither nominated or lawfully admitted thereunto yet notwithstanding he took no
Lieut. Gen. to Oxon when they were invited thither by the then Members of the University to see what a Godly Reformation the Committee and Visitors had made therein May 19. Sir Hardress Waller Kt was the first that was presented by Zanchy the junior Proctor which being done he was conducted up to Cromwell just before presented to the degree of Dr. of the Civ Law sitting on the left hand of him that then held the Chancellours chair Dr. Chr. Rogers Deput Vicechanc. and with due Ceremony was seated on his left side This person was son and heir of George Waller of Groombridge in Kent Esq by Mary his wife daugh of Rich. Hardâ—ess Esq Relict of Sir Will. Ashenden Kt which George was elder brother to Sir Thom. Waller father of Sir Will. Waller lately one of the Parl. Generals mention'd among the Writers an 1668. p. 297. and marrying with the daugh and co-heir of Sir Joh. Dowdall or Dovedall of Limerick in Ireland Kt enjoyed fair inheritances by her and spent most of his time there In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he was a Royalist in opinion but with the more gainfuller times he turn'd Presbytâ—â—ian and at length a strong Independent and thereupon was made a Committee-man and afterwards a Colonel of Horse He had been lately one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1 and sate when Sentence past upon him for his decollation for which service he was afterwards made Major Gen. of the Army in Ireland Where continuing till the revolution of affairs brought Monarchy again into England he did upon the issuing out of the Kings Proclamation surrender himself to mercy Whereupon being brought to his trial for having a hand in the murther of his said Prince he shew'd very great reluctancy for what he had done and was thereupon conveyed from his prison in the Tower to the Isle of Wight there to continue during his life an 1660 aged 56 years Whither he was afterwards removed thence I cannot tell nor where he died May 19. Colonel Tho. Harrison was presented next by Zanchy and conducted by him on the other side This person who was the son of a Butcher or Grasier of Newcastle under Line in Staffordshire was after he had been educated in some Grammar Learning placed with one Hulke or Hulker an Attorney of Cliffords Inn and when out of his time became a kind of a Pettisogger as 't is said but finding little profit thence he betook himself from the pen to the sword in the Parliament Army when they first raised a Rebellion against their King and having a tongue well hung he did by his enthusiastical Preaching and great pretence to piety so far insinuate himself with the deluded Army that he pass'd from one Command to another till he attained to be a Major and a great Confident of Ol. Cromwell and so consequently his close friend in breaking the Presbyterian faction in both Houses in depriving them of their King and at length in bringing him to the block as by these particulars it doth appear First he was the person appointed by Oliver or at least the Adjutators of the Army to go to Hurst Castle where the King was Prisoner to the end that he should enform the Governour thereof that he deliver his Majesty up to a party of Horse that should be ready to receive him in order to his conveyance to Windsore Castle and so to Westminster to be tried This was by Harrison done about the 15 of Dec. 1648 for on the 21 following he was conveyed thence towards Windsore See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers an 1677. p. 438. Secondly that after his Majesty had left Hurst Castle and was conveyed from Milford three miles distant thence by a party of the Rebels Horse to Winchester and thence to Alton and so to Alresford this Major Harrison appeared in the head of another party between that place and Farnham to the end that he might bring up the rear His party was drawn up in good order by which his Maj. was to pass and the Major in the head of them gallantly mounted and armed with a Velvet Montier on his head and a new Buff-coat on his back with a Crimson silk Scarf about his waist richly fring'd The King as he passed by on horse-back with an easie pace as delighted to see men well hors'd and arm'd the Major gave the King a bow with his head Alla soldad which his Majesty requited This was the first time that the King saw the Major at which time Tho. Herbert Groom of the Bedchamber from whom I had this story riding a little behind the King his Majesty call'd him to come near and ask'd him who that Captain was and being by him told that it was Major Harrison the King viewed him more narrowly and fix'd his eyes so steadily upon him as made the Major abashed and fall back to his party sooner than probably he intended The K. said he looked like a Soldier and that his aspect was good and found him not such an one as was represented and that having judgment in faces if he had observed him so well before he should not have harbour'd that ill opinion of him for oft times the spirit and disposition may be discerned in the countenance That night the K. got to Farnham where he was lodged in a private Gentleman's house in the town the Castle there being then a Garrison for the Parliament and a little before supper his Majesty standing by the fire in a large wainscoted parlour and in discourse with the Mistress of the House the King notwithstanding the room was pretty full of Army Officers and Country People that crowded in to have a sight of him did at length see the Major at the farther end of the Parlour talking with another Officer Whereupon beckoning to him with his hand to come nearer he did so accordingly with due reverence And his Majesty taking him by the arm drew him aside towards the window where for half an hour or more they did discourse together Among other things the King minded him of the information that he had received concerning the murder that he intended on him in the Isle of Wight which if true rendred him an enemy in the worst sense to his person The Major in his vindication assured his Majesty that what was reported of him was not true yet he might report that the Law was equally obliging to great and small and that Justice had no respect to persons or words to that purpose which his Majesty finding affectedly spoken and to no good end he left off farther communication with him and went to supper being all the time very pleasant which was no small rejoycing to many there to see him so cheerful in that company and in such a dolorous condition Thirdly that when his Majesty went thence to Bagshot and there dined in the Lord Newburgh's house the said Major ordered Centries to be set at every door where he was and after
head of a considerable party of desperate Phanaticks near to Daventry in Northamptonshire to hinder if possibly it might be not only the said Settlement but Restauration of the King he the said Col. Ingoldesbie did with his own Regiment and some other Troops and Companies of Foot such as he could confide in draw towards him and about the 23 of Apr. making an Onset took Lambert with his own hands while the other prime Officers were taken by others of Ingoldesbie's party c. Whereupon for this his good service his Majesty did not only spare his life as having been one of his fathers Judges but gave order that he should be made a Knight of the Bath at his Coronation which accordingly was done Afterwards he retired to Lethenborough lived several years after in a quiet repose and died in the beginning of Sept. 1685. Before which time his Estate at Lethenborough was as it was then reported sold to Elianor Gwynn for the use of her natural son which she had by K. Ch. 2. called Sir Charles Beaucleer Earl of Burford and afterwards Duke of S. Albans This Col. Ingoldesbie was elder brother to Henry Ingoldesbie a Colonel also in the Parliam Army and to Thomas a Captain c. May 19. Col. John Hewson a Colonel of Foot was also presented by Proct. Zanchy and by him conducted to his place among the other Officers He was sometimes an honest Shoomaker in Westminster but getting little by that trade he in the beginning of the grand rebellion went out a Captain upon the account of the blessed cause was very zealous for it fought on stoutly and in time became a Colonel When K. Ch. 1. was by the godly brethren brought to trial for his life he sate as one of the Judges consented to the sentence passed upon him and sealed and subscribed the warrant for his execution Afterwards for his said service he became Governour of Dublin one of the Council of State in July 1653 a member of the Little or Barebones Parliament held the same year and of all the Parliaments since before his Majesties restauration a Knight also of the new stamp and at length one of Olivers Lords to have a negative voice in the Other House Upon an infallible foresight of the turn of the times he conveyed himself away into Holland to save his neck and soon after died and was buried at Amsterdam about 1662 as the vulgar report went at that time Colonel John Okey was another great Officer that was then also presented by Proct. Zanchy May 19. and by him conducted to the rest His parentage was as mean as his calling having been originally as 't is supposed a Dray-man afterwards a Stroaker in a Brew-house at Islington near London and then a poor Chandler near Lyon-Key in Thamestreet in London At length changing his Apron for a Buff-coat he became thro certain military degrees a Col. of Dragoons and by the artifice of Cromwell had unknowing to him his name inserted among the Kings Judges and so consequently was by him appointed to sit among that diabolical crew which if he refus'd to do he knew full well it would displease Cromwell much and in the end contract prejudice against him This Fellow who was of greater bulk than brains and of more strength than wit or conscience left Cromwell when he saw that he aimed at the office of a single person sided with the Anab. and Fift-Monarchy-men and thereupon was committed to custody for a time and his Regiment taken from him and given to a great Creature of Ol. called Ch. L. Howard afterwards E. of Carlile At length upon a foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled into Holland and setling at Delfâ— in a very timorous condition under the name of Frederick Williamson because his fathers name was William with Miles Corbet and John Barkstead two other Regicides the last of which went by the name of Joh. Harman they were all seized upon in the beginning of March 1661 by the forward Endeavours of Sir George Downing his Majesties Envoy or Resident at the Hague by order from the States they being then in an Ale-house Soon after they were sent to England in the Blackamore Frigot and upon their arrival were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London Afterwards being convey'd to the Kings-bench Bar at Westm Hall to know what they could say for themselves why Execution should not pass upon them they were returned to the Tower again and on the 19 of April 1662 were all convey'd thence each in a Sledge to Tybourn and there hang'd drawn and quarter'd Afterwards Okey's quarters were instead of being hang'd on several gates of the City of London permitted by his Majesty's order to be inter'd by his Relations because he had behaved himself dutifully towards him in his last words at the Gallows Soon after were publish'd their Speeches and Prayers together with several passages at the time of their Execution at Tybourne with some due and sober animadversions on the said Speeches Lond. 1662. in 5 sh in qu. and A letter from Col. Barkstead Col. Okey and Mil. Corbet to their friends in their congregational Churches in Lond. with the manner of their apprehension Lond. 1662 in 1 sh in qu. But this last is a feigned thing and reflects upon Sir Geor. Downing as a Revolter from their Cause as indeed he was which afterwards was his advancement He was then a member of that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May 1661 wherein acting much to the great dislike of those that took themselves to be the honest party of the House had this character given of him Sir Geor. Downing a poor child bred upon charity like Judas betray'd his Master What can his Country expect He drew and advised the Oath of renouncing the Kings family and took it first himself For his honesty fidelity c. he was rewarded by his Maj. with fourscore thousand pounds at least and is a Commissioner of the Customes the House-bell to call the Courtiers to vote at six of the clock at night an Exchecquer teller c. May 19. Geor. Sedascue Adjutant General of the Parliament Army was also then presented and took his place He had been a Cornet of Horse in the Expedition against the Rebels in Ireland 1641. 42. Col. Edward Grosvenour Quartermaster General of the said Army was presented and created M. of A. the same day In 1656 he was chose Burgess for Westminster to serve in that Parl. which began 17 of Sept. the same year he being then a favourite of Oliver and for the same place also to serve in Richards Parliament c. May 19. Owen Roe Scoutmaster General was also then created and conducted by Proctor Zanchy to the rest of the Officers He was originally a Silk-man and in the beginning of the Rebellion being a violent Covenantier and afterwards an Independent was by Oliver's interest made a prime Officer Lieut. Col. I think in the Militia of London and
the Army landed in the Isle of Wight under the command of the said Lieut. Col. Cobbet and coming unexpectedly to Newport the Lieut. Col. did in the first place make enquiry for the quarter of the Governour of that Isle called Col. Rob. Hammond for there at Newprrt he continued while his Majesty was present albeit he was under no restraint to the end that he might secure him and put his Lieut. Col. Is Ewre in his place of trust and government The reason for this intended seizure was not then known for Col. Hammond had all along managed his trust with sufficient circumspection and asperity so as it continued him in the applause of most men in power both in the two Houses of Parl. and the Army insomuch as 't was believed this alteration proceeded principally from the apprehension either the Adjutators or some that influenc'd them had and were not a little jealous that he was at length too much a Courtier which they by no means approved of and from that supposition they thought it the safest way to remove him yet he being premonish'd he evaded Cobbet and at his coming to Westminster had a fair reception by the members of Parliament In this conjecture his Opposits in the Army were mistaken for albeit by his constant attendance most times walking and discoursing with the King whensoever he walk'd for refreshment about the out-works of Carisbrook Castle before he went to Newport to treat with the Commissioners there being none in the Garrison so fit and forward as Hammond it gave him opportunity to ingratiate himself into his Majesties favour yet it made the Army Officers jealous he being solely intrusted with the Person of the King And the truth is he did never forfeit the Kings good opinion of him only when he peep'd into his Scrutore for no good end as 't was supposed which as I have been told by one then present with some aggravations from other hands made the King to design an escape For soon after he made way for his descent out of his Chamber as he farther told me and Horses were provided and placed near the works and a vessel ready for his imbarking but by a corrupted Corporal of the Garrison it took no effect c. Now to return L. Col. Cobbet failing of his first enterprise he made a higher flight for in the morning of the 30. of Nov. 1648 being S. Andrews day he just at break of day did with other Officers in his Company come to the door of the Kings Dressing-room with Anth. Mildmay the Kings Carver Brother to Sir Henry a Parliamentarian and making a great knocking there the King sent James Duke of Richmond then in attendance as Gentleman of the Bedchamber to know what it meant and he enquiring who was there was answer'd by Mildmay that there were some Gentlemen from the Army that were desirous to speak with the King The Duke returned and gave an account to the King but the knocking increasing the King commanded the Duke to let them into his Dressing-room No sooner was that done but Cobbet in the head of them went into his Chamber and made an abrupt and unexpected address to the King letting him know that he had orders to remove him forthwith from Newport The King beheld him with astonishment and interrogated him whether his orders were to remove him to his prison at Carisbroke the Lieut. Col. said no whither then said the King out of the Isle of Wight replied the Lieut. Col but the place he was to remove him to he was not to communicate Vnder favour said the King let me see your orders as to which the L. Col. desired to be excused this business said he is of no ordinary concernment I am not to satisfie any mans enquiry until a fitter season Now was verified his Majesties Maxim that such as will assume the boldness to adventure upon a King must not be thought over modest or timorous to carry on his design His Majesty being thus denied a sight and answer demanded if his orders and instructions were from the Parliament or General of the Army the Lieut. Col. answer was he had them from neither said the King thereupon it may be so seeing you are afraid to shew them But that he had orders or secret instructions for this bold act is not to be doubted for tho there was but one General yet things were at that time so much out of frame both in the Commons House and Army that there were many Commanders The Duke of Richmond Mountague Earl of Lindsey Thomas Earl of Southampton Gentlemen of the Bedchamber and other Nobility several venerable Persons his Chaplains and many of the Kings Houshold servants at that time attending were in a manner confounded at this surprise and unexpected accident yea not a little affrighted with idea's and apprehensions of danger to his Majesties person and the more for that Cobbet refused to satisfie any to what place he would go or what he intended to do with the King other than that no harm or violence should be offer'd to him The Lieut. Col. Cobbet did press the King to take Coach with what convenient speed he could The Coach accordingly was made ready and brought to the door where the King lodged Never at one time was beheld more grief in mens faces or greater fears in their hearts the King being at such a time and in such a manner hurried away they knew not whether But no remedy appearing the Noble men venerable persons and other his Majesties servants approached to kiss the Kings hand and to pour forth their supplications to Almighty God to safeguard and comfort his Majesty in that disconsolate condition His Majesty who at other times was cheerful did at this parting from his friends shew sorrow in his heart by the sadness of his countenance a real sympathy and wrot unto the Lords in Parl. acquainting them with this fresh violence and complaining of the Armies severity to his person The King being now ready to take Coach he asked Cobbet whether he was to have any servants with him To which he made answer only such as were most useful The King then nominated James Harrington and Tho. Herbert to attend him in his Bedchamber and scarce a dozen more for other service And at that time his Majesty taking notice that Herbert had for three days absented himself Harrington told his Majesty that he was sick of an Ague His Majesty then desir'd the Duke of Richmond to send one of his servants to see in what condition he then was and if any thing well to come along with him The Gent. that the Duke sent found him sweating but as soon as he received the message he arose and came speedily to his Majesty who presently took Coach and commanded Harrington Herbert and Mildmay his Carver to come into his Coach and L. Col. Cobbet offering to enter the Coach uninvited his Majesty by opposing with his foot made him sensible of
his proceedings James Baron lately made Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. by the Com. and Visitors was created the same day He was Son of George Baron of Plymouth in Devons had been puritanically educated in Exeter Coll and closing with the dominant party in the time of the rebellion got besides his Readers place to be Minister of one of the Hendreths in Berks and by the name of Mr. James Baron of Hendreth he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom the Saints called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Orthodox and Loyal Clergy After his Majesties restauration he retired to London and lived a Nonconformist mostly at or near Bunhill He hath published under the name of Jacobus Baronius a little thing printed on one side of a sheet entit Quaestiones Theologicae in usum Coll. Magd Oxon. Oxon. 1657 And with Thankful Owen did gather and publish the works of Thom. Goodwin in two vol. in fol. and set before them a canting preface He died in the beginning of the year 1683 and was buried as I have been informed near the graves of the Goodwin and Owen in the fanatical burial place near Bunhill-fields and the New Artillery-yard John Dale of Magd. Coll was created the same day June 8. As for Joshua Cross he was not created Bach. of Div. but Doct. of the Civil Law as I shall anon tell you Febr. 16. Sim. Ford of Ch. Ch. was created by dispensation of the Delegates On the 12. of Jan. going before the said Delegates decreed that the said Mr. Ford. sometimes of Magd. Hall who had been expelled the Vniversity with great injury as they said should be restored with all Academical honour imaginable and that his Grace be proposed for Bach. of Divinity c. He proceeded Doct. of Div. in 1665. Mar. 14. Will. Durham sometimes of New Inn now Chaplain to Will. Lenthall Master of the Rolls was created in Convocation by dispensation of the Delegates Doct. of Law May 19. Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Camerone in Scotland Generalissimo of all the Parliament Forces in England and Constable of the Tower of London was created Doctor of the Civil Law being then in Oxford and entertained by the members thereof as Cromwell and divers prime Officers were The ceremony of the Creation was thus After he had been adorned with a scarlet gown in the Apoditerium or Vestry belonging to the Convocation but without hood or cap the new Beadles who had not yet got their silver staves from those that were lately ejected conducted him with Cromwell towards the upper end of the Convocation House the members thereof then standing up bare whereupon Hierom Zanchy one of the Proctors rising from his seat which pro tempore was supplied by a Master and going to and standing on his left side took him by the right hand and presented him in a most humble posture to the Vicechanc. and Proctors standing with a short flattering Lat. speech such as 't was Which being done and he who then held the Chancellours Chair Dr. Chr. Rogers admitting him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him up to the next place on the right hand of the Chancellours Chair This person who made a great noise in his time not only in England but throughout a great part of the world was Son and Heir of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax a busie and forward man in Yorkshire in raising men and maintaining the Parliament cause against his Majesty by the Lady Mary his Wife Daughter of Edmund Lord Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave which Ferdinando dying 13. March 1647 aged 64 years was buried in the Church of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire As for his Son Thomas whom we are farther to mention he was born at Denton in the Parish of Otlay in the same County in January 1611 9. Jac. 1. and was baptized at Denton on the 25 of the said month After he had spent some time in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which afterwards in his latter days he was a benefactor he went beyond the Seas and spent the rest of his youth in martial discipline under the command of Horatio Lord Vere among whose forces he trailed a Pike in the Low Countries was at the considerable action of the taking of Busse in Flanders but had no command while he was there Afterwards he retired to his Fathers house and took to Wife Anne the Daughter and Coheir of the said Lord Vere by whom he had issue Mary born 3. July 1636 and Elizabeth The first of which was married to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham 19. Nov. 1657. In the beginning of the rebellion in 1642 when his Majesty was forced to raise a Guard at York for the defence of his Person this Sir Thomas Fairfax who was entrusted by his Country to prefer a petition to his Majesty the scope whereof was to beseech him to hearken to his Parliament and not raise Forces he did accordingly deliver it but his Majesty refusing it as a Parliamentarian Writer tells us he press'd it with that instance and intention following the King so close therewith in the Field call'd Heyworth-moor in the presence of near a hundred thousand People of the County the like appearance was ever hardly seen in Yorkshire that he at last did tender the same upon the pomel of his saddle But finding no propitiatory as the said author tells us and seeing a War could not be avoided he early paid the vows of his martial education and as soon as the unhappy troubles brake forth he took a Commission under his Father Ferdinando before mention'd whose timely appearance and performances for the Rebels in the North deserves a story of it self He had not served the Parliament in lower commands long but that the great Masters at Westminster did vote him their General 31. Dec. 1644 at which time they cashier'd Robert Earl of Essex of that high command with whom they had sworn 12. July 1642 to live and dye This making of a new General was done when the Parliament ordered their Army to be new modell'd So that victory in a manner being prepared to his hand he vigorously proceeded and what he did in a short time for the blessed cause which is too much here to be set down let the author of Englands recovery c. tell you who tho in the latter end of that book p. 321. he doth highly characterize him especially for his religion but little for policy yet a severe Presbyterian will tell you that he was a Gentleman of an irrational and brutish valour fitter to follow another mans counsel than his own and obnoxious to Cromwell and the Independent faction upon whose bottom he stood for his preferment it having been no dishonour to him to become the property of another mans faction c. adding these matters but what will not a fool in
Cleypole a Gent. of Nâ—rthamptonshire made by Oliver Master of the Horse one of his House of Lords and a Knight and Baronet 16. of July 1657 he being then Clerk of the Hamper The said Elizabeth died 7. Aug. 1658 and was buried in Henry the Sevenths Chap. at Westm in a Vault made on purpose 5 Mary the second Wife of Thom. Bellasyse Vicount Fauconberg or Fauconbridge married to him with a great deal of state at Hampton-Court on the 18 of Nov. 1657 much about which time he was made one of Olivers Lords Several years after his Majesties restauration he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners 6 Frances the youngest Daughter was married to Mr. Rob. Rich the only Son of Robert Lord Rich Son of Robert Earl of Warwick on the 11 of Nov. 1657 and about the same time was made one of Olivers Lords or of the Other House This Mr. R. Rich died 16. of Feb. 1657 his Father on the 29. of May 1659 and his Grandfather on the 18 of Apr. 1658. Oliver Cromwell had also four Sisters one of which was married to John Desborow a Yeoman and a great lubberly Clown who by Olivers interest became a Colonel and if not of the Long yet of the Little Parliament which he helped to break About that time he became one of the Generals at Sea helped to set up his Brother in Law Protector for which he was made one of his Council Major General of divers Counties in the West one of the Lords of the Cinque-ports and of the other House c. Another Sister was married to Roger Whetstone an Officer in the Parliament Army but he dying before Oliver came to his greatness she was remarried to Joh. Jones a pretended Gent. of Wales a Recruiter of the Long Parliament and a Colonel afterwards one of the Kings Judges Governour of the Isle of Anglesie one of the Commissioners of Parliament for the government of Ireland in which office he acted tyrannically and one of the other House that is H. of Lords belonging to Cromwell c. He was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Charing-cross for having had a hand in the murder of his Prince on the 17. Oct. 1660. A third Sister was married to Valentine Walton of Stoughton in Huntingdonshire afterwards a Colonel in the Parliament Army and one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After her death he married the Daughter of one Pimm of Brill in Bucks Widow of Austen of the same place but upon the foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled from Justice to save his neck setled either in Flanders or the Low Countries and lived unknown for some time in the condition of a Gardiner with a certain Gentleman At length being sick and foreseeing he should die discovered himself to have been a man of fashion and desir'd that after his death his near relations in England might be acquainted with it His said second Wife retired after his Majesties restoration to Oxon and living in an obscure condition in Cat-street died meanly on the 14 Nov. 1662 and was buried in S. Mâ—ries Church A fourth Sister named Robina was married to Peter French D. D. and after his death to Dr. John Wilkins as I have told you elsewhere whereby she hung upon and was maintained by the revenues of the Church to her last Oliver Cromwell had several Uncles whose descendents taking not part with him only one or two they were not prefer'd by him He had also five Aunts the eldest of which named Joane was married to Francis Barrington whose Son Robert was countenanced by Oliver The second named Elizabeth was Wife of John Hamden of Hamden in Bucks Father of John Hamden one of the 5. members of Parliament excepted against by K. Ch. 1 and a Colonel for the Parliament in the beginning of the rebellion which John lost his life in their service in June 1643. By this match Oliver Cromwell came to be related to the Ingoldesbies and Goodwins of Bucks The third named Frances was the second Wife of Rich. Whalley of Kirton in Nottinghamshire Father to Edward Whalley a Colonel in the Parliament Army one of the Kings Judges Commissary General in Scotland one of Olivers Lords and a Major General He fled from justice upon the approach of the return of K. Ch. 2 and lived and died in a strange Land But now after these large digressions let 's return to the rest of the Creations this year Feb. 16. Joshua Cross lately of Linc. Coll and sen Proctor now Fellow of that of Magd and Natural Philosophy Reader of the University by the authority of the Committee and Visitors was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon Soon after he left his Fellowship because he took to him a Wife but keeping his Readers place till his Majesties return was then discharg'd of it by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for the regulation of the University He died in his house near Magd. Coll. 9. May 1676 aged 62 years and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. In a meeting of the Delegates of the University the same day just before the Convocation began wherein Cross was created it was consulted among them that some Academical honour should be confer'd on Hierome Zanchy the Proctor then a Colonel in Ireland for the service of the Parliament At length it was Concluded that he should be adorned with the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the beginning of the next year but whether it was done oâ— that he was diplomated it appears not Doct. of Phys June 13. Thomas Sclater M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was created by vertue of the Commendatory Letters of the Chancellour of the University which say that he was put upon this recommendation by Sir Thom. Widdrington c. This Thomas Sclater was Burgess for the University of Cambridge to serve in Richards Parliament an 1658. Feb. 16. John Wilkinson sometimes of Magd. Hall now one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates He was nephew to Dr. John Wilkinson President of Magd. Coll and Brother to Dr. Henry Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall lived afterwards at Doncaster in Yorkshire where he practiced among the Godly party and dying in 1655 was buried at Arksey near to that place I have made mention of two of both his names that were Writers in the Fasti of the first vol. pag. 816. 817 but this John the Physitian was no Writer Mar. 7. Will. Petty about this time Fellow of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates of the University who had received sufficient testimony of his rare qualities and gifts from L. Col. Kelsey the Deputy Governour of Oxford Garrison Doct. of Div. July 24. Daniel Greenwood Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Brasn Coll
whole substance of his illiterate plea entit Medela Medicinae is occasionally considered Lond. 1665. See more in March Nedham among the Writers p. 470. Afterwards upon some controversie that hapned between his Father and Mother the last of which was made away he became much discontented turned Papist went into Lancashire setled at Preston in Amunderness practised among the Roman Catholicks and by them cried up tho as 't is said there he led a drunken and debauch'd life Some time before his death he was reconciled to the Church of England and dying at Preston was buried there but when my author a Physitian of those parts tells me not only that 't was after or about the year 1670. Rich. Kidder M. A. of Eman. Coll. This learned person a Suffolk man born I think was afterwards Rector of S. Martins Outwich in London installed Preb. of Noâ—wich in the place of Hezek Burton deceased on the 16 of Sept. 1681 being then D. of D. Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Sim. Patrick promoted to the See of Chichester an 1689 and at length became Bish of Bath and Wells upon the deprivation of the religious and conscientious Dr. Tho. Ken for not taking the usual Oaths to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He was nominated thereunto about the 14 of June 1691 upon the refusal of it by Dr. William Beveridge and on the 30 of Aug. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary Le Bâ—w in London by John Archb. of Cant Gilbert B. of Sarum Peter B. of Wâ—nton John B. of Norwich and Edward B. of Glocester At which time were also consecrated Dr. Rob. Grove of Cambridge to the See of Chichester upon the translation thence of Dr. Patrick to Ely and Dr. Joh. Hall Master of Pemb. Coll. in Oxon to the See of Bristow upon the translation thence of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Hereford Dr. Kidder hath written 1 The young mans duty A discourse shewing the necessity of seeking the Lord betimes as also the danger and unreasonableness of trusting to a late or death-bed repentance Designed especially for young persons before they are debauched by evil company and evil habits Lond. 1663 and several times after in tw The sixth edition was publish'd in 1690. 2 Convivium coeleste A plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Suppor shewing at once the nature of that Sacrament as also the right way of preparing our selves for the receiving of it c. Lond. 1674. oct and afterwards again with additions 3 Charity directed or the way to give almes to the greatest advantage In a Letter to a friend Lond. 1677. qu. 4 The Christian sufferer supported or a discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude shewing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with Gods special providence c. Ibid. 1680. oct 5 Reflections on a French Testam printed at Bourdeaux 1626 pretended to be translated into the French by the Divines of Lovain Ibid. 1691. qu. He hath also published several Sermons as 1 A discourse concerning the education of youth on Ephes 1.4 Lond. 1673. 2 Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-hall Chap. 16. July 1682. Ibid. 1682. qu. 3 Serm. at the funeral of Mr. Will. Allen 17. Aug. 1686. on Heb. 13.4 Ibid. 1686. qu. This Will. Allen had been a Citizen and Trader of London and had written 10 books chiefly for conformity against Quakers Anabaptists c. Dr. Kidder hath published several books against popery during the reign of K. Jam. 2 and other things which for brevity sake I now pass by James Arderne M. A. of Christs Coll. See among the Incorporations an 1673. All the said Cambridge men viz. B. Rively J. Dowell R. Sprackling R Kidder and J. Arderne were incorporated on the 13 of July at which time were incorporated 15 other Masters of the said University among whom were Joh. Quarles and Joh. Gosling of Peter House Jan. 2. Henry Yerbury Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had been turn'd out of his Fellowship of Magd. Coll. in this University by the Visitors in 1648 did afterwards travel and took the said degree at Pad in the beginning of Apr. 1654. After his Majesties return he was restored by his Commissioners an 1660 was a Candidate of the Coll. of Phys and dying on the 25 of March 1686 was buried in the Chappel belonging to Magd. Coll near to the north door which leads from the cloister therein I shall make farther mention of this person when I come to speak of Dr. Thomas Pierce Creations Apr. 16. Will. Burt M. of A. chief Master of Wykehams School near Winchester was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chanc. of the Univ. This person who was Son of Will. Burt sometimes belonging to the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll in 1627 took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Master of the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire In 1647 he was made Rector of Whitfield in the said County and soon after became chief Master of Wykehams School before mentioned in the place of Dr. Jo. Pottinger On the 9. of Sept. 1658 he was admitted Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Harris deceased and after his Majesties restauration was made Prebendary of the Cathedral there He hath published Concio Oxoniae habita postridie Comitiorum 13 Julii 1678 pro gradu Doctoris in Psal 72.17 Oxon. 1659 in tw Dedic to Rich. Cromwell Lord Protector of England with whom and the great men going before in the interval he kept pace This being all the exercise that he performed for the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div I do therefore put him under the Creations He died at Winchester 3 July an 1679 and was buried on the South side of the altar in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of Wykeham near Winchester May 14. Rob. Woseley or Wolseley who had been a Student in this Univ. for 8 years time and a Burgess as 't is said in the register in the late Parliament was actually created Master of Arts I cannot find his name in the Catalogues of Parliament men that sate in the three Parliaments going before this time only Charles Wolseley Esq who was one of Olivers Lords July 7. Paul Hartman of the City of Thorne in Prussia was actually created Mast of Arts He was afterwards one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch and is now or else was lately Rector of Shillingford in Berks This person who is Brother to Ad. Sam. Hartman mentioned among the Incorporations an 1680 hath written and published certain matters pertaining to Grammar as I have heard An. Dom. 1659. An. 11. Car. 2. An. 1 â— Rich. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell
Charles was afterwards Burgess for the Town of Cambridge to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 19 May 1685 1 Jac. 2. He and his brother at the time of their Creation and before were Sojourners for a time in the Univ. of Oxon. Aug. 23. Joh. Drope of Magd. Coll. This person who was son of Tho. Drope Vicar of Cumnore near Abendon in Berks was born in the Vicaridge-house there became Demy of Magd. Coll an 1642 aged 16 years or thereabouts bore arms for the King soon after within the Garrison of Oxon made true and perpetual Fellow of his Coll. in 1647 and ejected thence in the year following Afterwards he was made the first Master of the Free-School in Dorchester in Oxfordshire founded by Sir Joh. Fetiplace but leaving it soon after he was succeeded therein by Dav. Thomas Usher of Thame School After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship studied Physick and practised it afterwards in a Mercate Town in Lincolnshire called Burrough He hath written 1 An Hymenaean Essay or an Epithalamy upon the royal Match of Ch. 2. and Katherine Infanta of Portugal 1662. Oxon. 1662. in one sh and an half in qu. 2 A Poem upon the most hopeful and ever flourishing Sprouts of Valour the indefatigable Centrys of the Physick Garden in Oxon. Oxon. 1664. on one side of a broad sh of paper in two Columes See more among the Works of Edm. Gayton his jocular friend and companion p. 271. 3 Poems on several occasions These I have seen ready written for the Press and tho commended by several persons yet they are not printed He died in the beginning of Octob. 1670 and was buried in the Church at Burrough before mention'd Franc. Drope brother to John before mention'd was created the same day Aug. 23. I have mention'd him already among the Writers p. 357. Aug. 23. James Metford of C. C. Coll. He was the son of Joh. Metford of Crookhorne in Somersetshire was elected Scholar of the said Coll from that of Merton in Jan. 1647 ejected soon after thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors but being restored in 1660 was after he had been created M. of A made Fellow of his house Afterwards by the presentation of the President and Society thereof he became Rector of Bassingham in Lincolnshire where he now lives and in Aug. 1687 he became Preb. of Bole in the Ch. of York by the resignation of Rob. Powell He hath published A general discourse of Simony Lond. 1682. oct having been put upon the writing of it by Dr. Mich. Honywood Dean of Linc who was pleased to inform the author with some resentment of the too great progress of it in the Nation bewailing the fatal consequence of it in the Church and commanding him to say something if possible to stop its growth Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. was created the same day I have at large made mention of him among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 624. Philip Fell of Trin. Coll. was created also the same day This person tho he was no sufferer for the Kings Cause or ever took the degree of B. of A as having before left his Coll. abruptly upon no good account yet by the favour and interest of his elder Brother Dr. Joh. Fell he was not only created M. of A but also sped Fellow of All 's Coll had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him without any Exercise for it as having been nominated by his said brother while he was Vicechancellour to answer the Doctors in Comitiis when there was no Act and at length to be Fell. of the Coll. at Eaton He was always esteemed a most excellent Latin Poet as his copies of Verses in several books occasionally published in the name of the University and in others do manifestly shew He died at Hereford in the house of Dr. George Bensâ—n Dean of the Church there who had married his sister on the 26 of Febr. 1682 aged 49 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was conveyed to Worcester and buried in the Cath. Ch. there among the graves of his Mothers relations Sept. 20. Joh. Speed of S. Joh. Coll. 28. Dennis Greenvill of Exet. Coll. The last who had been no Sufferer for the Kings Cause nor ejected his Coll because entred therein after the Parl. Visitors had turn'd all the Royalists out thence was created by the favour of his great Relations and at length by their endeavours he became Dean of Durham He hath published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred See among the created Doct. of Div. 1670. Nov. 29. George Brereton of Qu. Coll a younger son of Will Lord Brereton This person who had been no Surferer or was expel'd was not only created among the Sufferers but also made soon after Fellow of All 's Coll which place he being in a manner forced to leave was by the favour of Dr. Cosin made Prebendary of Durham He died in the beginning of March 1672. Dec. 15. Clem. Couteur a Jersey man born of Ch. Ch. Jan. 14. Dav. Whitford of Ch. Ch. Jan. 14. Will. Godolphin of Ch. Ch. The last which had not any way suffer'd I shall mentâ—on hereafter Feb. 14. Henry Hyde eldest son of Edward Lord Hyde of Hindon Chanc. of this Univ. afterwards Earl of Clarendon was diplomated M. of A. This Henry who was afterwards Lord Cornbury and after his fathers death Earl of Clarendon became L. Chamberlain to Q. Catherine in which office I find him in 1665 was sworn of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and took his place at the board 26 May 1680. In the middle of Febr. 1684 he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of George Marquess of Hallifax made L. President of the Privy Council and about the beginning of Dec. 1685 K. James 2. being then in the throne he was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which honorable office he keeping a full year was recalled and soon after the Privy Seal was taken from him as being a person that answer'd not that Kings expectation c. About the time of his recalment he was elected High Steward of this University and after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he suffered in several respects without offence let it be spoken because he was a Non-juror He is a true son of the Ch. of Engl a lover of the regular Clergy c. Laurence Hyde younger Brother to Henry before mentioned was also diplomated M. of A. the same day In Apr. 1661 he was elected one of the Burgesses for this University to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year and on the 30 of Oct. following he with Will Lord Croft and Sir Charles Berkley Groom of the Stole and Gent of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York began their Journey for France the two former being sent by his Majesty and the latter by the said Duke to the K. of France to congratulate the happy birth of the
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
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll. in 1664 and on the 16 of January 1666 he was created a Baronet He hath translated into English The Epistle of Sapho to Phaon which is in a book entit Ovids Epistles translated by several hands c. Lond. 1681. sec edit in oct And in another book called Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids love Elegies Odes of Horace c. by the most eminent hands Lond. 1684 oct Sir Carr hath translated The fourth Elegy of Ovids first book of Elegies which is in the 110 page of the said Miscellany Poems as also The parling of Sireno and Diana out of the 3 book of Ovids Elegies which is in the 173 page of that Miscellany He wrot also the Prologue to The Rival Queens or the death of Alexander Trag. Lond. 1677 qu. made by Nath. Lee And as divers Satyrical copies of verses were made on him by other persons so he hath divers made by himself on them which to this day go from hand to hand He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster in Nov or thereabouts 1680. All which persons from Jam. Russell to Sir Carr Scrope were created on the fourth of Feb. Feb. 5. John Scudamore a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. Grandson and Heir of Visc Scudamore of Slego in Ireland He was to be created the day before with the rest but was absent Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Thom. Boteler Earl of Ossory in Ireland and Lord Roteler of More-Park in England the eldest Son of James Duke of Ormonde and General of all the Forces in Ireland under his Father now Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom was created Doct. of the Civil Law with more than ordinary solemnity He was afterwards made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and in 1673 May 17 he was made Reer-Admiral of the Blew-Squadron of his Majesties Fleet in order to the great Sea-fight against the Dutch which shortly after hapned In which fight as also in others he gallantly acted beyond the fiction of a Romance Afterwards he was made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen and on the 16 of Apr. 1680 he was sworn of his Majesties most honorable Council At length this brave Gent of whom enough can never be spoken died of a violent Feaver in Whitehall on Friday 30. July 1680 whereupon his body was in the next evening carried privately and deposited in a vault in the Chap. of Hen. 7 joyning to the Abbey Church at Westminster there to remain till his Father the Duke of Ormonde should order the farther disposal of it Afterwards it was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland as I have been informed and there laid in the Vault belonging to the Ormondian Family under part of the Cath. Church His eminent Loyalty and forward zeal on all occasions to serve his Majesty and Country were manifested by many brave and generous actions which as they made him to be honoured and esteemed by all when living made him also when dead generally lamented There were several Elegies made on his death deploring much the untimely loss of so great and valiant a Commander as he was the chiefest and best of which was made by Thomas Flatman which being his Master-piece he was nobly rewarded for his pains as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 626. George Douglas Son of the Marquess of Douglas in Scotland lately an Officer of note in the Army under the K. of France now an Officer or Captain under the K. of Poland was created next after the Earl of Ossory Sir Nich. Armorer Kt Governour of Duncannon Castle with the territory adjoyning in Ireland The said three persons were presented by Dr. Hen. Deane of New Coll and created by the Vicechanc. with a little complemental Speech which being done and they conducted to their respective Seats among the Doctors Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. the Dep. Orator did congratulate them with an accurate Speech in the name of the University Afterwards were created Masters of Arts certain Noblemen and persons of quality of this University as I have before told you among these Creations In the latter end of this year Joh. Jacob. Buxtorfius Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Basil became a Sojournour in this University for the sake of the Bodleian Vatican and continued there some months He was a learned man as by the things that he hath published appears An. Dom. 1667. An. 19. Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. E. of Clar c. but he being accused of divers crimes in Parl which made him withdraw beyond the Seas he resigned his Chancellourship of the University by his Letter bearing date at Calis Dec. 7. Which being read in Convocation on the 20 of the same month the right reverend Father on God Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury was then elected into his place Vicechanc. the same viz. Joh. Fell D. D. Aug. 16. by the nomination of the E. of Clar. Proct. George Roberts of Mert. Coll. Apr. 17. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Arts. May 21. Corbet Owen of Ch. Ch. May 21. George Walls of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682. Jun. 27. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. Jun. 27. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1670. July 4. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll. July 4. Thom. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. Oct. 17. Tho. Crane of Brasn Coll. Of the first and last of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1684 and among the Masters 1670. As for Thomas Jekyll he hath published several Sermons and other things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Oct. 17. Maurice Wheeler of New Inn afterwards Chaplain or Petty Canon of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1670. Oct. 17. William Pindar of Vniv Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Thompson of Vniv Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1670. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ I must mention here He was the Son of Rob. Thomps of Wakefield in Yorkshire was bred in Grammar learning there and thence sent to Vniv Coll. where he became a Scholar of the old foundation took one degree in Arts left it upon pretence of being unjustly put aside from a Fellowship there went to Cambridge took the degree of Master of Arts had Deacons orders confer'd on him and afterwards those of Priest which last he received from Dr. Fuller B. of Linc. in Hen. 7. Chap. at Westm 14 of March 1670. Being thus qualified he became Curat of Brington in Northamptonshire for Dr. Thomas Pierce who when made Dean of Salisbury an 1675 left that Living and took his Curat with him to that City and in 1676 he gave him a Prebend there and afterwards a Presentation to S. Maries in Marlborough in Wilts In
1674 and was there in some yard or burial place committed to the earth Doct. of Div. June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Nathan Bisbie of Ch Ch. The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes Physitian to Hen. Duke of Glocester afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society Physitian to the Queen Consort and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Creations June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk and a munificent Benefactor to this University by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Marshall of England an 1672 and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas who died distracted at Padua in the Dukedom of Norfolk This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January 1683 and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex He then left behind him a Widow which was his second Wife named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an antient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons Under this Duke of Norfolks name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna and from thence to Constantinople in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellour of State to his Imperial Majesty c. Lond. 1671. in tw Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mention'd was after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ Law created Master of Arts. On the 28 of January 1677 he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lords House and seated next before Will Lord Stourton by the name of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Fathers death Duke of Norfolk and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. See in the creations an 1684. After these two Henry Howards were created and seated one on the right and the other on the left hand of the Vicechancellour the publick Orator of the University stood up and in an excellent speech congratulated them especially the Father in the name of the University June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mention'd was then actually created Master of Arts This Thomas Howard who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created but was then absent was with his said Brother Henry Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury but they did not wear Gowns because both were then Rom. Catholicks The said Thomas afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptized became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq about the 12 of Mar. 1686 and afterwards upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine was sent Embassadour to Rome where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William Prince of Orange Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England but going thence about publick concerns to France in behalf of his Master the Ship wherein he was was cast away and he himself drowned about the beginning of the year 1690. June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch was created Mast of Arts He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory and is now Earl of Stamford c. Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll of 20 years standing was created M. of A. One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847 but whether this was I cannot yet tell Quaere In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library where improving himself much in Literature he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physick which he published An. Dom. 1669. An. 21. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University being never sworn thereunto or installed by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July the most high mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde Earl of Ossory and Brecknock L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold c. was unanimously elected Chancellour on the 4. of Aug having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ Law and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ Law and President of S. Johns Coll Sept. 23. Proct. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. Apr. 21. Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll but before he took the degree of Master he went to the Middle Temple and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683 and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased he was made Attorney to the Duke of York On the 16 of Oct. 1685 he was sworn L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and one of his Majesties K. Jam. 2. most honourable Privy Council whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Serjeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales his case Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answer'd by W. Atwood Barrester and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atkâ—ns Kt. of the Bath then late
one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Afterwards Sir Edw. was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of indempnity or pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary dated 23. May 1690. May 6. Thomas Adderley of S. Johns Coll. This person who was a Warwickshire man born was a Servitour of the said Coll and after he had taken one degree in Arts he left it and became Chaplains as it seems to Sir Edw. Boughton of Warwickshire Bt. He hath written and published The care of the peace of the Church the duty of every Christian In a discourse on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1679. qu. To which is added A Letter shewing the great danger and sinfulness of popery written to a young Gentleman a Roman Cath. in Warwickshire May 27. Rich Roderick of Ch. Ch. May 27. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. Jun. 15. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682 of the second among the Masters 1672 and of the third among the Bach. of Div. 1681. June 19. Rich. Leigh of Qu. Coll. This Gent who was a younger Son of Edw. Leigh mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 351. hath Poetry and other things extant and therefore he is to crave a place hereafter among the Writers Oct. 19. Humph. Humphreys of Jes Coll. He was afterwards B. of Bangor 26. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1681. Dec. 11. Richard Forster of Brasn Coll. See among the Masters in 1673. Feb. 1. Joh. Clerk of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll. See among the Mast an 1673. Mar. 15. Joh. Rogers of S. Joh. Coll. See among the Mast an 1672. Admitted 208 or thereabouts Doct. of Mus July 8. Benj. Rogers Organist of Magd. Coll was then admitted Doctor of Musick which degree he compleated in that great and solemn Act celebrated in Sheldons Theater on the 12 of the same month being the third day after the opening and dedication of the said Theater for a learned use This person who was Son of Peter Rogers belonging to his Majesties Chap. of S. George at Windsore in Berks was born at Windsore was when a boy a Choirester and when a Man Clerk or Singing-man of the said Chap. at Windsore Afterwards he became Organist of Ch Ch. in Dublin where continuing till the rebellion broke out in 1641 he was forced thence and going to Windsore he obtained a Singing mans place there But being soon after silenced by the great troubles occasion'd by the Civil Wars in England he taught his profession at Windsore and in the neighbourhood and by the favour of the men then in power got some annual allowance in consideration of his lost place In 1653 or thereabouts he being then famed for a most admirable Composer did at the request of great personages compose several sets of Airs of four parts to be performed by Violins and an Organ which being esteem'd the best of their kind that could be then composed were sent as great rarities into Germany to the Court of Archduke Leopold now Emperour and were tried and often played by his own Musitians to his very great content he himself being then a Composer and a great Admirer of Musick In 1658 his great favourer and encourager of his profession Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo Fellow of Eaton conducted him to Cambridge got the degree of Bach. of Mus to be confer'd on him as a member of Qu. Coll that Doctor having been sometimes Fellow thereof and at that time a Proceeder in Div. and giving great content by his song of several parts which was his exercise performed in the Commencement that year by several voices he gained the reputation there of a most admirable Musitian and had the greater part of his fees and entertainment defray'd by that noble and generous Doctor After his Majesties restauration the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London being unanimously dispos'd to entertain the King the two Dukes and both Houses of Parliament with a sumptuous Feast it was ordered among them that there should be added to it the best Musick they could obtain And B. Rogers being then esteemed the prime Composer of the Nation he was desir'd of them to compose a song of several parts to be performed while the King and company were at dinner Whereupon in order to it Dr. Ingelo made Hymnus Eucharisticus the beginning of the prelude to which is Exultate Justi in Domino c. This also he translated into English and both were printed in single papers These things being done B. Rogers composed a song of four parts to that Hymne which was more than once tried in private At length on the 12. of July Thursday 1660 being the day that his Majesty James Duke of York Henry Duke of Glocester and both Houses of Parliament were at Dinner in the Guild-hall of the City of London the said printed papers in Latin and English being delivered to the King the two Dukes and dispersed among the Nobility c. purposely that they might look on them while the performance was in doing the song was began and carried on in Latin by twelve Voices twelve Instruments and an Organ mostly performed by his Majesties Servants Which being admirably well done it gave very great content and Mr. Rogers the author being present he obtained a great name for his composition and a plentiful reward Much about that time he became Organist of Eaton Coll where continuing till Theodore Colby a German was prefer'd to be Organist of Exeter Cathedral Dr. Thomas Pierce who had a great value for the man he himself being a Musitian invited him to Magd. Coll. and gave him the Organists place there and there he continued in good esteem till 1685 and then being ejected the reason why let others tell you the Society of that house allow'd him an yearly pension to keep him from the contempt of the world In which condition he now lives in his old age in a skirt of the City of Oxon unregarded He hath extant certain compositions in a book entit Cantica Sacra Containing Hymns and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Latin and English Lond. 1674. fol. As also in The Latine Psalmes and Hymns of four parts published by Joh. Playford His compositions for instrumental Musick whether in two three or four parts have been highly valued and were always 30 years ago or more first called for taken out and played as well in the publick Musick school as in private Chambers and Dr. Wilson the Professor the greatest and most curious Judge of Musick that ever was usually wept when he heard them well perform'd as being wrapt up in an extasie or if you will melted down while others smil'd or had their hands and eyes lifted up at the excellency of them c. But now le ts go on with the admissions Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one of
the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the dedication of the Theater and the coming to the University of the Duke of Ormonde Mast of Arts. On the 9 of July in a Convocation held in the Sheldonian Theater betwixt the hours of 8 and 10 in the morn at which time it was dedicated to a learned use were these seven persons following actually created Masters of Arts there George Berkley of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of George Lord afterwards Earl of Berkley He was afterwards benenced in Leycestershire at Segrave I think and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester 22. July 1686 on Matth. 7.12 Lond. 1686. qu. c. Blewet Stonehouse of Ch. Ch. Baronets Tho. Middleton of Ch. Ch. Baronets Joh. Bowyer of Ch. Ch. Baronets Ralph Ashton of Brasn Coll. Baronets Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Baronets Charles Keymish of Wadh. Coll. Baronets Afterwards were these two persons following created in the Convocation house at what time the most noble Duke of Ormonde was created Doct. of Law Jul. 15. Rob. Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronets Jul. 15. Will. Drake of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets Sir Rob. Shirley Son of Sir Rob. Shirley who died in the Tower of London was brought into the Lords house and seated next above the Lord Stourton by the name of the Lord Ferrers of Chartley 28. Jan. 1677 as I have before told you Jul. 17. Franc. Cholmondeley Esq Jul. 17. George Brucâ— These two were to have been created on the 15 of Jul. when the Duke of Orm. honored the degree of Doct. of Law had they been present The first was of the antient family of his name in Cheshire and was a Burgess as it seems to serve in Parl. after the Prince of Orange came to the Crown The other was a Scot of an antient and noble race Doct. of Law July 15. The most illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Ossâ—ry and Brecknock Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Chanc. of the Univ. of Dublin Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council in all his Majesties Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold L. Lieutenant of the County of Somerset Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter was with great solemnity actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in the House of Convocation in order to his election of Chancellour of this University which was accordingly made on the 4 of Aug. following He was paternally descended from Harvey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of K. Hen. 2 whose posterity afterwards became Earls of Ormonde whereof another James surnamed Boteler who married Elizabeth the Dau. of Humph. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England by Elizabeth his Wife one of the Daughters of K. Edw. 3. was the first so created by K. Edw. 3. This James Duke of Ormonde was L. Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory where he performed great things for his cause and afterwards did constantly adhere to K Ch. 2. in the tedious time of his calamitous exile Afterwards for these his loyal actings and sufferings he was by his Majesty after his restauration made L. Lieutenant of Ireland and advanced to honours and places in England as before 't is told you At length in the latter end of Nov. 1682 his Majesty K. Ch 2. was graciously pleased to create him a Duke of this Kingdom of England by the name and title of James Duke of Ormonde This most noble person who was a true Son of the Church of England a zealous adherer to the Royal cause and a great lover of the regular Clergy Universities and Scholars hath going under his name several Declarations Letters c. while he was L. Lieutenant of Ireland and in other capacities engaged there for the cause of K. Ch. 1 as also A Letter in answer to Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Observations and reflections on the E. of Castlehavens Memoirs concerning the rebellion of Ireland Lond. 1682 in 3 sh in fol. See in Arth. Annesley E. of Angl. among the Writers in this Vol. an 1686. p. 598.599 He died much lamented at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on Saturday 21. of July 1688 aged 79 years whereupon succeeded him in his honours his Grandson James Earl of Ossory Son of his eldest Son Thom. late Earl of Ossory Afterwards his body was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland and there depoâ—ted in a vault under part of the Cath. Ch. among his Ancestors Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield was created the same day Jul. 15. He had before taken for his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of the said James Duke of Ormonde Rob. Spencer Esq Joh. Evelyn Esq The last of these two who was originally of Ball. Coll hath written many things of great curiosity and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers with honor It was then also July 15. granted that Charles Earl of Dunfermling in Scotland and Theobald Earl of Carlingford in Ireland who accompanied the Duke of Ormonde in these parts might be created Doctors of Law but whether they were so it appears not Doct. of Phys Nov. 2. Elias Ashmole Esq sometimes of Brasn Coll now 1669 chief controller of his Majesties excise in England and Wales was diplomated Doct. of Phys ab eruditione reconditâ benevolentia in Academ propensa nobis charissimus as it is said in the pub reg of the University He hath written several things and therefore he is with due respect to be numbred hereafter as he is partly already among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. Feb. 28. Joh. Durell of Merton Coll. the judicious and laborious Advocate for the Church of England both in word and deed was then created On the 15 of July when the D. of Orm. was created it was unanimously granted by the members of Convocation that Rich. Lingard Dean of Lismore in Ireland might be admitted to the degree of Doct. of Div but whether he was so it appears not He was now publick Professor of Div. of the University of Dublin of which he was D. D. and dying at Dublin was buried in the Chap. of Trinity Coll. there on the 13 of Nov. 1670. Soon after were published An Elegy and funeral Oration on his death In both which the last being in Lat. and spoken in the Hall of the said Coll. just before he was inter'd may be seen a just character of his great learning and worth He was originally of the University of Cambridge and hath written among other things A Letter of advice to a young Gentleman leaving the Vniversity concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world Printed in tw 1670 c. The said letter was
Ch. Ch. May 28. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. Dec. 9. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. See among the Masters in 1690. Adm. 143. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Thom. Wood of New Coll. Besides him were five more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 11. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who is Son of a Father of both his names mention'd among the Writers p. 648 hath written and published Daphnis A pastoral Elegy on the death of that hopeful Gent Mr. Franc. Wollaston Oxon. 1685. c. Apr. 20. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Adm. 84. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Nov. 24. Will. Hallifax of C. C. C. He hath translated from French into English The Elements of Euclid explain'd in a new but most easie method Oxon. 1685. oct Written by F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales of the Society of Jesus Feb. 18. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law June 25. Rich. Parsons of New Coll. 30. Will. Rimes of New Coll. The first of these two is now Chanc. of the Dioc. of Glocester June 30. Joseph Woodward of Or. Coll. July 2. George Gardiner of All 's Coll. The first of these two accumulated July 7. Rich. Aldworth of S. Joh. Coll. 8. Philip Forster of Oriel Coll. 8. Lew. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these last three was a Compounder and the last an Accumulator Doct. of Phys June 30. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. July 2. Will. Gould of Wadh. Coll. July 2. Will. Coward of Mert. Coll. The last of these two translated into Lat. heroick verse the English Poem called Absalom and Achitophel Oxon. 1682 in 5. sh in qu. Written by Joh. Driden Esq Poet Laureat to K. Ch. 2. It was also about the same time translated by Franc. Atterbury and Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. July 8. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. July 8. Joh. Foley of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was incorporated Bach. of Phys of this University as he before had stood at Dublin 20 of April this year Doct. of Div. June 22. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. On the 15 of Apr. 1687 he was elected President of his Coll in the place of Dr. Hen. Clerk deceased and on the 22 of June following being the day of his admission to the degree of D. D. he was removed thence by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sitting at Westm to make room for Dr. Parker Bishop of Oxon whom the K. had nominated appointed and commanded to succeed Dr. Clerk upon the laying aside of Anth. Farmer See more in Sam. Parker among the Writers p 617. At length the Prince of Orange being about to come into England to take upon him the government thereof he was restored to his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winch. commission'd for that purpose by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 on the 25 of Octob. 1688 after Dr. Parker had enjoyed it during his natural life and after the removal thence of his Successor Bonaventure Gifford by his Majesties command Afterwards Dr. Hough succeeded Tim. Hall in the See of Oxon with liberty allowed him to keep the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. in Commendam with it July 2. Edward Winford of All 's Coll. 8. Thom. Bayley of New Inn. 8. Sam. Eyre of Linc. Coll. The first of these two was admitted Principal of his Inn or Hall on the resignation of Mr. Will. Stone 12 of Aug. 1684. The other was afterwards Preb. of Durham Incorporations The Act being put off again no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only a Bach. of Law from Dublin July 6. Creations In a Convocation held 15 Dec. were Letters read from the Chanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel born aâ— Rochelle partly bred under his Father an eminent Physitian and two years or more in the University of Samur to be created Bach. of the Civ Law but whether he was created or admitted it appears not He and his Father were French Protestants and were lately come into England to enjoy the liberty of their religion which they could not do in France because of their expulsion thence by the King of that Country Tho his Maj. K. Jam. 2. was entertained by the University in the beginning of Sept. this year yet there was no creation made in any faculty which was expected and gaped after by many An. Dom. 1688. An. 4. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he dying at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on the 21. of July his Grandson James lately a Noble man of Ch. Ch. Son of his eldest Son Thom. Earl of Ossory was unanimously elected into his place in a Convocation held at 10. in the morning of the 23 of the same month The next day came a Mandat from his Majesty for George Lord Jeffreys L. Chanc. of England to be elected Chanc. of the University but the former election being not in a possibility to be revoked there were Letters sent to satisfie his Majesty concerning that matter The said James Duke of Ormonde was installed in his house in S. James's Square within the liberty of Westminster on the 23 of Aug. following which being concluded followed an entertainment for his noble Friends acquaintance and the Academians equal to if not beyond any that had been made by the present King or his Predecessor Vicechanc. Gilb. Ironside D. D. Sept. 19. Proct. Thom. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 26. Will. Christmas of New Coll. Apr. 26. The 25 of Apr. being S. Marks day and the first day of the Term their admission was not till the next Bach. of Arts. June 19. Samuel Westley of Exeter Coll. This person hath written and published Maggots or Poems on several subjects never before handled Lond. 1685. oct Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Mast of Arts. June 19. Will. Nicholls of Mert. Coll. He hath written An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel c. July 6. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. Comp. July 6. William King of Ch. Ch. Comp. Adm. 89. Bach. of Physick Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Five were admitted but not one as yet a Writer or Dignitary Doct. of Law Mar. 23. Charles Finch of All 's Coll a younger Son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Ballard of New Coll. Doct. of Div. July 6. Henry Hill of C. C. Coll. 7. Thom. Houghton of New Coll. The last of which was an Accumulator and Compounder 7. Roger Mander of Ball. Coll. 7. Peter Birch of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was elected Master of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Venn deceased 23 Oct. 1687. The other who is now Preb. of Westminster hath published A Sermon before the H. of Commons on John 26.3 Printed at the Savoy 1689 qu. Incorporations The Act being now the fourth time put off not one Cambridge Master was incorporated