of Ansley in Wiltshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1609 aged 19 years and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law became an Advocate of note in Doctors Commons In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law became the Kings Professor of that fac in the year following was chosen by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports a Burgess twice at least for Hyeth in Kent to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1 became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon Principal of S. Albans Hall in 1625 and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sate in the University he submitted to their power and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty tho he kept that honorable office but for a small time was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived He was an exact Artist a subtile Logician expert Historian and for the knowledge in and practice of the Civil Law the chief Person of his time as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas where several of them are reprinted partly testifie He was so well vers'd also in the statutes of the University and controversies between the members thereof and the City that none after Twynes death went beyond him As his birth was noble so was his behaviour and discourse and as personable and handsome so naturally sweet pleasing and affable The truth is there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement but the interruption of the times which silenc'd his profession would have given a stop to his rise had he been of another disposition His works are these The Dove or passages of Cosmography Lond. 1613. oct This is a Poem which he wrot in his younger days and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus regulis sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct 1636. qu. in 7. parts Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16o. Amstel 1681. in tw Descriptio Juris Judicii feudalis secundum consuetudines Mediolani Norman pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct Descript Jur. Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales Normanicos Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts Descript Juris Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canones constitutiones Anglicanas Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts This book with Desc Juris Judicii tempor c. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae Lond. 1683. oct Descr Juris Judicii sacri ad quam leges quae ad religionem piam causam respiciant referuntur Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. Amstel 1652. in 16o. Desc Jur. Jud. Militaris ad quam leges quae rem militarem ordinem personarum respiciunt referuntur Printed with the former Des Jur. Jud. Maritimi ad quam quae ad navigationem negotiationem maritimam respiciunt referuntur Printed also with the former Juris Judicii fecialis sive Juris inter gentes quaestionum de eodem explicato c. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law Oxon. 1652. oct In the year following was published a book entituled Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis cum designatione authorum Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it and therefore I cannot yet say 't was written by Dr. Zouche It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa Brother to the Portuguese Embassador having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm on the 22. of Nov. 1653 and thereupon imprisoned there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice and how Whereupon our Author Zouche who was then the living Pandict of the Law being sent for from Oxon he cleared their doubts whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ Law and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654 our Author thereupon wrot this book following Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente Oxon. 1657. oct Afterwards he published these books following Eruditionis ingenuae specimina scil Artium Logicae Dialecticae Rhetoricae nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus praeceptis sententiis illustrat Oxon. 1657. in tw Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria in 10 classes destributa Ox. 1660. oct Lond. 1682. in tw the third Edit The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edw. Cokes Articuli Admiralitatis in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts Lond. 1663 in a large oct published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of All 's Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctors Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine somtimes the Wife of William Powell alias Hinson Esquire He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num 150. HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name was born in Buckinghamshire became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161â— 1â— aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613 about which time he with Bevill Greenvill of Ex. Coll. also were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales in 1616 and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth being then noted for a Person well skill'd in the modern languages and a general Scholar the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion when by a forced retiredness he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake He hath extant these things following Speech in the H. of Peers 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English 1 Romulus and Tarquin or de principe tyranno Lond. 1637. in tw written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses in his Fragm aurea c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. 2 Historical relations of the united
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
Rich. Richardson sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge now or lately an Inhabitant in the most pleasant Village of Brixworth in Northamptonshire Lond. 1673. oct In this version he hath left out some of the ornamental and emblematical part of the English copy and hath with the Authors scatter'd and intermix'd his own Observations on Bees and what of note he had either heard from men skilful this way or had read in other books But this last translation being slow in the sale there hath been a new title put to it and said therein to be printed at Oxon. 1682. oct Rhetoricae libri duo Oxon. 1618. and 29. qu. Lond. 1635. oct De propinquitate matrimonium impediente regula generalis Oxon. 1625. qu. Oratoriae libri duo Ox. 1633. qu. Lond. 1635. oct English Grammar Ox. 1634. qu. The principles of Musick Lond. 1636. qu. He took his last farewel of this world on the 29 of March in sixteen hundred forty and seven and in that of his age 88 or thereabouts after he had been Vicar of Wotton St. Laurence before mention'd 48 years and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there EPHRAIM PAGIT or Paget son of Euseb Pag. mentioned before under the year 1617. p. 357. was born of a gentile family in Northamptonshire matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 25 of May 1593 aged 18 but whether he took a degree it appears not Afterwards thro some petit imployments he became Parson of the Church of S. Edmund in Lombardstreet within the City of London where he continued many years He hath written Christianographia or a description of the multitudes and sundry sorts of Christians in the world not subject to the Pope c. Lond. 1635. 36. 40. c. qu. Treatise of the Religion of the antient Christians in Britany pr. with some editions of the former book Heresiographia or a description of the heresies of later times Lond. 1645. and 48. 4th edit in qu. He hath also a serm extant called The mystical Wolf on Math. 7. ver 15. Lond. 1645. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen Upon the breaking out of the civil War he was so molested and troubled that meerly for quietness sake he was forced to leave his Benefice in his old age being then commonly called Old Father Ephraim So that retiring to Deptford in Kent spent there the short remainder of his days in great devotion and retiredness At length surrendring up his pious soul to God in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried according to his will in Deptford Churchyard One of both his names his Uncle I think translated into English Sermons upon Ruth Lond. 1586. in oct written originally by Lod. Lavater but whether the said Ephraim Paget was educated in Oxon I cannot justly say tho two or more of his sirname and time occur in our Registers THOMAS COLEMAN was born in Oxfordshire particularly as it seems within the City of Oxon where several of his name and time have lived made his first entry into Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615 and in that of his age 17 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became so accomplish'd in the Hebrew Language that he was commonly called Rabbi Coleman Afterwards he was made Rector of Blyton in Lincolnshire but being schismatically enclined he left that place in the beginning of the civil War 1642 under pretence of persecution by the Cavaliers and retiring to the great City became a grand Covenanteer an inveâ—gher against the King and his Party against the Bishops and Orthodox Clergy one of the Assembly of Divines Rector of S. Peters Church in Cornhill in the place of a loyal Doctor ejected and a Preacher before the Parliament While he sate in the Assembly to which he was chiefly called for his language in the Hebrew tongue he behaved himself modestly and learnedly maintaining among them the tenets of Erastus His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The Christians cause and complaint c. Fast-sermon before the House of Commons on Jerem. 8.20 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 The hearts engagement Serm. at S. Margarets in Westm at the publick entring into the Covenant 29 Sept. 1643 on Jer. 30.21 last clause Lond. 1643. qu. There were then present some Noblemen and Gentlemen many Soldiers and People of all sorts and looking on the Soldiers he told them that the Covenant was the Parliaments sword and buckler For when the Cavaliers shall see you come arm'd with the Covenant they will run run run away from the Lord of Hosts c. 3 Gods unusual answer to a solemn Fast Fast-serm before both houses on Psal 65.5 Lond. 1644. qu. preached upon the sad success that the Parliament Forces had in Cornwall 4 Hopes defer'd and dashed Fast-serm before the H. of Com. on Job 11.20 Lond. 1645. qu. He was not thanked for this sermon according to custom but only ordered to print it because the Presbyterian Party disliked him for that he too slightly spoke of ministerial Authority and seemed not to dislike the Independent c. In his Epist ded to the H. of Com. he saith thus There was never Sermon preached on these publick Fasts that was received with such contrary Affections and Censures as this some approving above commendation others disliking below detestation c. Soon after George Gillespie a Presbyterian Minister of Edenburgh educated in S. Andrews University did not only preach against the said sermon in another delivered before the H. of Lords and in a second elsewhere but also printed them in vindication of the Presbyterians whereupon our Author Coleman published A brotherly Examination examined or a clear justification of those passages in a Sermon against which the rev and learned Commissioner Mr. Gillespie first in two several Sermons and then in print did preach and write Lond. 1646. qu. To which is added A short discovery of some tenets and principles which entrench upon both the honour and power of the Parliament What else our Author hath written I find not only a thing called A modell as the Author of A Friendly debate tells us which was briefly viewed and answer'd in 1645 but neither the Modell or Answer have I yet seen He died suddenly about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and seven but where buried I cannot tell because the register of St. Peters in Cornhill mentions him not I find one Tho. Coleman Minister of Allhallows Barkin near the Tower of London who published a Sermon intit Justification justified an 1653 but of what University he was I know not yet As for G. Gillespie before-mention'd he was a high Covenanteer had some good learning but was very antiprelatical and bold beyond all measure He wrot against the ceremonies several pieces against the Erastians and died about 1649. In the month of January 1660 the tombstone of this Gillespie who had
the year 1592 aged 19 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602 and six years after leaving that House travelled into several Countries beyond the Seas whereby he obtained as well learning as experience At his return he was entertain'd by the Lord Chandois and by him respected and exhibited to After his death our Author with his Wife retired to Gloc. Hall where Dr. Hawley the Principal demised to him Lodgings and then became acquainted so well with Mr. Tho. Allen that by his endeavours the Learned Camden made him his first Reader of the History Lecture which he founded in this University Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall the which with his Lecture he kept to his dying day and was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man and by others a Calvinist He hath written De ratione methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Oxon. 1625. oct printed there again in 1637. in oct with this title Relectiones hyemales de ratione methodo legendi utriusque historias civiles ecclesiasticas c. At length Nich. Horsman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the second Edition and adding thereunto Mantissa de Historicis gentium particularium c. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct and had at the end this Speech of our Author printed with it viz. Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author The said Relectiones with the Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica added thereunto and Justus Lipsius his Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill De Historia set before it They were rendred into English I mean the Relectiones and Mantissa only by Edmund Bohun of Westhall in the County of Suffolk Esq of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know these things following viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the said County being the only Son of Baxter Bohun who with his ancestors have been Lords of the mannour of Westhall ever since 25. Hen. 8. that in the year 1663 he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge and continued there till the latter end of 1666 when then he was driven out of that University by the plague that raged there to his great hindrance in Learning In 1675 he was made one of the Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk and continued so till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was discharg'd In the first year of K. Will. and Qu. Mary he was restored to that office upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then sitting without his seeking and he now serves their Majesties in the said employment This worthy Person hath written An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation in three parts being the History of three Sessions of Parliament The first of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the last of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. 2 A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. against a pamphlet stiled A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments printed with and added to the Address 3 A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer against the mistakes and representations of Algernoon Sidney Esq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there Lond. 1684. in 4. sh and an half in fol. 4 The Justice of Peace his calling a moral Essay Lond. 1684. oct 5 A preface and a conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmers book entit Paetriarcha or the natural Law of Kings c. Added to the second and perfect edition of that book Lond. 1685. oct 6 A Geographical Dictionary representing the present and antient names of all the Countries Provinces remarkable Cities c. of the whole world with a short historical account of the same and their present state Lond. 1688. oct 7 The history of the desertion or an account of all the publick affairs in England from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following Lond. 1689. oct 8 An answer to a piece called The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country Gentleman printed at the end of The Hist of desertion The said Pamphlet called The Desertion discussed was written by Jer◠Collier of Cambridge 10 The Doctrine of Passive Obedience or Non-resistance no way concern'd in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a passage concerning Dr. Ken Bishop of Bathe and Wells which Mr. Bohun is satisfied is not true and therefore he desires that and the whole paragraph in which it is may be cancel'd 11 Life of Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury as I shall tell you by and by He hath also translated into English several things among which is 1 The origen of Atheisme in the Popish and Protestant Churches shewn by Dorotheus Sicurus Lond. 1684. qu. 2 An Apologie of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent Lond. 1685. in oct written by Joh. Jewell sometimes B. of Salisbury To which is added a brief of the Life of the said Jewell collected by Mr. Bohun from the large life of the said Person written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey 3 The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical Histories as I have told you before 4 The universal Historical Bibliotheque or an account of the most considerable books printed in all languages wherein a short account is given of the design of almost every book and the quality of the author if known For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687 Discontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookseller lately living in S. Pauls Ch. yard in London 5 The 25. and 26 th book of the general History of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome began in Germany by Mart. Luther Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. 6 The present state of Germany or an account of the extent rise forme wealth c. of that Empire c. Lond. 1690. oct written in lat by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name What other things he hath written and translated I know not sure I am that our Author Whear hath besides the before-mentioned things published these following Parentatio Historica Sive commemoratio vitae mortis V. C. Guliel Camdeni Clarentii facta Oxoniae in Schola Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Epistolarum Eucharisticarum fasciculus Charisteria These two last are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis
and Church for a long time after But being a man of parts and eminent in the retired Walks of Learning he was looked upon as a person worth the gaining Whereupon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. took upon him to do and at last effected it and to shew what great esteem his Maj. and the Archb. had for the book then lately published Sir Will. Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council was sent with a copy of it to the Barons of the Exchequer in the open Court an 1636 to be by them laid up as a most inestimable Jewel among the choice Records which concerned the Crown In this book he did not only assert the Sovereignty or dominion of the British Seas to the Crown of England but clearly proved by constant and continual practice that the Kings of England used to levy money from the Subjects without help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other Necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty which did of right belong unto them This he brings home to the time of King Hen. 2. and might have brought it nearer to his own times had he been so pleased and thereby paved a plain way to the payment of Ship-money but then he must have thwarted the proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament going before wherein he had been a great Stickler voting down under a kind of Anathema the Kings pretensions of right to all help from the Subject either in Tonage or Poundage or any other ways whatsoever the Parliament not co-operating and contributing towards it But howsoever it was the Service was as grateful as the Author acceptable from thenceforth both a frequent and welcome guest at Lambeth house where he was grown into such esteem with the Archbishop that he might have chose his own preferment in the Court as it was then generally believed had he not undervalued all other Employments in respect of his Studies But possibly there might be some other reason as my Author saith for his declining such Employments as the Court might offer He had not yet forgotten the Affronts which were put upon him about the Hist of Tithes for in the notion of Affronts he beheld them always and therefore he did but make fair weather for the time till he could have an opportunity to revenge himself on the Church and Churchmen the King being took into the reckoning For no sooner did the Archb. begin to sink in power and credit under the first pressures of the Long Parliament but he published a book in Greek and Lat. by the name of Eutychius with some notes upon it in which he made it his chief business to prove that Bishops did not otherwise differ from the rest of the Presbyterrs than doth a Master of a College from the Fellows thereof and so by consequence that they differ'd only in degree not order And afterwards when his Majesty began to decline in the love of the Parliament and that the heats grew strong between them he was affirmed to have written An answer to his Majesties Declaration about the Commission of Array which in effect proved a plain putting of the sword into the hands of the people So hard it is for any one to discern the hearts of men by their outward actions but the God that made them But now let 's proceed to the other books that our learned Author hath written De successionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum leges Hebraeorum Lond. 1631. 36. Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct Franc. ad Oderam 1673. qu. De successione in Pontificatum Hebraeorum lib. duo This is printed and goes with the former book De jure naturali gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. Argentor 1665. qu. Brief discourse concerning the power of Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature Lond. 1640. in two sh in qu. Written either by Selden or by Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Baronet Answer to Harbottle Grimston's Argument concerning Bishops Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects in a conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses an 1628. Lond. 1642. in qu. Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament Lond. 1642. in oct Versio comment ad Eutychii Ecclesiae Alexandrinae Origines Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are added the said Eutychius his Annals with Comments thereon by Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Oxon. De anno civili calendario judaico Lond. 1644. qu. Lugd. Bat. 1683. oct Uxor Hebraica sive de nuptiis ac divortiis lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc. ad od 1673. qu. Fleta seu comment juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus Lond. 1647. qu. Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agendi excipiendique formulis Dissertatio historica ad Fletam These two last are printed and go with Fleta Prefatio ad Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem Lond. 1652. fol. De Synedriis Praefecturis veterum Hebraeorum lib. 3. Lond. 1650. qu. Amst 1679. qu. Which last Edition had divers corrections made to purge out the errors of the former by reason of the many languages 20 in number therein Vindiciae secundum integritatem existimationis suae per convitium de scriptione Maris clausi Lond. 1653. qu. In which are many things said of himself God made man A Tract proving the Nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25 of December Lond. 1661. oct with the Authors picture before it This posthumous book was answer'd in the first Postscript after a book intit A brief but true account of the certain year month day and minute of the birth of Jesus Christ Lond. 1671. oct written by John Butler Bach. of Div. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormond and Rector of Liechborow in the dioc of Peterborough The second Postscript is against Mich. Seneschal D. D. his tract on the same subject This Butler whom I take to be a Cambridge man is a great Pretender to Astrology and hath lately some sharp debates in print in reference thereunto with Dr. Hen. More of the same University Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Lond. 167â— fol. To which is added W. Dugdales Cat. of Lord Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Norman Conquest De nummis c. Lond. 1675. qu. Bibl. nummaria Lond. 1675. qu. Both which are dedicated to that sometimes curious Antiquary for Coynes Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies which he professed and therefore much respected by our Author Selden I shall say these things following of him viz. 1 That he was born at Coxden the inheritance of his Mother near to Chardstock in Dorsetshire on the 18 of Decemb. 1602 according to the Julian Accompt 2 That he was son of Paul D'ewes Esq one of the six Clerks in Chancery by Cecilia his Wife daughter and heir of Rich. Symonds of Coxden before mentioned Which Paul was son of Gerard D'ewes of
of the superlative worth of that eminent servant of Christ Rowl Wilson beforementioned a member of the Parl. of England and of the honorable Counsell of state and one of the Aldermen and Sherriffs of the City of London by George Cokayne teacher of the Gospel at S. Pancras in Soper-lane in London This Rowl Wilson was Son of Rowl Wilson a Merchant of London was a Collonel in the Parliament Army was nominated one of the Kings Judges but refused to sit among them and dyed much lamented by the Citizens of London and those that were Lovers of the Parliaments cause in the beginning of March 1649 as having been a Gent. of excellent parts and great piety of a solid sober temper and judgment and very honest and just in all his actions 4 The fountain opened and the water of life flowing forth for the refreshing of thirsty sinners c. in several Sermons on Isay 55.1.2.3 Lond. 1657. qu. 5 The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of Salvation to poor Sinners c. in several Sermons on Rev. 3.20 Lond. 1658. in tw second edit 6 Elisha's Lamentation upon the suddain translation of Elijah preached at the funeral of Mr. Will. Strong Preacher of the Gospel at Westminster Abbey on 2. Kings 2.12 Lond. 1654. qu. This Will. Strong had been Fellow of Catherine Hall in Cambridge was afterwards Rector of More Chrichel in Dorsetshire which place he leaving in the time of the Rebellion upon pretence of being disturbâ—d by the Cavaliers he retired to London became Minister of S. Dunstans in the West one of the Assemb of Divines a holder forth before the Parliament and at length preacher of the Gospel at Westminst Abbey as before 't is said in which Church he was buried on the fourth day of July 1654. but removed to St. Margarets Church yard adjoining after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. as I have elsewhere told you He hath several Theological Treatises and many Sermons extant as also The Parabole of the Prodigal which I have not yet seen Parliamentarie Sermons as 1 Englands Preservation c. preached before the H. of Commons on Jer. 4 3. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Hamane Vanity on Esther 9.3 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Thanksgiving Sermon 9. Apr. 1644. on Psal 3.8 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 An Arke against a deluge c. Fast Sermon on Heb. 11.7 Lond. 1645. qu. 'T was preached 22. of Oct. 1644. for the uniting of the Army together 5 Nature and danger of Heresies fast Serm. on Rev. 12.15.16 Lond. 1647. qu. He also preached three more which I conceive were printed Speech in Guildhall in Lond. 6. oct 1643. to obtain money to carry on the warr and for the Scots assistance Lond. in qu. The best and worst malignant Printed 1648. qu. This I have not yet seen The doubting Christian resolv'd A treatise of the nature kinds springs and remedies of doubtings Lond. 1653. oct The humbled sinner resolved what he should do to be saved or faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the only way for sensible sinners discovering the quality objects acts c. of justifying faith c. Lond. 1656. qu. The Shepherd of Israel or an exposition of the 23 Psalme together with the Doctrine of providence practically handled Lond. 1658. Published by Humph. Chambers Simeon Ash Edm. Calamy and R. Byfield Presbyterian Ministers Synopsis of Christianity in a clear exposition of the Creed ten Commandements and the Lords Prayer Lond. in oct Anatomy of secret sins c. wherein divers weighty cases are resolved c. together with the remissibleness of all sin and the irremissibleness of the sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1660. qu. The bowells of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting Covenant c. Lond. 1661. fol. A short Catechisme What other things he hath written I know not nor any matter else of him only that he died very wealthy at Marlborough beforemention'd being Lord of the mannour of Ashmansworth in Hampshire about the beginning of January in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried near to the body of his Father in the Chancel of Ogbourne S. Andrew near to the said Town of Marlborough in Wiltshire not with his feet towards the East but towards the South because there wanted room to lay his body otherways GERARD LANGBAINE a great ornament of his time to this University was born at Barton kirke in Westmorland educated in the Free-school at Blencow in Cumberland became a Student in Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Wetherall in the beginning of 1626 aged 18 years where he was successively a poor serving Child Tabarder and at length Fellow being then Master of Arts. In 1644 he was unanimously elected Keeper of the Archives or Records of the University and in the latter end of the year following Provost of his College In June 1646 he was admitted D. of D. being then in general esteem for his great learning and honesty skill in satisfying doubts and discretion in the composure of controversies especially those between the two Bodies the University and City He was also an excellent Linguist able Philosopher and Divine a good common Lawyer a publick spirited man a lover of learning and learned men beloved of us Usher Selden and the great Goliahs of Literature He was also an excellent Antiquary and as judicious in his writings so indefatigable in his studies and of immense undertakings as by those rapsodies of collections that he left behind him appear As for those things that he hath written and published they are these Notae in librum Dionisii Longini de grandi eloquentiâ sive sublimi dicendi genere c. Oxon. 1636. and 38. oct The said Longinus is translated into Latin and hath the Greek on one side and the Lat. on the other and the notes which are in Lat. are at the end of the book These things I note because the same work being done by other hands this may be distinguished from it Brief discourse relating to the times of K. Ed. 6. Or the state of the times as they stood in the raigne of K. E. 6. by way of preface to a book entit The true Subject to the Rebell or the hurt of sedition c. written by Sir Joh. Cheek Knight Oxon. 1641. qu. Life of Sir Joh. Cheek Kt. Set also before the said book which Langbaine reviewed corrected and published upon a foresight that a Rebellion would break out as shortly after it did against K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory Episcopal inheritance or a Reply to the humble examination of a printed Abstract or the Answers to nine Reasons of the House of Commons against the Votes of Bishops in Parliament Oxon. 1641. qu. To which is added A Determination of the late learned Bishop of Salisbury Davenant englished These two were reprinted at Lond. 1680. Review of the Covenant wherein the original grounds means matter and ends of it are examined c. printed 1644 and at Lond. 1661. qu. Answer of the
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
concerning the water of S. Vincents Rocks near Bristol Brief and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of Tobacco These four last were printed with Via recta Philosophical discourse of dieterical Observations for the preserving of health Printed 1620. qu. He died at Bathe on the 27 day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the great Church there dedicated to S. Peter Over his grave was soon after put a very fair Monument with the bust of the defunct in the east wall with a large inscription thereon made by Dr. Rob. Peirce a Physician of Bathe sometimes a Com. of Linc. College a copy of which with most envious notes on it you may see in a book intit A discourse of Bathe c. printed 1676. in oct p. 170. 171. written by a Physician of note in that City HENRY HAMMOND son of Dr. John Hammond Physitian to Prince Henry was born at Chersey in Surrey on the 26 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar Learning in Eaton School near to Windsore where he was much advantaged in the Greek Tongue by Mr. Tho. Allen Fellow of that College In the year 1622 Jul. 30 he was made Demie of Magd. Coll. and the same year was admitted Bach. of Arts. In 1625 he proceeded in that faculty and on the 26 of July the same year he was elected Fellow of that house being then Philosophy Reader and a singular ornament thereunto In 1633 he had the Rectory of Penhurst in Kent confer'd on him by the Earl of Leicester who a little before had been deeply affected with a Sermon that he had delivered at Court and in the latter end of the same year he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1638 he was licensed to proceed in the faculty of Divinity and in 1640 he was made a member of the Convocation of the Clergy called with the short Parliament that began the 13 of April the same year In 1643 he had the Archdeaconry of Chichester confer'd upon him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof and the same year he was nominated one of the Ass of Divines but sate not About which time being forced to leave his Rectory by the Presbyterians he retired to Oxon for shelter and the year following was entertained by the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Southampton to go as their Chaplain with them to London to treat with the Parliament for a composure of the unhappy differences in Church and State so that behaving himself with great zeal and prudence was also the same year appointed to attend the Kings Commissioners at Uxbridge for peace where it being his lot to dispute with Rich. Vines a Presbyterian Minister that attended the Commissioners appointed by Parliament he did with ease and perfect clearness disperse all the Sophisms that had been brought by him or others against him In the beginning of 1645 he was upon the death of Dr. VVill. Strode made one of the Canons of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty then there by vertue of which place I mean the Canonry he became Orator of the University but had seldom an opportunity to shew his parts that way In 1647 he attended the King in his restraint at VVoobourne Caversham Hampton Court and the Isle of VVight but he being sequestred from the office of Chaplain to him about Christmas the same year he retired to his Canonry in Oxon and being elected Sub dean of his house continued there till the Visitors appointed by Parliament first thrust him out without any regard had to his great Learning and Religion and then imprison'd him for several weeks in a private house in Oxon. Afterwards he was confin'd to the house of Sir Philip Warwick at Clapham in Bedfordshire where continuing several months was at length released Whereupon retiring to Westwood in Worcestershire the seat of the loyal Sir John Packington to which place he had received a civil invitation remained there doing much good to the day of his death in which time he had the disposal of great Charities reposed in his hands as being the most zealous promoter of Alms giving that lived in England since the change of Religion Much more may be said of this most worthy person but his life and death being extant written by Dr. Jo. Fell his great Admirer I shall only now say that great were his natural abilities greater his acquired and that in the whole circle of Arts he was most accurate He was also eloquent in the Tongues exact in antient and modern Writers was well vers'd in Philosophy and better in Philology most learned in school Divinity and a great Master in Church Antiquity made up of Fathers Councils ecclesiastical Historians and Lyturgicks as may be at large seen in his most elaborate Works the Titles of which follow A practical Catechism Oxon 1644. and Lond. 1646. qu. There again in 1652 in two vol. in qu. This Catechism was first of all published upon the importune Request of Dr. Christop Potter Provost of Queens Coll. to whom he had communicated yet could never get him to set his name to it Of Scandal Oxon. 1644. qu. Of Conscience Lond. 1650. qu. Of resisting the lawful Magistrate under colour of Religion Oxon. 1644. Lond. 1647. qu. Of Willâ—worship Oxon. 1644. qu. Considerations of present use concerning the danger resulting from the change of our Church Government Printed 1644 and 46. Lond. 1682. qu. Of Superstition Ox. 1645. Lond. 1650. qu. Of sins of weakness and wilfulness Oxon. 1645 50. quart Explication of two difficult texts Heb. 6. and Heb. 10. Printed with Sins of weakness c. Of a late or death-bed repentance Ox. 1645. qu. View of the Directorie and vindication of the Liturgie Ox. 1645. 46. c. qu. Of Idolatry Ox. 1646. Lond. 1650. qu. The Reader â—s now to understand that after the Lord Falklands book called A discourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome was published came out a book written by a Rom. Cath. intit A Treatise apologetical touching the infallibility of the Church Catholick c. printed 1645. Whereupon our Author Dr. Hammond wrot and published A view of the Exceptions which have been made by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount Falklands Discourse of the infallibility of the Ch. of Rome Oxon. 1646. quart The power of the keys or of binding and loosing Lond. 1647. 51. qu. Of the word KRIMA Of the Zelots among the Jews and the liberty taken by them of taking up the Cross Lond. 1647. qu. joyned with the second Edit Of resisting the lawful Magistrate Vindication of Christs representing S. Peter from the Exceptions of Mr. Steph. Marshall Lond. 1647. qu. joyned with the second Edit Of resisting the lawful Magistrate Of fraternal admonition and correption Lond. 1647. 50. qu. Copie of some papers past at Oxon between Dr. Hammond the Author of the Practical Catechism and Mr. Franc. Cheynell Lond. 1647 and 50 in qu. View of some
of Faith and Works Oxon. 1665. oct Answer to Mr. Rich. Smiths Letter concerning the sense of that Article in the Creed He descended into Hell dated 29 Apr. 1659. Lond. 1684. oct The said R. Smiths letter was dated from Little More-fields near Lond. in the said month 1659. This R. Smith being a curious person in matters of that nature did make A Collection of several Expositions and Opinions of Christs descent into Hell and had several Conferences with the learned Selden upon that Argument which he left in writing behind him as I shall elsewhere tell you Paraphrase and Annotations upon the ten first Chapters of the Proverbs Lond. 1683. fol. All or most of which books here set down were by the care of Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. published in four volumes in fol. at Lond. 1684. and at the latter end of the fourth Vol. was put an Appendix to the second vol. At length after this most famous and celebrated Author had spent his life in great retiredness lucubration and devotion he surrendred up his most pious soul to God in the house of Sir John Packington before mention'd on the 25 day of April in sixteen hundred and sixty aged 55 years whereupon his body was on the morrow in the evening buried in the Chancel of Hampton Church near to Westwood before mention'd with the whole office and usual rites of the Church of England not at that time restored or practised by publick command Over his grave was soon after a comely Monument erected with an inscription thereon composed by Dr. Humph. Henchman afterwards B. of London a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 203. a. But a larger than that was made by the affectionate pen of Mr. Tho. Pierce afterwards President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon a copy of which you may see in the beginning of the first vol. of Dr. Hammonds works published by W. Fulman before mentioned The Reader is to know that one Hen. Hammond wrote a book intit Ouragraphy or Speculations on the excrements of Urine c. Lond. 1655. oct c. But this Hen. Hammond who seems to have been a Physician is not to be understood to be the same with our most celebrated Author before mention'd who was brother to Tho. Hammond sometimes a Colonel and afterwards a Lieutenant General in the Army that the Long Parliament raised against K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Judges of that blessed Prince but died before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and so escaped the halter or at least perpetual imprisonment and confiscation of estate The said Dr. Hen. Hammond was also Uncle to Robert Hammond a Colonel of Foot in the said Army made Governour of the Isle of Wight in the beginning of Sept. 1647 and about the 14 of Nov. following his Majesty put his person in trust under the protection of him in the said Isle after he was frighted away from Hampton Court In the middle of July 1648 his Majesty declared to divers of his party about him that the said Colonel was a man of honour and had carried himself civilly and respectively to him Afterwards it was believed that he forfeited the Kings good opinion of him by that uncomely act of looking into his Majesties scrutore of letters with a design to discover something but did not At that time his Majesties servants Mr. Ja. Harrington and Mr. Th. Herbert were in the Bowlingâ—green at Carisbrook waiting upon the King who finding the weather somewhat cold bid Herbert go for his Cloak Herbert therefore entring the Bed-chamber found Hammond the Governour ready to come forth with an Officer in his company and Mr. Humph. Rogers who waited as Page at the Back-stairs and by insinuation had let the said Governour come in Herbert being informed of their designs was afraid to reprove the Governour but as he return'd to the Green with his Maj. Cloak he gave the Page a sharp rebuke with which the Governour being acquainted threatned Herbert with a dismiss for censuring that act of his and had doubtless expel'd him the Castle if his Maj. out of his goodness had not past it by without reproaching the Governour or taking notice thereof as I have been informed by letters from the said Tho. Herbert created a Baronet after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. JAMES CHALONER a younger son of Sir Tho. Chaloner mention'd before under the year 1615 was born in London and at 13 years of age 1616 became a Communer of Brasnose Coll where continuing 3 or 4 years went afterwards either to travel or to the Inns of Court Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642 he sided with the Parliament and being a person of a mean fortune and ready to run with all Parties he was chosen a Recruiter for Auldborough or Oldburg in Yorksh to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 upon the receeding of two loyal persons who had been elected by the Members of that Borough to his Majesty at Oxon. About the same time he took the Covenant and afterwards siding with the Independents was by the power of Fairfax the Generalissimo appointed Secretary to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon in 1647 and in the year following upon Cromwells Invitation one of the Judges of King Ch. 1. Afterwards he was appointed one of the three Commissioners by the said Fairfax to survey and take an account of the Isle of Man an 1652. which Isle had been given to him the said Fairfax by the Parliament for the great service he did them against the King and at length was made Governour of one of the Castles there known if I mistake not by the name of Peel Castle He hath written A short Treatise of the Isle of Man Lond. 1656. fol. divided in six Chapters Illustrated with Cuts and published by Daniel King of Cheshire at the end of the survey of Cheshire intit The Vale Royal of England written by Will. Smith and Will. Webb Gentlemen This Dan. King who was a pitiful pretender to Antiquities was a most ignorant silly Fellow as Sir Will. Dugdale hath informed me by letters an errant Knave and not able to write one line of true English Afterwards he married a light Huswife who stealing that money from him which for many years before he had been scraping together by his progging and necessitous tricks and shifts died heart-broken for his loss near York house in the Strand within the liberty of Westminster about 1664. As for Chaloner who was esteemed by some an ingenious man and a singular lover of Antiquities he had made divers Collections of Arms Genealogies Seals Monuments c. from antient Evidences which being so done were fairly written by him in paper books and afterwards perused by the learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson an eminent Antiquary as some of his Collections from the said books inform me The said Chaloner also had made Collections of Arms
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
before he took a degree entred into holy Orders and taking to wife the daughter of Sir John Lamb of Rothwell in Northamptonshire Chancellour of Peterborough and afterwards Dean of the Arches was put into the Commission of Peace being then Rector of Water-Stratford in Bucks by the gift of Sir Arth. Throcmorton of Paulerspury About that time shewing himself a fierce Persecutor of the Puritans living near him was thro the means of his Father-in-law made Vicar of Brackley in Northamptonshire and by the endeavours of Dr. Piers Vicechanc. of this University Doctor of Divinity an 1624 being then a Member of Linc. Coll. tho he before had not been honoured with any degree in this or as I presume in any other University He with Rog. Manwaring were stiff assertors of the Kings Cause and Prerogative and great promoters for the raising a Loan of money without the knowledge and assistance of his Parliament an 1626. For which service both had preferment Manwaring being afterwards made Rector of Stanford Rivers in Essex c. and Sibthorpe Chaplain in ord to his Maj. Prebendary of Peterborough and Rector of Burton Latimers in Northamptonshire from which two last he was violently ejected in the beginning of the Civil Wars He was a person of little learning and of few parts only made it his endeavours by his forwardness and flatteries to gain preferment If you 'll believe one that was no great friend to the Church of England he 'll tell you that Sibthorpe and Manwaring were exceeding pragmatical so intollerably ambitious and so desperately proud that scarce any Gentleman might come near the tail of their Mules c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A counterplea to an Apostates pardon on Jerem. 5.7 Lond. 1618. qu. 2 Apostolical obedience an Assize Serm. at Northampton on Rom. 13.7 Lond. 1627. qu. The whole scope of which is to justifie the lawfulness of the general loan then set on foot by the Kings ill Counsellors as one saith to keep off Parliaments and of the Kings imposing publick taxes by his own regal Power without consent in Parliament and to prove that the People in point of conscience and religion ought chearfully to submit to such loanes and taxes without any opposition For which matters he was called into question and censured by the Parliament He hath other things extant as I have been informed but such I have not yet seen and therefore can only say that in the time of the Rebellion he suffered very great calamities for his Majesties cause but upon the return of K. Ch. 2. in 1660 he was restored to his Prebendship Rectory of Burton Latimers and other Ecclesiastical Benefices if he had any besides them and that dying in a good old age was buried on the 25 of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two in the Chancel of the Church of Burton Latimers One Robert Sibthorpe Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Northcadbury in Somersetshire became a Student of Ball. Coll. in 1613 aged 18 years which is all I know of him being not to be understood to be the same with the former And another Rob. Sibthorpe I find to have been M. of A. of Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland See more in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1619. PETER HEYLYN Son of Henry Heylyn descended from an antient Family of his name living at Pentrie-Heylyn in Mountgomeryshire was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire on the 29 of Nov. 1599 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there under Mr. Thom. North first and after under Mr. Edw. Davys where profiting in Trivials to a miracle especially in Poetry in which he gave several ingenious Specimens as occasion offer'd was in the year 1613 plac'd by his Father in Hart Hall under the tuition successively of two Tutors viz. Mr. Joseph Hill and Mr. Walt. Newbury a zealous Puritan The next year he stood to be Demie of Magd. Coll but being then put by was the year following elected by which time he had made a considerable progress in Academical Literature After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts which was in Oct. 1617 he read every Long vacation till he was Master Cosmography Lectures in the common refectory of the said College of which the first being performed in the latter end of July 1618 it was so well approved that for that and his other learning he was chose Probationer and the year following perpetual Fellow of the said house On the 22 of Feb. 1619 he began the composing of his Geography according to the hint which he had taken the year before in his Cosmography Lectures and finished it on the 29 of Apr. following In Nov. the same year it was printed and being dedicated to Prince Charles he presented him being then at Theobalds with a copy of it which was very graciously received In 1623 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxon in S. Aldates Church and the year after having augmented and corrected his Geography 't was printed again and presented to the Prince the Author being then introduced by Henry Lord Danvers who then spake very affectionately in his commendations About that time Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester presenting a Copy of it to the King he approved of it well but unfortunately falling on a passage therein whereby the Author gave precedency to France before England he became so much offended that he gave order to the Lord Keeper to call in the Book whereupon the Author then at Oxon being advised to repair to the Court and make use of the Prince to salve that sore he gave such satisfaction concerning it in writing sent to the said Dean that the King perusing it rested very well contented with the matter In 1625 he went into France where spending about six weeks in several placâ—â— wrot the particulars of the said journey in a Book the original of which he presented to the said Lord Danvers but a copy of it he kept by him which at length 30 years after or thereabouts he publish'd to correct a false copy that had crept abroad On the 24 April 1627 he answer'd pro forma on these questions 1 An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis 2 An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined negatively contrary to the mind and judgment of Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity in his lecture De Visibilitate Ecclesiae who thereupon fell foul upon him calling him Bellarminian Pontifician and I know not what and did his best to beat him from his grounds but he held his own This raised great clamour for the present which Prideaux increased the munday after when Heylyn opposed Mr. Will. Haies of Magd. Hall at which time he was once again proclaimed a Papist by him in the publick School of Divinity which might have done him more mischief among his friends but that as he saith God stood with him On the
1000 l. per an and any thing else that he desired Besides these honourable places he had 6000 l. at one time given to him by the Parliament and at another the Rectory and Demesness of Burford in Oxfordshire with a stately house there lately belonging to Lucius Viscount Falkland as the Author of the Mystery of the good old cause reports but falsly as I suppose for about the year 1634 the said Will. Lenthall did for the sum of 7000 l. or thereabouts purchase of the said Lucius the Priory house the stately house before mention'd and Land belonging thereunto descended to him from Elizabeth Dau. and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfeild Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer sometimes the Wife of Henry Lord Falkland Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Father of Lucius In Aug. 1648 when there was a debate in the Parliament house whether the Treaty should be with the King in the Isle of Wight upon the propositions of Hampton Court there were for it 57 yeas and against it 57 noes Whereupon he as Speaker turn'd the Scales to yeas which was the best thing he ever did Oliver once made a spunge of and squeez'd from him 15000 l. and turning him and his tribe the Long Parliament out of doors in 1653 after he had sate it out in all changes and resisted many storms and high complaints against him he veered about to save himself his great offices and chiefly to avoid a new encounter or frown from the present power So that he that had been so long the Belweather in the H. of Commons was thought fit for his compliance and money to be one of the Other House In 1654 he was elected one of the Knights of Oxfordshire and Burgess for the City of Glocester to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver to meet at Westm 3. of Sept. the same year of which Parliament he was chosen Speaker When that Convention call'd the Rump Parliament was invited by the Army to sit again 6 May 1659 for they had been turn'd out by Oliver in 1653 he became Speaker also as he had been before and on the 23 of the said month he was constituted and appointed Keeper of the Great Seal for the Commonwealth of England for eight days only next ensuing But that Parliament which was filled up by the members secluded thence in 1648 being dissolved on the 16 of March following he endeavoured by his Agents to be chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 25 Apr. 1660 as at one or two places besides where he had canvas'd for votes but missing his design he retired in private and endeavoured to hide or convey away the vast deluge of wealth which he had obtained as also to secure to his posterity that estate he had purchased in the name of other People But being at length to be called to an accompt for what he had done the Healing Parliament that then met resolved on the eleventh of June that he the said Will. Lenthall be one of the twenty to be excepted out of the general Act of indempnity and oblivion to suffer such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to life as shall be thought fit to be inflicted by an Act hereafter to be made for that purpose But that Act being soon after made I find therein that if he the said Will. Lenthall should after the first of Sept. 1660 accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted by name in the said Act. And well it was that he escaped so for had it not been for his money and the mercy of his Prince whereby he got a general pardon he might have been totally sequestred of his Estate and made perpetual Prisoner So that then being free he became a witness on the Kings side against Tho. Scot the Regicide when he and others of that gang were to be tried for their lives And afterwards retiring to his house at Burford before mention'd where he built a pretty Chappel joyning thereunto shewing great love to Scholars and the neighbouring Clergy we heard no more of him till the time of his death He was a Person very inconstant and wavering in his Principles of a slavish temper a taker of all Oathes whether Covenant or engagement or those to be faithful to Oliver and Richard besides what he had before done to K. James and K. Ch. 1. He minded mostly the heaping up of riches and was so besotted in raising and setling a family that he minded not the least good that might accrue to his Prince As for those things that are published under his name as either utter'd or written by him are these following Several Speeches as 1 Sp. to his Maj. in the High Court of Parl. 5. Nov. 1640 when he was presented Speaker 2 Sp. at his presenting these 3 Bills 1. for the shortning of Mich. term 2. For the pressing of Marriners for the Kings Ships 3. For the remainder of 6 intire subsidies 3 Sp. in Parl. 13. May 1641. 4 Sp. in the Lords House of Parl. 22 Jun. 1641. concerning the bill for Tonnage and Poundage 5 Sp. before the K. in the Lords H. of Parl. 3 Jul. 1641. concerning the passing of three bills viz. of Poll-money Star-Chamber and High Commission 6 Sp. to both Houses of Parl. at the passing of the bill for Tonnage and Poundage 2 Dec. 1641. 7 Sp. to Sir Tho. Fairfax Gen. of the Parl. Army to congratulate his success and victories over the Kings Army 14 Nov. 1646. 8 Sp. to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax General after the Army had granted the members of Parl. to sit in safety 6 Aug. 1647. Several Letters as 1 Letter to Sir Jac. Ashley 4 May 1641. 2 Let. to the Vicech and Heads of Houses of the Univ. of Oxon together with the protestation and declaration with it 8 Feb. 1641. 3 Let. to the Sheriffs of several Counties by the command of the H. of C. an 1641. 4 Let. to all Corporations in England and to the Justices of Peace of all Counties written about the same time 5 Let. to the K. concerning the great affairs and state of the Kingdom 6 Let. with that of the Speaker of the H. of Lords to the Lords Justices and Council of the Kingdom of Ireland dat 4 Jul. 1643. Declaration wherein is contained the grounds and reasons that moved him to absent himself from the service of the House on Friday 30 Jul. 1647. Oxon. 1647. in one sh in qu. This Declaration was written upon occasion of his going away with the Mace and a party of the H. of Com. with him to the Army at Windsore Arguments whereby Monarchy is asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference held at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and a Committee of Parl. in Apr. 1657 Printed at Lond. with the Arguments and Speeches
Author Jenkyns thinking of nothing but hanging was resolved if it should come to pass to suffer with the Bible under one Arm and Magna Charta of which he was a zealous defender under the other But Harry Marten as 't is said urging to his Fellows that sanguis martyrum est semen ecclesiae and that that way of proceeding would do them mischief they thought good not to take away his life Afterwards he was sent to Windsore Castle where remaining till the month of January an 1656 was set at liberty and then lived for a time in Oxon where he became a constant Auditor of the Sermons of Dr. Edw. Hyde at Halywell then lately ejected from his Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford to whom all the loyal party of that City flocked to hear his Doctrine After the Restoration of K. Ch. 2. 't was expected by all that he should be made one of the Judges in Westminster Hall and so he might have been would he have given money to the then Lord Chancellour but our Author scorning such an act after all his Sufferings he retired to his Estate in Glamorganshire then restored to him after the loss of it and all he had for many years He was a person of great abilities in his profession and his counsel was often used by Sir Jo. Banks and Will. Noy in their Attorneyships He was also a vigorous maintainer of the Rights of the Crown a heart of oke and a pillar of the Law sole Author of his Sovereigns Rights Englands Laws and the Peoples Liberties when they were invaded and trampled under feet by restless and base men His Writings are these His Recantation or rather protestation delivered at Westm 10 Apr. 1647. to Mil. Corbet the Chairman of the Committee for Examination Printed in a half a sheet Vindication while he was Prisoner in the Tower 29 Apr. 1647. Pr. in 1 sh in qu. This when published was referred to a Committee of Complaints who ordered that the Printer and Publisher thereof should be tried at the Kings Bench. The Armies indemnity with a declaration shewing how every Subject of England ought to be tried for Treason c. Written 10 June 1647. Sundry Acts of Parliament mentioned and cited in the Armies indemnity set forth in words at large Pr. 1647. qu. Apologie for the Army touching the eight Queries upon the late Declarations and Letters from the Army touching Sedition falsly charged upon them Pr. 1647. quart Discourse touching the inconveniences of a long continued Parliament and the judgment of the law of the Land in that behalf Lond. 1647. in one sh and half in quart Cordial for the good people of London in a reply to a thing called An answer to the poysonous seditious paper of Dav. Jenkyns By H. P. Barrester of Linc. Inn. Pr. 1647 in 3 sh in qu. See more in Hen. Parker among these Writers under the year 1657. His Plea delivered to the Earl of Manchester and the Speaker of the H. of Commons sitting in the Chancery at Westminster 14 Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh in quar Answer to the imputation put upon his Plea in Chancery in Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh in qu. Remonstrance to the Lords and Com. of the two Houses of Parliament 21 Feb. 1647. Pr. in one sh in qu. Lex terrae the Law of the Land To which are added some seeming Objections of Mr. Will. Prynne scatter'd in divers books answer'd and the truth thereof more fully cleared All which little things before mention'd in number eleven were printed together at Lond. 1648 in twelves and went by the name of Judge Jenkyns his works They were also published there again in the same vol. in 1681 at what time the said works were esteemed very seasonable to be perused by all such as would not be deluded by the unparallel'd arbitrary Proceedings and seditious Pamphlets of that licentious and ungrateful time They were also printed again two years after that time in tw Before the said Editions is his picture to the life and underneath these Verses made by Joh. Birkenhead Here Jenkyns stands who thundring from the Tower Shooke the Senats legislative Power Six of whose words twelve reams of Votes exceed As Mountains mov'd by graines of Mustard seed Thus gasping Laws were rescued from the snare He that will save a Crown must know and dare Preparative to the Treaty with the King tendered to the Parliament Ass of Divines and Treaters c. Pr. 1648. His Declaration while Prisoner in the Tower 17 March 1647. Pacis consultum The antiquity extent and practice of several Country Corporation Courts especially the Court Leet with an abstract of the penal Statutes Lond. 1657. oct Published under Dav. Jenkyns his name but disowned and disclaimed by him Exact method for keeping a Court of Survey for the setting forth and bounding of Mannours c. Lond. 1657. This also was disowned by him Difficult questions in Law proposed and resolved Printed with the Exact method and disowned also Rerum judicatarum centuriae octo Lond. 1661. fol. in English A proposition for the safety of the King and Kingdom both in Church and State and prevention of the common Enemy Lond. 1667. in tw 2 edit A Reply to the pretended Answer to it Printed with the former I have seen a little thing intit Conscientious Queries from Mr. Jenkyns or the grounds of his late Petition and Submission to the present power an 1651. Printed 1679. But this Jenkyns must be understood to be the same with Will. Jenkyns a Presbyterian Minister of London one of Christop Love's Plot for bringing in K. Ch. 2. from Scotland Judge Jenkyns dyed at Cowbridge in Glamorganshire on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 81 or more and was buried at the west end of the Church there He died as he lived preaching with his last breath to his Relations and those that were about him Loyalty to his Majesty and Obedience to the Laws of the Land CHARLES POTTER Son of Dr. Christop Potter Provost of Queens College was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1647 aged 14 years took one degree in Arts in 1649 and was that year made the senior quadragesimal Collector Soon after was published under his name his Theses Quadragesimales in scholis Oxoniae publicis pro forma discussae an 1649 50. Oxon. 1651. in tw Afterwards he took the degree of Master of Arts travelled beyond the seas became for a time a Retainer to Mr. Crofts known soon after by the name of James Duke of Monmouth and at length after he had changed his Religion for that of Rome was made one of the Ushers to Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother of England He died in his Lodgings in Dukestreet near the Strand in the middle of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of
in the quality of a Gent. Com. for more than two years he went beyond the seas for a time and at his return received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty then at Hinchingbrook who before had restored to this our Author Digby his estate forfeited by his father on the 28 of Octob. 1623. In the year 1628 being then Admiral of a Fleet going to the Levant about which time I find him written è secretiori conclavi ad Carol. 1. in rebus maritimis Administrator praecipuus he acquired great honour by his gallant comportment at Algier in reescating many English Slaves and by bearing up so bravely in the resolute Onset on the Venetian Fleet in the Bay of Scanderoon and making the Pantolini to know themselves and him better This Onset was made as 't is reported on the eleventh of June his birth-day as Ben. Joh. will have it yet a Pamphlet that was publish'd the same year giving an account of all the Transactions of that Fight tells us it was on the 16 of the same month which if true then the fortune of that day is again mar'd For this his Valour and by his Travels into several Countries and converse with the Virtuosi of most civilized Nations he became The ages wonder for his noble parts Skill'd in six Tongues and learn'd in all the Arts. He was not only Master of a good graceful and judicious stile but also wrot an admirable hand both fast and Roman His person was handsome and gigantick and nothing was wanting to make him a compleat Chevalier He had so graceful elocution and noble address that had he been dropt out of the Clouds in any part of the World he would have made himself respected but the Jesuits who cared not for him spoke spitefully and said 't was true but then he must have stayed there above six weeks He had a great faculty which proceeded from abundance of wit and invention of proposing and reporting matters to the Virtuosi especially to the philosophical Assembly at Montpelier and Royal Society at home Which is the reason why many say that as he was most exactly accomplish'd with all sorts of Learning so was he guilty withall of extravagant Vanities Nay one a most noted Author doth not stick to say that this our eminent Virtuoso was the Pliny of our age for lying having been provoked to say so not only from the said Reports but from another which put men to a very great wonder viz. of a City in Barbary under the King of Tripoli that was turned into stone in a very few hours by a petrifying Vapor that fell upon the place that is Men Beasts Trees Houses Utensels c. every thing remaining in the same posture as Children at their Mothers breasts c. But this report the Reader is to understand that Sir Kenelme had from an Englishman Mr. Fitton residing in Florence Library-keeper to the great Duke there by Letter dated 2 Jul. 1656 and he from the great Duke who a little before had written to the Bassa of Tripoly to know the truth Which strange accident being look'd upon as the great wonder of the world was put into the common News-book of that time called Mercurius Politicus as having been received from Sir Kenelme then residing at Tholouse in France who sent a full account of it to a friend of his in England in Sept. following But as no man knew better than Sir Ken. how to abound and how to live like a Philosopher for both were indifferent to him so none of his time knew better how to take and pocket up Abuses which indeed belongs to a true Philosopher In the beginning of the Civil Wars he shew'd himself active for the Kings Cause and thereupon was forced to compound for his estate in 1649. Which being done the Parliament then sitting voted that he should depart the Commonwealth and not return without leave from the House under pain of death and confiscation of his estate Notwithstanding which he did afterwards return for a time and as 't is said cringed to Oliver but in what sense whether in order for the good of the Rom. Catholicks or for the carrying on of some publick design I cannot now tell About the same time he being Chancellour to Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England she sent him as her Envoy from France to the Pope was at his first coming to Rome highly venerated by all people as being a person not only of a majestick port and carriage but of extraordinary Parts and Learning At length growing high and huffing his Holiness he was in a manner neglected and especially for this reason that having made a collection of money for the afflicted Catholicks in England was found to be no faithful Steward in that matter As for his Works they are these Letter giving an account of the fight with the Venetians at the bay of Scandaroon Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion Par. 1638. c. Lond. 1654. oct Answer'd by Will. Twisse but never published Observations upon Religio Medici Lond. 1643. 44. oct c. They were the conceptions of one night and of an hasty birth The said Rel. Medici was pen'd by Dr. Tho. Browne as I shall elsewhere tell you Treatise of the nature of Bodies Par. 1644. fol. Lond. 1658. 1665. and 69. all three in qu. Answer'd by Alex. Rosse in a book intit The philosophical Touchstone or observations on Sir Ken. Digby's Discourses of nature of Bodies and of the reasonable Soul c. in which his erroneous Paradoxes are refuted c. Lond. 1645. qu. Treatise of the nature of Mans Soul Par. 1644. fol. Lond. 1645. 58. 69. qu. This which was answer'd by Rosse also with the Treatise of the nature of Bodies were translated into Latin by J. L. and had a Preface put to them by Tho. White who writes himself Thomas Anglus ex Albiis East-saxonum Par. 1651. folio Observations on the 22 d Stanza in the ninth Canto of the second book of Spencers Fairy Queen Lond. 1644. octavo Institutionum peripateticarum libri quinque cum appendice Theologica de origine mundi Par. 1651. fol. set at the end of the two Translations made by J. L. before mention'd Translated into English by the said Tho. White Lond. 1656. oct Letters to the Lord George Digby concerning Religion Lond. 1651. oct Of the cure of Wounds by the powder of Sympathy Lond. 1658. oct Spoken in French in a solemn Assembly at Montpelier in France 1657. and translated into English by Rich. White Lond. 1660. Reprinted at Lond. with the Treatise of bodies an 1669. and translated into Lat. by Laur. Stransius of Darmstad in Hassia It is also printed in the book intit Theatrum sympatheticum published by Joh. Andreas Endter at Norimberg 1662. in qu. and is also printed in the German Language This is the so much approved sympathetical powder said to be prepared by Promethean fire curing all green wounds that
speech in vindication of himself and the rest of the Bishops from any design to bring in Popery or innovating in the Government and forms of Worship here by Law established On the 30 of the said month the Lords censure was put in execution in the Pallace-yard at Westminster at which time suffer'd also by clipping of ears John Bastwick Dr. of Physick not of this but of another University and Hen. Burton Bac. of Div. Minister of S. Mathews Church in Friday-street in London On the 27 of July following our Author Prynne was removed from the Tower to the Fleet and the same day being guarded he began his journey towards Caernarvan Castle in Wales from which time till the 5 of Aug. when then he arrived at Caernarvan he was met saluted bless'd and exhibited to by the godly party in all chief Towns that he passed thro But such a haunt there was to the said Castle when he was there that for the prevention of all intelligence and correspondence to be held between him and Burton in Lancaster Castle or with the said Party the State found it necessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey So that by vertue of a warrant dated 27 Aug. Prynne was conveyed thither not without great danger in January following where being well used tho closely shut up he exercised his pen in writing divine and profitable Meditations In 1640 Nov. 7. an order issued out from the blessed House of Commons as by the said godly party it was called for his releasment from his prison as also for the releasment of Bastwick who was then in S. Maries Castle in the Isle of Scilly and for Burton in Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey So that our Author Prynne and Burton who were Prisoners at no great distance met together at Guernsey and travelled in each others company to London In whose passage thither divers of the godly party met them at Dartmouth Exeter Lime Dorchester Salisbury Andover Basing and elsewhere visited them blest them and accompanied them on horse-back some part of their way On the 28 of the same month they triumphantly entred London being then accompanied by thousands on foot and horse-back and in coaches with rosemary and bays in their hats crying Welcome home welcome home God bless you God be thanked for your return c. to the great defiance and contempt of Authority and Justice On the 30 of the said month they were both presented by their Keepers who came with them to the Commons House where they had liberty granted to frame new Petitions in their own names according to their own liking and to present them to the house as soon as they could prepare them The 3 of Dec. following Prynne presented a large Petition fully shewing his sufferings and the grand tyranny as he call'd it of the Archbishop c. for which afterwards he had a large requital Not long after upon the leaving of the House of Commons by divers Members purposely to adhere to his Majesty he was elected a Recruiter for a Borough in Cornwall to serve in that most unhappy Parliament So that being setled in the House he became the most busie and pragmatical person of the Herd and so inveterate and implacable against the Bishops but more in an especial manner against Laud in private action and speech with him while he was Prisoner in the Tower in publick speeches against him in the Parliament-house and in writing and publishing books and Pamphlets of and against him that he could scarce take quiet rest till he had fetch'd off his head in requital of his ears that he as Prynne pretended had taken off before But of these matters when it was too late and that he had fully seen to what great woe misery and confusion the godly party had brought the King and the Nation he did heartily repent and wished that when they had cut off his ears they had cut off his head During the sitting of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous Covenantier in ordering and setling Presbytery but when the Independents began to overtop the Brethren he shew'd himself a bitter enemy to them and advanced much the Kings Cause especially in his declension In 1647 he was appointed one of the Visitors for the Univ. of Oxon by the said Parliament and how busily he behaved himself theâ—e in Apr. 1648 I have told you elsewhere See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1648. On the 6 of Dec. 1648 he with other members of the H. of Com. were turn'd out from the House by the Army and imprison'd for that they were zealous for peace and in bringing the King to his Parliament Whereupon he became a bitter enemy to the said Army and Oliver their Leader doing them also much mischief by publishing divers Pamphlets against them and their tyranny Soon after he conveyed his Estate away to one or more of his Relations and thereupon denied the paying of taxes and stood in open defiance to Oliver for which he was imprison'd in Dunster Castle in Somersetshire and brought into trouble He then stood much upon Magna Charta the liberty of the Subject for which he was beloved by several Cavaliers and I know not what But all that he did being to little purpose he bent his mind and pen for some time against the Papists Jews Quakers c. and in writing books of Divinity which being not answer'd or seem'd to be regarded he grew as 't were weary of himself began to look up at last and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses On the 21 of Feb. 1659 he as a secluded Member of the Commons house being restored to sit again became instrumental for the Kings Restauration and so forward and bold that he openly spoke in the house when it was not then seasonable for such expressions that if the King must come in it was safest for them that he should come in by the Votes who had made the War against his father c. Which I say being then unseasonably spoken he was sent for by General Monk and his privy Counsellors and admonished to be quiet and then it was the business of Mr. Will. Morice to keep the then expiring Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling in the change of Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who passionately longed for their dissolution In Apr. 1660 he the said Prynne was chose a Burgess for the City of Bathe to sit in the Healing Parliament that began at Westm 25 of the said month and after his Maj. Restauration he instead of being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer which as 't is said he sought after was made chief Keeper of his Maj. Records in the Tower of London with 500 l. per an salary but afterwards much lessened purposely to employ his head from scribling against the State and Bishops But so it
True and full relation of the prosecution arraignment tryal and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes late Colonel and Governour of the City of Bristol c. Ibid. 1644. qu. Clem. Walker was half author of this pamphlet Just defence of John Bastwick Dr. of Physick against the calumnies of John Lilbourne Lieut. Col. and his false accusations written in way of reply to a letter of Mr. Vicars c. Lond. 1645. in 5. sh in qu. The lyer confounded or a brief refutation of John Lilbourne c. Ibid. 1645. Truth triumphing over falshood antiquity over novelty or a seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiastical jurisdiction right legislative and coercive power of Christian Emperors Kings Magistrates Parliaments in matter of Religion Church government c. in summoning of and presiding in Councils c. in refutation of John Goodwins Innocencies triumph and his dear brother Bâ—rtons Vindication of Churches commonly called Independent c. Lond. 1645. qu. Hidden works of darkness brought to publick light or a necessary introduction to the history of the Archbish of Cant. Tryal c. Ibid. 1645. fol. Suspension suspended or the Divines of Sion Coll. late claim of the power of suspending scandalous persons from the Lords Supper c. is briefly examined discussed refuted c. Lond. 1646 in 6. sh in qu. Vindication of four serious questions of grand importance concerning excommunication and suspension from the Lords Supper c. against a rev brother of Scotland in a Sermon at S. Margarets Westminster 5. Sept. 1645. Ibid. 1645. 6. in 9. sh in qu. Answer'd by Joh. Saltmarsh in his pamph intit The opening of Mr. Prynns new book called a Vindication or light breaking out from a cloud of differences or late controversies wherein are inferences upon the Vindication c. Lond. 1645 in 6 sh in qu. Fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring blazing stars and firebrands stiling themselves New lights firing our Church and State into new combustions Divided into 10 sections comprising c. Lond. 1646. qu. 2d edit To which are added of Prynn's collection Letters papers and a petition lately sent from the summer Islands touching the schismatical illegal tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there c. Diatrophes catechised or 16 important questions touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures c. Ibid. 1646. in two sh in qu. 3d edit Twelve questions of publick concernment touching the regulation of some abuses in the law and legal proceedings Lond. 1646. qu. Scotlands antient obligation to England and publick acknowledgment thereof for their brotherly assistance and deliverance of them Ibid. 1646. qu. Scotlands publick acknowledgment of Gods just judgments upon their nation for their frequent breach of faiths leagues oathes c. Lond. 1646. qu. Canterburies Doom or the first part of a compleat history of the commitment charge tryal condemnation execution of William Laud late Archb. of Cant. c Ibid. 1646. fol. Minors no Senators Lond. 1646. in 2. sh in qu. Written against young men under age sitting in the House of Commons A Gag for Longhaird Rattle heads Lond. 1646. qu. Plain and short expedient to settle the distractions of the Kingdom Ibid. 1647. Counter-plea to the cowards apologie Ibid. 1647. Account of the Kings Majesties revenues and debts Ibid. 1647. Declaration of the Officers and Armies illegal injurious proceedings and practices against the XI impeached members Lond. 1647. Eight queries upon the declaration and late letter of the Army Ibid. 1647. Nine queries upon the printed charge of the Army against the XI members Ibid. 1647. The Hypocrites unmask'd Lond. 1647. New Presbyterian light springing out of Independent darkness Ibid. 1647. The total and final demands of the Army Ibid. 1647. Brief justification of the XI accused members from a scandalous Libel Ibid. 1647. A plea for the Lords Ibid. 1647. The levellers levell'd c. Lond. 1647. A pamphlet with such a title March Nedham published the same year The sword of Christian Magistracy supported or a full vindication of Christian Kings and Magistrates authority under the Gospel to punish Idolatry Apostacy Heresie Blasphemy and obstinate Schisme with pecuniary corporal and in some cases with capital punishments Lond. 1647 qu. Translated into latine by Wolfgangus Meyerus and printed in Germany an 1650. Vindication of Sir Will. Lewes from his charge Ibid. 1647. The said Sir William was one of the XI accused members Full vindication and answer of the XI accused members viz. Denz Hollis c. to a late printed pamphlet entit A particular charge or impeachment in the name of Sir Tho Fairfax and the Army against the XI members Ibid. 1647. in 6. sh in qu. The Lords and Commons first love to zeal for and earnest vindication of their injuriously accused and impeached members and violated priviledges c. Ibid 1647. in 3. sh in qu. The University of Oxfords plea refuted Or a full answer to a late printed paper intit The priviledges of the Univ. of Oxf. in point of Visitation c. Lond. 1647. in 8 sh in qu. Soon after came out a Pamphlet of one sh intit An account of Mr. Prynne's refutation of the Univ. of Oxf. plea c. Pen'd by Rob. Waring as I have told you before and another in two sh intit A short censure of the book of Mr. Will. Prynne intit The Univ. of Oxf. c. Written by Edw. Bagshaw The said Refutation of Oxf. plea published by Prynne was all taken from the papers of Dr. Laud Archb. which he had seized upon at Lambeth some years before I mean the very same papers which he the said Archb. had collected and framed in 1635 when he endeavoured to visit the Univers of Oxon. as Archbishop of Canterbury Nine proposals by way of interrogation to the General Officers and Soldiers of the Army concerning the justice of their proceedings in law or conscience against the Parliament Lond. 1647. qu. Twelve Queries of publick concernment Ibid. 1647 in half a sh in qu. Publick declaration and solemn protestation of the Freemen of England against the illegal intollerable undoing grievance of Free-quarter Ibid. 1648. in 8. sh in qu. The Machevillian Cromwellist Ibid. 1648. Irenarches redivivus Or a brief collection of sundry useful statutes and petitions in Parliament not hitherto printed concerning the necessity institution office oathes c. or Justices of peace Lond. 1648. in 8 sh in qu. Ardua regni Or 12 arduous doubts of great concernment to the Kingdom Ibid. 1648. The case of the impeached Lords Commons and Citizens truly stated Ibid. 1648. in 3. sh in qu. Practical law controuling countermanding the common law and the sword of war the sword of Justice Printed as 't is said in the title at Exeter 1648. Plea for the Lords Or a short yet full and necessary vindication of the judiciary and legislative power of the House of Peers Lond. 1648. and 58. qu. The petition of right of the Free-holders and Freemen of the Kingdom of England Lond 1648.
should have known whether he was the same who was afterwards the famed Author of Hudibras After Sam. Butler had continued in Cambridge about 6 or 7 years but in what Coll. or Hall his brother knows not he was taken into the service of Elizabeth Countess of Kent in whose family living several years he did for a diversion exercise his parts in Painting and Musick and at length became so noted for the first that he was entirely beloved of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of his age Great Selden who was much conversant in the family of that Countess had an esteem for and would often employ him to write letters beyond sea and translate for him At riper years he studied the Common Law but did not practise it only lived on the jounture of a widow that he had married After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Secretary to Richard Earl of Carbury L. President of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches thereof who as 't is said made S. Butler Steward of Ludlow Castle when the Court there was revived Afterwards he became Secretary to George Duke of Buckingham when he was made Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and had promises of places and employments of greater value and credit from Edward Earl of Clarendon when he was L. Chanc. of England especially for this cause that his Majesty had a respect for him and the more for his poem called Hudibras the first part of which came out in 8o. an 1663 and was not only taken into his Majesties hands and read by him with great delight but also by all Courtiers loyal Scholars and Gentlemen to the great profit of the Author and Bookseller Afterwards came out a second part and both printed together with several additions and annotations And at length a third and last part but without annotations as by the copy printed 1678 appears In 1682 was published in 8o. Butlers Ghost or Hudibras The fourth part with reflections on these times But whether he was the Author of I know not for I have not yet seen it This Sam. Butler who was a boon and witty companion especially among the company he knew well died of a Consumption 25 of Sept. 1680 and was according to his desire buried six foot deep in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster viz. at the west end of the said yard on the north side and under the wall of the Church and under that wall which parts the yard from the common high way As for our voluminous Author Will. Prynne he died in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 24 of Oct. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Walk under the Chappel there which stands upon Pillars Over whose grave tho there is no Epitaph only his name and Obit which are now worn out yet I shall venture to give you this Epitaph that was then made upon him Here lies the corps of William Prynne A Bencher late of Lincolns Inn Who restless ran through thick and thin This grand scripturient paper-spiller This endless needless margin-filler Was strangly tost from post to pillar His brains career were never stopping But pen with rheume of gall still dropping Till hand o're head brought ears to cropping Nor would he yet surcease such theams But prostitute new virgin-reams To types of his fanatick dreams But whilst he this hot humour hugs And for more length of tedder tugs Death fang'd the remnant of his lugs NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to Will. Fiennes Vicount Say and Sele of whom I have made mention before was born at Broughton in Oxfordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. at his first entry therein because he was a Founders kinsman an 1624 aged 16 years where continuing about 5 years departed without a degree and went to the Inns of Court or to travel or both In 1640 he was elected Burgess for Banbury to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm in Apr. the same year and again for the same place to sit in that that commenc'd the 3 of Nov. following wherein shewing himself very busie and zealous for the Cause had a Commission given to him to be Captain of a Troop and afterwards to be Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under Robert Earl of Essex the Capt. Gen. of the Parliament Forces raised to fight against the King Afterwards shewing himself a zealot for the Covenant and professing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced Parliamenteer was made Governour of the Garrison of Bristow when first taken in for the use of the Parliament Where being no sooner setled but he used many insolencies and barbarities too many here to be named among which was 1 His causing the Kings Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Marriners and all Officers of his Navy to take employment under Robert Earl of Warwick lately made Admiral of the Kings royal Navy by the Parliament to be burnt in the publick market-place there 4 March 1642 by the hands of one of the City Sargeants being then the chief market-day notwithstanding he connived at the publishing it the day before 2 In causing to be murdered under the notion of Plotters against the Parliament two eminent Citizens of Bristow Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher notwithstanding his Maj. sent letters in their behalf to have their lives spared to the extream horror and amazement of all honest men and the great grief of his Majesty who could not choose but look upon it as the most barbarous act which the impudence and cruelty of the said Rebellion had produced against him 3 In his and his murtherous Crews contempt and profanation of Gods holy Worship and Service and permitting the rending of Surplices tearing the book of Common-Prayer breaking down Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of the Congregations c. 4 His discountenancing and driving away the orthothodox Ministers and substituting in their places the most infamous and notorious Schismaticks that he could pick out of Bristow and other places as Joh. Tombes of Lemster Edm Cradock .... Bacon .... Walter .... Simonds and one Mathew Hazard whom tho I name last yet deserves to have precedency of all the rest as being a main Incendiary in the Rebellion violently egged on by his wife whose disciple the silly man was But at length the said City of Bristow being by Col. Fiennes surrendred to Pr. Rupert for the use of his Majesty 27 July 1643 he was thereupon called into question and articles were drawn up against him by the restless proceedings of Will. Prynne and Clem. Walker So that he being tryed for his life for the same before a Council of War sitting at S. Alban in Dec. the same year notwithstanding he had made a large defence for what he had done in open Parliament on the 5 of Aug. going before he was sentenced to lose his head for
he wrot a scoffing ballad At length he having lived beyond the age of man concluded his last day in the Navy-Office in Seething-lane within the City of London on Saturday the 18. of Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventy Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church of S. Olaves in Hart-street on the 27 day of the same month Soon after was a neat monument erected over his grave with an inscription thereon much becoming the person for whom it was set up His eldest Brother which his Father had by his first Wife Elizabeth Warham was named Matthew who was created Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 1. The second was named Thomas who was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Sandwych in Janu. 1631. EDWARD LEIGH Esq Son of Hen. Leigh was born at Shawell in Leycestershire 24. of March 1602 being the day and year on which Qu. Elizabeth deceased bred in Grammar learning under one Mr. Loe of Walshall in Staffordshire became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Will. Pemble an 1616 ran through the severe discipline then and there used and proceeded in Arts in 1623 But before his Regency was expired he went to the Middle Temple and studied the common Law wherein he made considerable progress yet before he had been there two years he with others were forced thence by tho great plague that violently raged in London an 1625. So that instead of retiring into the Country he went into France and spent there half an year with great improvement to himself and his studies After his return he spent some years in the said Temple not only in the study of the Laws but of Divinity and History in both which in his elder years he attained to some eminence Afterwards he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire and became a constant hearer for some time of that noted puritanical preacher Will. Wheatley But he dying in 1639 our author Leigh receeded to London where continuing till the civil distempers broke forth was upon the withdrawing of divers members of that unhappy convention called the Long Parliament to the King at Oxon chose a Recruiter or Burgess for the Town of Stafford Afterwards upon a vacancy he was appointed one of the House of Commons to sit in the Ass of Divines as did Philip Earl of Pembroke Will. Visc Say c. of the House of Lords with Joh. Selden Franc. Rous Bulstr Whitlock c. other members of the said house where he behaved himself as learnedly as most of the Divines then sitting He was also then a Colonel of a regiment for the Parliament was Custos Rotulorum for the County of Stafford and afterwards was numbred among those Presbyterian members that were turned out of the House of Commons by the Army 6. Dec. 1648 and imprisoned thereupon in the publick Inn called the Kings head in the Strand From which time till towards the Kings restauration when he with the rest of the ejected members then living were restored by General Monk to their places in Parliament he had little else to do but to write books the titles of which among others which he wrot before that time do follow Selected and choice observations concerning the twelve first Caesars c. Oxon. 1635. oct To which he added six more making up the number 18 which were printed with the former in another Edition The observations on the rest that followed were made by Henry Leigh the authors eldest Son M. of A. of Magd. Hall which being printed with the former at Lond. 1657 in oct had this title put to them Analecta Caesarum Romanorum Afterwards they were illustrated with their several effigies and coines Lond. 1664. oct and in another Edit that came out in 1670 in oct they had observations of the Greek Emperours added to them by the same hand Treatise of Divine promises in 5. books Lond. 1633 there again the third time 1650 and the fourth in 1657. octavo Critica sacra on the Hebrew words of the old and on the Greek of the New Testament Lond. 1639 and 46. in qu. There again in two parts in fol. 1662. In which book the author expressing his great skill in the Languages was the reason therefore why the learned Usher primate of Ireland had a respect and kindness for him Supplement to the Critica sacra Lond. 1662. fol. A Treatise of Divinity in three books Lond. 1646. qu. The Saints encouragement in evil times or observations concerning the Martyrs in general Lond. 1648. 51. oct Annotations on all the New Test Lond. 1650. fol. A philological Commentary or an illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the Law with their distinctions and divers acceptations as they are found as well in Reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed Lond. 1652. 58. 71. oct A Systeme or body of Divinity in 10 books Lond. 1654. and 62. fol. Treatise of religion and learning in 6. books Lond. 1656. fol. Which book laying dead on the Booksellers hands had this title put to it in 1663. Faelix consortium or a fit conjuncture of religion and learning in one entire volume consisting of six books c. From which Treatise Will. Crowe of Suffolk Master of the Free-school at Croydon in Surrey took many things when he composed his Elenchus Scriptorum in sacram scripturam c. Lond. 1672. octavo Choice French proverbs Lond. 1657. 64. oct Annotations on the five poetical books of the old Test viz. Job Psalmes Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Canticles Lond. 1657. fol. Second considerations of the High Court of Chancery Lond. 1658. in 2 sh in qu. England described or the Counties and Shires thereof briefly handled Lond. 1659. oct Copied mostly from Camden Choice observations on all the Kings of England from the Saxons to the death of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. oct Three Diatriabes or discourses 1. Of travel 2. Of money 3. Of measuring c. Lond. 1671. oct This book is called in another edit 1680. The Gentlemans guide in the three discourses c. He also published The Magistrates Authority in two Sermons Lond. 1647 qu. penn'd by Christopher Cartwright B. of Div. and Minister at York To which our Author Leigh put a preface to vindicate himself against a lying pamphlet as he calls it which entitles him a man of a fiery disposition and one generally made chair-man upon any business that doth concern the Clergy He paid his last debt to nature in his house called Rushall Hall on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Rushall near to Walshall a Market Town in Staffordshire before mention'd as I have been informed by letters written to me by his Son Henry EDMUND STANTON son of Sir Franc. Stanton Knight was born in Bedfordshire became a Communer of Wadham Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged about 14 years was
K. Ch. 1. and garrison'd for his use he was put into Commission for a Captain of a Foot Company consisting mostly of Scholars In which office doing good service had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him by the favour of his Majesty tho no such matter occurs in the public register of the University which was then somtimes neglected After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon for the use of the Parl. he by the name of Tho. Holyoake without the addition of Master Bac. or D. of D obtained a License from the University to practice physick whereupon setling in his own Country he exercised that faculty with good success till 1660. In which year his Maj. being restored to his Kingdoms Thomas Lord Leigh Baron of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire presented him to the Rectory of Whitnash near Warwick and soon after was made Prebendary of the collegiat church of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire In 1674 Robert Lord Brook conferr'd upon him the Donative of Breamour in Hampshire which he had by the marriage of his Lady worth about 200 l. per an free from presentation institution and episcopal visitation but before he had enjoy'd it an year or thereabouts he died to the great grief of his family He hath written A large Dictionary in three parts 1. The English before the Latine 2. The Latine before the English 3. The proper names of Persons places and other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets Lond. 1677 in a thick larg folio Before which is an Epistle written by the authors son Charles Holyoake of the Inner Temple whereby he dedicates the book to Fulke L. Brook and author written by Dr. Thom. Barlow B. of Lincolne wherein are many things said of the work and its author But this the reader is to know that the foundation of the said Dictionary was laid by his father Fr. Hol. before mention'd and upon that foundation is the largest Dictionary made that hath been ever yet published in England The said Dr. Holyoake who was much respected in the neighbourhood where he lived for his ingenuity and humanity died of an high Feaver at Breamour on the tenth day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was conveyed to Warwick and there interred by that of his father in the great Church there dedicated to S. Mary the Virgin THOMAS WOOLNOUGH a ministers Son of Gloustershire as it seems became either Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall 1648 trained up there acording to the presbyterian way took a degree in Arts afterwards had a cure in the interval and at length became Rector of S. Michaels Church in Glocester where he was frequented for his edifying way of preaching He hath extant Fideles aquae or some pious tears drop'd upon the hearse of the incomparable Gentlewoman Mistris Sarah Gilby together with some Elegies upon her Grandmother and Brother Lond. 1661. oct Dust returning to the earth Sermon at the interment of Tho. Lloyd Esq late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 on Eccles 12.7 Lond. in the Savoy 1669 qu. and one or more things as t is said which I have not yet seen He died 20. June in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the church of S. Michael before mention'd near to the body of Eleanor his sometimes wife dau of Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Gloucestersh Gent. descended of a knightly family of his name in Wilts Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decemb 1665. BULSTRODE WHITLOCK son of Sir James Whitlock Knight by Elizab. his wife daugh of Edw. Bulstrode of Hugeley or Hedgley-Bulstrode in Bucks Esq was born in Fleetstreet in London in the house of Sir George Croke Serjeant at Law his Mothers Uncle on the 6 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Taylors School became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term an 1620 at which time he was principally recommended to the care and oversight of his fathers contemporary and intimate friend Dr. Laud then President of that House who shewing to him several fatherly kindnesses our author Whitlock did many years after make some returns when the said Doctor then Archb. of Cant was to be brought to a trial for his life especially in this respect when he refused to be one of the Commissioners or number of the Committee appointed by Parl to draw up a charge against him But before our author had taken a degree he went to the Middle Temple where by the help of his father he became a noted proficient in the Common Law well read also in other studies and in time made for himself a large provision from them and a retired contemplation At length when the Long Parliament was to sit he being then a Counsellour at Law he was chose a Burgess for Marlow in Bucks to serve therein and shewing himself very active in baiting the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford became noted in the House for a man of parts In 1642 he for his activeness for the cause then driving on was made one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire at which time a new Lieutenant was constituted by the Parliament and soon after was named one of the Commissioners to treat for peace with the King at Oxon in the name of the Parliament and one of the Lay-Gentlemen to sit among the Ass of Divines In 1644 he became Attorney of the Dutchy of Lancaster Commissioner again for peace and in the same year when Rob. E. of Essex was about to prove Ol. Cromwell an Incendiary he gave him the said Oliver timely notice of the design he being privy to it and thenceforth he became very gratious with that most active person who with his party were very willing to engage him as far as they could to them In 1645 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Admiralty and being then suspected to hold intelligence with the Kings party was in danger to have lost all had he not freed himself from that suspicion especially by his urging his losses that he had sufferd by the said party for his adhering to the Parliament in consideration of which he had afterwards given to him 2000 l. In 1646 he was sent for to the Leaguer before Oxon by Sir Tho. Fairfax the General of the Parl. forces who being admitted one of his Council of War he did oftentimes being a friend to the Univ. of Oxon express his unwillingness that any thing of damage should be done to it and pressed for honorable tâ—â—ms to be offer'd to the Garrison there In 1647 O. Cromwell used his advice in many things and therefore by his power it was that in the beginning of March in the said year he was made one of the four Commissioners of the Great Seal In 1648 Ph. E. of Pembrok who was then lately made Constable of Windsore Castle and keeper of the Forest adjoyning constituted him his Lieutenant of those places in the
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
protestor for a Community of wealth as well as of women He was also a grand prodigal in not only spending 3000 l. per an which his father and other relations left him mostly lying in Berks but several thousand pounds and a 1000 l. per an given to him and his heirs for ever out of the Duke of Buckinghams estate by Parliament in consideration of his losses not of his members for the holy and blessed cause This viper which had been fostered in the bosome of Parliament was against the Parliament it self and against all Magistrates like a second Wat Tyler all pen and Inkhorn men must down This his levelling doctrine is contained in a Pamphlet called Englands troubles troubled wherein all rich men whatsoever are declared enemies to the mean men of England and in effect warr denounced against them Besides all this he being a Colonel plundered so much where ever he came that he was commonly called the plunder-master general and all whatsoever he got that way he spent to satisfie his filthy lusts In 1648 he forbad the people to stand bare at a Sessions in Barkshire and do homage and fealty to the Lords but in this he gull'd them tho they were not sensible of it because he gave that which was not their due Yet notwithstanding he rob'd them of that which was their due as of their horses goods money c. which he plundered from them under pretence forsooth for service of the State and did beat those that defended their own So that while he flatter'd them to be the supreme authority and Lords Paramount and the Parliament to be their servants he used them like slaves conquer'd by the Parliament On the 8. of Dec. the same year being the day after the Parliament house was purged of the Presbyterians in came Ol. Cromwell out of the Country bringing in under his protection our sanctified Member Harry Marten who had spent much time in plundering the Country had often basâ—ed the House and disobeyed many of their orders sufficient to have made an honest man liable to sequestration But great was the privilege of the Saints for there was nothing done in it because it fortun'd that day that the case of the secured Members was reported to the House which Harry interrupting desired them to take into consideration the deserts of the Lieu. General Cromwell which with all slavish diligence was presently done So Harry by this device escaped free who in the beginning of the next month was with Hugh Peters a zealous sollicitor in Parliament to have the Statute of banishment against the Jewes repealed according to their Petition for the same purpose then put up to the House About the same time Cromwell finding him a man fit for his purpose put him into the roll for one to sit as Judg upon the life of his Sovereign in which Tragedy he acted his part so unconcernedly that he valued the life of his Prince no more than that of a dog yet afterwards as the report goes he in a speech in the House upon the debate whether a King or no King He made answer that if they must have a King he had rather have had the last than any Gentleman in England for he found no fault in his person but office On the 14. of Feb. following which was about a fortnight after the King was beheaded he was appointed one of the thirty to be of the Council of State and in the beginning of July 1649 he brought into the House an accompt of his arrears which came to 25000 l. whereupon it was ordered that 1000 l. in Land should be setled upon him and his heirs About which time the Welsh Counties were set on work to desire H. Marten for their Commander in chief Afterwards Harry perceiving Oliver to aim at high things he left him fided with the Levellers and would have done them good service had not the Parl. given him 3000 l. more to put him upon the holy Sisters In Nov. 1651 he was appointed again one of the Council of State and had in a manner what he desired but after Oliver had made him as many a wiser person his shooing horn merely to serve his turn he turn'd him off and publickly called him a noted Whoormaster as he did Th. Chaloner a Drunkard and a vitious Liver at the dissolution of the reliques of the Long Parliament To conclude he was a man of good natural parts was a boon familiar witty and quick with repartees was exceeding happy in apt instances pertinent and very biting so that his company being esteemed incomparable by many would have been acceptable to the greatest persons only he would be drunk too soon and so put an end to all the mirth for the present At length after all his rogueries acted for near 20 years together were past was at length called to an account for that grand villany of having a considerable hand in murthering his Prince of which being easily found guilty was not to suffer the loss of his life as others did for it was then commonly reported that if they hung him his body would not hold together because of its rottenness but the loss of his estate and perpetual imprisonment for that he came in upon the Proclamation of surrender So that after one or two removes from Prison to Prison he was at length sent to Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire where he continued another twenty years not in wantonness riotousness and villany but in confinement and repentance if he had pleased Under his name go these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Common Hall 28. Jul. 1643 concerning Sir Will. Waller and what course now is to be taken Lond. 1643 qu. 2 Speech in Parl. c. The independency of England endeavoured to be maintained against the claim of the Scottish Commissioners in their late answer upon the bills and propositions sent to the King in the Isle of Wight Lond. 1648 in 3 sh and an half in qu. The Parliaments proceedings justified in declining a personal treaty with the King c. Lond. 1648 in 3 sh in qu. Familiar Letters to his Lady of delight Oxon. 1663. Lond. 1685. qu. Politick and Oeconomical Letters Printed with the first and I think with the sec Edit of the said Familiar Letters In the beginning of the said Letters is that in justification of the murther of K. Ch. 1 See more in Edm. Gayton under the year 1666. p. 271. Our author Marten was also the principal cause of publishing the letters of the King and Queen called the Cabinet besides other things which have not yet come to my sight I have seen also under his name A Speech in the H. of Com. before his departure thence 8. June 1648. Printed in one sh in qu. but t is a piece of roguery fathered upon him This person who lived very poor and in a shabbed condition in his confinement and would be glad to take a pot of ale from any
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
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
grave or jocose as also noted for one whose extraordinary parts and indefatigable industry and study promised great things After he was Master of Arts he took upon him the cure of Little S. Maries Church in Cambridge chosen to it by the Master and Fellows of Peter House all Colleges being ambitious some way or other to make him theirs When the grand rebellion began or at least about to begin he was very zealous in opposing the attempts of the then spreading Schism and troubles and did not forbear to protest publickly against the faction when it was most formidable In a Sermon also at S. Maries in Cambr. he vehemently and convincingly urged the University to publish a formal protestation against the rebellious League And being occasionally about that time in Kent upon a short visit to his mother lately then a widow he was hunted about and forced to lye in Woods and at length was imprison'd for having assisted some Forces belonging to the King at Tunbridge with the charity he had moved a neighbouring Congregation to by two Sermons Thence he was forced to his College to take the Covenant which he resolutely denying so to do was thrown out of his Fellowship and soon after one John T ... n who took it was put therein But before he left Cambridge he with Mr. Barrow afterwards B. of S. Asaph Mr. Ward afterwards B. of Salisbury and Mr. John Barwick with two or three others did write a resolute and well pen'd Treatise against the Covenant which was afterwards published In the beginning of the year 1644 if not before he with the said Mr. Barrow his great companion and fellow-sufferer journied to Oxon then his Majesties head-quarter and being forthwith made known to that most worthy patron of learning Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll he entred them Chaplains of that House where they had lodging and diet In July the same year Mr. Gunning was incorporated Master of Arts of this University but whether Mr. Barrow was or took any other degree it appears not in the publick register About the same time Mr. Gunning became Curat for Mr. Jasp Mayne at Cassington four Miles North-west distant from Oxon in which service continuing about two years he endured several affronts and abuses by the Parliamentarian Soldiers from Abendon and elsewhere either by interrupting him with base Language or by pulling him out of the Church Besides the constant duty at New Coll. and his reading Prayers and Preaching every Sunday at Cassington he somtimes preached either before the King or Parliament sitting at Oxon. In consideration of which he was one of those many that had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him and accordingly he was admitted on the day before the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament So that he having been incorporated and afterwards admitted to a superior degree with us is the reason why I now put him among the Oxford Writers tho indeed Cambridge is more properly his Mother After the surrender of Oxon. he undertook the charge and tuition of Christopher afterwards Lord Hatton and Sir Franc. Compton in both whom he instill'd most excellent Principles of Loyalty Afterwards he was Chapl. to Sir Rob. Shirley father of Rob. which last was made Lord Ferrers of Chartley who setled on him about an 100 l per an for his life being more particularly moved thereunto for his great abilities and the learning which he shew'd in the silencing a Popish Priest with whom he held two or three set disputations for the satisfaction of his Patron and others that engaged him in them Not long after Sir Rob. Shirley dyed in the Tower having been committed to that place for his Loyalty so that thereupon Mr. Gunning betaking himself to the holding a constant Congregation in the Chappel at Exeter house in the Strand did by his reading the English Liturgy Preaching and administring assert the cause of the Church of England with great pains and courage when the Parliament was most predominant And his Sermons and Prayers being performed very regularly according to the antient usuage of the Church great numbers of well affected and honest people flocked to them as others did to other Loyal Preachers in several parts in and near the City of London whereby thousands being confirmed in the communion of the Church of England as in other parts of the Nation was thereby frustrated and taken away the groundless reproach cast upon the true Protestants by the Romanists that their Church was lost Besides these his Labours for which he was often sent for and reprov'd by the Usurper Oliver he would on the week days look out all sorts of Sectaries and dispute with them openly in their own Congregations Nor was there any considerable Sect whether Presbyterian Independent Anabaptist Quaker Brownist Socinian c. but that he held with them some time or other a set publick disputation in defence of the Church of England About the time of the Kings restauration he was posses'd of the Rectories of Cotesmore in the County of Rutland and of Stoke-Brewen in Northamptonshire which he long before had title to but kept out for his Loyalty The Vicaridge of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster was first design'd him and a Prebendship of Canterbury The last he had but the other not as being thought more for the service of the publick to fix him for a while in the University of Cambridge where being first made D. of D. and Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. and soon after of S. Johns he was for a little while Margaret Professor and as soon as Dr. Ant. Tuckney was removed he was made Reg. Professor of Divinity as the fittest man for that Chaire that could be then chosen to settle the University right in their Principles again after many corruptions had crept in there by means of the Rebellion I say that he did not only succeed the said Tuckney in the Divinity Chaire but also in the Mastership of S. Johns Coll who having been lawfully ejected from both as having had no right title to either yet such was the goodness of Dr. Gunning that he allowed him a very considerable annuity during his life Which act of his being excellent and singular is here remembred to his everlasting fame and the rather for this reason that no Presbyterian or Independent was ever known to allow any Loyallist whose places they had occupied for several years the least farthing but rather rejected and avoided them vilified scorn'd and exposed them to the Plebeians as empty formal and starch'd nothings These things I have known and do remember them as done in this University and the like without all doubt was used at Cambridge and yet so it is that some of the dreggs of these men that yet remain among us have not been content with the Kings clemency to keep their places to this day but take all occasions upon the least interruption in the Nation to breed faction
called to Bar. This person hath written and published The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland collected from records antient Manuscripts Monuments on the place and other authorities illustrated with Sculpture Lond. 1684 in a thin fol. To which was put an Addition Lond. 1687 in 2 sh and an half in fol. He hath also published little trivial things of History and Poetry meerly to get a little money which he will not own THEODORE HAAK was born at Newhausen near Wormes in the Palatinate on the day of S. James S. V. an 1605 educated in Grammar and in the Reform'd Religion in those parts travelled into England in 1625 retired to Oxon about the beginning of Aug. the same year while the two Houses of Parliament were sitting there continued half an year in obtaining Academical learning and afterwards at Cambridg as much Thence he went and visited several Cities and recesses of the Muses beyond the Seas returned in 1629 became a Communer of Glocester Hall continued there near three years but took no degree and soon after was made a Deacon by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter In the time of the German Wars he was appointed one of the Procurators to receive the benevolence money which was raised in several Diocesses in England to be transmitted into Germany which he usually said was a Deacons work and when the Wars broke out in this Nation he seemed to favour the interest of Parliament having been alwaies Calvinistically educated The Prince Elector did afterwards kindly incite him to be his Secretary but he loving Solitude declined that employment as he did the Residentship at London for the City of Hamburgh and for Fred. 3. King of Denmark c. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that when the Synod of Dort was celebrated in 1618 care was then taken that the most learned and pious Divines of the United Provinces should make a new and accurate Translation of the Bible and Annotations to be put thereunto In which work they were assisted by many eminent and able Divines from most of the reformed Churches and particularly from England by Dr. Geo. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Jo. Davenant B. of Sarum Dr. Hall B. of Exon Dr. Sam. Ward of Cambr. c. by whose great and assiduous Labours jointly for many years together the said Annotations were compleated and came forth in print first an 1637. These Annotations I say commonly called the Dutch Annotations being thought very fit and of great use by the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westm to be translated into English by the hand of Th. Haak it was ordered and ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parl. 30. of March 1648. for the encouragement of the said undertaker Theod. Haak that he or whom he should assign should have the priviledge of printing and vending the said Annotations for the space of 14 years which terme should begin from the time of the first impression So that none else under what pretence soever should be permitted to intermeddle in printing the whole or any part thereof upon the pain of forfeiting a thousand pounds to the said Theod. Haak c. Afterwards the work going forward and the whole Englished by Haak it came out with this title The Dutch Annotations upon the whole Bible together with their translation according to the direction of the Synod of Dort 1618. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. Before which is an exact narrative touching the work and the said translation Besides the translation of this great work Mr. Haak hath translated into High Dutch several English books of practical Divinity as 1 Of the deceitfulness of mans heart written by Dan. Dyke 2 The Christians daly walke c. written by Hen. Scudder 3 The old Pilgrim being the Hist of the Bible written by Anon. but not yet printed as other translations which he had made are not He also translated into High Dutch in blank verse half the Poem called Paradise lost written by Joh. Milton which comming into the hands of J. Secbald Fabricius the famous Divine at Heidelberg he was so much taken with it that in a Letter sent to the Translator he tells him incredible est quantum nos omnes afficerit gravitas stili copia lectissimorum verborum c. He also made ready for the Press before his death about 3000 Proverbs out of the Germ. into the English tongue and as many into the Germ from the Language of the Spaniard who are famous for wise sayings and had most part of them from the Arabians This Mr. Haak who was several years Fellow of the Royal Society hath Observations and Letters in the Philosophical Collections which were published in the beginning of May 1682 and perhaps in the Transactions Quaere At length this virtuous and learned person departing this mortal life in the house of his kinsman Fred. Slare or Slear M. D situate and being in an Alley joyning to Fetter Lane on Sunday the ninth day of May in sixteen hundred and ninety was buried three days after in a vault under the Chancel of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London At which time Dr. Anth. Horneck a German preached his Funeral Sermon wherein were delivered several remarks of Mr. Haaks life but that Sermon being not yet extant I cannot therefore refer you to it Among the many great and learned acquaintance which Mr. Haak had were Prince Rupert Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland Dr. Williams Archb. of York Joh. Selden Dr. Hall Bishop of Exeter Dr. Predeaux B. of Worc. Dr. Walton B. of Chester Dr. Wilkins B. of the same place Briggs and Pell Mathematicians Dr. W. Alabaster the Poet whose Manuscript called Elisaeis he had by him and kept it as a choice relique of his deceased friend to the time of his death Sir Will. Boswell Ambassador at the Hague who encouraged him to keep and continue his correspondence with the learned Marseanus and others of later time JOHN RUSHWORTH was born of Gentile Parents in the County of Northumberland educated for a time in this University in the latter end of the Raign of K. Jam. 1 but left it soon after without being matriculated and retiring to London he entred himself a Student in Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister But his Geny then leading him more to State affairs than the Common Law he began early to take in Characters Speeches and passages at conferences in Parliament and from the Kings own mouth which he speak to both the Houses and was upon the stage continually an eye and an ear witness of the greatest transactions He did also personally attend and observe all occurrences of moment during the eleven years interval of Parliament in the Star-Chamber Court of Honour and Exchecquer Camber when all the Judges of England met there upon extraordinary cases and at the Council Table when great causes were tried before the K. and Council Afterwards when matters were agitated at a great distance he was
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.
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
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then â—n Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
was choak'd by the Sands giving thereby a period to his vain hopes of being the grand Master of Malta having been a Roman Catholick several years before he died He left behind him a Widow not so rich but that she received relief upon her petition after his Majesties return from Kings Coll. in Cambridge and two Daughters who were of his religion one of which was afterwards Mistress to Prince Rupert as I have elsewhere told you He had also a Brother called Maximilian Bard a rich Milliner in London who was employed by the Long Parliament to buy for them Horses in the time of their rebellion This Brother as 't is supposed furnished him with money in his travels and high living being a great admirer of his accomplishments and as much despised by him Doct. of Phys May 9. Sir Henry St. George Knight Garter Principal K. of Arms was then actually created Doctor of Physick This person who was the eldest Son of Sir Rich. St. George Clarenceaux King of Armes was born of an antient family at Hadley St. George in Cambridgshire bred up to Heraldry and by the endeavours of his Father became first of all Rouge-Rose extraordinary in the Office or Coll. of Armes commonly called the Heralds Office afterwards Blewmantle and in the latter end of 1615 Richmond Herald of Armes In 1627 he was joynt Embassador with the Lord Spencer and Peter Yonge Gent. Usher and dayly waiter to K. Ch. 1 to invest the King of Sweden with the order of the Garter which being done that King not only knighted him and Pet. Yonge at Darsaw in Prussia but gave them the Armes of the King of Sweden to be used by them and their posterity for ever as an augmentation to their own Armes Afterwards he was Norroy King of Armes and at length Garter and dying in Brasnose Coll. 5. Nov. 1644 was buried in the north west corner of the west isle joyning to the north transcept of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon leaving then Issue behind him a Son named Thomas afterwards a Knight Norroy and now 1691 Garter Principal King of Armes Henry another Son afterwards Norroy a Knight and now 1691 Clarenceaux King of Armes and lastly a third named Richard an Esq who became Vlster King of Armes of the Realm of Ireland in the place of Will. Roberts of Lincolns Inn Esq and Doctor of the Civil Law of Dublin an 1660 which place he surrendring in 1683 was succeeded therein by Athlone Pursevant or Officer of Armes named Rich. Carney who before while he was Athlone had received the honor of Knighthood from the Earl of Arran and is the first King of Armes of that Kingdom that had that honour confer'd on him The said Sir H. S. George Garter King of Armes who died at Oxon hath published nothing only made collections of several matters relating to his profession particularly A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations as they were in 1628 c. Ms fol. It begins with George Villers Duke of Buckingham and ends with Sir Franc. Cottington Kt and Bt Lord Cottington of Hanworth This Cat. is involved in A new Catalogue of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons c. Lond. 1658. oct Collected and published by Tho. Walkley May 9. Thom. Johnson whom I have mention'd among the created Bachelaurs of Phys an 1642 was actually created also Doct. of Physick in consideration of the large Testimony of his industry before this year published He was born near Hull in Yorkshire bred an Apothecary in London and afterwards lived and kept a shop on Snow hill where by his unwearied pains advanced with good natural parts he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England His works as to his profession are 1 Mercurius Botanicus in duabus partibus c. Lond. 1634. oct 2 Thermae Bathonicae 3 His enlarging and amending Joh. Gerards Herball or general History of Plants Lond. 1636. fol. 4 His translation of Ambr. Parey his Works of Chirurgery Lond. 1634. fol. c. This Dr. Th. Johnson was now 1643 a Lieutenant Coll. in the Garrison of Basing house in Hampshire whence going with a party on the 14. of Sept. 1644 to succour certain of the Forces belonging to that house which went to the Town of Basing to fetch provision thence but beaten back by the enemy headed by that notorious Rebel Col. Rich. Norton he received a shot in his shoulder whereby contracting a feaver he died in a fortnight after in the said House At which time his worth did justly challenge funeral tears being then no less eminent in the garrison for his valor and conduct as a Sold than famous through the Kingdom for his excellency as an Herbarist and Physitian Nov. 18. Spencer Lucie a Colonel in the Kings Army Son of Sir Tho. Lucie of Charlcot in Warwickshire Knight Jan. 31. Henry Nisbett who had spent several years in the study of Physick in the University of Padua was then actually created Doctor of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University He was a Scot born or at least of Scotch extract but what he hath extant relating to his faculty I know not Feb. 27. Hen. Hanks His bare name only stands in the reg as created Doctor of Physick and therefore I can say no more of him Mar. 21. Will. Glanvill Esq He was Burgess for Cameilford in Cornwall to serve in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Novemb. 1640 but leaving it he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Evan Owen Bach. of Div. of Jes Coll. in Oxon was then created D. of D. May 29. Jeb Weeks Preb. of Bristow and Bach. of Div. of Cambr. above 20 years standing This Doctor a jocular person was now a Preacher in Oxon sometimes either before the King or Parliament and suffered much for the royal Cause Afterwards he was made Dean of S. Burian in Cornwal upon the promotion of Dr. Creighton to that of Wells and after his death the said Deanery was annex'd to the Bishoprick of Exeter June 15. Joseph Goulson Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Winchester was created in Congregation by vertue of the Kings Letters as Owen and Weeks were In his last Will and Test proved 3 Apr. 1674 he is said to be Nuper Decanus Ecclesiae Cath. S. Trinitatis Cicestrensis in Com. Sussex June 16. Matthew Griffith Priest sometimes of Brasn Coll afterwards of Gloc. Hall July 18. Will. Stampe of Pembr Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Langham Of him I know nothing Thom. Hyde Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum sometimes of Ball. Coll now as it seems of S. Edm. Hall was actually created the same day This person who was of the family of the Hydes of Wiltshire became not only Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the said Church of Salisbury but also Chauntor thereof in Nov. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Humph. Henchman to be Bishop
Secondly his Wife said at first that they were left there by a friend who desir'd her to lay them up but she refused to take any charge of them yet he told her he would leave them and so hid them in that place where the Painter found them Thirdly on better consideration Dr. Harris said that he himself laid them there and that it was money he designed for his Daughters And tho no man believed him yet he aver'd it verbo sacerdotis This money being most probably left by Dr. Ralph Kettle sometimes President who died in 1643 was claimed by his Executor who or Mr. Fanshaw Kettle for him went to Dr. Harris and desired of him to see the baggs for he knew his Uncles seal and hand-writing but the old Gentleman who had the money in possession would neither shew baggs or seal or writing which was a manifest argument that they were none of his For first if the baggs were of his sealing and superscribing why did he not shew them to convince people or what need he to have feared to shew his own hand and seal Secondly if they were not of his sealing why did he swear they were his All these passages do manifestly shew that the money was not his but another mans as indeed all people did think so it being then the common discourse of Town and Country and could not be convinc'd to the contrary Doubtless if it had been his Will. Durham his Kinsman author of the said Dr. Harris his Life would have made mention of and vindicated the Doctor in it as in other matters of smaller account he hath done A little before this discovery was another made by the new President and Fellows of Magd. Coll. of 1400 l. in old gold or spurroyals by the breaking open a chest in their Treasury which tho originally deposited there by the Founder pro litibus placitis defendendis so 't is said in the statutes of that House etiam pro possessionibus si opus fuerit amplioribus acquâ—rendis pro repentinis quod absit incendiis ruinis maneriorum c. yet upon pretence of knowing no such statute they shared the said summ of money among them Hen. Wilkinson senior one of the Visitors and then Vicepresident of the Coll being the chief man that promoted that affair And in the next week following in July Dr. Reynolds the Vicechancellour and the two Proctors whose hands also did in a grievous manner itch after money would needs have broken open Bodlies chest but being disswaded by Mr. John Rouse the chief Library keeper who had lately a key thereof and had told and assur'd them that nothing was therein they forbore The next day also came one of the new Savilian professors scarce warm in his place I mean him who before had been a witness against Archbishop Laud in order to bring him to his Trial and consequently to the Block and the same who was successively a preacher up of treason and rebellion in two Churches in London in the time of the Presbyterian rebellion I say that he with Ralph Button Can. of Ch. Ch. his Guide and a poor spirited person did go to the same Mr. Rouse for the Key of Sir Hen. Saviles chest but after they knew he had it not and that there was no money in it they did not break it open tho they said they would and came for that purpose These things I am the more punctual to relate that the world might know that the said persons who call'd themselves the Saints of God minded more and sought after the bread livelyhood being and money of other persons than reformation which they according to Ordinance and their own consciences ought to have done Ap. 12. Humph. Chambers of Vniv Coll. Ap. 12. .... Caldicot a Minister Of the first is large mention made among the Writers under the year 1662. The other whose Christian name I cannot yet recover was an obscure man a Covenantier and one that was lately possest of a rich Benefice belonging to a loyal person ejected Edward Corbet Master of Arts of Mert. Coll was created the same day He was born at Pontsbury in Shropshire of the antient family of the Corbets in that County was admitted Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. 1624 took the degrees in Arts became one of the Proctors of the University an 1638 married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Nathan Brent turned with the times being always puritannically affected made one of the Ass of Divines a preacher before the Long Parliament one of the Preachers in Oxon 1646 to preach the loyal Scholars into obedience to the Parliament but quitted that employment soon after whereby that duty laid on the shoulders of six only one of the Visitors of the University yet seldome or never sate among them Orator and Canon of Ch. Ch. in the room of Dr. Hen. Hammond which two places he soon after threw up as being a person of conscience and honesty and at length Rector of Great Haseley in Oxfordshire in the place as 't was said of Dr. Tho. Some where he continued to the time of his death He hath written and published Gods Providence Sermon before the House of Commons at their Fast 28. Dec. 1642 on 1. Cor. 1.27 Lond. 1647. qu. There goes under the name of Edw. Corbet a little book called The Worldlings Looking-glass or the danger of loosing his Soul for gain Printed 1630 oct but I cannot tell whether our Edw. Corbet was the author of it because I have not yet seen the book it self He departed this mortal life at London on the 5. of Januar. 1657 aged 55 years or thereabouts and was buried on the 14 day of the same month near the body of his late beloved Wife in the Chancel of Great Haseley before mention'd Over whose grave he the said Dr. Corbet had before laid a large Marble stone Ap. 14. Christop Rogers M. A Principal of New Inn and one of the Visitors Ap. 14. .... Harding Rector of Brinkworth in Wilts The first of these two was about the same time put into actual possession of a Canonry of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors in the place of Dr. Rich. Gardiner ejected according to an order of Parl. bearing date in the beginning of Mar. 1647. This person when he usually preached at S. Maries this year before his Majesty was beheaded he would in his long prayer before Sermon desire that God would open the Kings eyes to lay to heart all the blood that he had spilt c. that he would prosper the Parliament and their blessed proceedings c. He â—as a person of most reverend aspect yet of no parts only had a plain way of preaching to please Women and ignorant People He was an easie man and apt to be guided by the perswasions of others and therefore by Cheynell and Wilkinson Senior two violent and impetuous Presbyterians he was put into the roll of Visitors meerly to make a nose of wax of him
authority do when he is possest by knaves Miserable man His foolery did so long wait upon Cromwells and Iretons knavery that it was not safe for him then to see his folly and throw by his cap with a bell and his bable Elsewhere he speaks of his ill breeding and churlishness of his being a Cypher or Prepositor in the Free-school called the Army while Cromwell was Head-master and Ireton Vsher c. that he was a stalking horse a Brute c. and indeed his Majesty K. Ch. 1. doth once at least in his works stile him the brutish General as being a person not fit to hearken to reason When the War was terminated and no enemy either in Field or Garrison left he went to London in Nov. 1646 where he was in a most high manner joyed and caressed by the Citizens of London and Parliament for the great service he had done for the Commonwealth and nothing was thought too good or great for him After his Majesty was taken away from Holdenby and conveyed to Childerley Newmarket c. he expressed himself civil to him as he did afterwards at Hampton-court but then having no pious frauds in him or dissimulation for a good end he did not or could not endeavour as being no politician to countermand the diabolical designs of Cromwell and the hellish crew He did not endeavour to repell or hinder the Remonstrance of the Army the purging of the House of Commons of its chief members the Agreement of the People c. but was lull'd on in a kind of stupidity 'T is true that before the King was beheaded in order to whose trial he was nominated the chief Judge but did not sit he did use his power and interest to have the execution defer'd for some days forbearing his coming among the Officers and did fully resolve with his own Regiment to prevent the execution or have it defer'd till he could make a party in the Army to second his design But behold his policy all the morning of that day on which the King was beheaded and the time when he was beheaded he was with certain Officers of the Army at Prayer or in discourse or both in Maj. Tho. Harrisons apartment in Whitehall being a room at the hither end of that Gallery looking towards the Privy-garden and knew nothing of it as it doth appear by this passage When his Majesty was beheaded on a Scaffold joyning to the Banquetting-house at Whitehall and his Corps thereupon immediatly coffin'd and covered with a black velvet Pall Bishop Juxon who attended him on the Scaffold and Thomas Herbert the only Groom of his Bedchamber that was then left did go with the said Corps to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with Fairfax the General Fairfax asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert looking very strangely upon him he told him that the King was beheaded at which he seem'd much surpriz'd Afterwards Herbert walking farther in the Gallery with the said Bishop they were met by another great Commander named Ol. Cromwell who knew what had lately past for he told them unasked that they should have orders for the Kings burial speedily as I have been informed by the Letters of the said Thomas Herbert In little more than a fortnight after viz. Feb. 14. an 1648. General Fairfax was elected one of the Council of State consisting of 30 persons and soon after when K. Ch. 2. ship'd himself near the Hague in Holland to go to Scotland there to be invested in his right he laid down his Commission as General being influenc'd thereunto by certain Presbyterian Ministers because he would not engage against him whereupon Cromwell was made General in his place and how he afterwards acted against that King especially when he went into England to obtain his right all Histories will tell you Afterwards the Lord Fairfax retired to his Seat in Yorkshire lived there mostly during the Reign of Oliver was ready to rise with the people of his County to assist Sir George Booth in Cheshire if any ways successful and soon after did not only appear in the head of a great party when the forces belonging to Col. Jo. Lambert began to desert him when they were about to fight Gen. Monke at what time he was coming into Engl. from Scot. to restore the Rump but declared with his party in Decemb. 1659 against illegal taxes and free-quarter as also for the freedom of a Parliament as it was in the year 1648. On the 2. Jan. 1659 the Rump Parliament then sitting he was by them appointed one of the Council of State and in Apr. following being elected the first Knight for the County of York to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 25 of the said month he was by the members thereof appointed one of those 12 Commons to go with those persons appointed by the House of Lords to attend on his Majesty in Holland for the greater solemnity and luster of his Court there On the 16 of May following they were there with his Majesty at the Hague where Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eyeâ— of all men as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliament Army And when the first ceremony was past he desired as 't is said to see the King in private and to ask him pardon for the past offences which accordingly he did with all submission After the said Parliament was dissolv'd he retired to his seat lived retiredly and dying there was buried in an Isle joyning on the south side to the Chancel of Bilborough or Bilburgh near York Over his grave was soon after pur this Epitaph Here lye the bodies of the right honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax of Denton Baron of Camerone who died Novemb. the 12 an 1671 in the sixtieth year of his age And of Anne his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere Baron of Tilbury He had Issue Mary Duchess of Buckingham and Elizabeth Under this Lord Fairfax his name were published while he bore armes for the Parliament especially when General Many Letters of which most were to the Speaker of the House of Commons some Relations concerning skirmishes battles taking of Castles Towns c. As also Remonstrances Declarations Speeches Messages c. He was a great lover of learning religious in the way he professed and when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took great care for the preservation of the publick Library which in several respects did suffer while the Garrison was possest by the Royal Party And what he did for it at the time of his death I have elsewhere told you May 19. Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then also created Dr. of the Civ Law He was conducted with Fairfax by the Beadles towards the upper end of the Convocation the members thereof then standing bare and was presented by
exercise for the degree of Bach. of Divinity Which being done to the great liking of all the auditory Prideaux openly said before them in the Divinity School thus Accepimus responsionem tuam mi fili tanquam ad ventantis Veris gratissimam primam rosam Our Author Primerose hath written Theses Theologicae de peccato in genere specie Genev. 1620. qu. Thes Theol de necessitate Satisfactionis pro peccatis per christum Sal â—ur 1 20. qu. Disputatio Theologica de divina praedestinatione et annexis articulis amplitudine mortis Christi vi et efficacia gratiae dei et usu liberi arbitrii in conversionis negotio c. Bas 1621. Treatise of the Sabbath and the Lords day the nature and the original of both printed 1636. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen After he had left Oxon he retired into France and became Minister of the Protestant Church at Roan in Normandy where I find him in sixteen hundred forty and two How long afterwards he lived or when or where he died I know not nor can I yet learn of any person tho many that have been in those parts have told me that he was esteemed one of the learnedst reformed Divines in France THOMAS SALESBURY son and heir of Sir Hen. Salesbury Bt was born of an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Leweni near Denbigh in Denbighshire became a Gent. Com. of Jesus Coll. about the beginning of the Reign of K. Ch. 1. but taking no degree he retired after he had seen the vanities of the great city to his patrimony and having a natural genie to Poetry and Romance exercised himself much in those juvenile studies and at length became a most noted poet of his time as it partly appears in this book following which he wrot and published The history of Joseph Lond. 163 ... printed in English verse in 13 chapters and all contained in about 16 sheets in quarto Daniel Cudmore Gent. did also exercise his muâ—e on the same subject some years after And in prose that history is written by several persons in divers languages especially in that of the French which being translated into English by Sir Will. Lower a Cornish Knight was printed at London 1655 oct This Sir William who was a noted poet was son of John Lower of Tremere a younger son of Sir Will. Lower of St. Winnow in Cornwal and died at London about the beginning of the year 1662 but where buried unless in the parish Church of S. Clements Danes within the Liberty of Westminster where his Uncle Tho. Lower Esq to whom he was heir was buried 21 of Mar. 1660 after he had laid dead since the 5 of Feb. going before I know not What other things our Author Salesbury hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he as formerly a member of Jesus Coll. was among several persons of quality actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University in the year 1642 he being then a Baronet and that departing this mortal life in the summer time before the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and three at which time he left behind him a widdow named Hester was as I suppose buried in the Vault in Whitchurch joyning to Leweni before mentioned near to the body of his Father Sir Henry who died 2 Aug. 1632. The reader is to know that there hath been one Thom. Salusbury who translated into English The learned man defended and reformed c. Lond. 1660. oct written originally in the Italian tongue by Dan. Bartolus a learned Jesuit as also Mathematical Collections from Gal. Galilaei c. but his sirname differing in one letter from Salesbury he must not be taken to be the same with Sir Thomas before mention'd who was in time before him and an active man in the Kings Cause in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642 for which tho he died soon after his Family notwithstanding suffer'd for it DUDLEY DIGGES the son of Sir Dud. Digges mention'd before under the year 1638. was born in Kent particularly as I conceive in Chilham became a Commoner of Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1629 where by his wonderful pregnant parts overcoming the crabbed studies of Logic took the degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Lent term 1631 being then scarce 19 years of age In the year following he was elected probationer-Fellow of All 's Coll. as a Founders kinsman and in Octob. 1635 he was licensed to proceed in Arts at which time prosecuting his studies with unwearied industry advantaged by a great memory and excellent natural parts he became a great Scholar general Artist and Linguist In the beginning of the civil war he wrot An answer to a printed book entit Observations upon some of his Majesties late answers and expresses Oxon. 1642. qu. 1647. third edit He also wrot so subtile and solid a treatise of the differences between the King and Parliament that such Royalists that have since handled that controversie have come far beneath him The title of it is this The unlawfulness of Subjects taking up Arms against their Sovereign in what case soever with answers to all objections Oxon. 1643. qu. It was reprinted at Lond. 1647. whereupon a complaint being made to the Committee of Complaints the Printers and Publishers of it were to be tried at the Kings-bench It was also published again at Lond. 1662 in oct part of which impression lying dead there was a new title dated 16â—9 put to it At length being untimely snatch'd away to the great sorrow of learned men by a malignant fever call'd the Camp disease raging in the Garrison of Oxon on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred forty and three was buried in the outer Chappel of All 's College Of the said Disease Doctor Edward Greaves Fellow of that house wrot a little treatise entit Morbus Epidemicus c. as I shall tell you when I come to him JOHN SEDGWICK son of Joseph Sedg a northern man born sometimes Vicar of S. Peters Church in Marlborough afterwards of Ogbourne S. Andrew in Wilts was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the said town of Marlborough educated in Grammar learning at that place and in Logic in Queens Coll into which he made his first entry in Easter term an 1619 and in that of his age 18. But making no long stay there he translated himself to Magd. Hall where he applyed his mind to Divinity before he was Bach. of Arts. In the time of Christmas 1621 he was admitted to the order of a Deacon by the Bishop of London and in Nov. and Dec. following being a Candidate for the degree of Bach. of Arts had his Grace denied four times by the Regents because that when he was to be admitted to the order of Deacon he did belye the University in using the title of Bach. of Arts before he was
1621 which was printed that year In 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and in 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I yet know of him CALYBUTE DOWNING the eldest Son of Calyb Downing of Shennington in Gloucestershire near to Banbury in Oxfordshire Gent. Lord of the mannors of Sugarswell and Tysoe in Warwickshire became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1623 and in that of his age 17 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts compleated it by determination and then went as it seems to Cambridge or beyond the Seas where taking another degree he entred into orders was made Rector of Hickford in Bucks Doctor of the Laws and had as I have been informed by one that well knew him the Rectory of West-Ildesley in Berks bestowed on him About that time he being a competitor for the Wardenship of All 's Coll. when Dr. Gilb. Sheldon was elected but lost it did at length exchange W. Ildesley for the Rectory of Hackney near London and was a great suitor to be Chaplain to Tho. E. of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland thinking that employment the readiest way to be a Bishop And whilst he had hopes of that preferment he writ stoutly in justification of that calling and was ready ever and anon to maintain it in all Discourses But being a reputed weathercock that turns which way soever the wind of his own humour and ambition blew him did upon some discontent watch an opportunity to gain preferment let it come what way soever At length being esteemed by the Faction to be a Man fitted for any base employment and one that what ever he counterfeited ever looked awry on the Church in which being setled and in peace he could never hope to advance further than Rector of Hackney was by them sent to feel the pulse of the great City of London While therefore discontents did rise high in the North the Scots having in an hostile manner entred the Kingdom the people every where especially in London stirred up by some Agents to petition the King for that Parliament which began 3. Nov. 1640 our Author Downing did then viz. on the first of Sept. 1640 preach to the brotherhood of the Artillery Garden and positively affirmed that for defence of religion and reformation of the Church it was lawful to take up arms against the King He having thus kindled the fire in the City did for fear of being questioned for then it was not lawful to preach Treason retire privately to Little-Lees in Essex the house of Robert Earl of Warwick and common rendezvouze of all schismatical preachers in those parts while in the mean time his Sermon which did administer in every place matter of discourse was censur'd as people stood affected and in fine gave occasion to the Ringleaders of the Faction to enter upon serious examination and study of this case of Conscience And it seems that they consulting with the Jesuits on the one side and the rigid Puritan on the other or indeed because without admitting this doctrine all their former endeavours would vanish into smoak they stood doubtful no longer but closed with these two contrary parties yet shaking hands in this point of Rebellion and subscribing to the Doctrine of Downing as an evangelical truth Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after he became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Lord Roberts in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex where he preached and prayed continually against the King and his Cause In 1643 he shewed himself a grand Covenanter and thereupon was made one of the Assembly of Divines but leaving them soon after he sided with the Independents and preached so seditiously that he was commonly called Young Peters or Hugh Peters the second and often and bitterly preached against such Citizens of London that shew'd themselves zealous for an union or right understanding between the King and his Parliament But behold while he was in the height of these diabolical and rebellious actions he was suddenly and as I may say most justly cut off from the face of the earth and was no more seen His Works are these A discourse of the state Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom in relation to the Civil considered under three conclusions c. Oxon. 1633. c. A digression discussing some ordinary exceptions against Ecclesiastical Officers To these two discourses tho his name is put yet I have been informed by a certain D. of D. then living and well known to Downing that he the said C. Downing was not the Author of them Discourse of the false grounds the Bavarian party have laid to settle their own Faction and shake the peace of the Empire c. Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse upon the interest of England considered in the case of the deteinure of the Prince Elector Palatine his dignities and dominions printed with the former book next going before A discoursive conjecture upon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present Troubles of Great Britaine different from those of Lower Germany c. Lond. 1641. qu. c. Divers Sermons as 1 Serm. preached before the renowned Company of Artillery 1. Sept. 1â—40 on Deut. 25.17 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Fast Serm. before the H. of Commons 31. Aug. 1642 on 2. Thes 3. ver 2. whether printed I know not and others which I have not yet seen This person who had a hot and rambling Head laid it down very unwillingly and gave up the Ghost at Hackney about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and four to the great grief of his aged Father who died in Nov. following This Dr. Cal. Downing was Father to a Son of his own temper named George a sider with all times and changes well skil'd in the common Cant and a Preacher sometimes to boot a man of note in Olivers days as having been by him sent Resident to the Lords States General of the United Provinces a Soldier in Scotland and at length Scout Master General there and a Burgess for several Corporations in that Kingdom in Parliaments that began there in 1654 and 56. Upon a foresight of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. his Restauration he wheeled about took all opportunities to shew his Loyalty was elected Burgess for Morpeth in Northumb. to serve in that Parl. begun at Westm 8. May 1661 was about that time sent Envoy Extraordinary into Holland where to shew his zeal and love for his Majesty he seized on three Regicides at Delft named John Barkstead Joh. Okey and Miles Corbet whom he forthwith sent into England to receive the reward of the Gallows Afterwards being made Secretary to the Treasury and one of his Majesties Commissioners of the Customs was by the name of Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Cambridgeshire Knight created a Baronet on the first of July 1603. BRIAN TWYNE Son of Tho. Twyne mentioned before under the year 1613 p. 329 was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Surrey
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Estiâ—nne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
ready when this came out a full examination and confutation of the second part yet he thought not fit to publish it together with this for reasons given in the close of the work Afterwards Knott did publish Infidelity unmasked or a confutation of a book published by Mr. Will. Chillingworth under this title The religion of Protestants c. Gaunt 1652 in a large qu. Which is the last time that I find Knott mentioned for he dying at London on the fourth of January 1655 according to the Eng. accompt buried the next day in the S. Pancras Church near that City no body that I yet know vindicated Chillingworth against him Our Author Dr. Potter did also translate from Ital. into English The History of the quarrels of P. Paul 5. with the state of Venice Lond. 1626. qu. Pen'd by Father Paul Sarp And had lying by him at his death several MSS. fit to be printed among which was one intit A survey of the new platforme of predestination which coming into the hands of Twisse of Newbury was by him answer'd as also Three Letters of Dr. Potter concerning that matter At length departing this mortal life in Queens Coll. on the third day of March in sixteen hundred forty and five was buried about the middle of the inner Chappel belonging thereunto Over his grave was a marble monument fastned to the north Wall at the charge of his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Dr. Charles Sonibanke sometimes Canon of Windsore afterwards the Wife of Dr. Ger. Langbaine who succeeded Potter in the Provostship of the said College a Copy of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. In his Deanery of Worcester succeeded Dr. Rich. Holdsworth Archd. of Huntingdon and Master of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and in his Deanery of Durham Dr. Will. Fuller Dean of Ely but neither of them I presume were installed WILLIIAM LOE took the degrees in Arts as a Member of S. Albans Hall that of Master being compleated in 1600 at which time he was much in esteem for Lat. Gr. and humane learning Soon after he was made Master of the College School in Glocester in which office he was succeeded by John Langley Prebendary of the Church there Chaplain in ord to K. Jam. 1. and Pastor of the English Church at Hambrough in Saxony belonging to the English Merchant Adventurers there in 1618 in which year he accumulated the degree of Doctor of Div. as a member of Merton Coll. His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Come and see The Bible the brightest beauty c. being the sum of four sermons preached in the Cathedral of Glocester Lond. 1614. qu. 2 The Mysterie of mankind made into a Manual being the sum of seven sermons preached at S. Michaels in Cornhil on Tim. 1.3.16 Lond. 1619. oct 3 The Kings shoe or Edoms doome Sermon on Psal 60.8 Lond. 1623. qu. and another Serm. or Treatise called The Merchant real which I have not yet seen Vox clamantis A still Voice to the three Estates in Parliament Lond. 1621. qu. I find one Dr. Loe to administer comfort to Dr. Dan. Featley when he laid on his death bed and afterwards to preach his funeral Sermon at Lambeth printed at London 1645. qu. which Doctor I take to be the same with our Author who while he was Preb. of Gloc. did sometimes subscribe himself to certain Chapter-Acts by the name of Will. Leo. He died in the time of Usurpation when the Church was destroyed for the sake of Religion but where or when I cannot tell After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. one Hugh Nash M. of A. succeeded him in his Prebendship which for some years had lain void GABRIEL du GRES a Frenchman studied sometimes among the Oxonians afterwards went to Cambridge for a time as it seems and returning thence soon after taught privately for several years the French Tongue in this University His works are these Grammaticae Gallicae compendium Cantab. 1636. oct Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini Oxon. 1639. 1652. and 1660. oct Regulae pronunciandi ut verborum Gallicorum Paradigmata printed with the Dialogues Life of Jean Arman du plessis Duke of Richelieu and Peer of France Lond. 1643. oct and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen nor know any thing else of the Author THOMAS LYDYAT the son of Christop Lydyat Lord of the Mannour of Aulkryngton commonly called Okerton near Banbury in Oxfordshire and Citizen of London was born at Okerton in the beginning of the year 1572 and having pregnant parts while a youth was by the endeavours of his Father elected one of the number of the Children of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester at about 13 years of age where being soon ripened in Grammaticals was elected Probationer Fellow of New Coll. 1591. At which time being under the tuition of Dr. afterwards Sir Hen. Marten made great proficiency in Logicals and two years after was admitted verus Socius After he had taken the degrees in Arts he studied Astronomy Mathematicks the Tongues and Divinity in the last of which he had an eager desire to continue and improve himself but finding a great defect in his Memory and Utterance of which he often complained particularly to Dr. Bancroft Bishop of Oxon his Diocesan in his Epistle dedicatory to him of a Sermon preached at a Visitation while he was a rural Dean made choice rather to quit his place in the Coll. for the statutes thereof oblig'd him to Divinity and live upon that small patrimony he had than to follow and prosecute the said study of Divinity What farther I have to observe of him is 1 That the seven years next ensuing after he had left his Fellowship of New Coll. which was 1603. he spent in the finishing and setting forth such books that he had begun in the College especially that De emendatione temporum dedicated to Pr. Henry to whom he was Chronographer and Cosmographer Which Prince being solely given up to all vertue did gratiously accept of it and had so great a respect for the Author that had he lived he would have done great matters for him but dying in the flower of his youth the hopes of our Author were interr'd with that Prince in his grave 2 That at the end of those seven years Dr. Usher afterwards Archbishop of Armagh being in London found him out and had him with him into Ireland where he continued in the Coll. near Dublin about two years At the end of which he purposing to return for England the Lord Deputy and Chanc. of Ireland did upon his motion make him a joynt promise of a competent Maintenance upon his return back again thither When he came into England the Rectory of Okerton before mention'd falling void which he before had refused when Fellow of New Coll. upon the offer of it by his Father the Patron he did after several demurrs and not without much reluctancy of mind accept
market Town in Glocestershire called Tewkesbury But being schismatically inclined he refused to conform to certain Ceremonies in the Church of England whereupon being silenced by Goodman his Diocesan he lived by the helps of the Brethren At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he was restored by the Committee of Religion to his said Cure where continuing till about 1645 became Preacher of the Word at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and in two years after or less at S. Faiths under Pauls in London At all which places he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian Perswasion He hath written and published these things following Several Sermons viz. 1 The downfal of Antichrist c. Sermon on 2 Thes 2.8 Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to John White Esq and the rest of the Committee for Religion 2 Judahs joy at the oath Covenant Serm. on 2 Cor. 15.15 Lond. 1641. qu. 3 The red horse or the bloodiness of war Serm. at Pauls 16 Jul. 1648. on Rev. 6.4 Lond. 1648. qu. c. Vindiciae voti or a Vindication of the true sense of the national Covenant in answer to the Protestation protested Lond. 1641. qu. Vindiciae Eccles Anglicanae or ten cases resolved which discover that tho there be need of Reformation in yet not of Separation from the Churches of Christ in England Lond. 1644. qu. ded to Mr. Rich. Capell sometimes of Magd. Coll. Proofs that the King may without impeachment of his Oath touching the Clergy at his Coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy and the Objections against it in two several Treatises printed at Oxon fully answered Lond. 1646. qu. in one sheet Or thus as 't is in another Title Case of Conscience resolved Wherein it is cleared that the King may without impeachment of his oath touching the Clergy at his Coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy Lond. 1646. qu. in one sh and half Astrologo-mastix The vanity of judicial Astrology Lond. 1646. qu. Vindiciae Paedo-Baptismi or a Vindication of Infant Baptism in a full answer to Mr. Tombes 12 Arguments alledged against it in his Exercitation c. Lond. 1646. quart Character of an old English Puritan or Nonconformist Lond. 1646. in 1 sh in qu. Vindiciae vindiciarum or a Vindication of his vindication of Infant Biptism from the Exceptions of Mr. Harrison in his Paedo-Baptisme oppugned and from the exceptions of Mr. Tombes c. Lond. 1647. qu. A Catechisme in brief questions and answers c. Lond. 1647. oct Touching Supremacy in Causes ecclesiastical shewing how that the Power civil and ecclesiastical may act without encroachment of each other Written 1647. printed in qu. An Exercise wherein the evil of Health-drinking is by clear and solid Arguments convinced Lond. 1648. in two sh in qu. The Sifters sieve broken or a Reply to Dr. Boughen's sisting his Case of Conscience c. touching the Kings Coronation Oath Lond. 1648. qu. Answer to Mr. John Goodwins Might and Right well met wherein is cleared that the action of the Army in secluding many Parliament men from the place of their discharge of trust and the imprisoning of some of them is neither defensible by the rules of solid reason nor religion Lond. 1649. qu. in 5 sheets Whereupon Jo. Goodwin came out with a Reply the same year intit Might overcoming Right c. What other things our Author Joh. Geree hath written I know not See more of him in Will. Pemble among these Writers in 1623. p. 405. All that I have more to say of him is that he died in his house in Ivey lane near to Pater-noster-row in London in the latter end of the year in Febr. as it seems sixteen hundred forty and eight but where buried unless in S. Faiths Church before mentioned I cannot tell The Minister who preached his funeral Sermon told the Auditory that he died poor whereupon there was a Collection of money made among the Brethren for his Children This is the same Mr. Geree a Minister whom a noted Author reports to have died with grief and trouble for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. ROBERT WELDON a man of parts during his stay in the University took the degrees in Arts as a Student of Ch. Ch. that of Master being compleated in 1615. Afterwards he became Rector of Stony-Stratford in Leicestershire wrot and published The Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the original of Dominion Wherein Gods perpetual propriety in the sovereignty of the whole earth and the Kings great charter for the administration thereof by authoritative Records in both the Testaments c. is jure divino Lond. 1648. qu. In which book the Author shews himself to be well read in various sorts of Learning and by some passages therein a Loyalist and a sufferer for the Kings cause GEORGE HAKEWILL son of John Hakewill of the City of Exeter Merchant was born in the parish of S. Mary Arches within the said City and educated in Grammar learning there became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in the beginning of the year 1595 and in that of his age 16 where he became so noted a Disputant and Orator that he was unanimously elected Fellow of Exeter Coll. at two years standing Afterwards he proceeded in Arts applyed himself to the deep researches in Philosophy and Divinity entred into the sacred function travelled beyond the seas and at his return became as noted for his Preaching and Disputes as before he was for Philosophy In 1610 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and the next year proceeded in Divinity Afterwards he became the first sworn Chaplain that attended Prince Charles by whose endeavours I presume he became Archdeacon of Surrey an 1616 which was the highest dignity that he enjoyed being hindred I presume from rising higher for his zealous opposing the match of the Infanta of Spain with his Master the Prince The story of which was this After he had with some pains written a small Tract against that match not without some Reflections on the Spaniard which could not be pleasing to the King he caused it to be fairly transcribed by another hand Which done he unknown to the King presented it to the Prince The Prince after he had perused it shew'd it to the King who being offended at it commanded Tho. Murrey the Princes Tutor and Secretary the Author Hakewill William his brother and all others who knew of or were consenting to it to be committed to custody in Aug. 1621 whence being soon after released our Author Hakewill was dismist from his attendance on the Prince So that tho his Learning was accounted by the generality polite his Philosophy subtile and Divinity profound yet in this particular he was esteemed very rash and imprudent A certain Author tells us that when he presented the said MS. to the Prince he should say Sir I beseech you make use of this by reading it your self but if you shew it to your Father I shall be undone for my
then esteemed a leading man in the blessed cause he became Preacher to the Garrison of Windsore castle then under the command of Collonel John Venn In which office he shewed him so violent against the King and his cause that he was usually stiled by the Royalists Venns principal fireman at Windsore This Venn by the way it must be known did while Governour of that Castle exercise very great cruelty against the Royalists that were Prisoners there but being dismist of his employ and Col. Christopher Whitchcot put into his place he retired to London carried on the cause there with great zeal was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and at length hung himself in his chamber as some say others that he died suddenly in his bed on the 7 of July at night or early next morning an 1650. In the year 1644 when the Commissioners from the King and Parliament met at Uxbridge to treat about peace this our Author Love did very officiously put himself upon preaching before some of them on the first day of their meeting Jan. 30 being the Market-day In which his Sermon full of dire he vented many passages very scandalous to his Majesties Person and derogatory to his honour stirring up the People against the Treatie and incensing them against the Kings Commissioners telling the said People that they came with hearts full of blood and that there was as great distance between the Treatie and Peace as between Heaven and Hell or words to that effect with divers other seditious passages against his Maj. and the Treaty Whereupon the Commissioners belonging to the King putting up their complaints to those of the Parliament they represented the matter to the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster who thereupon tho they could not with good conscience imprison Mr. Love yet they did confine him and where should it be but to that very house where his Mistress then lived whom for two years going before he had wooed with prayers sermons and ugly faces After this he was made Minister of S. Anns Church near to Aldersgate a Recruiter of the Assemb of Divines and at length Minister of the Church of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London which he kept till Oliver Cromwell paid the debt and brought him to the Scaffold when he least looked for it which was upon this account After the Presbyterians had been gull'd of their King by the Independents the prime heads of them were resolved to set up his Son Ch. 2. Whereupon he being invited from beyond the Seas into Scotland and there had taken the Covenant and was crown'd the Presbyterians in England plotted to bring him in among them and to that end corresponded with him and supplied him and his with money contrary to an Act of Parliament then lately made in that case provided These matters being discovered our Author Love Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Will. Jenkyns and other London Ministers as also one Dr. Roger Drake a Physician as it seems were by authority of the Council of State taken into custody about the 7. of May 1651 as being the chief Actors in the said treason as they then called it Soon after it was resolved by the great Masters at Westminster that Mr. Love the Minister then Prisoner in the Tower should be brought to his trial before the High Court of Justice on the 20. of June 1651 not for any matter of doctrine as it was then given out but for high treason as they said and conspiracy against the common-wealth of England He and the rest as the Independent then said had outstript the Jesuit both in practice and project as having not only tamper'd with mens consciences in private beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely venture but preached open rebellion and treason with a full mouth in the Pulpit On the said day he made his first appearance in order to his trial and one Jackson a Minister Arth. Jackson as it seems refusing then to give in evidence against him was for his contempt fined 500 l. and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. The next day he appeared again and as 't was then said by his enemies in his carriage and behaviour he discover'd as much ridiculous impudence equivocation and hypocrisie as ever any Person did upon the like occasion adding that in him you might have seen the true character of his faction full of passion and spleen and void of all ingenuity On the 25. and 27. days of the said month of June he appeared again and on the last of those two days he brought his counsel with him viz. Mr. Matthew Hale Mr. John Archer and Mr. Tho. Walter but the two last having not taken the Engagement were not suffer'd to plead for him At which time Mr. Love as the Independent said was full of malepert carriage matchless impudence obstinacy and impatiency On the 5. of July he was condemned to be beheaded on Tower-hill on the 15 of the same month but then several petitions being read in Parliament in his behalf viz. one from divers Ministers another from himself and a third from his Wife he was repriev'd till the 15. of Aug. following and thence to the 22. of the same month What farther may be said concerning his principles and profession you shall have it from his own mouth which he spoke When he was tried for his life thus God is my witness I never drove a malignant design I never carried on a malignant interest I detest both I still retain my covenanting principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terrour or perswasion whatsoever I do retain as great a keeness and shall whilst I live and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where I live and have to this day as ever I did in former times I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parliaments quarrel against the forces raised by the King I gave my all and did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulness of a defensive war but unless my books and wearing apparrel I contributed all I had in the world and tho my life is endeavoured to be taken away yet for all that I repent not of what I have done I have in my measure ventured my all in the same quarrel that you were engaged in and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant that took sweet counsel together and walked in fellowship one with another I die cleaving to all those Oathes Vowes Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my judgment for them to the protestation the vow and the covenant the solemn league and covenant And this I tell you all that I had rather die a Covenant keeper than live a Covenant breaker c. As for his writings and works they are these The debauched Cavilier or
hundred fifty and one Afterwards Col. Edm. Ludlow who was Lieut. Gen. of the Army there did execute the Office of Deputy for a time by the appointment of the superior Power On the 9 of Dec. the Parliament ordered a Bill to be brought in for the setling of 2000 l. per an on the Wife and Children of Ireton out of the Lands belonging to George Duke of Bucks and on the 17 of the said month his carcass being landed at Bristow was pompously conveyed towards London and laying in state for a time in Somerset house in the Strand all hung with black was hung over the common gate an Atchievment commonly called a Hatchment with this Motto under his Arms depicted thereon Dulce est pro patria mori which was englished by an honest Cavalier thus It is good for his Country that he is dead On the sixth day of Febr. following his body was interr'd with great state in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster at which time John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. preached not without some blasphemy on Dan. 12.13 and had about that time Elegies made on his death and a stately tomb erected over his grave with the Effigies of him and his wife thereon After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. his body with that of Oliv. Cromwell were taken up on Saturday 26 Jan. 1660 and on Munday night following were drawn in two several Carts from Westminster to the Red Lyon in Holbourne where they continued that Evening The next morning the carcass of Joh. Bradshaw President of the High Court of Justice which had been with great solemnity buried in S. Peter's Church at Westminster 22 Nov. 1659. was carried in a cart to Holbourn also and the next day following that which was the 30 of January on which day K. Ch. 1. was beheaded in 1648. they were drawn to Tybourne on three several Sledges followed by the universal outcry of the people Afterwards they being pulled out from their Coffins were hanged at the several angles of that triple tree where they hung till the sun was set After which they were taken down their heads cut off to be set on Westminster Hall and their loathsome trunks thrown into a deep hole under the Gallowes where they now remain At the same time Iretons tomb was broken down and what remained over the Graves of Cromwell and Bradshaw were clean swept away and no footstep left of their remembrances in that royal and stately burial place of our English Kings While this Ireton lived came out a Pamphlet intit Independency stript and whipt or Ireton's Petition c. 1648. qu. and after his death another called The Kingdom of Christ to the Parliament from 1649 to 1652 with the name of Hen. Ireton Deputy of Ireland in the Title page But these I have not yet seen FRANCIS WOODCOCK son of Rob. Woodcock was born in the City of Chester applied his mind to Academical studies in Brasn Coll. in Easter term 1629 aged 15 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders from a Bishop and then left the House and had a Cure of Souls bestowed on him But being always puritannically affected he sided with the Presbyterians upon a defection of a predominant party in the Long Parliament an 1641 became a Lecturer of S. Laurence Ch. in the Jewry in London a Covenantier one of the Assembly of Divines and at length by ordinance of Parliament dat 10. Jul. 1646 was made Parson of S. Olaves in Southwark having for some time before exercised his function in that place He hath written and published The two Witnesses in several Lectures at S. Laurence Jewry on Rev. 11. with the great question discussed Whether the two Witnesses were slain or no. Lond. 1643. qu. made extant by vertue of an order of the Committee of the H. of Commons bearing date 27 of Apr. the same year This book was afterwards reprinted Several Sermons as 1 Christs warning-piece giving notice to every one to watch and keep their garments Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 30 Oct. 1644. on Rev. 16.15 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Lex Talionis or God paying every man in his own coine Fast-serm before the H. of C. 30 Jul. 1645 on 1 Sam 2.30 latter part Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Joseph parallel'd by the present Parliament in his sufferings and advancement Thanksgiving sermon before the H. of C. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. Forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Gen. 49.23 24. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things he hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and one or thereabouts was buried in the Church of S. Olaves befotementioned One of his sirname was by Act of Parl. dat in Mar. 1659 60 appointed among several other Ministers to approve of Ministers of the Gospel according to the Presbyterian way which Act came soon after to nothing He is the same person who was afterwards a frequent Conventicler and has one or more Sermons extant in The morning exercise methodized Lond. 1676. qu. THOMAS RYVES who writes himself in some of his books Rivius was the fourth son of John Ryves of Damery Court in Dorsetshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. as a native of Langton in the said County of Dorset after he had served two years of probation an 1598 where applying his studies to the faculty of the Civil Law took the degrees therein that of Doctor being compleated 1610 about which time he was an eminent Advocate in Doctors Commons and the Court of Admiralty Afterwards he was one of the Masters of Chancery and Judge of the Faculties and Prerogative Court in Ireland where he was held in great esteem for his knowledge in the Laws At length upon the coming to the Crown of K. Ch. 1. he was made his Advocate and by him knighted was engaged in his Cause when the grand Rebellion broke out wherein he gave good evidence of his Valour and notwithstanding he was then well stricken in years yet he received several wounds in Fights and Skirmishes for his Cause He was accounted a thorough-pac'd Scholar in all polite learning was a pure Latinist and Master of a smooth stile He understood also the Common Law so well that he was as fit to plead in Westminster Hall as in his proper Courts and therefore his and the assistance of Dr. Duck were required by his Maj. at the Treaty for Peace in the Isle of Wight He hath written and published The Vicars plea or that a competency of means is due to Vicars out of the several Parishes Lond. 1620. quart Regiminis Anglicani in Hiberniâ defensio adversus Analecten lib. 3. Lond. 1624. qu. Imperatoris Justiniani defensio contra Alemannum Lond. 1626. oct Historia navalis antiqua lib. 4. Lond. 1633. oct Hist navalis media lib. 3. Lond. 1640.
the former Englands Hallelu-jah or Great Britaines grateful retribution for Gods gracious benediction in our many and famous deliverances since the Halcyon dayes of ever blessed Qu. Elizab. to these present times Lond. 1631. oct This is a Poem also and his kinsman Tho. Vicars of Qu. Coll. hath a Copy of verses before it Quintisence of cruelty or the Popish powder-plot related 'T is a Poem and printed in a large oct Englands remembrancer Or a thankful acknowledgment of Parliamentarie mercies to the English nation Lond. 1641. a Poem in one sh in qu. The sinfulness and unlawfulness of having or making the picture of Christs humanity c. Lond. 1641. in tw God in the mount or Englands remembrancer being a panegerick piramides erected to the honour of Englands God c. Lond. 1642. qu. a Poem Looking glass for Malignants or Gods hand against God-haters Lond. 1643. qu. in 6. sheets In this book is much bitterness against the Kings followers whom he often stiles cormorants against the Prelates also especially Laud. God in the mount or Englands remembrancer being the first and second part of a Parliamentary Chronicle or a Chron. of the Parliament of England from 1641. to the month of Octob. 1643. Lond. 1644. Gods Arke overtopping the worlds waves or a third part of a parliamentary Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. The burning bush not consumed or the fourth and last part of a Parliam Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. one J. Hart did put out in the year 1627. The burning bush not yet consumed printed in oct which title our author Vicars borrowed These three last books viz. God in the mount c. Gods Arke c. and The burnish bush c. were all printed together with this general title Magnalia Dei Anglicana or Englands parliamentary Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. Of which Chronicle one Joh. Hornius a Dutchman is very liberal in his character thus Chron. Vicarii qui priora belli complexus est sermones potius sacros quales ad populum habentur quam historias continet cum maxima operis pars Theologica sit c. Coleman-street-conclave visited and that grand impostor the schismaticks cheater in chief who hath long slily lurked therein truly and duly discovered containing a most palpable and plain display of Mr. John Goodwins self conviction c. and of the notorious heresies errors malice pride and hypocrisie of this most huge Garagantua c. Lond. 1648. qu. in 7. sheets Before the title is John Goodwins picture with a windmil over his head and weather cock upon it with other Hierogliphicks or Emblems about him to shew the instability of the man The Schismatick sifted c. Soul-saving knowledge c. in oct Picture of a Puritan c. These three last I have not yet seen Dagon demolished or twenty admirable examples of Gods severe justice and displeasure against the subscribers of the late engagement against K. Ch. 2. and the whole house of Peers c. Lond. 1660. in two shâ—in qu. He the said J. Vicars translated also from Lat. into English 1 Mischiefs mysterie or treasons Master-piece the powder-plot invented by hellish malice prevented by heavenly means c. Lond. 1617. qu. This is a Poem written in Latin by the rev and learned Dr. Fr. Herringe but much delated by Vicars whose labours therein are commended to the world by several copies of verses made by divers persons among whom are Thom. Salisbury M. A. of Cambridge Joshua Sylvester Nathan Chamber of Greys-inn c. Afterwards Vicars making some additions to the said translation repaired to Dr. Sam. Baker Chaplain to Laud B. of London to have it licensed but denied for several reasons See in Canterburies Doome p. 184. 2 Epigrams of that most witty and worthy Epigrammatist Mr. John Owen Gent. Lond. 1619. oct 3 Babels Balm or the Honey-comb of Romes religion with a neat draining and straining out of the rammish honey thereof sung in ten most elegant Elegies in Lat. by the most Christian Satyrist Mr. George Goodwin Lond. 1624. qu. 4 The XII Aeneids of Virgil into English deca-Syllables Lond. 1632. oct What other things this Presbyterian Poet hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying after he had spent 72 years in this vain world about the 12. of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and two was buried in the north isle of the Church of Ch. Ch. Hospital beforemention'd Over his grave was a large stone soon after laid with an inscription thereon but defaced and consumed with the Church it self in the grand conflagration that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. One Joh. Vicars of Magd. Coll. was admitted Bac. of Arts Nov. 7. an 1587. and another Joh. Vicars of Broadgates Hall was admitted Master of that faculty in the beginning of July the same year but both these are too soon for John Vicars the author beforemention'd who had a Son of both his names matriculated in this University as a member of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1631. aged 17. I have made mention of John Viccars among these writers under the year 1639. ARTHUR WILSON Son of Rich. Wilson of Yarmouth in Norfolk Gent. was born in that County became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the year 1631 being then about 33 years of age where spending more than two years was all the Academical education that he ever received but whether he took a degree or was actually created M. of A. as some of his relations hath told me it doth no where appear in the registers During his stay in the said Coll. he was very punctual in frequenting the Chappel and Hall and in observing all orders of the College and University He had little skill in the Lat. tongue less in the Greek a good readiness in the French and some smattering in the Dutch He had travelled in Germany France and Spain in the quality of a Servant to Robert Earl of Essex and was well seen in the Mathematicks and Poetry and somthing in the Common Law of the Nation He had composed some Comedies which were acted at the Black-friers in Lond. by the Kings players and in the Act time at Oxon with good applause himself being present but whether they are printed I cannot yet tell sure I am that I have seen several specimens of his poetry printed in divers books His carriage was very courteous and obliging and such as did become a well-bred Gentleman He also had a great command of the English tongue as well in writing as speaking and had he bestowed his endeavours on another subject than that of History they would have without doubt seemed better For in those things which he hath done are wanting the principal matters conducing to the completion of that faculty viz. matter from record exact time name and place which by his endeavouring too much to set out his bare collections in an effected and bombastic style are much neglected
The capacious title of these collections is The History of Great Britaine being the life and raign of K. James the first relating to what passed from his first access to the crown till his death Lond. 1653. fol. In which History which some call an infamous Pasquil you 'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies and to underprize such as were more in the Kings favour than he The reason is because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber and had received an annual pension from him several years After his death he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick and by him made his Steward of whose Father named Robert also he maketh honourable mention in the said History in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian veine that constantly goes throughout the whole work And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them Further also our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James and his Son after him were enclined to popery and to bring that Religion into England hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations He gave way to fate at Felsted near to Little Lighes the seat of the Earl of Warwick in the County of Essex about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor had some alterations made therein as 't is said by him who shaped it according to his desire In the year before the said Hist was published came out a most desperate and libellous book full of lyes mistakes nonsense c. entit The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts or a short History of the rise raigne and ruin thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. are discovered c. Lond. 1652. oct written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe c. being highly resented by the Royalists the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baseness and ingratitude His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time and therefore he being out of my road I have no more to say of him but this that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury that after he had left the University he setled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire in which County I suppose he was born that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted wrot a sharp Pamphlet against the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament as he calls them by endeavouring to seize upon and imprison five of the members thereof 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers At length having lived to see the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657. JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire was born there educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age an 1617 took a degree in Arts and being Masters standing was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624 at which time shewing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy Latine and Greek Learning was the first of five that was elected Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Master of Arts he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a senior Fellow of that House who finding him a compleat Master and gentile withal was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury At length in the year 1633 his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him The voyage he performed not without great danger and having satisfied himself with many curiosities return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which especially that of Astronomy his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on the impetuous Visitors mostly Presbyterians who did not or at least would not discern between Dunces and Scholars threw him out of his Lecture and right to his Fellowship which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr Lecture and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted Among them I find these 1 That he betrayed the College in discovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treasury which thereupon was taken away for the Kings use 2 That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods without the consent of the company and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses 3 That he feasted the Queens confessors and sent divers presents to them among which was an holy thorne and that he was more familiar with them than any true Protestants use to be 4 That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place 5 That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button puritannical fellows were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College because they abode in the Parliaments quarters c. 6 That he gave leave to Father Philips the Queens confessor and Wyatt one of her
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
an elder Brother called Robert who being puritanically educated sided with the rout against his Majesty in the beginning of the rebellion and being thorow-pac'd to Olivers interest was by him advanced to be a Colonel of Horse sometime before the Murther of K. Ch. 1. and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility than to requite him with having a hand in it Afterwards he was made Major General of the North of England and Commander in chief of all the Parliament Forces in Scotland After his Majesties restauration he surrendered himself upon Proclamation was attainted and committed Prisoner during life But his Father being then living the Estate at Thickley devolved upon the said Roberts Children begotten on the body of his Wife Margaret only Daughter of Hen. Beke of Hadenham in Bucks Gent. viz. 1 Robert born an 1650 2 Richard born 1652 3 Ephraim born about 1662 c. all which were living in 1688. This Col. Lilbourne spent the remainder of his days in close confinement in St. Nicholas Island called by some Plymouth Isle near Plymouth in Devonshire where dying in August an 1665. aged 52 years or thereabouts was buried as his Son Richard thinks at Plymouth ALEXANDER GROSSE was a Devonian born educated in Academicals in Gonvill and Caius Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became a Preacher at Plympton in his own Country But being desirous to receive instruction in matters pertaining to Divinity from Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of this University he entred himself a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. was incorporated M. of A. and in Feb. 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Soon after he obtained a License from the University to preach Gods word became Rector of Bridford near Exeter and at length of Ashberton in his own Country where he being a Presbyterian and a sider with the times was much frequented by People of that perswasion He hath extant Sweet and Soul-perswading inducements leading unto Christ c. Lond. 1632. qu. The happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ c. Lond. 1640. oct Several Sermons as 1 The Lord Jesus the Soules last refuge Serm. at the funeral of Mr. S. H on Rev. 22.20 2 Deaths deliverance and Eliahes fiery Chariot or the holy mans trial after death in two Sermons at Plymouth one on the 16. and the other on the 19 of Aug. 1631. The former at the funeral of Tho. Sherwill a pious Magistrate of that place on Isa 57.1.2 and the other Eliahes fierie chariot at the funeral of Mathias Nicolls Bac. of Div. Preacher to the Town of Plymouth on 2 Kings 2.11.12 All which Sermons were printed at Lond. 1640. oct The mysterie of self denial or the cessation of mans living to himself and the inchoations of Christs living in man Lond. 1642. qu. Mans misery without Christ opening the sinful perplexed dishonourable and Soul destroying condition of man without Christ c. Lond. 1642. qu. The way to a blessed life composed by way of Catechisme c. Lond. 1643. oct or tw This is sometimes called The fiery pillar c. Happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ setting forth 1. The fulness of Christ 2. Danger of neglecting Christ c. Lond. in qu. The Anatomy of the heart printed in oct This I have not seen nor his book On sacred things printed in tw Buddings and blossomings of old truths or several practical points of Divinity gathered out of the sacred Evangelist S. John chap. 3. from the 22 verse to the end Lond. 1656. oct Published by a Presbyterian Minister called John Welden then living at Stratcley in Armington in the County of Devon Whose Preface to it shews that A Gross was a zealous and mighty man in the Presbyterian way as by the character of him there appears At length after he had in a manner spent himself in carrying on the beloved Cause laid his head down and willingly died in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried at Ashberton beforemention'd He had a Son of both his names who became a Student in Exeter Coll. 1638 but whether he lived to publish any thing I know not WILLIAM ERBURY was born at or near Roath-Dagfield in Glamorganshire became a Student in Brasn Coll. in Lent term 1619. aged 15 years took one degree in Arts retired into Wales took Holy Orders and was there beneficed But being always schismatically affected he preached in Conventicles and denying to read the Kings Declaration for pastimes after Divine Service on the Lords day was summoned divers times to the High Commission Court at Lambeth where he suffered for his obstinacy In the beginning of the Long Parliament 1640 he shew'd himself openly preached against Bishops and Ceremonies and made early motions towards Independency Whereupon by the endeavours of those inclin'd that way he was made a Chaplain in the Earl of Essex his Army and therein he sometimes exercised himself in Military concerns but mostly in those relating to his function whereby he corrupted the Soldiers with strange opinions Antinomian Doctrines and other dangerous errours and by degrees fell to grosser opinions holding as a Presbyterian Writer saith Universal redemption c. and afterwards became a Seeker and I know not what At length he left that Army and lived about London and vented his Opinions there in 1645. Since which he betook himself to the Isle of Ely for his ordinary residence and thence took his progress into one County or another and there in private houses vented his opinions among the Godly under the habit of holiness At S. Edmundsbury he used to exercise in private and to declare himself for universal redemption that no man was punished for Adams sin that Christ died for all that the guilt of Adams sin should be imputed to no man c. Not long after he went into Northamptonshire where in a private Meeting the main scope of his exercise was to speak against the certainty and sufficiency of the Scriptures alledging there was no certainty to build upon them because there were so many several copies After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon in 1646 we find him there to be Chaplain to a Regiment of Parliamenteers to keep his Conventicles for them in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church wherein afterwards in the time of Oliver the Royal Party had their religious Meetings and to study all means to oppose the Doctrine of the Presbyterian Ministers sent by the Members of Parliament to preach the Scholars into obedience as I have elsewhere told you But being desir'd to depart thence where he had maintained several Socinian opinions he went soon after to London where venting his blasphemies in several places against the glorious divinity and blood of Jesus Christ especially in his Conventicle at Christ Church within Newgate where those of his opinion met once or more in a week was brought at length before the Committee
exceeded him He was also so great a help to the Speaker and the House in helping to state the questions and to draw up the orders free from exceptions that it much conduced to the dispatch of business and the service of the Parliament His discretion also and prudence was such that tho faction kept that fatal commonly called the Long Parliament in continual storm and disorder yet his fair and temperate carriage made him commended and esteemed by all parties how furious and opposite soever they were among themselves And therefore it was that for these his abilities and prudence more reverence was paid to his stool than to the Speakers Lenthall Chair who being obnoxious timorous and interested was often much confused in collecting the sense of the House and drawing the debates into a fair question in which Mr. Elsynge was always observed to be so ready and just that generally the House acquiesced in what he did of that nature At length when he saw that the greater part of the House were imprisoned and secluded and that the remainder would bring the King to a trial for his life he desired to quit his place 26. of Dec. 1648 by reason as he alledged of his indisposition of health but most men understood the reason to be because he would have no hand in the business against the King He was a Man of very great parts and ingenious education and was very learned especially in the Latine French and Italian Languages He was beloved of all sober Men and the learned Selden had a fondness for him He hath written The antient method and manner of holding Parliaments in England Lond. 1663. oct 1675. in tw mostly taken as I presume from a Manuscript book intit Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos Of the forme and all things incident thereunto digested and divided into several chapters and titles an 1626 written by Hen. Elsynge Father to the aforesaid Henry who died while his Son was in his Travels Tract concerning proceedings in Parliament This is a Ms and was sometimes in the hands of Sir Matthew Hale who in his Will bequeathed it to Lincolns inn Library Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom This is a Pamphlet in quarto but when printed I cannot tell After he had quitted his beneficial Office he retired to his house at Hounslow in Middlesex where contracting many infirmities of body occasioned by sedentariness some distresses of his family and by a deep melancholy for the sufferings and loss of his Sovereign concluded his last day about the middle of the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and four and in that of his age 56 Whereupon his body was buried in his private Chappel which is the burying place of his Family at Hounslow he having no other Epitaph or Monument than the Eulogie given as due to him by all that knew him He left behind certain Tracts and Memorials of his own writing but so imperfect that his Executor would by no means have them published least they should prove injurious to his worth and memory THOMAS HORNE Son of Will. Horne of Cassall in Nottinghamshire was born at West Halam in Derbyshire became a Student in Magd. hall in the year 1624 and in that of his age 15 or thereabouts and in 1633 he was advanced to the degree of Master of Arts. About that time he was made Master of a private School in London afterwards of the Free-school at Leycester where remaining two years was translated to that of Tunbridge in Kent At length after he had taught there about 10 years he was for his merits and excellent faculty that he had in pedagogie preferr'd to be Master of the School at Eaton near Windsore where he remain'd to his dying day He hath written Janua Linguarum or a collection of Latine sentences with the English of them Lond. 1634. c. oct This is all or most taken from Janua Linguarum reserata written by J. A. Comenius Afterwards Horne's Janua Linguarum was much corrected and amended by John Robotham and lastly carefully reviewed by W. D. Lond. 1659. oct Which W. D. may be the same with Will. Dugard sometimes Master of Merchant Taylors School Quaere Manuductio in aedem Palladis qua utilissima methodus authores bonos legendi indigitatur sive de usu authoris Lond. 1641. in tw c. Rhetoricae compendium Latino-Anglicè Lond 1651. oct Besides which he hath made learned observations on the Epitome of the Greek tongue written by Ant. Laubegeois but when or where printed I cannot tell for I have not as yet seen it He gave way to fate at Eaton on the 22 of Aug. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel there as I have been informed by Will. Horne his Son Master of the Free-school at Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex One Tho. Horne M. of A. became Rector of Methley in Yorkshire on the death of Tim. Bright Doctor of Physick in the latter end of Octob. 1615 but him I take to be Th. Horne who was Fellow of Mert. Coll. and afterwards Canon of Windsore Another Tho. Horne is now if I mistake not Fellow of Eaton Coll and hath extant one or more Sermons He was Son to Tho. Horne the Writer was born at Tunbridge in Kent and afterwards made Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge Chaplain to the Earl of S. Alban and Senior Proctor of that University about 1682. JOHN SELDEN the glory of the English Nation as Hugh Grotius worthily stiles him Son of John Selden by Margaret his Wife the only Daughter of Thomas Baker of Rushington descended from the knightly family of the Bakers in Kent was born in an obscure Village called Salvinton near to Terring a Market town in Sussex His Father who died in 1617 was a sufficient Plebeian and delighted much in Musick by the exercising of which he obtained as 't is said his Wife of whom our famous Author Jo. Selden was born on the 16 of Decemb. 1584. After he had been instructed in Grammar Learning in the Free-school at Chichester under Mr. Hugh Barker of New College he was by his care and advice sent to Hart Hall in the beginning of Mich. term an 1600 and committed to the tuition of Mr. Anth. Barker Fellow of the aforesaid Coll. under whom being instructed in Logick and Philosophy for about three years which with great facility he conquered he was transplanted to the Inner Temple to make proficiency in the municipal Laws of the Nation After he had continued there a sedulous Student for some time he did by the help of a strong body and vast memory not only run through the whole body of the Law but became a prodigie in most parts of learning especially in those which were not common or little frequented or regarded by the generality of Students of his time So that in few years his name was wonderfully advanced not only at home but in foreign Countries and
was usually stiled the great Dictator of Learning of the English Nation The truth is his great parts did not live within a small ambit but traced out the Latitudes of Arts and Languages as it appears by those many books he hath published He had great skill in the divine and humane Laws he was a great Philologist Antiquary Herald Linguist Statesman and what not His natural and artificial memory was exact yet his fancy slow notwithstanding he made several sallies into the faculties of Poetry and Oratory to ease his severer thoughts and smooth his rough stile which he mostly used in the Books by him published in Latine The verses that he wrot scatter'd in various books were in Latine and English and sometimes in Greek and was thereupon numbred among our Poets which perhaps may be the reason why he is brought into the Session of them thus There was Selden and he sate close by the Chaire Wainman not far off which was very faire He seldom or never appeared publickly at the Bar tho a Bencher but gave sometimes Chamber-Counsel and was good at conveyance He was chosen a Burgess for several Parliaments wherein he shewed himself profound by speeches and debates yet mostly an enemy to the Prerogative The first Parliament he appeared in was that which began at Westm 19. Feb. 1623. wherein he served for the Burrough of Lancaster And in another which began 6. Feb. 1625. he served for Bedwin in Wilts and was a constant member in all or most Parliaments following during the Reign of K. Ch. 1. But that in which he became most noted was held in the beginning of 1628 wherein for contemptuous and seditious words then uttered he was imprisoned for several months to the great regret of his fellow Members He was a Burgess also of that unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Novemb. 1640 which breaking forth into a rebellion Selden adhered to it and accepted from the members thereof a Commission to do them service In 1643 he was one of those Lay-men that were appointed to sit in the Assembly of Divines at which time he took the Covenant and silenced and puzled the great Theologists thereof in their respective Meetings In Nov. the same year he was appointed by Parliament Chief Keeper of the Rolls and Records in the Tower of London and on the 15. of Apr. 1645 he was one of the 12 Commoners appointed to be a Commissioner of the Admiralty In Jan. 1646 it was voted that 5000 l. should be given to him for his sufferings that he endured for what he had said or done in Parliament an 1628 which money was paid in May following tho some there are that say that he refused and could not out of conscience take it and add that his mind was as great as his learning full of generosity and harbouring nothing that seemed base He got his great knowledge in the Oriental Languages after he fell to the study of the Law wherein arriving to eminence as in other Learning he is oftentimes mention'd not only by learned Authors of our own Nation but by Foreigners He had a very choice Library of Books as well Mss as printed in the beginning of all or most of which he wrot either in the title or leaf before it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Above all liberty to shew that he would examine things and not take them upon trust His works are these Original of a Duel or single combate Lond. 1610. qu. Jani Anglorum facies altera Lond. 1610. oct rendred into English with large notes on it by Redman Westcot alias Adam Littleton Gent. Lond. 1683. fol. Notes and Illustrations on the first eighteen Songs in Mich. Draytons Poly-olbion Lond. 1612. fol. The second part of this Poly-olbion was printed at Lond. in 1622 but without any notes or illustrations Titles of honour Lond. 1614. in qu. There again in 1631 and 1671. fol. This book is in great esteem with Lay-Gentlemen Analect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anglo-Britannic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. lib. 2. Francof 1615. qu. c. Notes on Joh. Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliae Lond. 1616. oct c. Which book having been before translated into English by Rob. Mulcaster a Lawyer had notes then put to it by our Author Selden Notes on the sums of Sir Ralph Hengham L. Ch. Justice to K. Ed. 1. These are printed with the former notes This Sir Ralph died 1308 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul within the City of London De Diis Syris Syntagmata duo Lond. 1617. corrected and amended with additions of copious indices thereunto by M. Andr. Beyer Lugd. Bat. 1629. in oct Lips 1672. Amst 1680. in oct History of Tithes Lond. 1618. qu. In the preface the Author reproaches the Clergy with ignorance and laziness and upbraids them with having nothing to keep up their credit but beard title and habit and that their studies reached no farther then the Breviary the Postills and Polyanthea But the best of the Clergy being provoked by those expressions he was so effectually answer'd by Tillesley of Oxon Rich. Montague and Steph. Nettles of Cambridge that he never came off in any of his undertakings with more loss of credit There were Arguments about tithes written against it by Will. Sclater of Cambridge and printed 1623. qu. but such I have not yet seen Soon after Mr. Selden had published his History he was called before the High Commission about the 22 of Dec. 1618. and forced to make a publick acknowledgment of his error and offence given unto the Church in the said book Which usage sunk so deep into his stomack that he did never after effect the Bishops and Clergy or cordially approve their calling tho many ways were tried to gain him to the Churches interest The said Book or History was reprinted in 1680 in qu. with the old date put to it at which time the press and fanatical Party were too much at liberty occasion'd by the Popish Plot. Whereupon Dr. Thom. Comber answer'd it in a book intit An historical vindication of the Divine right of Tithes c. Lond. 1681. qu. Spicilegium in Edmeari 6 libros Historiarum Lond. 1623. fol. Which book is much commended by Antiquaries and Criticks Marmora Arundelliana cum aliquot inscriptionibus veteris Latii Lond. 1628. in qu. Involved into Marmora Oxoniensia publish'd by Humph. Prideaux M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. now Prebendary of Norwych Mare clausum seu de dominio maris lib. 2. Lond. 1635. fol. c. First written as 't is said in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. in answer to a book published by Hugo Grotius called Mare liberum But the Author Selden stomaching the submission and acknowledgment which he was forced to make in the High Commission for his book of Tithes as I have before told you did not only suppress his Mare clausum which he had written in the Kings defence but carried an evil eye to the Court
1606 aged 15 years admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 23. Sept. 1608 Master of Arts in the latter end of 1614 and Probat Fellow of the said House 25 of Apr. in the year following Afterwards he was made Chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth Consort to the Pr. Elector Palatine of Rheine made D. of Div. of the University of Leyden in his passage thither or return thence incorporated in the same degree at Oxon in 1624 constituted Chaplain to K. Ch. 1 and at length in 1638 or thereabouts he was made Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate within the City of London which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed He was always reputed a pious and laborious man in his calling learned and well read in most parts of Divinity as in these his labours following is evident Paraphrastical meditations by way of commentarie on the Proverbs c. Lond. 1638. fol. Commentarie on Ecclesiastes c. Lond. 1639. fol. Exemplary life and death of Mr. ... Jurdaine printed in qu. One Ferdin Nicolls Minister of S. Marie Arches in Exeter hath written The life and death of Ignat. Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of the City of Exeter Whether he be the same Jurdaine whose life Dr. Jermin wrot I know not for I have not yet seen it nor The Fathers instruction to his Child printed at Lond. 1658. oct said to be written by Jermin At length after he had suffer'd much for the royal cause in the time of the rebellion by sequestration of his rectory plundering and other miseries lived as opportunity served and on the benevolence of some generous Loyallists Afterward retiring to Kemsing near to Sevenoke in Kent lived obscurely with his Son in law for about 7 years before his death In fine preaching at Sevenoke on the 14 day of August being then the Lords day in sixteen hundred fifty and nine dropt dead from his horse in his return thence to Kemsing Whereupon he was buried on the north side of the Altar in the Chancel belonging to the Church of Kemsing Over his grave was a marble monument set up near to the East Window with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. a. ZACHARIE BOGAN Son of Will. Bogan Gent. was born at Little Hempston in Devonshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term under the tuition of Ralph Button a Puritannical Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year 1640 and that of his age 15 admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. of Nov. the year following left the University when the City of Oxon was garrison'd for the King return'd after the surrender thereof to the Parliament took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Mich. term 1646 elected Prob. Fellow of the said Coll. in the year following and afterwards proceeding in his faculty became a retired and religious Student and much noted in the University for his admirable skill in the Tongues He hath written Additions to Franc. Rous his Archeologiae Atticae Printed several times before 1674. in qu. Of the threats and punishments recorded in Scripture alphabetically composed with some brief observations on sundry texts Oxon. 1653. oct dedicated to his Father Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life Oxon. 1653. oct grounded on Psal 32.11 and on Phil. 4.4 dedicated to his Mother Joan. Comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad Normam loquendi Oxon. 1658. oct Help to prayer both extempore and by a set forme as also to meditation c. Oxon. 1660. oct published after the Authors death by Dan. Agas Fellow of C. C. Coll. He also wrot a large and learned Epistle to Edm. Dickinson M. A. of Mert. College set before a book going under his name entit Delphi Phaenicizantes c. Oxon. 1655. oct At length this our Author Bogan who had contracted an ill habit of body by studying surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the first day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine whereupon his body was committed to the Earth about the middle of the north cloister belonging to the Coll. of Corp. Christi joyning to the S side of the Chappel there At that time and before the Nation being very unsetled and the Universities expecting nothing but ruin and dissolution it pleased Mr. Bogan to give by his will to the City of Oxon 500 l. whereas had the nation been otherwise he would have given that money to his College His picture drawn to the life hangs in the Council Chamber joyning to the Guild-hall of the City of Oxon. CHARLES HERLE third Son of Ed. Herle Esq by Anne his Wife Daugh. of John Trefrie was born at Prideaux Herle near Lystwithyel in Cornwall where tho his ancestors have lived several generations in gentile fashion yet they were originally of West Herle in Northumberland At 14 years of age in 1612 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1618 and afterwards Holy Orders but what were his employments or preferments that immediatly followed I know not Sure I am that he was Rector of one of the richest Churches in England which is at Winwick in Lancashire before the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 that at the eruption he having always been esteemed a Puritan sided with the Presbyterian Party took the Covenant was elected one of the Assemb of Divines in 1643 being then a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and in the year 1646 July 22 he was voted by the members of the said Parliament Prolocutor of that Assembly after the death of Twysse In 1647 he with Steph. Marshall went with certain Commissioners appointed by the Parliament into Scotland to give them a right understanding of the affairs in England but what he did there was chiefly to give constant notice of the Scots resolutions and the forwardness of their Levies After the King was beheaded he retired to his rectory of Winwick having first received satisfaction from the Parliament for his Service and losses he sustained at Winwick after he had fled to London for protection during the heat of the War where he was esteemed by the factious party the prime man of note and power among the Clergy In 1654 he was by the Authority of Parl. appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Lanc. for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters in which office he with Is Ambrose of Preston Edw. Gee of Eccleston c. shewed great severity against them This Mr. Herle hath extant under his name these things following Several Sermons as 1 A pair of Compasses for the Church and State Sermon before the House of Com. at their monthly fast ult Nov. 1642 on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Davids Song of three parts Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of Lords for Gods great deliverance of the Parl. City and Kingdom
of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury THOMAS CHALONER a younger son yet elder than James Chaloner before mention'd of Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight was born in Buckinghamshire at Steeple-Claydon near Buckingham as it seems became a Sojournor of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of 1611 aged 16 years but before he took a degree he left the College and what was fit to accomplish his natural parts which were good were not omitted by his Father He afterwards travelled into France Italy and Germany and returned a well bred Gentleman but ting'd as it seems with antimonarchical Principles if not worse About that time he setled at or near Gisburgh in Yorkshire where there is an Estate belonging to the Name and Family was elected a Burgess for a Corporation in Yorksh to serve in the Long Parliament about 1643 wherein he became a frequent Speaker an enemy to the King his Family and Government and a great stickler for their new Utopian Commonwealth All which he did partly out of his natural inclination and partly out of revenge for the loss which his Father endured and so consequently he for being deprived of the propriety of the Alum Mines in Yorkshire which he had discovered about the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth In 1647 he with Col. Jo. Temple were appointed Commissioners of Parliament in Mounster was one of the Kings Judges in 1648 and soon after made a member of the Council of State In 1658 he was elected a Burgess for Scarborough in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament called by Richard to meet at Westm 27 of Jan. but afterwards shewing himself a zealous Rumper upon the turning out of the Fag end of that Parliament called the Rump by Col. Jo. Lambert and his Party on the 13 of Oct. 1659 he was committed to Prison by Ch. Fleetwood then made Commander in chief of all the Forces in England where continuing till 27 of Decemb. following was then released by the Members of the Rump Parliament who had retaken their places the day before and on the 2 of Jan. following he was appointed by the House one of the Council of State This Tho. Chaloner was as far from a Puritan or Presbyterian as the East is from the West for he was a boon Companion was of Harry Marten's gang was of the natural Religion and loved to enjoy the comfortable importances of this life without any regard of laying up for a wet day which at his last he wanted The things that he hath published are these An Answer to the Scotch Papers delivered in the H. of Commons concerning the disposal of the King's person Lond. 1646. qu. In answer to which divers did exercise their pens some scoffingly and some in earnest whereupon came out this Pamphlet intit The justification of a safe and well-grounded Answer to the Scottish papers printed under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech or Answer which doth maintain the honour of the Parliament and interest of the Kingdom of England Lond. 1646. qu. Written as 't was usually said by Tho. Chaloner Afterwards came out against Chaloner Lex talionis or a Declaration against Mr. Chaloner the Crimes of the times and the Manners of you know whom Lond. 1647. in one sh in qu. and also An answer to a Speech without doers or animadversions upon an unsafe and dangerous Answer to the Scotch Papers under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech c. in one sh in qu. A true and exact relation of the strange finding out of Moses his tomb in a Valley near unto Mount Nebo in Palestina c. Lond. 1657. in about 3 sheets in oct This book at its first appearance made a great noise and pusâ—ed the Presbyterian Rabbies for a time at length the Author thereof being known and his story found to be a meer sham the book became ridiculous and was put to posteriour uses At length in the beginning of the year 1660 upon a foresight that King Ch. 2. would be restored he therefore knowing very well that his former actions would not enduâ—e the touchstone withdrew himself beyond the seas and setling in a fearful condition at Middleburgh in Zeeland died and was buried there about sixteen hundred sixty and one Since my writing of this I find that this Mr. Chaloner published A speech containing a plea for Monarchy an 1â—59 But therein being several Restrictions came out an Answer to it by way of Address to General George Monke THOMAS CULPEPER or Colepeper was born of a gentile Family at Harietsham in Kent became a Communer of Hart Hall in 1591 aged 13 years departed thence without a degree went to the Inns of Court and afterwards to his Patrimony which is all I know of him only that first he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. on the 23 of Sept. 1619 secondly that he wrot A Tract against the high rate of Usury presented to the Parliament in 1623 printed several times the fourth Edit of which came out at Lond. 1668 prefac'd with a discourse by his son Sir Tho. Culpeper and thirdly that dying at Hollingbourne in Kent in sixteen hundred sixty and one was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church there on the 25 of January the same year leaving then behind him the character of a good man There is a stone over his grave but hath no Inscription on it CHRISTOPHER HARVEY a Ministers son of Cheshire was born in that County became a Batler of Brasenose Coll. in 1613 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1620 holy Orders and at length was made Vicar of Clifton in Warwickshire His works are these The right Rebell A treatise discovering the true use of the name by the nature of Rebellion with the properties and practices of Rebells Appliable to all both old and new Phanatiques Lond. 1661. oct Faction supplanted or a caveat against the ecclesiastical and secular Rebells in two parts 1. A discourse concerning the nature properties and practices of Rebells 2. Against the inconstancy and inconsistent contrariety of the same mens pretensions and practices principles and doctrines Lond. 1663. oct pen'd mostly in 1642 and finished 3 Apr. 1645. This book I suppose for I have not seen it or the other is the same with the former only a new title put to it to make it vend the better Another book goes under his name called Conditions of Christianity printed at Lond. in tw but that or any other besides I have not yet seen CONSTANTINE JESSOP son of Joh. Jess of Pembroke in Pembrokeshire Minister of Gods Word was entred a Student in Jesus Coll. in 1624 aged 22 years whence after he had gone a course he went into Ireland and was made Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin At his return he was incorporated in this University an 1â—31 and in the year following proceeded in Arts being about that time in holy Orders but what his Employment was between that time and 1640
and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh in qu. View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treatie at Uxbridge shewing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majestie only Printed 1643 in 4. sh in qu. The Roundheads remembrancer or a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton in Tuesday 16. May 1643. Printed 1643 in one sh in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell. This is the same if I mistake not with a Pamph. intit Theeves Theeves or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610 left it without a degree exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas retired to his patrimony was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641 and being then a Presbyterian took up arms soon after for the Parliament became a Colonel and one of their Champions Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murder'd the King he entred into a plot against the Parliament in which Coll. Euseb Andrews being engaged suffer'd death an 1650. for which being imprison'd was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it he was condemn'd to loose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nov. 1671 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was as I suppose buried at Hopton Quaere having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians while they were dominant that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies valiant in his actions and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year 25. of March or thereabouts 1665. The black ✚ Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion c. The Rebells Catechisme composed in an easie and familiar way to let them see the hainousness of their offence c. Printed 1643. in 4. sh in qu. Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed it had this title following put to it Parliaments power in Lawes for religion or an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists nick-naming c. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh in qu. it hath this title The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified against the clamours of our Adversaries reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion c. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury with a copie of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted Oxon. 1644 in 4 sh in qu. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library c. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59. oct Heylyns name is not set to it but 't is generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Ch 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland which by many is taken to be authentick because published by Heylyn See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly p. 486. Stumbling block of disobedience c. in answer to and examination of the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Soveraigne Monarchy MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way discovered censured and removed The promised seed Written in vers The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes c. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Theologia Veterum The sum of Christian Theologie contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latines c. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol. Full relation of two journies The one into the main Land of France The other into some of the adjacent Islands in 5 Books Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie c. Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie with the isles depending c. in one book Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life as I shall farther tell you anon Observations on The Historie of the raigne of K. Charles published by Hamon L'estrange Esq for illustration of the storie c. Lond. 1656. oct Upon the coming out of which observations L'Estrange printed another edit of the said Hist Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit The Observator observed or animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles c. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit Extraneus Vapulans or the Observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange Esq and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean Lond. 1656. oct In our Authors Epist to the reader before this book dat 7. June 1656 he tells us that in one week of the last term he was plundered twice first of his name and secondly of his good name Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller who publishing a discourse of his Dr. Heylyns under the title of France painted to the life by a false and imperfect copy hath fathered it in Stationers Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Estrange Esq by loading him with abusive language Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified 1 In the
State his Capital enemy sent a messenger for and committed him more close than before Soon after the said Justice of Peace died left Biddle a considerable Legacy but in a short time devour'd by the frequent paying of the fees of a Prisoner So that being in a manner reduced to great indigence he was employed by Roger Daniel a Printer of London to correct the Greek Version of the Septuagint of the Old Testament which he was about most accurately to publish And this he did knowing full well that Biddle was an exact Greecian and had time enough to follow it Which employment and another in private did gain him for a time a comfortable subsistance In Feb. 1651 was published by the Parliament a general Act of oblivion that restored among others our Author Biddle to his full liberty which he improv'd among those friends he had gained in London in meeting together every Sunday for the expounding of the Scripture and discoursing thereupon for the clearing of matters therein contained by which means the Doctrine of one God and Christ his only Son and his holy spirit was so propagated that the Presbyterian Ministers in London were exceedingly offended at it but could not hinder it by secular power which then favoured liberty of religion and conscience About that time part of the second impression of his Twelve Arguments the Confession of Faith Testimonies c. which as I have told you were published in oct laying dead on his or the Booksellers hands there was this title put to them The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity revived and asserted c. Lond. 1653. oct but no alterations or augmentation made in them as 't is expressed in the said title set before them which were put and sold together in one volume the Long Parliament being then dissolved Afterwards was written and published by the said Biddle A Twofold Catechisme the one simply called a Scripture Catechisme the other a brief Scripture Catechisme for Children Lond. 1654. The last of which two was printed again by it self in 3 sheets in a little octavo the same year Soon after the Twofold Catechisme coming into the hands of certain Persons elected to sit in the Little Parliament called by Oliver which began at Westminster 3. Sept. 1654 was a publick complaint by some made of it in the House being instigated thereunto by frequent and open preachments against it Whereupon Biddle being sent for he gave answer to their interrogatories and did not deny before them but that he was the Author So that the matter being refer'd to a Committee he was examined by them and in conclusion adhered to the answer that he had before given to the House Reports therefore being made by the said Committee of such things that had passed the House voted on the 12 of Dec. 1654 that the whole drift and scope of the said Twofold Catechisme is to teach and hold forth many blasphemous and heretical opinions and that in the preface of the said Catechisme the Author thereof doth maintain and assert many blasphemous and heretical opinions and doth therein cast a reproach upon all the Catechismes now extant They then voted also that all the printed books entit the Twofold Catechisme be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman That the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to see the same done accordingly in the New Pallace-yard at Westm and at the Old Exchange That the Master Wardens and Assistants of the company of Stationers in London be required immediatly to make search for all the printed books as aforesaid and seize all the said Books and deliver them to the Sherriffs The next day Biddle was brought to the bar of the House and there after it was read unto him what had been done he owned his Books and was thereupon the same day committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster and his Books burnt by the Hangman in the beforemention'd places on the 14 of the same month But this was not all for the members of Parl. perceiving full well what mischief the said Twofold Cat. did do and was likely more to do and that many People were more greedy to buy or obtain it than before the matter was agitated again in January following by the Committee who resolved on the 16. of the same month that the whole drift and scope c. and that it be burnt c. The particulars in the said Catechisme which moved them thereunto were partly these 1 The infinite God is confin'd to a certain place 2 God hath a bodily shape hath a right and a left hand in a proper sense 3 God hath passions in him 4 God is not omnipotent and immutable 5 The three Persons are not to be believed with our whole heart 6 Jesus Christ hath not the nature of God dwelling in him and that he hath only a divine Lordship without a divine nature 7 There is no Godhead of the Holy Ghost 8 Christ was not a Priest whilest he was upon Earth nor did he reconcile God unto us c. At the same time were other particulars gathered from his several books going under the general title of The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity c. The first of which runs thus That God the Father only separated from the Son and Holy Ghost is the first cause of all things that pertain to salvation c. The rest I shall omit for brevity sake These things being reported to the Parliament they ordered the Committee to bring in a Bill for punishing the said Biddle which being accordingly done they ordered as before that the Twofold Cat. be burnt and the Master Wardens c. to seize upon all copies and to deliver them to the Sherriffs in order to their burning c. In the mean time they consulted what to do with Biddle but came to no result tho pressed eagerly on by the Presbyterian Ministers to take away his life On the 10. of Febr. following he the Printer and Bookseller of the said Catechisme with another in the custody of a Messenger as also Theauraw John Tany who burnt the Bible and struck at several Persons with his naked sword at the Parliament door while the members were sitting were upon their petitions to the Upper bench all permitted to have liberty upon sufficient bail which they then put in to appear in that Court on the first day of the next term following where then they were to be tried On the 2. of May 1655 they accordingly appeared but were put off till the next term 28. May following Which day appearing he and they were with much ado set at liberty Afterwards Biddle falling into the company of one John Griffin said to be an Anabaptist teacher discourses pro and con were so high between them that there was a publick dispute appointed to be held to decide the matter The place wherein they were to dispute was the Stone Chappel in S.
Prison in hot weather contracting a disease he died thereof in the month of Septemb. one tells me the second and another the 22d day about 5 of the Clock in the morning to the great grief of his disciples in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being conveyed to the burial place joyning to Old Bedlam in Morefields near London was there deposited by the Brethren who soon after took care that an altar monument of stone should be erected over his grave with an inscription thereon shewing that he was Master of Arts of the University of Oxon and that he had given to the world great specimens of his learning and piety c. He had in him a sharp and quick judgment and a prodigious memory and being very industrious withal was in a capacity of devouring all he read He was wonderfully well vers'd in the Scriptures and could not only repeat all St. Pauls Epistles in English but also in the Greek tongue which made him a ready Disputant He was accounted by those of his perswasion a sober man in his discourse and to have nothing of impiety folly or scurrility to proceed from him Also so devout that he seldom or never prayed without being prostrat or flat on the ground as his life which I have attests Soon after his death his Twofold Catechisme was turned into Latine and printed in oct 1665. The first called A Scripture Cat. was done by Anon. The other called A brief Scripture Cat. for Children was done by a youth called Nathaniel Stuckey and at the end of it was printed 1 Oratiuncula de passione morte Christi made by the said Stuckey 2 Exemplum literarum Jeremiae Felbingeri ad Joh. Biddellum dated at Dantsick 24. Aug. Styl vet 1654. This Nath. Stuckey who had been partly bred up in Grammar and Logick by Biddle or at least by his care died 27. Sept. 1665 aged 16 years and was buried close to the grave of Biddle as it appears by an inscription engraven for him on one side at the bottom of Biddles monument A certain Author tells us that the said Biddle translated into English the Alchoran and the book called The three grand Impostors damn'd for shame But upon what ground he reports these things he tells us not Sure I am that there is no such thing mention'd in his life and whether there be such a book in rerum natura as the Three grand Impostors meaning Moses Mahomet and Christ is by many knowing men doubted After the coming to the Crown of England of William Prince of Orange when then more liberty was allowed to the press than before were several of John Biddles things before mention'd reprinted in the beginning of the year 1691 viz. 1 His 12 questions with An exposition of five principal passages c. 2 A confession of faith c. 3 The Testimonies of Irenaeus c. And before them was set a short account of his life taken from that written in Latine by J. F. as I have here in the margin told you WILLIAM LENTHALL second Son of Will. Lenth of Lachford in Oxfordshire by Frances his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho. Southwell of St. Faiths in the County of Norfolk was born in a Market Town called Henley upon Thames in the said County of Oxon in an house near to the Church there in the latter end of June 1591 descended from Will Lenthall or Leynthall a Gentleman of Herefordshire who in the beginning of K. Edw. 4. married with the Dau. and Heir of .... Pyperd of Lachford before mention'd Which Pyperd also was descended from a younger Son of those of his name living at Great Haseley in Oxfordshire who I mean the said younger Son much in renown in the beginning of K. Edw. 3. performed military acts so valiantly against the Scots that he did not only receive the honour of Knighthood from the King but the mannour of Lachford from his Father to hold by Kings service of the mannour of Pyperd of Great Haseley before mention'd in which Parish Lachford is situated It is here to be noted by the way that both the Haselies did for many descents belong to the Pyperds whose mannour-place was the same which is now the Farm-place situated near to the Church But the Male line being there worn out in the raign of Ed. 3. the said mannour place with the patronage of the rectory of Haseley was given to the College at Windsore of the Dean and Canons of which the said Farm-place is and hath been for several generations held by the said Lenthalls As for Little Haseley now called Haseley Court where in the time of K. Hen. 8. was a right fair mansion place with marvellous fair walks toperarii operis and orchard and pools belonging to Sir Will. Barentine whose Daughter Marie Anth. Huddleston Esq took to Wife was also numbred among the antient possessions of the Pyperds and was held of their mannour by Knights service As for this Will. Lenthall of whom we are now to speak he became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the year 1606 where continuing about 3 years departed without the honour of a degree and went to Lincolns Inn where applying his mind to the study of the municipal Law became a Counsellor of note and in the 13. of Ch. 1. Lent-reader of the said Inn being then as before noted for his practice in his profession In the latter end of 1639 he was elected Burgess for the Corporation of Woodstock in Oxfordsh to serve in that short Parliament which began at Westm 13. of Apr. 1640 and in Oct. following he was chose again for the same place to serve in that unhappy Convention called the Long Parliament begun 3. of Nov. the same year At which time being elected Speaker worth to him 2000 l. per an he kept that honorable office by siding with the leading Party till its dissolution without any adherance to the King when by force he left that Parliament Whether he acted justly in his place 't is to be question'd forasmuch as he was not only false to the members thereof in many things but also kept correspondence with that noted Minister of State in France Cardinal Julius Mazarini as 't is very well known Being thus put into the road to get beneficial places and so consequently riches which he hungred after by the continual importunities of his covetous Wife named Elizabeth Dau. of Ambrose Evans of Lodington in Northamptonshire Gent he became Master of the Rolls 8 Nov. 1643 worth as 't is said 3000 l. per an one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 1646 worth 1500 l. per an Chamberlain of Chester 1647 in the room of James E. of Derby a place of profit as well as honour which last he occupying till 1654 was succeeded by John Glynn Lord Ch. Justice but obtained it again 14. March 1659. About the same time 1647 he became Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster worth
of other persons to the same purpose an 1660. in oct The design was to perswade Oliver to take upon him the Kingship of Gr. Britain and Ireland All which Pamphlets one excepted were printed at Lond. in qu and not one of them exceeds the quantity of a sheet of paper I am perswaded that many more are extant under his name or at least written by him without any name set to them but such I have not yet seen At length after a great deal of moyling turmoyling perfidiousness and I know not what he laid down his head and died in his house at Burford before mention'd on that memorable day the third of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two and two days after was buried without pomp in a little isle on the north side of the Church there next below that isle where the costly tomb of Sir Laur. Tanfeild stands At that time the body of his only Wife Elizabeth who died the 19 of April foregoing buried in the Communion Chancel of Burford Church was taken up and laid close to that of her Husband He forbad as I have been informed any excessive costs at his funeral or for a monument to be put over his body and was heard several times in his last hours to say that he desired no other Epitaph than Vermis sum So that as yet he hath no Monument nor so much as any Stone over his grave the floor being now or at least lately covered only with sand and unpaved What remains more to be remembred of him if not too much already is his own confession on his death-bed made to Dr. Ralph Brideoak then Rector of Witney near Burford who administring to him ghostly counsel and desiring to know how he had kept and observed the fifth Commandment remembring him that Disobedience Rebellion and Schism were the great sins against it made this confession Yes there is my trouble my disobedience not against my natural parents only but against the Pater patriae our deceased Sovereign I confess with Saul I held their clothes whilst they murdered him but herein I was not so criminal as Saul was for God thou knowest I never consented to his death I ever prayed and endeavoured what I could against it but I did too much almighty-God forgive me c. Then the said Doctor urged to him to confess if he knew any of those Villains that plotted and contrived that horrid murther which were not then detected to which he answer'd I am a stranger to that business my soul never entred into that secret but what concerns my self I will confess freely These things are especially laid to my charge wherein indeed I am too guilty as first that I went from the Parliament to the Army 2. That I proposed the bloody question for trying the King And 3. That I sate in Parl. after the Kings death To the first I may give this answer that Cromwell and his Agents deceived a wiser man than my self I mean that excellent King and then might well deceive me also and so they did I knew the Presbyterians would never restore the King to his just Rights these men the Independents swore they would For the second no excuse can be made but I have the Kings pardon and I hope Almighty God will shew me his mercy also yet even then when I put the question I hoped the very putting the question would have cleared him because I believed four for one were against it but they deceived me also To the third I make this candid confession that 't was my own baseness and cowardize and unworthy fear to submit my self to the mercy of those men that murthered the King that hurried me on against my own conscience to act with them Yet then I thought also I might do some good and hinder some ill Something I did for the Church and Universities something for the King when I broke the oath of abjuration Something also for his return but the ill I did over-weighed the little good I would have done God forgive me for this also c. He also confessed that he had no hand in or gave any consent to the murthering and ruining the Fathers of the Church and also that he died a dutiful son of the Church of England as it was established before the Rebellion broke out c. After which confession which was done like a very hearty Penitent he received the absolution of the Church with much content and satisfaction He left behind him one only son named John the grand Braggadocio and Lyer of the age he lived in bred in C. C. Coll. in this University made early motions and ran with the times as his Father did was a Recruiter of the Long Parliament consented to the tryal of the King was a Colonel while Oliver was Protector from whom he received the honour of Knighthood on the 9 of March 1657 was one of the six Clerks in Chancery and for a time Governour of Windsore Castle In 1672 he was elected High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and in the latter end of 1677 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. K. Ch. 2. This person who hath two or more Speeches in print spoken in the times of Usurpation died at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks the Mannour which his Father purchased of the Fettiplaces on the ninth day of Nov. 1681 and was buried in the Church there near to the body of his second wife named Mary Blewet the widow of .... Stonehouse Baronet by whom he had one only son named William who took to wife Catherine Hamilton of the noble Family of the Hamiltons in Scotland particularly of those of Pasley and by her had issue John and James Lental He died at Burford on the 5 of Sept. 1686 aged 27 years or thereabouts and was buried near to the grave of his Grandfather HUMPHREY CHAMBERS a Gentlemans son was born in Somersetshire became a Communer of University College in 1614 aged 15 years stood for a Fellowship in Merton Coll. in 1619 but put aside as insufficient notwithstanding he like a vain man had a little before taken occasion to display his Oratory in a flourishing Speech on the death of a Student of Univ. Coll. not in the Rectory or Chappel as the custom is but in a pew set in the middle of the Quadrangle on purpose After he had taken the degree of Master of Arts he entred into holy orders and in June 1623 was made Rector of Claverton in his own Country on the death of Joh. Bewshen Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Div. and was esteemed by the neighbouring Ministers an orthodox man But when the times began to change in 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant was made one of the Ass of Divines and maintained a horse and man at his own charge in actual service against the King Soon after he had the rich Rectory of Pewsie near to Marlborough in Wilts bestowed on him for
his good service by Philip Earl of Pembroke as I have been informed for from thence a loyal person had been ejected In 1648 he was actually created Doctor of Div. in the Pembrochian Creation and had several boones bestowed on him by that Convention called by the Presbyterian the Blessed Parliament After the Kings Restoration he was suffer'd to keep his Parsonage because no body laid claim to it he being then accounted the prime leader of the Faction in those parts but when the Act of Conformity was published he quitted it and his life together He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Divine ballance to weigh religious Fasts in Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 27 Sept. 1643 on Zach. 7.5.6.7 Lond. 1643. qu. He was also one of three that preached before the House of Lords on the 22 of Oct. 1644 being a Fast sermon upon the uniting of the Army together but whether 't was printed I find not 2 Pauls sad farewell to the Ephesians preached at the funeral of Mr. Joh. Grayle Minister of Tidworth in Wilts on Acts 20.37.38 Lond. 1655. quart and others which I have not yet seen Motive to peace and love Printed 1649. qu. Animadversions on Mr. W. Dells book intit The crucified and quickned Christian Lond. 1653. qu. Apology for the Ministers of the County of Wilts in their meetings at the election of Members for the approaching Parliament In answer to a letter sent out of the said County pretending to lay open the dangerous designs of the Clergy in reference to the approaching Parliament by some of the defam'd Ministers of the Gospel of the same County Lond. 1654 in 4 sh in qu. In the writing of which Apol. Dr. Chambers was assisted by Joh. Strickland Adoniram Byfield and Pet. Ince Presb. Ministers Answer to the charge of Walt. Bushnel Vicar of Box in Wilts published in a book of his intit A narrative of the proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers c. Lond. 1660. quar Vindication of the said Commissioners Printed the former He was one of the number of Assistants belonging to the said Commissioners and carried himself very severe against the Ministers What other books he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of Pewsey before mention'd on the eighth day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two with no other ceremony than that we would use to a dog and about the same time was his wife buried there also In the said Rectory succeeded Rich. Watson D. D. sometimes Fellow of Gonvill and Caies Coll. in Cambridge Chaplain to James Duke of York and afterwards Prebendary of Wells and Salisbury as I shall elsewhere at large tell you JOHN GAUDEN Son of the Minister of Mayland in Essex was born there or at least in that County educated in Grammar learning at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk and afterwards at about 16 years of age was admitted a Student of S. Johns College in Cambridge under one Mr. Wright where making great proficiency in academical learning took the degrees in Arts. In 1630 or thereabouts he removed to Wadham Coll. in this University where he became Tutor to Francis and Will Russell sons of Sir Will Russell Baronet into whose family he about that time had matched and after their departure to other Gentlemen of quality While he continued there the greatness of his parts were much improved by the greatness of industry bestowing the most part of the day and night too in the study of divine matters In 1635 he took the degree of Bach. of Div was afterwards Chaplain to Robert Earl of Warwick Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks beneficed in Cambridgeshire D. of D. and when the Assembly of Divines was to be setled in 1643 he was nominated one of them to the Parliament by Sir Dudley North and Sir Thom. Chichley Knights for Cambridgeshire to serve in the Long Parliament to sit among them but by what trick Mr. Tho. Goodwin was substituted in his place as a person more fit for the great designs then carrying on you may see in our Author Dr. Gaudens book intit Anti-Baal-Berith c. printed at Lond. 1661. p. 89 90. At that time 1643. he being a Covenantier as the Presbyterians and fanatical people generally affirm tho positively denied by himself he had the Rectory and Deanery of Bocking in his own Country confer'd upon him which he kept during the time of Usurpation and was as before at Brightwell and elsewhere much resorted to for his most admirable and edifying way of preaching After the death of Dr. Brownrig Bishop of Exeter which was in Decemb. 1659 he became Preacher of the Temple at London and after the Restoration of K. Ch. 2. Chaplain in ordinary to him who taking notice that he upon all occasions had taken worthy pains in the pulpit and at the press to rescue his Majesty and the Church of England from all the mistakes and heterodox opinions of several and different Factions as also from the sacrilegious hands of those false brethren whose scandalous conversation was consummate in devouring Church-lands and then with impudence to make sacrilege lawful I say for these his services his Majesty confer'd upon him the Bishoprick of Exeter to which being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westminster on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent in the year 1660 sate there but little more than an year and a quarter Afterwards he was translated thence to Worcester on Dr. Morleys Translation to Winchester in the beginning of the year in the month of May I think 1662 where he soon after ended his course having been esteemed by all that knew him a very comely person a man of vast parts and one that had been strangely improved by unwearied labour His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The love of truth and peace on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Three Sermons preached upon several publick occasions Lond. 1642. qu. The first of which preached before his Maj. is on Heb. 12.14 The second before the Judges at Chelmsford in Essex is on Zach. 8.16 and the third at S. Maries in Oxon on Act Sunday 11 July 1641 is on Ephes 4.23 3 Funeralls made cordials Sermon prepared and in part preached at the solemn interment of the corps of Rob. Rich heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick who died at Whitehall 16 of Feb. an 1657 aged 23 years and was honorably buried on the 5 of March following at Felsted in Essex Lond. 1658. qu. 4 Sermon preached at the Funeral of Dr. Ralph Brownrig Bishop of Exeter 17 Dec. 1659 on 2 Kings 2.12 Lond. 1660. oct 5 Slight healing of publick hearts c. Serm. in S. Pauls Cathedral before the Lord Mayor Lord General Aldermen c. 26 Feb. 1659 being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for restoring of the secluded Members of
Parliament to the H. of Commons c. on Jerem. 8.11 Lond. 1660. qu. Therein is somewhat added above what was preached 6 God's great demonstration and demands of justice mercy c. Serm. on Micah 6.8 before the H. of Com. at their solemn Fast before their first sitting 30 Apr. 1660. Lond. 1660. qu. And other Sermons which I have not yet seen Certain scruples and doubts of conscience about taking the solemn League and Covenant tendered to the consideration of Sir Laur. Bromfield and Zach. Crofton Lond. 1643 and 1660. qu. Hierapistes or a defence by way of Apology of the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1653. qu. Christ at the Wedding or the pristine sanctity and solemnity of Christian Marriages Lond. 1654. qu. The case of the Ministers maintenance by tithes plainly discussed in conscience and prudence c. Lond. 1653. qu. It must be now known that Oliver Cromwell by his Declaration did require all persons not to entertain in any capacity whatsoever any person engaged in the late Wars for the King or who were any way assistant to his cause prohibiting then also all such persons the exercise of any part of their Ministry Whereupon this severity moved our Author to write this Pamphlet A petitionary remonstrance presented to Oliver Protector 4 Feb. 1655 in behalf of his distressed brethren of the Church of England deprived of all publick Employment by his Declaration 1 Jan. 1655. Lond. 1659. qu. At the same time Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland went from Riegate to Whitehall on purpose to the said Protector to interceed for his indulgence towards them He took also the safest opportunities for mediating for them for the space of more than a month but was forced at last to retreat to his Country retirement and so to his grave with little success and less hope to his great grief and sorrow using this expression to our Author Dr. Gauden that he saw some men had only guts and no bowells c. But if another Author may be believed his intercessions did take effect Ecclesiae Anglicanae suspiria setting forth her former Constitution compared with her present condition in 4 books Lond. 1659. fol. Antisacrilegus or a Defensative against the plausibleness or guilded poyson of that nameless Paper supposed to be the plot of Dr. Cornelius Burges and his Partners which attempts the Kings Maj. by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds to make good by an Act of Parliament to the Purchasers of Bishops c. Lands their illegal bargain for 99 years Lond. 1660. in 2 sh and an half in qu. Account of the life and death of Dr. Ralph Brownrig lately B. of Exeter This is at the end of his funeral Sermon before mention'd The loosing of S. Peters bonds setting forth the true sense and solution of the Covenant in point of conscience Lond. 1660. qu. Answer'd by one Joh. Rowlands in a pamphlet printed in qu. the same year Analysis of the Covenant Lond. 1660. qu. Soon after came out two answers The first of which was intit after this rude manner An anatomy or confutation of that idolized piece of nonsense and blasphemy of Dr. Gauden c. No name is set to it The second was St. Peters bonds abide by Zach. Crofton Both which were printed at Lond. 1660. qu. These two were soon after replyed upon by John Russell of Chinkford in Essex in a little piece in qu. intit The solemn League and Covenant discharged or S. Peters bonds not only loosed but annihilated c. attested by our Author Gauden Lond. 1660. in 3 sh and half in qu. Whether the said Joh. Russell be the same with him who became Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. 1630 in which year Will. and Franc. Russell before mentioned were entred Students of the same house I cannot yet tell About the same time came out another book intit An Anonymus Questionist in defence of Dr. Gauden c. And soon after this Analepsis Analeptica The fastning of S. Peters bonds in seaven links or proportions or the efficacy and extent of the solemn league and covenant asserted and vindicated against the doubts and scruples of Dr. Joh. Gaudens Anonym Questionist Mr. Joh. Russells St. Peters bonds not only loosed c. Dr. Featley his League illegal falsly fathered on him and The University of Oxon their reasons for not taking the Covenant c. Written by Zach. Crofton Minister of S. Botolphs Aldgate in London After this our Author Gauden came out with Anti Baal-Berith or the binding of the Covenant and all Covenantiers to their good behaviour By a just vindication of Dr. Gaudens Analysis that is his resolving the Covenant to law and justice to duty and conscience to reason and religion or to his dissolving it against the cacotomy of a nameless and shameless Libeller the worthy Hyperaspites of Dr. Burges Also against the pitiful cavils and objections of Mr. Zach. Crofton a rigid Presbyter with an answer to that monstrous paradox of No sacriledge no sin to alienate Church lands without and against all laws of God and man c. Lond. 1661. qu. The said Crofton came out soon after with a reply intit Anti-Bereth-Baal c. Lond. 1661. qu. Considerations touching the Liturgy of the Church of England in reference to his Maj. late Declaration c. Lond. 1661. qu. Answer'd by a vain and idle book intit Rhetorick restrained or Dr. Joh. Gauden Lord B. elect of Exeter his considerations of the liturgy of the Church of England considered and clouded Published under the name of Tho. Bold of Exon attested by Zach. Crofton and printed at London the same year Counsell delivered to 44 Presbyters and Deacons after they had been ordained by him in the Cath. Ch. of Exeter c. 13 Jan. 1660. Lond. 1661. in Lat. and Engl. in 2 or 3 sh in fol. printed also at Lond. in Lat. by it self Life of Mr. Richard Hooker This is written in a large Preface before Mr. Hooker's works which Dr. Gauden pablished at Lond. 1661. fol. In the said life and preface he doth with great confidence use divers Arguments to satisfie the world that the three books joyned to the five genuine books of the said Mr. Hooker are genuine and pen'd by him notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the regal power which are to be found therein He hath also committed many errors as to several matters relating to his life and actions which being made evident elsewhere I shall now pass them by and proceed A pillar of gratitude humbly dedicated to the glory of God the honour of his Majesty c. for restoring of Episcopacy Lond. 1661 2 in a thin fol. On which book hangs an old story written by a Presbyterian but whether all true I must leave it to the judgment of the Reader He tells us that About the month of January 1661 a reverend gaudy Prelate did put forth A pillar of gratitude c. wherein having
Mounteyne Bishop of Lincolne and not long after Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Southwell in the Dioc. of York and Preb. of Lincolne Dr. Laud Bish of Lond. got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. by commending him to be excellent in all casuistical learning and accordingly in Nov. 1631 he was sworn Chaplain in Ordinary So that having occasion to be somtimes near to him the said King took great content in conversing with him whereby our Author gained great credit from the Nobility and greater from the Clergy as being esteemed the most known casuist that this Nation ever produced In 1636 he was actually created D. of D on the very day that the K. and Court left Oxon after they had been some days entertained there In 1641 he with two more of the Convocation of the Clergy for he had been usually elected for all Convocations for about 20 years before that time did draw up some safe alterations in the Service Book and abated some of the Ceremonies that were least material for the satisfaction of the Covenanteers and Presbyterian Party in the Long Parliament In July 1642 he was nominated by his Majesty the Regius Professor of Divinity of this University and the same year he was proposed by both Houses of Parliament to the King then at Oxon. to be one of the Trustees for the setling of Church affairs as Prideaux Bishop of Worcester was and was allowed of by the King to be so but that treaty came to nothing In 1643 he was nominated one of the Assemb of Divines but sate not among them In 1647 he had the most considerable hand in drawing up the University Reasons against the Covenant and negative Oath and the same year he was sent for by the King then at a more large imprisonment with Dr. Hammond Dr. Sheldon and Dr. Morley to attend him in order to advise with them how far he might with a good conscience comply with the proposals of the Parliament for a Peace in Church and State which was allowed by the Independents but denied by the Presbyterians Afterwards he attended on his Maj. in the Isle of Wight preached before him and had many both publick and private conferences with him to his Majesties great satisfaction About that time his Maj. translated into English our Authors Book De Juramento which being done Dr. Juxon Dr. Hammond and Mr. Tho. Herbert did compare what he had done with the original as I shall anon tell you The same year 1648 he was turned out of his Professorship of Divinity by the Parl. Visitors and so consequently from his Canonry of Ch. Ch. and soon after he retired to his cure at Bothby where living obscurely took upon him to put the Kings Meditations in his solitude into Latine which being half done Dr. Earle prevented him from finishing it by doing that work himself While he remained there he was plunder'd imprisoned wounded and tho brought into a low and obscure condition yet many receded to him for the resolution of cases of conscience Which being also resolved by Letters many of them have been preserved and printed for the benefit of posterity In Aug. 1660 he was restored to his Professorship and Canonry by his Majesties Commissioners and by the commendations of Dr. Sheldon to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he was soon after made Bishop of Lincolne receiving consecration thereunto in the Abbey Church at Westminster 28. Oct. the same year After which retiring to his Mannour of Bugden in Huntingdonshire belonging to his See he bestowed much money in repairing his House or Pallace there All Authors especially those that are famous do speak honorably of him The learned Usher of Armagh stiles him judicious Sanderson upon the return of a case he proposed to him and Hammond that stayed and well weighed man Dr. Sanderson c. who receiveth things deliberately and dwells upon them discreetly Besides also his great knowledge in the Fathers and Schoolmen and profoundness in controversial Divinity he was exactly vers'd in the Histories of our Nation whether antient or modern was a most curious Antiquary and an indefatigable searcher into antient records as his labors in Mss which he left behind him do evidently shew One of them which is a large thick folio I have seen and perused containing all under his own hand collections from registers leiger books rolls evidences in the hands of private Gentlemen c. evidences belonging to Cathedral and other Churches c. This Book is endorsed with Cartae X shewing that there were other Volumes as indeed there are in number about twenty as I have been told by Hen. Symmons his somtimes Secretary which are as I conceive dispersed in several hands He was also a compleat Herald and Genealogist made several collections of English Genealogies and also of monumental inscriptions and Arms in Churches and Windows wheresoever he went His care also was so great for the preservation of them from ruin that when he published Articles of Enquiry in order to the visiting of his Diocess in 1661 he in the conclusion of them desired the Ministers to make a return of all such monumental Inscriptions and Arms in Windows that were in their respective Churches But many of them being ignorant of such matters made very imperfect and halt returns However he carefully preserved them so long as he lived and what became of them after his death I cannot tell His published works are these Logicae Artis Compendium Oxon 1615. 18. 40. c. oct there again 1680 the ninth Edit in oct Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons on Rom. 14.3 and on Rom. 3.8 Lond. 1622. qu. 2 Twenty Sermons Lond. 1626. fol among which are the two former 3 Two Serm. on 1. Tim. 4.4 and Gen. 20.6 Lond. 1628. qu. 4 Twelve Serm. viz three ad Clorum three ad Magistratum and six ad Populum Lond. 1626. and 32. fol. 5 Two Serm. on 2. Pet. 2.16 and Rom. 14 23. Lond. 1635. qu. 6 Twenty Serm. formerly preached viz. sixteen ad Aulam three ad Magistratum and one ad Populum Lond. 1656. fol. The next year were fourteen of his Sermons reprinted to joyn with the aforesaid twenty together with a large Preface by the same Author Which fourteen were thus divided viz. Four ad Clerum three ad Magistratum and seven ad Populum It was the fourth time that they were then printed In 1660 they were all in number 34 reprinted in folio and again in 1681 with another ad Aulam and another ad Clerum added which make up the number of 36. 7th edit with the Authors life before them written by Is Walton c. As most books of later composure so more especially Sermons within the compass of a few years undergo very different characters and meet with a quite contrary entertainment in the World And this I conceive comes to pass because the way and manner of preaching is in a short time much altered from what it was but a little
the room of Gabr. Grant deceased But this Person being esteemed by the Puritan a Licenser of Popish books a purger of orthodox passages against Popery Papists Arminianisme a great creature of Dr. Laud and a practicer of Popish ceremonies he was in the beginning of the rebellion thrown out of his Vicaridge upon the Petition and Articles exhibited against him in the Long Parliament by his Parishioners â—as imprison'd in the Compter Ely house and in the Ships forced to fly and his Wife and Children turned out of doors At length being reduced to great want he was forced to keep a private School in Wiltshire under and in the name of his Son John afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to his Vicaridge Canonry and other preferments which he before had lost enjoying them in quietness to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons preached in the Parish Ch. of S. Giles in the Fields by way of preparative upon the articles of the Creed The first is on 1. Cor. 13.13 and the other on Heb. 11.6 Lond. 1642. qu. Out of which were some of the Articles framed against charging him as guilty of Arminianisme 2 Sermon tending to Peace preached before his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight during the time of the Treaty on Rom. 12.18 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 Funeral Sermon prepared to be preached at the funeral of Walt. Norbane Esq at Calne in Wilts 13. Apr. 1659 on Rom. 6.5 Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also printed a Serm. on Rom. 5.5 Lond. 1660. qu. and another on Acts 23.5 Lond. 1663. qu. But these two I have not yet seen Others also go from hand to hand in Ms and as I remember I have seen one or two in Dr. Barlowes Library He the said Dr. Haywood was buried in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Pulpit on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Tutor while he was Fellow of S. Johns Coll a general Scholar and a meek man in temper and conversation Near to his grave was his beloved Son John Haywood Master of Arts before mention'd who died 22. of Feb. following buried WILLIAM CREED Son of Joh. Creed wan born in the Parish of S. Laurence within the borough of Reading in Berks elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1631 age 16 years or thereabouts made the Senior Quadragesimal Collector when Bach. of Arts being then Fellow of that College Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty entred into the sacred function and became an eloquent Preacher In the beginning of the rebellion he adheer'd to the cause of his Majesty and in 1644 he was elected to and executed the procuratorial office of this University Two years after he was actually created Bach. of Div. for the Sermons he had preached at Oxon before the King and Parliament and in the time of Usurpation he became Rector of East-Codeford or Codeford S. Marie in Wiltshire In the month of June 1660 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then restored he was made the Kings Professor of Div. in this University in the beginning of July following Archdeacon of Wilts in the place of Tho. Leach some years before deceased and on the 13 of Sept. the same year Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisbury He was a defender of the Church of England in the worst of times was a good Schoolman Divine and a noted Disputant He hath written The Refuter refuted or Dr. Hen. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 defended against the impertinent cavils of Mr. Hen. Jeanes Lond. 1659-60 qu. Several Sermons as 1 Judah's purging of the melting pot an Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Isay 1.25.26 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Judah's return to their Allegiance c. on 2. Sam. 19.14.15 Lond. 1660. qu. c. He gave way to fate in his lodgings at Ch. Ch. in Oxon of which Ch. he was Canon as being Reg. Prof. of Div. on the 19 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried with solemnity in the next North Isle joyning to the choire of the said Cathedral near to the reliques of Democritus Junior being then accompanied to his grave by all the Degrees of the University See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Archdeaconry of Wilts succeeded Thom. Henchman very nearly related if not Son to Dr. Henchman Bishop of Sarum in the beginning of Aug. the same year and in his Professorship of Divinity Dr. Rich. Allestrie Canon of Ch. Ch. GEORGE KENDALL received his first being in this world at Cofton in the Parish of Dawlish or Dulish near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in Grammar learning in the said City where his Father George Kendall Gent mostly lived was entred a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1626 and was made Prob. Fellow in the fourth year following being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards by indefatigable industry he became a most noted Philosopher and Theologist a Disciple and Admirer of Prideaux and his Doctrine and as great an enemy to Arminius and Socinus as any At the change of the times in 1642 being then Bach. of Div he closed with the Presbyterians then dominant notwithstanding the King that year to mitigate his discontent had zealously recommended him to the Society to be elected Rector of Exeter Coll. on the promotion of Prideaux to the See of Worcester and about 1647 he became Rector of Blissland near to Bodmin in Cornwall But being eagerly bent against that notorious Independent John Goodwin left that Rectory some years after and obtained the Ministry of a Church in Gracious-street in London purposely that he might be in a better capacity to oppose him and his Doctrine In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. and upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. he left London and became Rector of Kenton near Exeter which he kept till the Act of conformity was published in 1662 at which time giving it up he retired to his House at Cofton where he spent the short remainder of his days in a retired condition His works are these Collirium or an ointment to open the eyes of the poor Caviliers This Pamphlet which I have not yet seen was published after the Cavaliers had been defeated in the West by the Forces belonging to the Parliament Vindication of the doctrine commonly received in Churches concerning Gods intentions of special grace and favour to his elect in the death of Christ Lond. 1653. fol. Of Christs prerogative power prescience providence c. from the attempts lately made against them by Mr. John Goodwin in his book entit Redemption redeemed Digressions concerning the impossibility of Faiths being an instrument of justification c. These two last things are printed with the Vindication of the doctrine c.
Sancti Sanciti or the common doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints as who are kept by the power of God through faith unto Salvation vindicated from the attempts lately made against it by John Goodwin in his book entit Redemp redeemed Lond. 1654. fol. This book is animadverted upon by the said John Goodwin in his Triumviri or the Genius Spirit and deportment of three men Mr. Rich. Resbury Mr. John Pawson and Mr. George Kendall in their late writings against the free grace of God in the redemption of the world c. A fescu for a Horn-book or an Apologie for University learning as necessary to Country preachers Being an answer to Mr. Hornes books wherein he gores all University learning Printed in fol. with Sancti Sanciti before mention'd Fur pro Tribunali Examen Dialogismi cui inscribitur Fur praedestinatus Oxon. 1657. oct De doctrina Neopelagiana Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxon. 9. Jul. 1654. Twissii vita victoria De scientia media brevicola dissertatio in qua Twissii nomen à calumnis Francisci Annati Jesuitae vindicatur Dissertatiuncula de novis actibus sint ne Deo ascribendi These three last things are printed and go with Fur pro Tribunali At length after a great deal of restless agitation carried on for the cause our Author died at Cofton before mention'd on the 19 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chappel joyning to his house there leaving then behind him the character of a Person well read in Polemical Divinity the character also of a ready Disputant a noted Preacher a zealous and forward Presbyterian but hot-headed and many times freakish I shall make mention of another George Kendall by and by NICHOLAS CLAGETT was born within the City of Canterbury entred a Student of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the year 1628 took one degree in Arts went afterwards to Magd. Hall and as a member of that House took the degree of Master of that faculty being then esteemed by the generality thereof a very able Moderator in Philosophy Afterwards at two years standing in that degree he became Vicar of Melbourne in Derbyshire and some years after Rector of S. Maries Church at S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolk where he was held in great veneration by the precise party for his edifying way of preaching and for his singular piety He hath written The abuses of Gods grace discovered in the kinds causes c. proposed as a seasonable check to the wanton libertisme of the present age Oxon. 1659. qu. He paid his last debt to nature on the twelfth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 56 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Chancel of S. Maries Church before mentioned He left behind him a Son named William Clagett educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge of which Univ. he was Doct. of Divinity afterwards Preacher to the honourable Society of Greys inn Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty and Lecturer of S. Mich. Basinghaugh This Person who died at London in the beginning of the year latter end of March 1688 hath published several things as 1 A discourse concerning the operations of the holy spirit with a confutation of some part of Dr. Owens book upon that subject In three parts In the second part of which is An answer to Mr. Jo. Humphreys animadversions on the first part 2 Notion of Idolatry considered and confuted Lond. 1688. c. Another Son also he left behind him named Nich. Claget M. of Arts who is now or at least was lately Preacher at S Maries in S. Edm. Bury before mentioned Author of a Serm. intit A perswasive to peaceableness and obedience c. Lond. 1683. qu. and of another preached at S. Edm. Bury before William Bishop of Norwich c. 4. May 1686. c. JOB ROYS Son of a Father of both his names a Scrivener of London and he the Son of another Job of Lubenham in Leycestershire was born in the County of Middlesex in the Parish as it seems of S. Giles Cripplegate an 1631 educated partly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks founded by John Royse 1563 became a Student in Pembroke Coll. 1650 and soon after was elected one of the Postmasters of Mert. Coll. where continuing under the tuition of a severe Presbyterian became well qualified with the spirit took one degree in Arts an 1655 left the Coll. soon after and retiring to the great City became a puling Levite among the Brethren for whose sake and at their instance he wrot and published The spirits Touchstone or the teaching of Christs spirit on the hearts of Believers being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know whether he be really taught by the spirit of God c. Lond. 1657 in a pretty thick octavo What other books he published besides this which was esteemed an inconsiderable canting piece I know not nor any thing else of the Author only that first if you had set aside his practical Divinity you would have found him a simple shiftless and ridiculous Person and secondly that dying in sixteen hundred sixty and three was buried in some Church in or near London being then weary of the change of the times and the wickedness forsooth that followed DAVID JENKYNS received his first being in this world at Hensol in the Parish of Pendeylwyn called by some Pendoylon in Glamorganshire became a Commoner of S. Emunds Hall in the year 1597 at which time several Welshmen were Students there After he had taken one degree in Arts he retired to Greys-Inn studied the Common Law and when Barrester was resorted to by many for his Counsel In the first of Car. 1. he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader but refused to read Afterwards he was made one of the Judges for South Wales continued in that office till the Rebellion broke out at which time he either imprison'd divers persons in his Circuit or condemn'd them to dye as being guilty of High Treason for bearing Arms against the King At length being taken Prisoner at Hereford when that City was surprized by the Parliament Forces in Decemb. 1645 he was hurried up to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower Afterwards being brought to the barr in Chancery he denied the Authority of that Court because their Seal was counterfeited and so consequently the Commissioners thereof were constituted against Law whereupon being committed to Newgate prison he was impeached of Treason and brought to the barr of the Commons house but denying their Authority and refusing to kneel was for his contempt fined 1000 l. and remitted to his prison and thence translated to Wallingford Castle About that time he used his utmost endeavours to set the Parliament and Army at odds thereby to promote the Kings Cause but it did not take effect according to his desire Afterwards passed an Act for his Tryal in the High Court of Justice an 1650 so that our
by divine right upon the Church is sacriledge This he confessed he did but he was put upon it suddenly by the H. of Commons in May 1641 and had no time given him but one hour However afterwards he was so zealous in that point that he before he had purchased such was a forward Preacher for it and after he had made purchases he wrot and published a book intit No sacrileege nor sin to aliene or purchase the Lands of Bishops or others whose offices are abolished Lond. 1659. 2 edit Also A Case concerning the lawfulness of buying Bishops Lands This last I have not yet seen nor another paper reported to be his wherein the Kings Majesty is attempted by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds to make good by an Act of Parliament the purchases of Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands for 99 years Printed 1660. See more in Joh. Gauden among these Writers an 1662. num 206. Apologie for purchases of Lands late of Bishops Deans and Chapters This is a sheet in fol. and therein is shewed a great deal of reading but whether it was all pen'd by Burges tho no doubt but he had a hand in it I know not Reasons shewing the necessity of Reformation of the publick 1 Doctrine 2 Worship c. Lond. 1660. qu. Which tho in the title it is said that divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England wrot yet Mr. Baxter saith that our Author Burges pen'd them They were answer'd by Dr. Joh. Pearson and Dr. Hen. Savage the former of which was replied upon by our Author Burges in a Postscript to a piece of his which I have not yet seen Answer'd or rejoyn'd by the said Pearson in a little thing intit Answer to Dr. Burges his word by way of Postscript in vindication of No necessity c. Antidote against Antisobrius Printed about 1660. Some of the differences and alterations in the present Common-prayer book from the book established by the Act in the fifth and sixth of Ed. 6. and first of Q. Eliz. Printed in one sh in qu. 1660. The book of Common-Prayer c. compared with the old Editions and all the Alterations noted down Lond. 1663. oct I shall make mention of this work more anon and in the mean time tell you that after the Kings Restauration our Author Burges being deprived of all the Church-lands that he had purchased at very easie rates and of his pension from S. Pauls Cathedral notwithstanding he tugged hard to keep some he retired to his house at Watford before mention'd where exercising himself much in penitence and in observing the duties of the Church was at length reduced to such poverty that he was forced to sell all or most part of his Library to buy bread But that was not all for about that time he was so much troubled with a cancer in his neck and cheek that all he could get could not in the least cure it or satisfie that hunger which it caused Insomuch that being brought very low in body and purse he sent to Sir Rich. Browne who was elected Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660. for relief and in his letter told him that he was brought to great want and poverty and that he was eaten up with a cancer in his neck and cheek I am saith he reduced to want a piece of bread as this bearer my son may better inform you but Sir mistake me not I do not beg I only acquaint you with my condition and do you what is fit c. To which Sir Richard made return and told the Doctor that Tho he was the prime cause and motive of his Rebellion against the late King by his preaching and violent persuasions yet if he would preach a Recantation sermon in S. Pauls Cathedral he would take care that he should never want so long as he lived But the reply made to it being this that he was not then in a capacity to do it Sir Richard rewarded him with 3 l. only Afterwards dying obscurely and in want was obscurely buried in the middle of the body of the Church at Watford before mentioned on the ninth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five About three weeks before his death he sent certain Common-prayer books to the publick Library at Oxon and in a spare leaf before the title of one of them he wrot this note following with his own hand dated at Watford 16 May 1665. I Cornelius Burges being an 1627 by my dear and much honoured mother the renowned University of Oxford made Doctor in Divinity am much grieved that I am able to do nothing worthy of her yet I humbly offer that I have viz. the first book of the first of Edw. 6 as also the second book of Common-prayer 5 and 6 of Ed. 6. wherein this hath several Alterations upon the censure of Bucer extant in his book Scripta Anglicana I also add a third book of Common-prayer renewed and established in 1 Elizab. which book is very hard to be had that was then printed I could never see any other of that edition I also add a fourth book of Common-prayer in 12 o wherein I have noted all the differences between that book established by this great Parliament an 1663 and the former book established before All these I most humbly and thankfully give to my said honorable mother of Oxford I being ready to dye beseeching her to account of these four small mites as our Lord and blessed Saviour did of the poor Widows two mites that by casting in that cast in all she had Cornelius Burges The Common-prayer book wherein this note was written was printed in fol. at Lond. 1549 in the month of May. At the bottom of the title of which is this written by Dr. Burges This is one of the very first books of Common Prayer in the beginning of Edw. 6. which book at the Request of Archb. Cranmar was reviewed and censured by Martin Bucer and then reformed accordingly in the 5 of Ed. 6. which latter is the book still in force by the statute of 1 Eliz. and this meaning the Common-Prayer-book printed 1549 is repealed KENELME DIGBY the magazine of all Arts or as one stiles him The ornament of this Nation son and heir of Sir Everard Digby of Dry-stoke in Rutlandshire Kt. by Mary his wife daughter and sole heir to Will. Mulsho of Gothurst commonly called Gadhurst in Buckinghamshire was born at Gothurst on the eleventh day of July 1603 1 Jac. 1. yet Ben. Johnson for rhyme-sake will have it June thus Witness thy action done at Scanderoon Upon thy birth day the eleventh of June About the year 1618 he was sent to Glocester Hall after he had been trained up in the Protestant Religion which afterwards he left for that of Rome and committed to the care of Tho. Allen who used to say that he was the Mirandula of his age but to the tuition of another where continuing
in his own Country to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year but his election being voted void he sided notwithstanding with the faction was seemingly a Presbyterian and afterwards all things to all men So that being esteemed very capable of carrying on the beloved cause he was first made a Committee man of his County and afterwards was called into the House of Commons by the Independents upon their excluding the active Presbyterians purposely to carry on their designs against the King Afterwards he being very ready to keep pace with them he not only subscribed his vote for the trial of his Majesty Ch. 1. but personally sate in judgment when sentence was past for his decollation About that time he being observed by some of the H. of Commons to be a Person of strange principles in Religion an Arrian Socinian and I know not what and also to be a Person of no good Morals he was publickly complained of in the house by Colonel Joh. Downes one of the Regicides and afterwards a member of the Council of State Whereupon Fry published The Accuser ashamed or a pair of Bellows to blow off the dust cast upon John Fry a member of Parliament by Col. Jo. Downes who charged the said John Fry of blasphemy and errour Printed at Lond. in Febr. 1648. in oct To which he added 1 A word to the Priests Lawyers Royalists Self-seekers and rigid Presbyterians 2 A brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion of three Persons or substances in the Godhead Afterwards he being exasperated by the Presbyterian Ministers and some Independents he wrot and published The Clergy in their colours or a brief character of them c. Lond. 1650 in 4. sh in oct Which the next year was answered by J. D. Nephew as 't was said to Mr. John Davy of Taunton Magdalen in Somersetshire Soon after the publication of the said Clergy in their colours the Parliament took so much cognizance of the matter that they sate on Saturday 22. Feb. 1650 from morning to night in debate of certain passages published in the said books as 1 In debate of that added to the Accuser ashamed in the title running thus that chaffie and absurd opinion of three persons or substances in the Godhead 2 In that in p. 22. running thus that gross and carnal opinion of three distinct Persons or subsistences in the Godhead Persons and subsistences are subsistences or accidents As for the word Person I do not understand that it can be properly attributed but to man It is out of doubt with me that if you ask the most part of men what they mean by a Person they will either tell you 't is a man or else they are not able to give you any answer at all As for the word Accident I suppose none will attribute that to God for according to my poor skill that word imputes no more but the figure or colour c. of a thing and certainly no man ever saw the likeness of God as the Scriptures abundantly testifie c. These things being discussed it was resolved by the members of Parliament that they were erroneous prophane and highly scandalous Afterwards they proceeded to the book called The Clergy in their colours wherein p. 34 is this said by the Author I cannot let pass one observation and that is the strange posture those men put themselves into when they begin their prayers before their Sermons whether the fools and knaves in stage plays took their pattern from these men or these men from them I cannot determine c. what wry mouths squint eyes they make c. how like a company of conjurers do they mumble out the beginnings of their prayers that the People may not hear them c. These passages being debated the Parliament resolved that they were scandalous Again also p. 42. thus I must confess I have heard much of believing things above reason and the time was when I swallowed that still but I may say with S. Paul c. When I was a child c. Every man that knoweth any thing knoweth this that it is reason that distinguishes a man from a beast If you take away his reason you deny his very Essence therefore if any man will consent to give up his reason I would as soon converse with a beast as with that man c. These matters being debated it was resolved by Parliament that they were erroneous Afterwards they resolved that the said book called The Accuser ashamed and the other called The Clergy in their colours be burnt and that the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to cause all the printed copies of both the said books and every of them wheresoever they should be found to be burnt some in the New-Pallace-yard at Westm and some at the Old Exchange Not a word in the order was there of the Hang-man for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them then in pomp and great splendor At the same time it was resolved that the said Joh. Fry be disinabled to sit as a member of Parliament so that being solemnly cashier'd he had more liberty to keep company with John Biddle which he did as with others of that opinion This Person who had ran through most if not all religious even to Rantisme died soon after and thereby saved the Hang-man his labour JOHN ELLIS received his first breath in the Parish of Llanderkuin near to Harlech in Merionithshire entred a Student in Hart Hall in the year 1617 and in that of his age 18. or thereabouts where going through with infinite industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy became M. of A. in 1625 and three years after was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. being then in holy orders In 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and soon after going into Scotland upon what account I know not was made and admitted Doctor of his faculty in the University of S. Andrew on the day before the Cal. of August 1634 and in Oct. following was incorporated in this University Before that time having taken to Wife Rebecka Daugh. of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach near to Thame in Oxfordshire Esq became Rector of Whitfield near that place which Benefice he keeping till about 1647 was made Rector of S. Maries Church in a Market town called Dolgelhy or Dolgethle in his own county where he continued till the time of his death siding with all parties and taking all Oathes His works are these Clavis fidei seu brevia quaedam dictata in symbolum Apostolorum Oxon. 1642. 43. oct Translated into English by Will. Fowler a composer in the Art of Printing Camb. 1669. oct Comment in Obadium Proph. Lond. 1641. oct Defensio fidei seu responsio succincta ad argumenta quibus impugnari solet confessio Anglicana una cum nova articulorum versione Lond. 1660. He concluded his last day at Dolgethle before
the second Vol. being adorned with most admirable cuts and printed at Lond. 1665. fol. having been by him performed during his retirement in the time of sickness at Kingston upon Thames This author was afterwards published in lesser volumes with this title The Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse adorned with sculptures and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1673. 74. in two vol. in oct The next things that he composed were The Ephesian Matron and The Roman Slave two heroick poems dedicated to Thomas Earl of Ossory And altho a second part met with a fate not common yet it was esteemed equal with the former Afterwards he wrot Carolies an Epick poem in 12. books so called from our miracle of Heroes K. Ch. 1. being the best pattern of true prudence valour and christian piety This was utterly lost in the grand conflagration that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 when then the habitation of our author Ogilby in the White friers near Fleet-street was burnt and he himself undone having but 5 l. left to begin the world again But so it was that he had such an excellent invention and prudential wit and was Master of so good addresses that when he had nothing to live on he could not only shift handsomly but would make such rational proposals which were embraced by rich and great men that in short time he would obtain an estate again He never failed in what he undertook but by his great industry and prudence went through it with profit and honor to himself Soon after the said conflagration he had his house in the White friers before mention'd rebuilt set up a Printing-house therein employed able workmen became his Majesties Cosmographer and Geographick Printer and by proposals printed several books that he and his Assistants had translated and collected as 1 An Embassy from New Batavia to the Emperor of China c. Lond. 1669. fol. adorned with Maps prospects and various sculptures as all the books following which he published were 2 Description of Africa c. Lond. 1670. fol. This is the first part of his English Atlas 3 Descript of America c. Lond. 1671. fol. This is the second 4 Atlas Japanensis Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassie from the East India Company of the Unital Provinces to the Emperour of Japan c. Lond. 1670. fol. 5 Atlas Chinensis Being the second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two Embassies from the East India Company of the Un. Prov. to the Viceroy of Simlamong c. Lond. 1671. fol. 6 Asia the first part being an accurate description of Persia and the several Provinces thereof c. Lond. 1673. 74. fol. The 2d part the author did not live to finish however this is looked upon as another part of the English Atlas 7 Description of Europe not finished by the Author who intended it to be the fourth part of the Engl. Atlas 8 Britannia An Historical and Geographical description of Britanie c. The first part fol. All which are printed on imperial paper adorned with maps and most curious sculptures and were carried on and sold by way of standing Lotteries There also goes under his name A pocket book of Roades in England and a new map of the City of London as it is new built c. Printed in one sheet of large paper He also and Will. Morgan made A new and accurate Map of the City of London distinct from Westminster and Southwark c. which is six foot long and six foot deep with a long narrow book to describe the places therein as also A Map of London Westminster and Southwark and A survey of Essex with the roads therein exactly measured c. At length Mr. Ogilby having lived to a fair age gave way to fate on the fourth day of Sept. 1676. and was buried in the Vault under part of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London At which time many Persons of great knowledg usually said that had he been carefully educated when a young man in an University might have proved the ornament and glory of the Scotch Nation JAMES HOWELL was born in Caermerthenshire particularly as I conceive at Abernant of which place his Father was Minister In what year he was born I cannot precisely tell you yet he himself saith that his ascendant was that hot constellation of Cancer about the midst of the Dog-days After he had been educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Hereford he was sent to Jesus Coll. in the beginning of 1610 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then being a pure Cadet a true Cosmopolite not born to land lease house or office was in a manner put to it to seek his fortune but by the endeavours of friends and some money that his Father assisted him with he travelled for three years into various Countries whereby he advantaged himself much in the understanding of several languages Some years after his return he was sent into Spain 1622 to recover of the King of that place a rich English Ship seized on by his Vice Roy of Sardinia for his Masters use upon some pretence of prohibited goods therein Three years after his return in which interval he was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. 1623 he was entertained by Emanuel Lord Scrope Earl of Sunderland and Lord President of the North and by him was made his Secretary So that residing in York for that purpose he was by the Mayor and Aldermen of Richmond chose a Burgess for their corporation to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster in the year 1627. Four years after he went Secretary to Robert Earl of Leycester Embassador extraordinary from our King to the King of Denmark before whom and his Children he shew'd himself a quaint Orator by divers lat speeches spoken before them shewing the occasion of their Embassie to condole the death of Sophia Qu. Dowager of Denmark Grandmother to Ch. 1. K. of England Afterwards going through several beneficial employments particularly the assisting the Clerks of the Council was at length in the beginning of the Civil War made one of those Clerks but being prodigally inclined and therefore running much into debt he was seized on by order of a certain Committee after the King was forc'd from his Parliament and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. So that having nothing to trust to but his wits and to the purchase of a small spot of ground upon Pernassus which he held in fee of the Muses he solely dedicated himself to write and translate books which tho several of them are meer scribbles yet they brought him in a comfortable subsistance during his long stay there After the Kings return in 1660 we never heard of his restauration to his place of Clerk of the Council having before flatter'd Oliver and sided with the Commonwealths men only that he was made the Kings Historiographer being the first in England that bore that title and having no
Jo. Stow's Survey of London and his continuators Discourse of the Empire and of the election of the King of the Romans c. Lond. 1658. oct Lexicon tetraglotton An English-French-Italian-Spanish-Dictionary Lond. 1659. 60. fol. A particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English Italian French and Spanish of the proper terms belonging to several Arts and Sciences to common professions and callings both liberal and mechanick c. in 52 Sections Lond. 1659. Printed with the former book Proverbs or old sayed sawes and adages in English or the Saxon tongue Italian French and Spanish Whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added This is also printed with Lex tetragl A cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Answer'd as soon as it peep'd abroad by Rog. L'estrange in a book entit A caveat for the Cavaliers which having given offence to divers Persons he published a second edition of it with his name and a preface to it Soon after our author Howell set forth a vindication of his Cordial under this title Some sober inspections made into those ingredients that went to the composition of a late Cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Upon which L'estrange briefly reflects in the close of a piece of his intit A modest plea both for the Caveat and Author of it A French Grammar and a dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes with additions of the most useful and significant proverbs c. Printed at London twice the last time was in 1673 fol. He also added to A French and English Dictionary composed by Randle Cotgrave Sundry animadversions with supplements of many hundreds of words never before printed with accurate castigations throughout the whole work The parley of Beasts or Morphandra Qu. of the enchanted Island c. Tom. 1. Lond. 1660 fol. The second part of casual discourses and interlocutions between Patritius and Peregrin c. Lond. 1661. oct Printed in a book intit Divers historical discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britaine and Ireland Apology for Fables mythologiz'd Printed in the said book also Twelve treatises of the late revolutions Lond. 1661. octav New English Grammar for Forreigners to learn English with a Grammar for the Spanish or Castilian tongue with special remarques on the Portugues dialect for the service of her Majesty Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning the precedency of Kings Lond. 1663. fol. Translated into Latine by B. Harris L. P. Lond. 1664. oct Poems on several choice and various subjects occasionally composed Lond. 1663. oct Collected and published by one who calls himself Serjeant Major Payne Fisher somtimes Poet laureat to Oliver Treatise concerning Embassadors Translated into Lat. by John Harmer of Magd. Coll. Lond. 1664. oct Concerning the surrender of Dunkirk that it was done upon good grounds Lond. 1664. oct He also translated from Italian into English 1 S. Pauls late progress upon earth about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome by reason of her dissoluteness and excesses c. Lond. 1644. oct The Author of it whose name I cannot yet learn made it publick about the year 1642 and being forced to fly from Rome for so doing in the company and under the conduct of one that pretended friendship to him was betrayed at Avignion and there first hanged and then burned 2 A Venetian looking-glass or a letter written very lately from Lond. to Card. Barbarini at Rome by a Venetian Clarissimo touching the present distempers in England Printed 1648. in 3 sh in qu. 3 An exact history of the late Revolutions in Naples and of their monstrous successes not to be parallel'd by any antient or modern History Lond. 1650. oct Published in Ital. by Lord Alex. Giraffi The second part of this History came out soon after by the same hand who also translated it from Ital. In both which it appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles which exciting the Mobile headed by Tomaso Anello commonly called Masaniello a Fisherman all things in Naples were for some time turn'd topsie turvy 4 A letter of Advice sent from the prime Statesmen of Florence how England may come to her self again Dated at Flor. 12. Mar. 1659 Printed at the end of The second part of casual discourses c. before mention'd He also Ja. Howell translated from French into English The nuptials of Peleus and Thetis consisting of a Mask and Comedy or the great royal Ball acted lately in Paris six times c. Lond. 1654. qu. and from Spanish into Engglish The process and pleadings in the Court of Spain upon the death of Anthony Ascham Resident for the Parliament of England and of Joh. Baptista Riva his Interpreter c. Lond. 1651. fol. The said A. Ascham who was born of a gentile family was educated in Eaton School and thence elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1633 Afterwards taking the degree of M. of Arts closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion took the Covenant sided with the Independents became a great creature of the Long Parliament by whose authority he was made Tutor to James Duke of York and an active Person against his Soveraign At length being looked upon as sufficiently Antimonarchical was by the Rump Parliament sent their Agent or Resident to the Court of Spain in the latter end of the year 1649. In the beginning of June following he arrived at Madrid and had an appartment appointed him in the Court but certain English Royallists then in that City taking it in great disdain that such a notorious Rebel one of the destroyers of their Nation as they call'd him should come there from the murtherers of his sacred Majesty of England six of them named Joh. Guillim Will. Spark Valentine Progers Jo. Halsal Will. Arnet and Hen. Progers repaired to his lodging Two of them stood at the bottom of the stairs two at the top and two entred his Chamber of whom Spark being the first drew up to the table where Ascham and another were sitting and pulling off his hat said Gentlemen I kiss your hands pray which is the Resident Whereupon the Resident rising up Guillim took him by the hair of the head and with a naked dagger gave him a thrust that overthrew him Then came in Spark and gave him another and because they would make sure of their work they gave him five stabs of which he instantly dyed Whereupon Jo. Bap. Riva his Interpreter thinking to retire to his Chamber four others that were without the Chamber gave him four wounds whereof he presently expired Afterwards five of the Englishmen took sanctuary but were haled thence imprison'd and Spark suffered The sixth Person named Hen. Progers fled to the Venetian Embassadors house and so escaped The said Anth. Ascham who was slain 6. June 1650 hath written A discourse wherein is examined what is particularly lawful during the confusions and revolutions of government c. Lond. 1648. oct and other things as 't is probable
became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628 aged 19 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver whereupon he wrot A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walt. Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts Which book being not permitted to be published after he had made it fit for the Press was at his Majesties return printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living continued there to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven was buried in the Church at Box having then laying by him one or more things fit to be printed as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood GEORGE WITHER Son of George Wither the first Son by a second venter of the house of Wither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County on the eleventh day of June 1588 30 Eliz. educated in Gram. learning under the noted School-master of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner afterwards B. of Roch. whom if I mistake not he serv'd made some proficiency with much ado in academical learning but his genie being addicted to things more trivial was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London and afterwards to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful he did at length make himself known to the world after he had taken several rambles therein by certain Specimens of Poetry which being dispersed in several hands became shortly after a publick Author and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty But so it was that he shewing himself too busie and satyrical in his Abuses stript and whipt was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where continuing several months was then more cried up especially by the puritanical Party for his profuse powring forth of English rime and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass which he pretended to predict In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots and Quarter-master Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain viz. of that Regiment of oâ— next under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the said expedition But this our Author who was always from his youth puritannically affected sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by them an 1642 became an enemy to the King and Regality sold the estate he had and with the moneys received for it rais'd a Troop of Horse for the Parliament was made a Captain and soon after a Major having this motto on his Colours Pro Rege Lege Grege but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers Sir Jo. Denham the Poet some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches desired his Majesty not to hang him because that so long as Wither lived Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire Surrey and Essex which office he kept 16 years and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist After the Kings Restauration in 1660 he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops which he before had either bought or had confer'd upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause And being then look'd upon as a dangerous person to the King and State especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed was committed Prisoner to Newgate and afterwards upon his own confession and the oaths of two persons that he was the Author of it he by order of the H. of Commons was sent in custody and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London to be debarr'd Pen Ink and Paper and about the same time 24 of March 1661 2 an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him In both which Prisons he continued three years and more wrot several things by the connivance of the Keeper of which some were afterwards made publick yet could never refrain from shewing himself a Presbyterian Satyrist He began very early being precisely educated from his childhood to express and publish those conceptions which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with morality and piety as subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to the capacities of young-men who delight to see their own natural passions represented as 't were in a glass wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for but with such notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that thousands especially such youths that were puritannically educated were desirous to peruse his future writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice while others of generous education and of more solid parts looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain and esteemed Taylor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rimes The things that he hath written and published are very many accounted by the generality of Scholars meer scribbles and the fancies of a conceited and confident if not enthusiastical mind The titles of them follow Iter Hibernicum or an Irish Voyage Written in verse Iter Bor. or a northern Journey Written in verse Patricks Purgatory Written in verse Philaretes Complaint Written in verse These four were called his Juvenilia and tho the original MS. of them was lost yet they were recovered and printed more than once Prince Henries obsequies or mournful elegies upon his death Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct A supposed interlocution betw the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britaine Printed with the former Abuses stript and whipt or satyrical essays in two books Lond. 1613. 14.15 and 22. in oct Satyr written to the King Jam. 1. when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book Lond. 1614. 15. 22. in
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
and advantage of the said Coll. by the Rector and Fellows thereof with the advice of Dr. John Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. if he be then living WILLIAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller Knight Lieutenant or Constable of Dover Castle and chief Butler of England as he is sometimes stiled by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Sampson Lennard Lord Dacre was born at Knolle in Kent matriculated at his first coming to the University as a member of Magd. Hall in Mich. term an 1612 aged 15 years but making no long stay there was translated to Hart Hall where he spent most of his time during his abode in Oxon. Afterwards he went to Paris and in an Academy there he learn'd to fence and manage the great Horse Thence he went to the German Wars where he served in the Army of the confederate Princes against the Emperour After his return he was knighted at Wansted 20. June 1622 and took to Wife Jane Daughter and Heir of Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire Knight who dying at Bathe in the Month of May 1633 was buried in the south trancept of the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there over whose grave is a very fair monument erected and thereon the statua's of her and her husband lying at length Afterwards taking to him a second Wife he was elected a Burgess for Anâ—over in Hampshire to serve in that most unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he shew'd himself an active person against the prerogative and every thing that looked that way Soon after when the rebellion broke out he was for his great knowledge in martial affairs constituted tho little in person by the said Parliament one of their Generals to fight against their King an 1642 in which year and after he performed in the opinion of those of his perswasion many notable exploits yet not without great violation and injury to the Church and its orthodox members and therefore flatter'd and cajoul'd by the Parliament with several sums of money part of which was given as a largess to his soldiers the more to encourage them in their service About that time that he might shew his zeal for the beloved cause he took the Covenant twice in the H. of Commons meerly to put forward some that had not taken it before and was not wanting on all occasions to promote and carry on the War But being soon after very unfortunate by loosing two Armies in the service of the said Parliament caused a diminution of his former fame which was raised up near to a competition or emulation with Robert Earl of Essex the Captain General In Jan. 1646 when Winchester Castle was disgarrison'd it was given to him as part of a reward for his former service but the next year shewing himself active among the Presbyterians in the H. of Commons against the designs of the Independents was one of the eleven members impeached by the Army of high treason Whereupon absconding for a time returned and took his place but in the very next year 1648 he was with forty more members turned out of the House by the Army on the 6. of December and on the 11. of Jan. following he was committed Prisoner to S. James's house and afterwards to Windsore and Denbigh Castles and to the Tower of London during the raign of Oliver as many of his brethren the Presbyterians were least he and they should carry on plots for the bringing in of the King or at least cross the designs of the said Oliver So that all that time being esteemed by the generality of Royalists an honest man and a Patriot of his Country was committed to custody upon suspicion of being engaged in Sir George Booth's Insurrection in Aug. 1659 where continuing till the beginning of Nov. following gave then Bail for his farther appearance What he got by his sufferings at the Kings restauration an 1660 I know not sure I am he was no looser Under this Persons name were printed these things following Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the Parliament forces concerning a great victory obtained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts dated 23. March 1642. Lond. 1643. Mar. 28. in one sh in qu. Tho this victory was very inconsiderable scarce worthy to be taken notice of yet to encourage the party it was made a very bloody matter Full relation of the late proceedings victory and good success obtained by the Parl. Forces under his conduct at the taking of the Town and Castle of Arundell in Sussex Dec. 20. and Jan. 6. an 1643 Sent to Will. Lenthall Speaker of the H. of Com. and printed in one sh in qu. Narration of a great victory obtained by the Parl. forces under his conduct at Alton in Surrey 13. Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643. in 1. sh in qu. Letter of a great victory obtained against Col. Sir James Long High Sherriff of Wilts at the Devises Lond. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. or more It is dated 13. Mar. 1644. concerning these his victories tho little or inconsiderable yet they were highly cried up by the Godly Brethren See more in a book very partially written by a grand Presbyterian named Josiah Ricraft a Merchant of London entit A survey of Englands Champions and truths faithful Patriots Or a Chronological recitement of the principal proceedings of the most prosperous Armies raised for the preservation of Religion the Kings Majesties Person the priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject c. with a most exact narration of the several victories c. with the lively portraitures of the several commanders Lond. 1647. oct with the authors picture before it Divine meditations upon several occasions with a dayly directory Lond. 1680. oct They were written in his retirement from business and publick employ and hath set before them his picture engraven to the life He hath also written Vindication for his taking up Arms against the King This he left behind him in MS but whether publish'd I cannot tell In 1680. was published in one sh in folio Sir Will. Waller his vindication by a friend that understood his life and conversation Military discourse of the ordering of Soldiers This he also left behind him in MS. but whether printed I know not He departed this mortal life in his house at Osterley Park in Middlesex on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the new Chappel near the Chancel in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Whose funeral as to honour being then falsly managed by an Herald Painter without the advice of any of the Officers of the Coll. of Arms his atchievment helmet with a false crest banners c. which were hung over his grave by the said Painter were soon after plucked down by the aforemention'd Officers and thrown aside as false things He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll afterwards a Knight and Justice of Peace for the
An. 1637. reprinted in qu. in double columes an 1641. A quench coal with an appendix to it in answer to A coal from the altar and other Pamphlets touching altars and bowing to or towards them An. 1637. An humble remonstrance against the tax of shipâ—money lately imposed laying open the illegality injustice abuses and inconveniences thereof Written 1636. corruptly printed without the authors privity at Lond. 1641. qu. Since which time 't was reprinted by a perfect copy at Lond. 1643 in 4. sh in qu. Additions to the first part of a dialogue between A. and B. concerning the Sabbaths morality and the unlawfulness of pastimes on the Lords day Twice printed in 1636. The antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy both to legal monarchy and civil unity Or an historical collection of the several execrable treasons conspiracies rebellions state-schismes contumacies of antimonarchical English British French Scottish and Irish Lordly Prelates against our King Kingdoms c. Enlarged and published by authority since the authors enlargement and return from exile Lond. 1641. qu. in two parts All the bad things concerning Bishops which Prynne could pick and rake out of Histories he hath at large set down but the good things he hath omitted such was and is the charity of him and the Brethren Those matters also which Dr. Godwin B. of Hereford did out of a puritanical peak collect against the antient Cath. Bishops he also very readily hath collected together to bring an odium on their function Books compiled by Prynne during his close imprisonment in Mount-Orgueil Castle in Jersey Mount-Orgueil or divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplations of these three leaves of natures volume 1. Rocks 2. Seas 3. Gardens Lond. 1641. qu. A poetical description of Mount-Orgueil Castle to the Isle of Jersey The Souls complaint against the bodies encroachment on her and comfortable coâ—dials against the discomforts of imprisonment This is a poem Pleasant purge for a Rom. Catholick to evacuate his evil humours consisting of a century of polemical epigrams These three last things are printed and bound up with Mount-Orgueil or divine c. The reader is to observe that during the time of Prynn's imprisonment was published a book intit Woodstreet-Compters plea for its prisoner Or the sixteen reasons which induce Nathan Wickins late servant to Mr. Will. Prynne but now prisoner in the said Compter to refuse to take the Oath ex officio wherein c. Printed 1638 in 10. sh in qu. Which book tho put out under the name of Nath. Wickins yet it was generally supposed that Prynne was the chief composer because of the many quotations therein Books written by W. Prynne since his enlargement and return from exile not to mention his Petition to be recalled from exile c. which was printed New discovery of the Prelates Tyranny in their late prosecutions of Mr. Will. Prynne Dr. John Bastwick and Mr. Hen. Burton Wherein the joint proceedings against them in the High commission and Star-chamber c. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book he does Archbishop Laud a great deal of injustice especially in this respect that all the things that make against him or sounds ill to his name he with great zeal scrapes together whilst any thing that sounds to his honour or the least good that he hath done he doth omit A soveraign antidote to prevent appease and determine our unnatural destructive Civil Wars and dissentions wherein c. Lond. 1642 in three sh in qu. It was twice printed Vindication of Psal 105. ver 15. Touch not my anointed and do my Prophets no harm from some false glosses lately obtruded on by Priests and Royalists Ibid. 1642 and 44. in 1. sh in qu. The treachery and disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraigns with the soveraign power of Parliaments and Kingdoms in 4. parts Ibid. 1643 in a large qu. Appendix manifesting by sundry Histories that in the antient Roman Kingdom and Empire c. the supreme Soveraignty of power resided not in Emperors and Kings themselves but in their Kingdoms c. This is printed at the end of The treachery and c. Romes Master-piece Or the grand conspiracy of the Pope and his Jesuitical instruments to extirpate the Protestant relâ—gion re-establish popery subvert laws liberties peace parliaments by kindling a Civil War in Scotland c. Lond. 1643 and 44 in 5. sh in qu. see more in Dr. Will. Laud under the year 1644. who made notes in the margin of the said book so far and so much as to vindicate himself from certain aspersions laid upon him in the said book The opening of the great seal of England containing certain brief historical and legal observations touching the original antiquity progress use necessity of the great zeal of the Kings and Kingdom of England hi respect of charters c. Ibid. 1643 in 5. sh in qu. or thereabouts The doom of cowardise and treachery Or a looking glass for cowardly and corrupt Governors and Soldiers who through pusillaminity or bribery betray their trusts to publick prejudice c. Lond 1643 in 10. sh in qu. or thereabouts Written in relation to Nath. Fiennes his surrendring up Bristow for the Kings use See more in Nath. Fiennes and Clem. Walker Popish Royal favourite Or a full discovery of his Maj. extraordinary favour to and protection of notorious Papists Priests Jesuits c. manifested by sundry letters of Grace Warrants c. Ibid. 1â—43 in about 10. sh in qu. Answer'd by N. D. in a book intit Vindiciae Caroli Regis Or a loyal vindication of the King c. Pr. 1645. qu. Moderate apology against a pretended calumny in answer to some passages in The preheminence of Parliaments published by James Howell c. Ibid. 1644 in one sh in qu. Check to Britannicus for his palpable flattery c. Lond. 1644. Written against M. Nedham concerning some passages in one or two of his Merc. Britan. in Vindication of Nath. Fiennes Whereupon came out soon after a pamphl intit A check to the checker c. The falsities and forgeries of the Anonymous author of a Pamphlet intit The fallacies of Mr. Will. Prynne discovered in a short view of his book intit The Soveraignty of Parliaments The opening of the Great Seal c. Ibid. 1644 in 1. sh in qu. Four serious questions touching excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament Lond. 1644. qu. Twelve considerable serious questions touching Church-government Ibid. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. Independency examined unmasked refuted by 12 new particular interrogatories c. Lond. 1644 in two sh in qu. This was answer'd by a brother-sufferer of Prynne Hen. Burton and his late companion in tribulation Lond. 1644. It was twice pr. in that year A fuller reply to certain brief observations and anti-queries on Mr. Prynns 12 questions about Church government c. Ibid. 1644. in tw sh in qu. Brief animadversions on Mr. John Goodwins Theomachia c. Lond. 1644 in one sh in qu.
and keeping Sir Gilb. Gerard and other members by force of Arms out of the Commons house of Parl. on 27. Dec. 1659. Lond. 1660. Three seasonable Queries proposed to all those Cities Counties and Burroughs whose respective Citizens c. have been forcibly excluded unjustly ejected and disabled to sit in the Commons H. by those now acting at Westm Ibid. 1660. It was published about the latter end of Dec. 1659 on one side of a sh of paper Humble petition and address of the Sea-men and Water-men in and about the City of Lond. to the L. Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of Lond. in Com. Council assembled for a free and legal Parliament c. Ibid. 1660. Seasonable and healing instructions humbly tendered to the Free-holders Citizens and Burgesses of England and Wales to be seriously commended by them to their respective Knights Citizens Burgesses elected and to be elected for the next Parliament 25 Apr. 1660. Books and Pamphlets written after the restauration of his Maj. K. Ch. 2. Second part of a brief Register Kalendar and Survey of the several kinds of Parliamentary Writs relating to the H. of Commons c. Lond. 1660. qu. Bathonia rediviva The humble address of the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Bathe to the Kings most excellent Maj. presented by Mr. Prynne 16 June 1660. Lond. 1660. The first part of the signal loyalty of Gods true Saints and pious Christians as likewise of Pagans towards their King both before and under the Law and Gospel expressed in and by their constant public prayers supplications intercessions thanksgiving for them Lond. 1660. quart The 2 part of â—ig Loyalty together with various forms of prayers supplications votes acclamations ceremonies and solemnities used at the Coronations of Emperors and Kings especially of the Kings of England Ibid. 1660. quart Vindication of Christian Kings transcribed out of Joh. Hus Ibid. 1660. qu. Sundry reasons humbly tendered to the most honorable H. of Peers by some Citizens and Members of Lond. and other Cities Burroughs Corporations and Ports against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations Some few of these reasons were published and the rest suppressed A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common Prayer c. Lond. 1661. qu. Brevia parliamentaria rediviva in 13 sections containing several catalogues of the numbers dates of all bundles of original Writs of summons and elections newly found or formerly extant in the Tower of London c. Ibid. 1662. qu. Apology for tender consciences touching not bowing at the name of Jesus Ibid. 1662. qu. The fourth part of a register and survey of the several kinds and forms of Parliamentary Writs c. Lond. 1664. qu. The first Tome or an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction in over all spiritual or religious affairs causes persons c. within their Realms of England Scotland Ireland and other dominions from the original planting of Christian Religion c. to the death of K. Rich. 1. an 1199. Lond. 1666 in a large fol. The second Tome of an exact chronological vindication c. from the first year of K. John 1199 to the death of K. Hen. 3. dom 1273 c. Ibid. 1665. in a large fol. This second Tome came out before the first Aurum Reginae or concerning Queen-gold c. Lond. 1668. qu. Animadversions on the fourth part of Sir Edw. Cokes Institutes of the Laws of England c. Lond. 1669. fol. The History of K. John K. Hen. 3. and K. Edw. 1. wherein the antient Soveraign dominion of the Kings of England Scotland France and Ireland c. is asserted and vindicated against all incroachments and innovations whatsoever c. Lond. 1670. in a thick fol. He also did revise rectifie in sundry mistakes and supplied with a preface marginal notes several omissions and exact tables a book intit An exact abridgment of the Records of the Tower of London from the Reign of K. Ed. 2. unto K. Rich. 3. of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign and the several Acts in every Parliament c. Collected by Sir Rob. Cotton Kt. and Bar. Lond. 1657. fol. c. Besides these and others which I have not yet seen our Author Prynne hath published the works of other persons as 1 Truth gloriously appearing from under the sad cloud of Obloquy or a vindication of the practice of the Church of Christ in the Summer Islands c. Lond. about 1650. Written by Nath. White Bac. of Div. and Pastor of the Church of Christ at Summer Islands 2 A discourse of the Spanish Monarchy Written by Tho. Campanella which having been translated into English by Edm. Chilmead and published 1654 had a new Preface put to it by Prynne with a Title bearing the date of 1659. 3 A breviat of the life of Will Laud Archb. of Cant. published purposely to make him odious to the vulgar sort of people yet the rational part I mean those persons that were not guided by Presbyterian clamours entertained other kind of thoughts of the Archb. than they had before The original of this Diary was found after his death by Mr. Will. Dugdale and others who were commanded by Authority to search for that and other matters which he the said Prynne unwarrantably got into his custody Several Pamphlets also are fathered upon him of which he was not in the least Author among which are 1 Mola Asinaria or the unreasonableness and insupportable burden now pressed upon the shoulders of this groaning Nation by the headless head and unruly rulers c. held forth in a remonstrance c. Lond. 1659. in 1 sh in qu. 2 Two letters one from Joh. Audland a Quaker to Will Prynne the other Will. Prynne's Answer Lond. 1672. in 3 sh in fol. written by Samuel Butler Author of the much celebrated Poem called Hudibras of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know that he was born in the Parish of Strensham in Worcestershire and baptized there 13 Feb. 1612. His father named Sam. Butler was a person of a fair estate near 300 l. per an but most of it lease-lands held of Sir Tho. Russell Grandfather to Sir Franc. Russell Bt Lord of the Mannour of Strensham before mention'd The son Sam. Butler whom we are farther to mention was educated in Grammar learning in the Coll. School at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright and from thence went as his brother now living affirms to the University of Cambridge yet others of the neighbourhood say to Oxon but whether true I cannot tell Sure I am that one Sam. Butler was elected from Westm school a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1623 but making little stay there he was not matriculated and so consequently the place of his nativity and age are not remaining on record otherwise had he been made a member of the University we
so pleasing to the Royalists who have found much wit and mirth therein that some of them have caused it to be chained to desks in publick places and in some country Churches to be read by the vulgar But as by the publishing of this book he hath much displeased the Presbyterians of whom some have fallen foul upon him in their Writings for so doing so hath he more displeased another party for the writing of this book following The history of the Romish Treasons and Usurpations with an account of many gross corruptions and impostures of the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1671 and 81. fol. Which book had it not fallen into the hands of a knavish Bookseller might have been extant in the life time of the author and so consequently more compleat and exact than now it is At its first publication I was enformed by a letter written by a noted man of that party that the Papists did look upon the said book as a simple thing That he the Author fought against his own shadow and that all sober Catholicks did disallow much of what he combats against That he prayed much to the Lord that he might live to see his book published and then nunc dimittis but it was not granted him c. This Mr. Foulis had laid the foundations of other books which he intended to advance and have them published but the day before he died he committed them to the flames as many other notes he did which would have been serviceable to some scholars He ended his days in the prime of his years occasion'd by a generous and good natur'd intemperance on the Vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried under the north wall at the upper end of the Chancel of S. Michaels Church within the City of Oxon. on the 26 of Dec. being S. Steph. day In his grave was afterwards buried William Stone LL. Bach. sometimes Principal of New Inn who died 22 June 1685. SAMUEL CLARKE right famous for oriental learning son of Thom. Clarke of Brackley a market town in Northamptonshire was born there or at least in that County became a Student in Mert. Coll. in Lent term 1638 aged 15 years where continuing about three years left the University then with the City about to be garrison'd for the Kings use Some time after the surrender thereof to the Parliament he returned to his College submitted to the Visitors and the same year 1648 he took the degree of M. of Arts. The next year July 24 he was designed the first Architypographus of the University and for his better encouragement in that Office had the grant of the superior Beadleship of the Civil Law when it should fall void given to him and after his death to his Successors in that place for ever In 1650 he was Master of a Boarding-school at Islington near London where continuing for some time did give his assisting hand towards the correcting and publishing of the Polyglott Bible In 1658 he made another return to the University and upon a foresight of the death of him that held the superior Beadleship of Law was elected Architypographus 14 May 1658 and on the 29 of the same month superior Beadle of the Civil Law both which places he kept to his dying day and shew'd himself a most necessary and useful person in the concerns thereof belonging to the University Vir Graecis latinisque literis probe instructus in studiis philologicis versatissimus c. His Works are these Variae lectiones observationes in Chaldaicum Paraphrasin These are in the sixth Vol. of the Polyglott Bible beginning in pag. 17. You are to understand that in this Vol. which consists chiefly of notes on the many versions of the other precedent Volumes there are divers number of pages and therefore I cannot better refer you to his Notes than I have done already Scientia metrica rhythmica seu tractatus de Prosodia Arabica ex authoribus probatiss eruta Oxon. 1661. oct Septimum Bibliorum Polyglott 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen cum versionibus antiquissimis non Chaldaica tantum sed Syriacis Aethiopicis Copticis Arabicis Persicis contextum This is yet in MS and not printed He did also accurately describe and turn into Latine from the original Autographe in Cambridge publick Library Paraphrastes Chaldaeus in lib. Paralipomen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n. Which book Dr. Edm. Castell consulted when he composed his Lexicon Heptaglotton as he tells you in the Preface to the first Vol. of that elaborate work And it is mention'd to be the labour of Mr. Sam. Clarke in the Proposals of the University of Oxon for printing of MS published in Sept. in half a sheet of paper an 1681 Our Author Clarke also took great pains in the Hebrew Text Chaldee Paraphrase and the Persian Gospells in the Polyglott Bible which last he translated into Latine This Translation is placed next after the several Versions of the Apocryphal books There also goes under his name a Translation out of Hebrew into Latine the Mishna of the first Massěceth or Tract of the Talmud called Beracoth i. e. about their prayers and forms of blessing See more in Tho. Greaves an 1676. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the Suburb of Oxon on the 27 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the middle of the body of the Church belonging to the said Parish of Halywell dedicated to the Holy Cross Two days after his death was an election made for his successor in the place of Beadle and Architypographus for which stood Tho. Bennet M. A. of Ch. Ch. then Corrector of the University press being put up by his Dean Dr. Joh. Fell as being the most fit person that could be then thought on But Bennet stirring little in the matter supposing the Masters could not otherwise but choose tho then they had little or no respect for him they elected a boon companion not at all fit to be Archityp named Norton Bold M. A. and Fellow of C. C. Coll. who had been put aside from being elected when he stood after the death of Edm. Gayton mention'd under the year 1666. This being done to the discontent of Dr. Fell as Lichfields Election was after Gayton's death who could not otherwise but look upon it as a great contempt of his generous design he upon a foresight of the short life of the then superior Beadle of Div. Tim. Wilkins obtained a Mandamus that Mr. Bold should be translated to that place and thereby make his once more vacant and so consequently bring his man therein Soon after Wilkins died and a Convocation thereupon being called Oct. 6. an 1671 Bold was translated to that place by virtue of the said Mandamus to his advantage and somewhat of disgrace At that time were Candidates for the supply of that vacancy Mr. Bennet before mention'd Noah
restauration for want of conformity He was a conceited whimsical person and one very unsetled in his opinions sometimes he was a Presbyterian sometimes an Independent and at other times an Anabaptist Sometimes he was a Prophet and would pretend to foretel matters in the pulpit to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people At other times having received revelations as he pretended he would forewarn people of their sins in publick discourses and upon pretence of a vision that Doomesday was at hand he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgshire whose daughter Henry the son of great Oliv. Cromwell had married and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowles called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomesday would be some day the next week At which the Gentlemen being well pleased they and others always after called him Doomesday Sedgwick and the rather for this reason that there were others of his sirname that pretended to prophecy also He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Zions deliverance and her friends duty or the grounds of expecting and means of procuring Jerusalems restauration Preached at a publick Fast 29. June 1642 before the House of Commons on Isaiah 62.7 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Some flashes of Lightning in the Son of man in eleven Sermons Lond. 1648. oct These Sermons seem to have been preached on Luke 17.20.21.22 c. The Leaves of the tree of Life for the healing of the nations opening all wounds of this Kingdom and of every party and applying a remedy to them c. Lond. 1648 qu. This book as soon as 't was published which was in the latter end of 1647 the author went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight and desired the Governours leave to address himself to K. Ch. 1. then a Prisoner there Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesties perusal which as he said if his Majesty would please to read might as he imagined be of much advantage to him and comfort in that his disconsolate condition The King thereupon came forth and Sedgwick in decent manner gave his Maj. the book After he had read some part thereof he returned it to the author with this short admonition and judgment By what I have read in this book I believe the author stands in some need of sleep These words being taken by the author in the best sense he departed with seeming satisfaction The next day came one John Harrington Esq Son of Sir John Harrington and Epigrammatist in the time of Queen Eliz. and K. James 1. and being admitted into the Castle upon the like charitable account desired to have some discourse with his Majesty but his Maj. having heard some odd things of him from Jam. Harrington before mention'd that he was a canting and prophetical Presbyterian thanked him likewise for his good intentions without discoursing with him upon any point Whereupon Harrington wishing his Maj. much happiness withdrew Justice upon the Army-remonstrance or a rebuke of that evil spirit that leads them in their Councils and actions With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their ways c. Lond. 1649 qu. A second view of the Army-remonstrance or justice done to the Army wherein their principles are new model'd brought out of obscurity into clearer light c. Lond. 1649. in 5. sh in qu. This last seems somewhat to contradict the former but in such a canting fashion that I know not what to make of it unless the Author meant to claw with them in their own way Animadversions on a letter and paper first sent to his Highness Oliv. Cromwell by certain Gentlemen and others in Wales And since printed and published to the world by some of the subscribers c. Lond. 1656 qu. Animadversions upon a book intit Inquisition for the blood of our Soveraign Lond. 1661. oct What other things this our author hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after the return of K. Ch. 2. he lived mostly at Leusham in Kent but leaving that place about 1668 retired to London where he soon after died I have been several times promised an account of his death and burial but my friend Dr. S. C. of Gr. in Kent stands not to his word NATHANIEL HARDY son of Anth. Hard. was born in the Old Baylie in the Parish of S. Martin Ludgate in London on the 14 of Sept. 1618 became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1632 where continuing several years under the course of a severe discipline went thence to Hart Hall for a time and took the degree of Mast of Arts an 1638 and in the next year he was admitted into full Orders Afterwards he retired to the great City became a florid and very ready Preacher and at the turn of the times was insnared with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian party but at the treaty at Uxbridge between the Commissioners appointed by the King and those by the Parliament to treat about Peace an 1644 he was present and being desirous to be impartially informed in the truth of that Controversie he was fully convinced of his error chiefly by the Arguments of Dr. Hen. Hammond So that then being in the 26 year of his age he immediately as 't is said upon his return to London preached a Recantation Sermon and ever after even in the worst of times he attested his loyalty to the King and conformity to the Church in discipline as well as in doctrine in his ministerial function Of these matters I have been informed by his friend but this must be known that in all or most of the times of usurpation he was Minister of S. Dionyse Back-Church in London and tho frequented by some Loyalists yet by more Presbyterians His said friend also hath informed me that he kept up a Lecture in the said Church which was called The Loyal Lecture whereby many of the then suffering Clergy were relieved Also that that year on which the King was beheaded and ever after till near the time of the return of K. Ch. 2 he preached his funeral Sermon In the year 1660 he by his forward endeavours got to be one of those Ministers that went with the Commissioners appointed by the City of London to the Hague in order to his Majesties restauration And being there on a Sunday 20. May he with great confidence preached a Sermon before his Majesty on the 29 verse of the 26. chapter of Isaiah wherein he applied his discourse to the then present Estate of affairs in England so pathetically and learnedly that there was not any one present but admired his elegancy and learning and
The faithful Shepherd on Psal 80.1 Ibid. 1665. qu. 6 The flying Sea on Psal 114.5 Printed 1665. qu. 7 The only way to preserve life preached before the House of Commons at Oxon on Amos 5. ver 6. Pr. 1666. qu. Besides all these he hath several other Sermons which I have not yet seen He hath also written a book of his sufferings in the time of the grand rebellion which was published in English an 1664 but this neither have I yet seen At length this good old Bishop giving way to fate in Feb. or the beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and one was buried in his Cath. Church at Kilkenny By his last Will and testam dat 16. of Oct. 1671 and proved in the Prerogative Court at Dublin on the eleventh of Apr. following he bequeathed his Lands in Ireland called Fermoile worth forty pounds per an to be setled upon eight poor distressed Widows for whom he had erected eight several Alms-houses in the Parish of S. Kenny in his Diocess In the said Will was a passage by him inserted concerning the noble James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut of Ireland for not promoting him as 't is thought to a higher Bishoprick Which being esteemed scandalous was struck out of his Will when proved JOHN AILMER was born of gentile Parents in Hampshire as it seems educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1652 took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1663 being then and before accounted an excellent Greecian and a good Greek and Lat. Poet as it appears by this book which he composed when a young man Musae sacrae seu Jonas Jeremiae threni Daniel Graeco redditi carmine Oxon. 1652. oct and also by divers Gr. and Lat. verses dispersed in various books He died at Petersfield on Good Friday Apr. 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Church at Havant in Hampshire as I have been informed by the Letters of my sometimes friendly acquaintance Mr. Isaac Walton dated at Farnham 26. May 1683. HENRY SAVAGE son of Francis Sav. was born of a gentile Family at Dobs hill in the Parish of Elderfield commonly called Eldsfield in Worcestershire became a Communer of Ball. Coll. in the year 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts and taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in Nov. 1625 was three years after made Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. and two years after that 1630 he was compleated Master of his faculty In the beginning of the grand rebellion he travelled into France with William Lord Sandys whose Sister the Lady Mary he afterwards married and by the opportunity of that journey he not only learned the Language of that Country saw the fashions of their Clergy and Universities but learn'd to shake off the morosity and rusticity which commonly attends severe Students Soon after his return he obtained the Mastership or Headship of his House and in the year following was admitted Doctor of Divinity After the restauration of K. Ch 2 and a submission to the Powers in the time of Usurpation he became Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Glocester an 1665 and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire on the death of Dr. Matth. Griffith He hath written and published Quaestiones tres in novissimorum comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. discussae an 1652. viz. An Paedobaptismus sit licitus aff c. Oxon. 1653. qu. Soon after these questions were answer'd by John Tombes of Magd. Hall Thesis Doctoris Savage nempe Paedobaptismum esse licitum confirmatio contra refutationem Mri. Tombes nuper editum c. Oxon. 1655. qu. Vindicatio ejus à calumniis Mri. Tombes Printed at the end of Thesis Confirmatio c. Reasons shewing that there is no need of such reformation of the publick 1. Doctrine 2. Worship 3. Rites and Ceremonies 4. Church Government and 5. Discipline as is pretended c. Lond. 1660 qu. This small piece as likewise another of Dr. John Pearson since B. of Chester the very learned Author of the much commended book on the Creed of the Vindiciae Epistolarum S. Ignatii c. entit No necessity c. which came out in qu. much at the same time with this of our author Savage were wrot against a Pamphlet called Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation c. Lond. 1660. qu. See in Corn. Burges an 1665. Which tho in the title it is said to have been wrot by divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England yet Mr. Baxter saith that Dr. Corn. Burges was the Person that penned The necessity of reformation c. meaning I conceive the said Reasons which so much as he farther affirms offended the Episcopal party This is yet further rendred the more probable because that besides a reply made by Will. Hamilton Gent. to Dr. Pearsons No necessity c. Cornel. Burges as possibly judging himself more concern'd than any body else in the success of these Reasons c. in a Postscript to a Treatise of his annexed a brief answer to Dr. Pearson who not long after in a short piece vindicated himself from what was said in the said Postscript against his No necessity c. The said Reasons shewing c. were answer'd again more fully in the Retractions of John Ellis Dr. Savage hath also written The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion or an answer to a book entit Sions groans for her distressed c. Offered to the Kings Majesty Parliament and People Lond. 1663. qu. Some copies of the impression of this book The dew c. have this title Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted or an answer to a book entit Sions groans c. Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation founders and affairs of Balliol College gathered out of the records thereof and other antiquities c. Oxon. 1668. qu. But the author having had no natural genie to the study of Antiquities and History neither a timing head nor indeed record enough from his Coll. for there is no Register of Acts of the Society above the year 1520 12. Hen. 8. nor no antient rolls of Accompts wherein the state of the Coll. is every year represented as also the names of the Fellows he hath committed many foul errors therein especially in this respect that he hath made the said Coll. of Ball. Father or Parent to many eminent men which never studied or were conversant with the muses therein as Joh. Duns Scotus Dr. Tho. Gascoigne Steph. de Cornubia c. while in the mean time he hath omitted others that have studied there and have been of great fame in their time as Richard Son of Ralph sometimes Archb. of Armagh commonly called by Writers Ricardus Armachanus Tho. de Wylton Rich. Rotheram Cardinal Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham c. Natalitia Collegii Pembrochiani
Bishoprick of Chester to which he was consecrated in the Chappel at Ely house in Holborn on the 15 of Nov. 1668 by Dr. Cosin Bishop of Durham Dr. Laney B. of Ely and Dr. Ward Bishop of Salisbury at which time Dr. Jo. Tillotson Preacher of Lincolns Inn delivered an excellent sermon upon that occasion This Dr. Wilkins was a person endowed with rare gifts he was a noted Theologist and Preacher a curious Critick in several matters an excellent Mathematician and Experimentist and one as well seen in Mechanecismes and new Philosophy of which he was a great Promoteâ— as any of his time He also highly advanced the study and perfecting of Astronomy both at Oxford whilst he was Warden of Wadh. Coll and at London whilst he was of the Royal Society and I cannot say to the contrary that there was any thing deficient in him but a constant mind and setled principles Dr. Gilb. Burnet tells us that this Dr. Wilkins who was for a Comprehension and a limited indulgence for Dissenters in Religion was a man of as great a mind as true a judgment as eminent virtues and of as good a soul as any he ever knew c. And one or more of the Royal Soc. say that all that knew Bishop Wilkins must needs acknowledge him for his universal insight into all parts of learning solid judgment rare prudence and dexterity in the management of worldly affairs and transactions universal charity ingenuity temper and moderation of spirit to have left behind him but few equals c. To pass by the Characters given of him in discourse by the great men of the Church of England as by Archb. Sheldon B. Fell Archb. Dolben c. who did malign him for his wavering and unconstant mind in Religion which I know will be displeasing to many I shall give you a cat of his works The discovery of a new world or a discourse tending to prove that 't is probable there may be another habitable world in the Moon Lind. 1638. 40. oct and there again in 1684. which is the fourth edit Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage to the world in the Moon Printed with the Discovery Discourse concerning a new Planet tending to prove that 't is probable our Earth is one of the Planets Lond. 1640. in oct The Authors name is not put to any one of these three things but they are so well known to be his that Langrenus in his Map of the Moon dedicated to the King of Spain names one of the spots of his Selenographick Map after his name Mercury or the secret Messenger shewing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance Lond. 1641. The publication of which was occasion'd by the writing of a little thing called Nuncius inanimatus by Fr. Godwin Mathematical Magick or the wonders that may be performed by mechanical Geometry in two books Lond. 1648. 1680. oct The last edit hath the Authors picture before it in his Lawn sleeves Ecclesiastes or a discourse of the gift of preaching as it falls under the rules of art Lond. 1646. 47. 51. 53. 56. and 1675. oct Discourse concerning the beauty of Providence in all the rugged passages of it Lond. 1649. in tw Lond. 1677 fifth edit in oct Discourse concerning the gift of Prayer shewing what it is wherein it consists and how far it is attainable by industry c. Lond. 1653 and 1674 oct Essay towards a real Character and a philosophical Language Lond. 1668. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions num 35. The Reader may be pleased now to know that one George Dolgarno a Scot wrot a book intit Ars signorum vulgo character universalis lingua philosophica Lond. 1660 61. oct This book before it went to the Press the Author communicated to Dr. Wilkins who from thence taking an hint of a greater matter carried it on and brought it up to that which you see extant This Dolgarno was born at Old Aberdene and bred in the University at New Aberdene taught a private Grammar School with good success for about thirty years together in the Parishes of S. Michael and S. Mary Magd. in Oxford wrot also Didascalocophus or the deaf and dumb mans Tutor Oxon. in oct and dying of a fever on the 28 of Aug. 1687 aged 60 or more was buried in the north body of the Church of S. Mary Magd. in the Suburbs of Oxon. Dr. Wilkins hath also written An alphabetical Dictionary wherein all English words according to their various significations are either referred to their places in the philosophical Tables or explained by such words as are in those Tables This is printed with the Essay Of the principles and duties of natural Religion two books Lond. 1675. oct Published by Jo. Tillotson D. D. Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1682. oct They are in number 15 and were published by the said Dr. Tillotson Our learned and critical Author Dr. Wilkins died of the terrible disease of the Stone in the house of the said Dr. Tillotson then in Chancery-lane in London on the 19 of Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried on the 12 of Dec. following under the north wall of the Chancel of the Church of St. Lawrence in the Jewry before mention'd At which time Dr. Will. Lloyd then Dean of Bangor preached his funeral Sermon which having been since twice printed you may see his full character therein as also in the Epist dedic of Dr. Seth Ward made to Dr. Jonath Goddard put before the Inquisitio in Bullialdi Astronomiae fundamenta JASPER MAYNE made his first entry on the stage of this transitory world in a Market Town in Devonsh called Hatherlagh an 1604 entred into Ch. Ch. in the condition of a Servitor 1623 being then encouraged in his studies by Dr. Duppa Afterwards he was chosen into the number of Students took the degr in Arts holy Ord. and became a quaint Preacher and noted Poet. At length by the favour of the Dean and Canons of the said house he was made Vicar of Cassington near Woodstock and of Pyrton near Watlington in Oxfordshire In the beginning of the Rebellion when the King took up his abode in Oxon he was one of those many Divines that were appointed to preach before him the Court and Parliament and for his reward was actually created Doct. of Div. 1646. Two years after he was deprived of all right he had to his Students place and soon after of the Vicaridge of Pyrton and at length of Cassington So that being in a manner put to his shifts he was prefer'd to be Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire and so consequently to be a Companion with Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury between whom there never was a right understanding After the Kings return he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in Jul. 1660 and about that time was not only restored to his Vicaridges but was made
there-molested by the loyal party at Ashover and near it he went to London where he became preacher to the Congregation in S. Sepulchres Church and was much admired by the Brethren In the raign of Oliver about 1656 he by the favour of those then in authority became Rector of Waltham in Leycestershire conformed at his Majesties restauration and on the 12. of March 1669 was instituted and inducted into the Rectory of Ailston in the said County This person who was well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen hath written and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Rainbow Sermon at Paules Cross 10. June 1617 on Gen. 9.13 Lond. 1617. qu. 2 The Godly mans guide on Jam. 5.13 Lond. 1620. qu. 3 The true way of a Christian to the new Jerusalem or a threefold demonstration c. on 1 Cor. 5.17 Ibid. 1622 qu. 4. Anatomy of Conscience c. Assize Serm. at Derby on Rev. 20.11 Ibid. 1623. qu. c. A light from Christ leading unto Christ by the starr of his word Or a divine directory for self examination and preparation for the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1645. oct In another edition or another title Pr. there in a thick oct the said book hath this title A light c. Or the rich Jewel of Christian Divinity c. by way of Catechism or dialogue Defence of Scriptures and the holy Spirit speaking in them as the chief Judge of Controversies of faith c. Lond. 1656. qu. Vindication of the honor done to the Magistrates Ministeâ—s and others Printed with the Defence c. and both contained in a relation of a disputation at Chesterfield in Derbyshire between some Ministers and James Nayler an erring Quaker The said Defence and Vindication were both answer'd by George Fox a ringleader of Quakers in his book entit The great mysterie of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 127. c. Defence and justification of Ministers maintenance by tithes and of Infant-baptisme humane learning and the Sword of the Magistrate c. in a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to the said Im. Bourne Lond. 1659. qu. Animadversions upon Anth. Perisons Parsons Great case of tithes Printed with the Defence and justification c. A Gold chaine of directions with 20 gold linkes of love to preserve love firme between husband and wife c. Lond. 1669. in tw dedicated to his Patron John Lord Roos What other matters he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 27. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Ailston before mentioned and that soon after was a little inscription put over his grave wherein 't is said that he died in the eighty second year of his age JOSEPH CARYL was born of gentile Parents in London became a Commoner or Sojournour of Exeter Coll in the beginning of 1621 aged 17 years where by the benefit of a good Tutor and discipline he became in short time a noted Disputant In 1627 he proceeded in Arts and entring into holy Orders exercised his Function in and near Oxon for some time At length being puritanically affected he became preacher to the honorable Society of Lincolns Inn where he continued several years with good liking and applause In 1642 and after he became a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and a Licenser of books for the Cause And in the year following being a zealous Covenantier and a pretender to reformation he was elected one of the Ass of Divines among whom he frequently sate and controverted matters of Religion In 1645 he was made Minister of the Church of S. Magnus near London bridge by the factious party there because he was an enemy to the Bishops and a zealous preacher up of rebellion where for many years he carried on the cause without interruption In January 1646 he with Steph. Marshall both by that time notorious Independents and great siders with the Army raised by the said Parliament to pluck down the K. and his party were appointed Chaplains to the Commissioners sent by the said Parliament to the King then at New-castle in order for an accommodation of peace Thence by easie journeys they accompanied the K. and Commissioners to Holdenly in Northamptonshire where his Maj. making some continuance without any of his Chaplains in Ordinary to wait upon him because they disrelish'd the Covenant they the said Ministers upon the desire of the Commissioners did offer their service to preach before the K. and say Grace at Meales but they were both by him denied the K. alwaies saying Grace himself with an audible voice standing under the State So that our author Caryl and Marshall to whom the King nevertheless was civil did take so great disgust at his Majesties refusals that they did ever after mightily promote the Independent slander of the Kings obstinacy T is said that Marshall did on a time put himself more forward than was meet to say Grace and while he was long in forming his Chaps as the manner was among the Saints and making ugly faces his Maj. said Grace himself and was fallen to his meat and had eaten up some part of his dinner before Marshall had ended the blessing but Caryl was not so impudent yet notwithstanding tho they then fully saw the great civilities moderation sweet temper humility prudence and unexpressible devotion in his Majesty yet there was no reluctancy in them as there were in some of the Commissioners especially in Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne In Sept. 1648 our author Caryl was one of those five Ministers that went with other Commissioners appointed by Parliament to treat of peace at Newport in the Isle of Wight where tho he preached before them yet his Maj. would not accept of him or of any of the rest among his Chaplains then with him to pray or preach before him which did again enlarge his disgust The same year January 30 some hours before the K. suffer'd death the Committee of parl ordered that he Phil. Nye and other Ministers should attend the said King to administer to him those spiritual helps as should be sutable to his then present condition but the K. being acquainted with it he would not be troubled with them so that all the desires that our author had to serve or rather impertenize his Maj. were frustrated In Apr. the next year he with Marshall and Nye were employed by the Grandees of the Army to invite and cajole the secured and secluded Members to sit in the Parliament House among the Independents but they effected nothing In Sept. 1650 he and Joh. Owen an Independent Minister were by order of Parliament sent to Scotland to attend Ol. Cromwell who desired their company at that place to receive comfort by their prayers and preachings In the latter end of 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of public Ministers in which
he bound himself by oath to observe the four vows Afterwards he taught Humanity for some years at S. Omers or was as a certain author tells us Reader of Poetry and Master of the Syntax an 1622. About that time being sent on the mission into England he setled in the City of Oxon. where and in the Neighbourhood he administred to the R. C. till towards the latter end of his life He lived many years in a poor cottage without the east gate of that City standing on the site of the habitation sometimes belonging to the brethren of the Holy Trinity In the said cottage did then live two Ro. Cath. Virgins of mean condition named Mary and Joan Meakyns who from their Childhood had dedicated themselves to piety and good works always lived singly and arrived both of them beyond the age of man These two antiquated Virgins were owners of the cottage and did very carefully attend this Father and took as much care of him as if he had been their own Father or Brother His fare was course his drink of a penny a gawn or gallon his bed was under thatching and the way to it was up a ladder With these two I say he lived in a most retir'd and devout condition till God was pleased to translate them to a better place and then the Father was removed to the Dolphin Inn in Magd. Parish in the suburb of Oxon the Hostes of which was one of his perswasion where he ended his days He was esteemed by all especially by those of his opinion a learned Man well vers'd in the Poets of a quiet disposition and gentile behaviour which made him therefore respected and his company to be desired by certain Scholars of the University especially by Tho. Masters and other ingenious men of New Coll. But this their civility to and esteem of him was not while the Presbyterians governed who made it a most dreadful and damnable thing to be seen in the company of Papists especially of Romish Priests but before the rebellion broke forth upon their account when then the Men of the Church of England had a respect for Papists as they now have for Presbyterians The things that this Father hath written are The judgment of an University man concerning Mr. Will. Chillingworth his late Pamphlet in answer to charity maintained Printed 1639. qu. Reprinted at Camb. in 1653 in oct in a preface to a book then and there published The character that Edw. Knot the Jesuit gives of this book is that it is a witty erudite and solid work Heantomachia Mr. Chillingworth against himself The total sum These two are printed at the end of The Judgment c. At length this Father Lacey who had lived to be twice a child died in the Dolphin Inn before mention'd on the seventeenth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and three aged 89 years and two days after his body being carried to Somerton near Dedington in Oxfordshire to which place he usually retired was buried in the Church there noted for the splendid monuments of the Fermours Lords of that Town and Roman Catholicks From the same family of this Will. Lacey was descended John Lacey the Comedian born near Doncaster in Yorks originally an apprentice to John Ogilby a Dancing master afterwards one of the best and most applauded of our English actors belonging to the Kings Play-house and from an Actor to be Author of these Comedies 1 The Old Troop or Monsieur Raggou Lond. 1672. qu. 2 The dumb Lady or the Farrier made Physitian Lond. 1672. qu. 3 Sir Hercules Buffoon or the poetical Squire Lond. 1684. qu. This Person who was of a rare shape of body and good complexion and had served his Majesty in the time of the rebellion in the quality of a Lieutenant and Quarter-master under Coll. Charles Gerard afterwards Earl of Macclesfield died on the 17. of Sept. 1681 and was two days after buried in the farther Church-yard of S. Martin in the Fields I mean in that yard on the other side of S. Martins-lane within the liberty of Westminster His Maj. Ch. 2. who had a great respect for caused several pictures of him to be drawn according to several postures which he acted in several parts and do now or else did lately remain at Windsore and Hampton Court JOHN THEYER was born of gentile Parents at Cowpers-hill in the Parish of Brockworth near to and in the County of Glocester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. an 1613 aged 16 years or thereabouts where continuing about three years partly under the tuition of John Harmur retired to an Inn of Chancery in London called New Inn where spending as many years in obtaining knowledge in the Common Law he receeded to his patrimony and as years grew on gave himself up mostly to the study of venerable antiquity and to the obtaining of the antient monuments thereof Manuscripts in which he did so much abound that no private Gentleman of his rank and quality did ever I think exceed him He was a bookish and studious Man a lover of learning and the adorers thereof a zealous Royallist and one that had suffer'd much in the rebellion that began 1642 for the Kings and Churches cause He hath written Aerio-Mastix or a vindication of the Apostolical and generally received government of the Church of Christ by Bishops against the scismatical Aerians of our time Wherein is evidently demonstrated that Bishops are jure divino c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Dedicated to King Ch. 1. who afterwards made use of it in his Writings to Alexander Henderson a Presbyterian Scot who died at Edenburg 31. Aug. 1646 of grief as some then said because he could not perswade the said King to sign the propositions for peace which the members of Parliament sent to him at Newcastle by their Commissioners to treat with him for that purpose In the same year 1643 our author Theyer was adorned with the degree of Master of Arts Ob merita sua in Rempub. literariam ecclesiam by virtue of the Kings Letters sent to the Vicechanc and Convocation dat 6. July the same year About which time he the said Theyer being discovered to be a man of parts was perswaded to embrace the Rom. Catholick Religion by Father Philipps a Scot confessor to Henrietta Maria the Queen Consort He hath also written A friendly debate between the Protestants and the Papists MS. But before it was quite fitted for the Press the author died and what became of it afterwards I know not His death hapned at Cowpers hill on the 25 of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and two days after was buried among his Ancestors in the Church yard at Brockworth before mention'd particularly near to the grave of his Grandfather ... Theyer who had married the Sister of one Hart the last Prior of Langthony near Glocester He then left behind him a Library of antient Manuscripts consisting of the number
Scotch man born Son of Dr. Walter Whitford of Monkland Bishop of Brechen and of the house of Milneton was elected one of the Students of Ch. Ch from Westm School an 1642 aged 16 years bore Arms for his Majesty soon after within the Garrison of Oxon and elsewhere took one degree in Arts after the surrender of that garrison and in 1648 was thrown out of his Students place by the impetuous Visitors appointed by Parliament So that at present being out of all employ he adhered to the cause of K. Ch. 2 paid his obedience to him when in Scotland served him in the quality of an Officer at Worcester fight 1651 at which time he came to obtain his rights and inheritances then most unjustly usurped by Fanaticks was there wounded taken Prisoner brought to Oxon and thence among other Prisoners carried to London where by the importunity of friends he was released Afterwards he was relieved by Edw. Bysshe Esq K. of Arms and became Usher to James Shirley the Poet when he taught School in the White-fryers near Fleetstreet in London After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Students place was actually created Master of Arts and having had no preferment bestowed upon him for his Loyalty as hundreds of Cavaliers had not because poor and could not give bribes and rewards to great and hungry Officers he was taken into the service of John Earl afterwards Duke of Lauderdale and became his Chaplain I mean that Earl whose Sirname was Maitland who dying at Tunbridge Wells in Kent on S. Bartholomews day 1682 his body was conveyed by Sea to Scotland and there deposited in a Church of his own erection called Lauder Church where is the Mansion House and Seat of his Family The said Dav. Whitford who was always accounted an excellent Greecian and Philologist hath published with a translation in latin verse Musaei Moschi Bionis quae extant omnia London 1655. qu. in Gr. and Lat. Selectiora quaedam Theocriti Eidyllia in Gr. and Lat. Both dedicated to Bysshe before mention'd who is by Whitford stiled Asylum perfugium afflictis egenis He also translated into Latine the said Bysshe his notes an old authors that have written of Armes and Armory as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Person under the year 1679. He also wrot an Appendix to The compleat History of the Wars in Scotland under the conduct of James Marquess of Montrose or Montross as I have been credibly informed by those that knew him well which History was written by the learned and famous Geor. Wishart D.D. as I shall tell you elsewhere What other things this Mr. Whitford hath written published or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying suddenly in his Chamber in Ch Ch. in the morning of the 26. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and four at which time his Bedmaker found him dead lying on his bed with his wearing apparel on him was buried in the south trancept joyning to the Cathedral Church there near to the body of his elder Brother called Adam Whitford Bach. of Arts and sometimes Student of the said house who was buried 10. of Feb. 1646. There was another elder Brother a stout and desperate man called Colonel Walter Whitford who had a prime hand in dispatching that notorious Villain Is Dorislaw as I have told you before in Jo. L'isle pag. 228. Which Colonel was not executed in Scotland by the covenanting party there in June 1650 as a certain author tells us as having been one of the party under the illustrious and truly valiant Montross before mention'd but is still Sept. 1691. living in Edenburgh and in opinion a R. C. The said author tells us also that about the same time June 1650 one Spotswood another Officer Son of a Bishop was beheaded on the said account at which time was an acknowledgment made as he farther adds that he was one of those that murdered Dr. Dorislaus in Holland EDWARD HYDE son of Hen. Hyde of Pyrton in Wilts by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Edw. Langford of Trobridge in the same County third Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Mich. in Dors descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Northbury in Cheshire was born at Dinton near Hindon in Wilts on the 16. of Febr. or thereabouts an 1608 entred a Student of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622 went after he had taken one degree in Arts to the Middle Temple where he studied the Law In the beginning of the year 1640 he was chosen Burgess for Wotton Basset in his own Country to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. of Apr. the same year and again for Saltash in Cornwall to serve in that unhappy Parl. that began on the third of Nov. following and when the troubles began betwixt the King and Parliament he left the House of Commons and went with the King to York and afterwards to Oxford where he continued most of the time that that place was in the Kings hands was made Chancellour of the Exchequer a Privy-counsellor and a Knight At length upon the declining of the Kings cause he with the Lords Culpeper and Capel accompanying Prince Charles ship'd themselves at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall for the Isle of Scilley then for Jersey and afterwards for France From which time our author Hyde adhering closely to the said Prince and attending his motions in foreign parts he was by him when King sent Embassador into Spain made his Secretary of State and at length L. Chanc. of England at Bruges in Flanders 29. Jan. 1657. After the Kings restauration he was elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon made Baron of Hindon in Wilts Viscount Cornbury in Oxfordshire of which he was afterwards Lord Lieutenant and Earl of Clarendon near Salisbury After he had held the honourable Office of Lord Chancellour for seven years or more the Great Seal was taken from him 30. Aug. 1667 and about 4 months after retired into France where he remained seven years spending his time in several places there Under his name were these things following published Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the House of Lords concerning the Lord Presidents Court and Council in the North an 1640. 2 Sp. at a conference between both Houses 6. Jul. 1641 at the transmission of several impeachments against the Lord Chief Baron Davenport Baron Trevor and Baron Weston Lond. 1641. qu. c. besides several arguments and debates See in John Rushworths book called Historical Collections in the first vol. of the second part an 1640 and in the Impartial Collection c. of Dr. John Nalson A full answer to an infamous and traiterous Pamphlet intit A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled expressing their reasons and grounds of passing their late resolutions touching no further address or application to be made to the King Lond. 1648. qu.
when he was at Worcester which he did with so much vigour and confidence that Tichbourne the next day durst throw the Kings declaration into the fire made at the Exchange c. with other passages which for brevity sake I now omit At length he dying of the stone in his house at Chilton Park on the 28. of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five was buried in an isle joyning to the Church of Falley or Fawley near Marlow in Bucks which he had built for a burying place for his family Among the sons that he had by Rebecca his wife daughter of Thom. Benet Alderman of London was James Whitlock first a Captain afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll then a Colonel in the parliament Army one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3. of Sept. 1654 knighted by Oliver 6. Jan. 1656 Burgess for Aylesbury in Bucks to serve in the Parl. which began at West 27 Jan. 1658 c. THOMAS TOMKINS son of Joh. Tomk somtimes Organist of S. Pauls Cathedral was born in Aldersgate-street in the Parish of S. Botolph in London educated in Virtue and Learning from his cradle by the care of his Uncle Nathan Tomkins Prebendary of Worcester became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Act term 1651 probat Fellow of All 's in 1657 and taking the degree of M. of A. was elected one of the Proctors of the University for year 1663. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury Rector of Lambeth in Surrey Monks-Risborow in Bucks and at length Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and D. of D. The Archb. valued him so much that he kept him many years Chaplain in his house and resolving never to part with made him Rector of Lambeth before mention'd which he kept to his dying day The books that he hath published are these The Rebells plea examined or Mr. Baxters judgment concerning the late warr c. Lond. 1660. qu. Short Strictures or animadversions on so much of Mr. Zach. Croftons Fastning of S. Peters bounds as concern the reasons of the Univers of Oxon concerning the Covenant Lond. 1661. oct The inconveniencies of toleration or an answer to a book called A proposition made to the K. and parl c. Lond. 1667. qu. The modern pleas for toleration comprehension c. considered and discussed Lond. 1675. oct This book came out the second time with this title The new distemper or the Dissenters usual pleas for comprehension toleration and renouncing the Covenant considered and discussed Lond. 1680. oct To which is a large Preface written by Sam. Thomas Chantour of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. now Vicar of Chard in Sommersetsh The first edition of this book 1675 is reflected upon by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Apol. for the Nonconformists ministry c. from p. 147. to p. 154. This Dr. Tomkins died at Exeter in sixteen hundred seventy and five and his body being carried into Wocestershire was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Marton near Droitwych Soon after was a marble table fastned to the wall over his grave with this inscripton thereon Thomas Tomkins SS Theologiae Professor Coll. Om. An. Oxon. olim Socius reverendiss Archi-Episcopo Cantuariensi à sacris Ecclesiae cathedralis Exon. Cancellarius Lambethanae c Rector Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra Schismaticos assertor exiimius Vir ingenio judicio memoriâ literaturâ eloquentiâ clarus Exoniae morbo correptus obiit Augusti 20 an Dom. 1675 aetat 37. Cujus corpus huc translatum hic subtus quiescit Over his grave is laid a flat stone with an inscription thereon containing his name dignity and death which for brevity sake I now omit In his Rectory of Lambeth succeeded Dr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch in Monks-Risborow John Wolley M. A. of Trin. Coll. and in his Chancellourship Dr. Joh. Copleston of Cambridge Canon of Exeter the same who was elected Provost of Kings Coll. in that University 24. Aug. 1681. THOMAS WILLIS the most famous Physitian of his time was born at Great Bedwyn in Wilts 27. Janu. 1621. His father was Tho. Willis of North Henxsey near Abendon in Berks somtimes a retainer to S. Johns Coll but no Graduat afterwards Baillive or Steward to Sir Walt. Smith of Bedwyn and in his last days a constant inhabitant of N. Henxsey before mention'd Which last Thomas was son of another Thomas a Taylor as I have been informed who mostly lived at Kennington near Abendon also As for Thomas our author he was bred in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester who taught a private School in Allsaints parish in Oxon to whom he went every day from N. Henxsey In 1636 he became a retainer to the family of Dr. Tho. Iles Canon of Ch. Ch. and was his Batler there where applying himself very severely to his studies took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1642. About that time Oxford being garrison'd for the King he among the Scholars that were then remaining bore arms in his defence and all the time that he could obtain he bestowed on his beloved study of Physick In 1646 the Garrison being then surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took the degree of Bachelaur of that faculty fell to the practice of it and every Munday kept Abendon Market So that by his great care and industry he in short time became famous in these parts setled in S. John Baptists parish in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church and was sent for far and near for his help while in the mean time Mr. John Fell whose sister he had married Mr. Joh. Dolben and somtimes Mr. Rich. Allistry did constantly exercise in his house as they had partly before done in his lodgings in Canterbury quadrangle the Liturgy and Sacraments according to the Church of England to which most of the Loyallists in Oxon especially Scholars that had been ejected in 1648 did daily resort In 1660 after his Majesties restauration he became Sedlies professor of Natural Philosophy in the place of Dr. Josh Cross then ejected and shortly after he was created Doctor of his faculty and upon the foundation of the Royal Society was made fellow of it In 1666 after the dismal conflagration at London he upon the invitation of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Câ—nt went to the City of Westminster took a tenement in S. Martins Lane and in very short time after he became so noted and so infinitely resorted to for his practice that never any Physitian before went beyond him or got more mony yearly than he About that time he was made one of the Coll. of Physitians who for the most part had him in great esteem The truth is tho he was a plain man a man of no carriage little discourse complesance or society yet for his deep insight happy researches in natural and experimented Philosophy Anatomy and Chymistry for his wonderful success and repute in his practice the natural smoothness
1680. EDWARD REYNOLDS son of Austin Reynolds one of the Customers of Southampton by Bridget his wife son of John Reynolds of Langport in Somersetshire and he the son of another John was born in the parish of Holy-rood within the said borough of Southampton in the month of Nov. 1599 bred up in Grammar learning in the Free-School there founded by K. Ed. 6. in the 7. year of his raign became one of the Portionists or Postmasters of Merton Coll. in 1615 and Probationer Fellow in 1620 in which place which he got by his skill in the Greek tongue as also throughout his Bachelaurship he shewed himself a good Disputant and Orator After he had taken the degree of Master he entred into holy Orders and became a noted Preacher tho of an hoarse voice afterwards Preacher to the honorable society of Lincolns Inn and Rector of Braunston or Braynton in Northamptonshire At length the grand rebellion breaking forth in 1642 he sided with the Presbyterian party having long before that time been puritanically affected and in the year 1643 he became one of the Assembly of Divines a Covenantier a frequent preacher in London and somtimes before the Long Parliament In 1646 he was appointed by the Parliament one of the six Ministers to go to and settle in Oxon to preach the Scholars into obedience to the said Parliament afterwards one of the Visitors to brake open turn out and take possession Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Sam. Fell ejected and Vicechancellour of the University at which time he became Doctor of Div. by actual creation and what not But being forced to leave his Deanery in the latter end of 1650 because he refused to take the Independent Engagement he retired to his former cure for a time Afterwards he lived mostly in London preached there and flatterd Oliver and his Gange and after his death being then Vicar of S. Lawrence in the Jewry he did the like to Richard and was the Orator or Mouth of the London Ministers to welcome that Mushroom Prince to his Throne 11. Octob. 1658. Also when hopes depended on Monke's proceedings from Scotland he struck in with him and who more ready than he Dr. Reynolds and other Presbyterians when he and they saw how things would terminate and could not be otherwise holpen to bring in the King after his long exile by using his interest in the City of London where he was the pride and glory of the Presbyterian party When the secluded Members were restored to sit in Parliament they restored him to his Deanery of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of March 1659 with hopes to continue there and carry on the Presbyterian discipline In May following 1660 when his Majesty was at Canterbury in order to his restauration he and Edm. Calamy another zealous Presbyterian were admitted his Chaplains on the the 26. of that month and after his restauration he preached several times before him as he did also before the Houses of Parliament But in the latter end of June following he being desired to leave his Deanery to make room for an honest and Orthodox man he was in the next month elected by vertue of the Kings Letter Warden of Mert Coll choosing rather to have somthing than nothing Soon after upon the feeling of his pulse the King bestowed on him the Bishoprick of Norwych which See he willingly taking without a Nolo was after he had taken the Covenant and had often preached against Episcopacy and the Ceremonies of the Church of England consecrated thereunto in S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster on the sixth day of January an 1660 by vertue of which Bishoprick he became an Abbat a strange preferment me thinks for a Presbyterian I mean Abbat of S. Bennet in the Holme which he kept with great regret to his quondam Brethren whom he then left to shift for themselves to his dying day He was a person of excellent parts and endowments of a very good wit fancy and judgment a great Divine and much esteemed by all parties for his preaching and florid stile A writer of another persuasion tells us that he was a person of great authority as well as fame among the men of the Calvinistical perswasion c. and many there were that were of the like opinion One that knew him well saith that he was a person of singular affability meekness and humility of great learning a frequent preacher and constant Resident And it was verily thought by his contemporaries that he would have never been given to change had it not been to please a covetous and politick Consort who put him upon those things he did His works are these The vanity of the creature on Eccles 1.14 Sinfulness of sin on Rom. 7.9 and on 6.12 Use of the Law on Rom. 7.13 Life of Christ on 1. Joh. 5.12 An explication of 110. Psal Meditations on the holy Sacrament of the Lords lâ—st suppper Explication of the 14 chapter of Hosea in seven humiliation Sermons Treatise of the Passions and faculties of the soul of man All or most of which having been printed several times in qu. were all printed in one folio at London an 1658 with the authors picture before them and went by the name of Dr. Reynolds his works They were much bought up read and commended by men of several persuasions and one who was esâ—eâ—meâ— by all that knew him a jovial wet Presbyterian that had read them several times could not forbear to write two short Poems in commendation of them Thirty Sermons preached on several solemn occasions They were preached between the year 1634 and that of his death and some of them had been printed several times At length they were reprinted in the second impression of his works at Lond. 1679 fol. Among them is his Lat. Sermon preached at Oxon. 1649 entit Animalis homo on 1. Cor. 2.14 He also wrot the Ass of Divines Annotations which are on Ecclesiastes which being admirably done it was wished by many learned men of the Presbyterian perswasion that the rest had been all wrote pari filo eruditione He also was the author of the Epistolary preface to Will. Barlee's Coâ—reptory Correction c. of some notes of Tho. Pierce concerning Gods decrees especially of Reprobation which book of Barlee with the said Ep. Preface a second of Tho. Whitfield and a third of Dan. Cawdrey somtimes of Cambridge were printed at Lond. 1656. qu. At length this learned Bishop Dr. Reynolds who probably hath written other things besides those I have already mention'd made his last change in this world on the 28 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried at the upper end of the Chappel built by him 1662 joyning to the Bishops Pallace in in Norwych Over his grave was soon after fastned marble to the wall with this Epitaph engraven thereon H. I. S. I. Edoardus Reynolds SS T. P. primus a reditu Regis Caroli
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
Witchcraft vindicated Lond. 1670. oct written by R.T. and reflections made on it by Dr. Casaubon in his book of Credulity and Incredulity our Author Wagstaffe came out with a second edition and additions therein Lond. 1671. oct For the writing of which book he was also laughed at by wags of this University because as they said he himself look'd like a little Wizard It was also frequently reported that he was Author of a libellous Pamphlet intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the University of Oxford viz. 1 A petition from some well affected therein 2 A model for a Colledge reformation 3 Queries concerning the said University and several persons therein Lond. 1659 in one sheet and half in qu. But I think to the contrary that he was not the Author but rather one of the Students of Ch. Ch. that sedulously endeavoured to lay it at the door of Wagstaffe who dying in his Lodgings opposite to the end of Chancery-lane in Holbourn on the second day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 44 or thereabouts was buried in Guildhall Chappel within the City of London under the Seats on the left hand as you enter into that Chappel This person died in a manner distracted occasion'd by a deep conceit of his own parts and by a continual bibbing of strong and high tasted Liquors WILLIAM SQUIRE or Esquire whose Father was a Proctor in the Archbishops Court at York was born in Yorkshire entred a Student in Trin. Hall in Cambridge an 1647 took the degree of Bach. of Arts in that University 1650. went thence to Oxon for preferment and entring himself a Batler in Brasn Coll. was incorporated in this University in the same degree in 1652. Soon after obtaining a Chaplainship in All 's Coll and taking the degree of Master of Arts he was elected Fellow of Univ. Coll where continuing for some time after his Majesties Restauration was by the favour of Dr. Sheldon B. of London promoted to the Rectory of Raulaston or Rolleston in Derbyshire near Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire Afterwards being sensible of the increase of Popery in the Nation he published these two books The unreasonableness of the Romanists requiring our Communion with the present Romish Church or a discourse drawne from the perplexity and uncertainty of the Principles and from the contradictions betwixt the Prayers and Doctrine of the present Romish Church to prove that it is unreasonable to require us to joyne in Communion with it Lond. 1672. oct Some more considerations proving the unreasonableness of the Romanists in requiring us to return to the Communion of the present Romish Church Lond. 1674. in oct He died at Raulaston before mentioned in the beginning of September in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under a black marble stone which had been laid over the grave of one of his Predecessors on the fourth day of the same month In his Rectory succeeded Tho. Wickham Mast of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. JAMES HARRINGTON Esq was born at Upton in Northamptonshire on the first Friday in January an 1611 became Gent. Commoner of Trin. Coll. in 1629 left it before he took a degree travelled into France Germany and Italy learned the Languages of those Countries returned an accomplish'd Gentleman and afterwards for some years waited upon the Prince Elector Palatine in his Chamber In the beginning of the Civil War 1642 he sided with the Presbyterians and endeavoured to get into the H. of Commons to sit as a member there but could not In January 1646 he went as a Volunteire with the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to go to the King at Newcastle to treat for a Peace and Settlement and bring him nearer to London In the month of May 1647 he with Thom. Herbert were admitted Grooms of the Bed-chamber to the said King then at Holdenbie in Northamptonshire upon the dismissing first of some of his old Servants and secondly upon the desire of the Commissioners they being ordered so to do by the Parliament His Majesty it seems had taken notice that those two persons had followed the Court since his coming from Newcastle and being satisfied with the report he had received concerning them as to their sobriety and good education was willing to receive them into his service to wait upon his person in his Bed-chamber with Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patrick Maule afterwards Earl of Penmaure in Scotland who were then the only persons of the Bed-chamber that were remaining While our Author Harrington was in this capacity his Maj. loved his company and did choose rather finding him to be an ingenious man to discourse with him than with others of the chamber They had often discourses concerning Government but when they hapned to talk of a Commonwealth the K. seemed not to endure it At that time it was that Harrington finding his Maj. quite another person as to his parts religion morals c. than what were represented by the faction who gained their ends by lyes and scandals he became passionately affected with and took all occasions to vindicate him in what company soever he hapned to be but then again it being sometimes imprudently done he did suffer for it in those captious times as by this story 't will appear His Majesty being hurried away from Holdenby to the Head-quarters of the Army and from thence conveyed by slow paces to Hampton Court and thence jugled into the Isle of Wight where he treated with the Commissioners of Parliament for peace and from Newport there hurried away by Lieut. Coll. Ralph Cobbet to Hurst Castle in Hampshire on the last of Nov. 1648 it hapned that Harrington who was then with his Maj. as one of the Grooms of the Chamber did one morning fall into discourse with the Governour of that Castle and some other Officers of the Parl. Army concerning the late Treaty at Newport wherein he magnified the Kings wisdom in his arguments with the Commissioners upon the propositions for Peace and Satisfaction the Parliament had in his concessions and probability in a happy event if this force in removing him to Hurst Castle had not interven'd and made an unhappy fracture which created parties enlarging also upon his Majesties learned disputes with Mr. Rich. Vines and other Presbyterian Divines with such moderation as gained applause from all those that heard him argue Which discourse how inoffensive soever and without exception at any other time or place truth is not at all times seasonable nor safe to be spoken as by our Authors example was evidenced For those captious persons with whom he held discourse being full of jealousie and apt to wrest his words to the worst sense they withdrew a little and at their return they told him plainly they were dissatisfied with what he had said He desired them to instance wherein they replied in all particulars which when he began to repeat for his own satisfaction
his proper talent viz. Politicks and political reflections Whereupon he wrot The Commonwealth of Oceana and caused it to be printed without his name by stealth at London At the appearance of which it was greedily bought up and coming into the hands of Hobbes of Malmsbury he would often say that H. Nevill had a finger in that pye and those that knew them both were of the same opinion And by that book and both their smart discourses and inculcations daily in Coffee houses they obtained many Proselytes In 1659 in the beginning of Mich. term they had every night a meeting at the then Turks head in the New Pallace yard at Westm the next house to the stairs where people take water called Miles Coffee house to which place their disciples and Vertuosi would commonly then repair and their discourses about Government and of ordering of a Commonwealth were the most ingenious and smart that ever were heard for the arguments in the Parl. house were but flat to those This Gang had a Balloting-box and balloted how things should be carried by way of Tentamens which being not used or known in England before upon this account the room every evening was very full Besides our Author and H. Nevill who were the prime men of this Club were Cyriack Skinner a Merchants son of London an ingenious young Gentleman and scholar to Jo. Milton which Skinner sometimes held the Chair Major John Wildman Charles Wolseley of Staffordshire Rog. Coke Will. Poultney afterwards a Knight who sometimes held the Chair Joh. Hoskyns Joh. Aubrey Maximilian Pettie of Tetsworth in Oxfordsh a very able man in these matters and who had more than once turn'd the Councilâ—board of Oliver Cromwell Mich. Mallet Ph. Carteret of the Isle of Guernsey Franc. Cradeck a Merchant Hen. Ford Major .... Venner Nephew to Dr. Tob. Venner the Physitian Tho. Marryot of Warwickshire Hen. Croone a Physitian Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. and sometimes Rob. Wood of Linc. Coll. and Jam. Arderne then or soon after a Divine with many others besides Antagonists and Auditors of note whom I cannot now name Dr. Will. Petty was a Rotaman and would sometimes trouble Ja. Harrington in his Club and one ... Stafford a Gent. of Northamptonshire who used to be an Auditor did with his Gang come among them one evening very mellow from the Tavern and did much affront the Junto and tore in pieces their Orders and Minutes The Soldiers who commonly were there as Auditors and Spectators would have kick'd them down stairs but Harrington's moderation and perswasion hindred them The doctrine was very taking and the more because as to humane foresight there was no possibility of the Kings return The greatest of the Parliament men hated this design of Rotation and Balloting as being against their power Eight or ten were for it of which number Hen. Nevill was one who proposed it to the House and made it out to the Members thereof that except they embraced that way of Government they would be ruined The modell of it was that the third part of the Senate or House should rote out by Ballot every year so that every ninth year the said Senate would be wholly alterâ—d No Magistrate was to continue above 3 years and all to be chosen by Ballot then which choice nothing could be invented more fair and impartial as 't was then thought tho opposed by many for several reasons This Club of Commonwealths men lasted till about the 21 of Feb. 1659 at which time the secluded members being restored by Gen. George Monke all their models vanished After the Kings restauration our Author Harrington retired and lived in private but being looked upon as a dangerous person he with Maj. Joh. Wildman and Prais-god Barbon a notorious Schismatick were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London 26 Nov. 1661 where continuing for some time Harrington was transmitted to Portsey Castle and kept there for several months Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Italy where talking of Models Common-wealths and Government he was reputed no better than a whimsical or crack'd-brain'd person 'T is true that his close restraint which did not agree with his high spirit and hot and rambling head was the protractick cause of his deliration or madness I do not mean outragiousness for he would discourse rationally enough and be facetious in company but a deep conceit and fancy that his perspiration turned into flies and sometimes into bees Which fancy possess'd him a whole year before he died his memory and discourse being then taken away by a disease So that he who had been before a brisk and lively Chevalier was then made a sad sample of Mortality to H. Nevill who did not leave him to his last and others of his intimate acquaintance who much lamented his loss He hath written and published these things following The Commonwealth of Oceana Lond. 1656. in a thin fol. dedicated to Oliver Lord Protector and the model therein admired by a noted author H. Stubbe who was ready to cry out as if it were the Pattern in the mount In the praise whereof he saith he would enlarge did he not think himself too inconsiderable to add any thing to those applauds which the understanding part of the world must bestow upon him and which though eloquence should turn Panegyrist he not only merits but transcends Yet the said authors mind being soon after changed he wrot Animadversions on Oceana as erroneous The said Oceana was answer'd by Matthew Wrenn son of Matthew B. of Ely in his Considerations as I shall elsewhere tell you Afterwards our Author came out with a reply wherein he reflects on the Club of Virtuosi which use to meet in Dr. Jo. Wilkins his lodgings in Wadham Coll. to make experiments and communicate their observations in order to carry on a discovery of nature in these words that the University wits or good company are good at two things a diminishing of a Commonwealth and the multiplying of a Lowse He also in several places insinuates as if the Considerations of the Commonwealth of Oceana were not wrot by Mr. Wrenn but composed by the University or at least by some eminent persons in it which is false Soon after Wrenn wrot a Rejoynder to Harrington's Reply intit Monarchy asserted c. and afterwards our Author with Politicaster as I shall anon tell you Mr. Rich. Baxter also wrot something against the said Oceana and Sir Hen. Vane's Modell in answer to which Harrington wrot a paper of Gibberish as Baxter calls it scorning at his ignorance in Politicks Whereupon he the said Baxter wrot his Political Aphorismes called A holy Commonwealth pleading in the beginning for the divine universal Soveraignty and next for Monarchy as under God and next seeing they were all for new modelling how piety might be secured and promoted by Monarchy This Holy Commonwealth said to be written upon the invitation of our Author Harrington to which is annexed a treatise of
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
of Vitae Hobbianae auctarium Historical narration of heresie and the punishment thereof Lond. 1680 in 4. sh and an half in fol. There again in 1682 oct It is mostly taken out of the second chapter De Haeresi of his Appendix to the Leviathan in latine and seems to have been wrot purposely to vindicate its author from all default in the publication of the Leviathan For after he hath deduced from our Saviours time the different punishments by way of History by laws enacted and inflicted on those who were declared Hereticks throughout the several ages of the Church having told what was done in other parts of the world relating to this point he proceeds to reckon up the many laws here in force against Hereticks from the first profession of Christianity down to the â—ate Civil Wars and saith that the Court of High Commission had the sole power of declaring what was heresie according to the mind of the first four general Councils that is according to the faith declared in the Nicene Creed as is manifest from the Councils themselves invested in them in all Qu. Elizabeths Raign that after this Court was taken away at the beginning of the late troubles thereby to satisfie the restless clamours of the Presbyterian party against it no body stood then empowered by lawful authority either to declare what was heresie or to punish any one proved to be this way obnoxious At this time he saith his Leviathan came forth for the writing of which he could not be deemed heretical And the reasons which moved him to compose and publish that book so much justly excepted against he there gives and then concludes So that 't is manifest he aimes and levels at this as his end in this narration viz. to vindicial himself from the imputation of disturbing the peace contrary to the known laws of the realm by his setting forth such monstrous and dangerous tenets and principles in his Leviathan He addeth also that at the first Parliament after the Kings restauration the Episcoparians and Presbyterians accused it of heresie and yet there was no law then which declared what it was The falsity of the said Historical narration of Heresie is shewn in a small treatise entit The Leviathan heretical or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified c. written by John Dowell Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leycestershire Oxon. 1683. in tw In which book p. 137 the author saith that Oliver gaining ths Protectorship was so pleased with many of his principles laid down in the Leviathan which tended to justifie and support his usurpation that the great place of being Secretary was profer'd to him Vita Thomae Hobbes Written by himself in prose and printed at Caropolis alias London before Vitae Hobbianae auctarium an 1681. oct There again 1682. qu. A brief of the art of Rhetorick containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three books of that subject Printed in tw but not said when Afterwards it was published in two books Lond. 1681. oct The first bearing the title of The Art of Rhetorick and the other of The Art of Rhetorick plainly set forth with pertinent examples for the more easie understanding and practice of the same To which is added A dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England He hath also written An answer to Archb. Bramhalls book called The catching of the Leviathan Lond. 1682. oct Seven philosophical problems and two propositions of Geometry Lond. 1682. oct Dedicated to the King in the year 1662. An apology for himself and his writings In which he sets forth that those things he delivered in the Leviathan were not his own opinions but submitted to the judgment of the Ecclesiastical power and that he never maintained any of them afterwards either in writing or discourse Adding also that what is in it of Theology contrary to the general warrant of Divines was not put in as his own opinion but propounded with submission to those who had the Ecclesiastical power Historia Ecclesiastica carmine Elegiaco concinnata Aug. Trinob i. e. Lond. 1688. oct Besides all these he hath other things in Ms not yet printed among which is His defence in the matter relating to Dan. Scargil Bach. of Arts of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge written in one sheet a copy of which Sir John Birkenhead had in his possession which after his death came into the hands of Hen. Birkenhead See in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium p. 108.109 Mr. Hobbes hath also translated into English 1 The History of the Greecian War in eight books Printed in 1628. and afterwards at Lond. in 1676. fol. Written originally by Thucidides 2 The Voyage of Ulysses or Homers Odysses book 9.10.11.12 Lond. 1674. oct in English verse 3 Homers Iliads and Odysses Lond. 1675. and 77. c. in tw in Engl. vers Before which is a preface concerning the virtues of heroick Poesie What other things go under his name I know not as yet sure it is if several persons of credit may be believed that a certain Scholar who was made a Bishop sometime after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 did say it openly in the time of Oliver he having been bred under Presbyterians and Independents that he had rather be author of one of Mr. Hobbes his books than to be King of England To conclude about two months before the death of this noted author he was seized with an acute pain in making water caused by a strangury or ulcer in the bladder which continuing for a considerable time he made use of some medicines by the advice of a Chirurgion yet the Physitian judged it incurable by reason of his great age and natural decay But he finding little benefit of the said medicines he asked the Chirurgion whether he thought his distemper curable to which being answered it would be very difficult to make a perfect cure and the best that could be expected was ease for the present he thereupon made this expression I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world at seeming then to be more afraid of the pains he thought he should endure before he died than of death About the 20. of Nov. his Patron the Earl of Devons being to remove from Chatsworth to Hardwyke in Derbyshire Mr. Hobbes would not be left behind and therefore with a feather-bed laid in a coach upon which he lay warm clad he was safely conveyed to Hardwyke and was in appearance as well after that little journey being but 10. miles as before it But within few days after he was suddenly stricken with a dead Palsie which stupified his right side from head to foot and took away his speech and 't is thought his reason and sense too which continued about 7 days before he died So that being so suddenly seized he did not take the Sacrament nor seem to desire the company of any Minister which in charity may be imputed to his
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
on Psal 4.9 Lond. in oct Heaven opened or a brief and plain discovery of the riches of Gods Covenant of Grace Being the third part of Vindiciae Pietatis Lond. in oct The World Conquered or a believers victory over the World laid open in several Sermons on 1. Joh. 5.4 Being the fourth part of Vind. Pietat Lond. 1668. oct All which pieces were printed together at London 1671 in oct and were entit The Works of Mr. Rich. Allein in four parts Dedicated to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Batcombe Godly feare or the nature and necessity of feare and and its usefulness both to the driving sinners to Christ and to the provoking Christians on in a godly life through the several parts and duties of it till they come to blessedness Lond. 1674. oct This book consists of Sermons preached on several texts A rebuke to Back-Sliders and a spur for Loiterers in several Sermons lately preached to a private Congregation Lond. 1677 c. oct A Companion for Prayer or directions for improvement in grace and practical godliness in times of extraordinarie danger Lond. 1680. in tw Instructions about Heart-work What is to be done on Gods part and ours for the cure and keeping of the Heart that we may live in the exercise and growth of Grace here and have a comfortable assurance of glory to eternity Lond. 1682 oct with a preface of Dr. Sam. Annesley alias Aneley to it To the second edit of this which came out in 1684 was added our author Alleins book entit A Companion for prayer c. He also had a hand in writing The life of Joseph Alleine his kinsman and digested fitted for the Press and published his Remaines c. See more in the said J. Alleine among these writers page 300.301 At length this our zealous author concluding his last day at Frome Selwood before mention'd in the house of one Rob. Smith wherein he had lived several years and had kept Conventicles on the 22. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there in or about the midst of the middle alley At which time Rich. Jenkins M. of A. somtimes of Gloc. Hall a Luke-warm Conformist and Vicar of that place the same who married Tho. Thynne of Longleat Esq to Elizabeth Countess of Ogle heir to the illustrious Family of Percy preached his funeral Sermon containing many pathetical Encomiums of him having several times before also visited him in his sickness THOMAS HERBERT son of Christop Herbert son of Thomas Herbert somtimes Alderman of the City of York descended being a younger brother from Sir Rich. Herbert of Colebroke in Monmouthshire Knight was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive within the City of York admitted Commoner of Jesus Coll. in 1621. under the tuition of Mr. Jenkyn Lloyd his kinsman but before he took a degree his Uncle called Dr. Ambr. Aikroyd fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. brother to his mother Jane dau of Jo. Aikroyd of Folkerthorpe in Yorkshire invited him to that house where his continuance being short he went thence to London to wait upon that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke who owning him for his kinsman and intending his advancement he sent him to travel in 1626 with allowance to defray his charges So that spending some years in travelling into Africa and Asia the great he did at his return wait on the said noble Count who inviting him to dinner the next day at Baynards Castle in London died suddenly that night whereby his expectation of preferment from him being frustrated he left England a second time and visited several parts of Europe After his return he married and setling in his native Country delighted himself more with the converse of the Muses than in the rude and brutish pleasures which most Gentlemen follow In the time of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of the Parliament and by the endeavours of Philip Earl of Pembroke he became not only of the Commissioners of Parliament to reside in the Army of Sir Thomas Fairfax but also a Commiss to treat with those on the Kings side for the surrender of Oxford Garrison Afterwards he attended the said Count especially at that time in Jan. 1646 when he with other Commissioners were sent from the Parliament to the King at Newcastle to treat about peace and bring him nearer to London When his Majesty came thence and was setled at Holdenby in Northamptonshire jealousies increased which begat fears against which there was then no fence The Commissioners persuant to instructions addressed themselves altogether on a certain time unto the King and acquainted him therewith and humbly prayed his Majesty to dismiss such of his servants as were there and had waited upon him at Oxon. This their application was in no wise pleasing to the King he having had long experience of the loyalty and good affection of those his servants as it appeared by his countenance and the pause he made ere he gave the Commissioners any answer Howbeit after some expostulation and deliberation he condescended to what they proposed they not opposing the continuance of Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patr. Maule their attendance upon his royal person as Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber in which place they had several years served the King Next day his Majesties servants came as at other times into the presence Chamber where all dinner time they waited but after his Majesty rose from dinner he acquainted them with what had passed 'twixt him and the Commissioners and thereupon they all knelt and kissed his Majesties hand and with great expressions of grief for their dismiss they poured fourth their prayers for his Majesties freedom and preservation and so left Holdenby All that afternoon the King withdrew himself into his Bedchamber having given order that none should interrupt him in his privacy Soon after this his Majesty purposing to send a message to the Parliament he after dinner called Philip Earl of Pembroke to him and told him that he would have Mr. Herbert come into his Chamber which the Earl acquainting the Commissioners with Mr. Tho. Herbert our author was brought into the Bedchamber by Mr. Maxwell and upon his knees desired to know the Kings pleasure He told him he would send a message to the Parliament and having none there that he usually employed and unwilling it should go under his own hand called him in for that purpose Mr. Herbert having writ as his Majesty dictated was enjoyn'd secrecy and not to communicate it to any until made publick by both Houses if by them held meet which he carefully observed This errand was as I conceive His Majesties message for Peace dated from Holdenby 12. May 1647. About a week after the King was pleased to tell the Commissioners that seeing that Mr. Jam. Levingston Hen. Moray John Ashburnham and Will. Legge were for the present dismist he had taken notice of Mr. Jam. Harrington and Mr. Tho. Herbert who had
prefix'd being come which was about the 9. of January 1648 his Majesty took Coach near the Keep in Windsore Castle at which time was a Guard all along of Musquets and Pikes both Officers and Soldiers expressing civility as he passed by At the great gate a party of Horse commanded by Major Tho. Harrison was drawn up into the Market place and Pescod street end in the Town of Windsore who followed the Coach which passed through Brainford Hammersmith and the direct way to his Majesties House at S. James within the liberty of Westminster His Lodgings there were furnished by Mr. Clem. Kinnerslie his Majesties Servant in the Wardrobe strict guards were placed and none suffer'd to attend in his Maj. Bedchamber only Mr. Thom. Herbert before mentioned His usual diet was kept up and the Gentlemen that formerly waited were permitted to perform their respective services in the presence where a state was placed and for a few days all things were with decency and honor observed Sir Fulk Grevill was Cup-bearer and gave it upon his knee Mr. Anthony Mildmay was Carver Captain Preston was sometimes Sewer and kept the Robes Mr. Anstey was Gent. Usher Capt. Burroughs Mr. Firebrass Mr. Muschamp had their places Capt. John Joyner or Jeoner was Cook Mr. Babington Barber Mr. Reading Page of the Back-stairs and some others also waited The Kings dishes were brought up cover'd the say was given and all things were performed with satisfaction in that point But to return a little it is very well worth the observation that so soon as the King came into his Bed-chamber before he either eat or drank or discours'd with any he went to prayer or to reading in the Bible Whilst he was in this sorrowful condition none of his Nobility Chaplains or Counsellors nor any of his old Attendants had the liberty to repair to him to converse about any matters yet he had private notice that the H. of Commons in a resolve had declared that by the Laws of England it was treason in the King to levy War against the Parliament and Kingdom which resolve as he had farther been informed they sent up unto the Lords for their concurrence who assoon as they had heard it read rejected it and after some debate did pass two votes c. He had also information from private hands of the late proceedings in the House of Commons and of their violent secluding and seizure of several members by force by some eminent Army-officers under a notion of purging the House as also of their Votes passed concerning him By which he was very apprehensive of their ill intentions towards him and his government and did believe that his enemies aimed at his deposing and confinement in the Tower or some such like place and that they would seat his Son the Prince of Wales in his Throne if he would accept of it but as to the taking away his life by trial in any Court of Justice or sub dio in the face of the people he could not believe there being no such precedent or mention in any of our Histories 'T is true his Grandmother Mary Queen of Scots suffer'd under Qu. Elizabeth but in England she was no Sovereign but a subject to Law And indeed some Kings of England had been lamentably murdered by Ruffians in a clandestine way as the Chronicles inform us but the facts were neither owned or approved of by any King These were his Majesties imaginations till he came unto his trial in Westm Hall when then he alter'd his mind Nevertheless his faith overcoming his fear he continued his accustomed prudence and patience so as no outward perturbation could be discerned with Christian fortitude submitting to the good pleasure of the Almighty sometimes sighing but never breaking out into passion or uttering a reproachful or revengeful word against any that were his Adversaries only saying God forgive their impiety For about a fortnight after his Majesties coming to St. James's House he constantly dined in the presence-chamber and at meals was served after the usual state the Carver Sewer Cup-bearer and Gent. Usher attending and doing their Offices respectively His Cup was given upon the knee as were his covered dishes the say was given and other accustomed Ceremonies of State observed notwithstanding this his dolorous condition and the King was well pleased with the observance afforded him But soon after the case was alter'd for the Officers of the Army being predominant they gave order at a Council of War that thenceforth all state ceremony or accustomed respect unto his Majesty at meals should be forbourn and his menial servants tho few in number should be lest'ned And accordingly the Kings meat was brought up by Soldiers the dishes uncovered no say no cup upon the knee or other accustomed Court-state was then observed which was an uncouth sight to the King he then saying that the respect and honour denyed him no Soveraign Prince ever wanted nor yet Subjects of high degree according to antient practice and adding Is there any thing more contemptible than a despised Prince So that seeing things were so ordered the best expedient he had to reconcile them was to contract his diet to a few dishes out of the bill of fare and to eat in private His eating was usually agreeable to his exercise and his abstinence was in no wise displeasing His temperance preserved his health especially in the two last years of his life and reign without any indisposition or recourse to Physick So as in all probability had not his thread of life been immaturely cut he might have surpassed the age of any of his Royal Ancestors On Friday the 19 of Jan. his Majesty was removed from S. James to Whitehall and lodged in his Bedchamber After which a Guard of Musquetiers were placed and Centinels set at the door of his Chamber Thenceforth Mr. Herbert who constantly lay in the next room to the King according to the duty of his place was ordered to bring his pallet into his Majesties Bedchamber to the end that he might be nearer to his royal Person and so accordingly he did rest every night after during his Maj. life in the said Bedchamber near the royal bed The next day Jan. 20. the King was removed in a Sedan or close chair from Whitehall to Sir Thom. Cottons House near the West end of Westm hall Guards were placed on both sides of King-street in the Pallace-yard and Westm hall As his Maj. was carried through the Garden door belonging to Whitehall which is between the two gates leading to King-street none but Mr. Herbert went bare by him because no other of his Majesties Servants were permitted by the Soldiers At Cotton house there was a Guard of Partizans Collonel Francis Hacker sometimes and Col. Hercules Hunks at other times commanding them His Majesty being summoned by Hacker to go to the Court then sitting in Westminst Hall where Serjeant John Bradshaw was President and seated in a chair and about
was observed to smile and lift up his Eyes to Heaven as appealing to the Divine Majesty the most supreme Judge The King at the rising of the Court was with a guard of Halberdiers returned to Whitehall in a close chair through King-street Both sides whereof had a guard of Foot soldiers who were silent as his Majesty passed but shop-stalls and windows were full of People many of which shed tears and some of them with audible voices prayed for the King till he was carried through the Privy garden door to his Bedchamber whence after two hours space he was removed to S. James's Nothing of the fear of death or indignities offer'd seem'd a terrour or provok'd him to impatience nor uttered he a reproachful word reflecting upon any of his Judges albeit he well knew that some of them were or had been his domestick servants nor against any member of the House or Officer of the Army so wonderful was his patience tho his spirit was great and might otherwise have express'd his resentment upon several occasions It was a true Christian fortitude to have the mastry of his passion and submission to the will of God under such temptations The same night after which sentence was pronounced Coll. Hacker who then commanded the Guards at S. James's about the King would have placed two Musquetiers in the Kings Bedchamber with which his Majesty being acquainted he made no reply only gave a sigh Howbeit the good Bishop Dr. Juxon and Mr. Herbert apprehending the horrour of it and disturbance it would give to the King in his meditations and preparation for his departure out of this uncomfortable world they never left the Col. till he had reversed his order by withdrawing those men representing it as the most barbarous thing in nature The King now bidding a farewel to the World his whole business was a serious preparation for death which opens the door unto eternity In order thereunto he laid aside all other thoughts and spent the remainder of his time in prayer and other pious ejaculations and exercises of devotion and in conference with that meek and learned Bishop before mentioned who under God was a great support and comfort to him in that his afflicted condition And resolving to sequester himself so as he might have no disturbance to his mind nor interruption to his meditations he ordered Mr. Herbert to excuse it to any that might have the desire to visit him I know said the K. my Nephew the Prince Elector will endeavour it and some other Lords that love me which I would take in good part but my time is short and precious and I am desirous to improve it the best I may in preparation I hope they will not take it ill that they or any have not access unto me only my Children The best office they can do now is to pray for me What he had said it fell out accordingly for his Electoral Highness accompanied with James D. of Richmond William Marq. of Hertford Thomas Earl of Southampton and Mountague E. of Lindsey with some others having go leave came to the Bedchamber door where Mr. Herbert persuant to the Kings command acquainted his Highness and the said Noblemen with what the King gave him in charge and thereupon they acquiesced and presented their humble duty to his Majesty with their prayers which done they return'd with hearts full of sorrow as appeared by their faces The Prince of Wales also then in Holland did by the States Embassadors interceed to the Parliament and used all possible means to prevent or at least to defer his Majesties execution and applyed themselves likewise to the Army At this time Jan. 30. Mr. Herbert should have said came to S. James's Edm. Calamy Rich. Vines Jos Caryl Will. Dell and some other London Ministers who presented their duty to the King with their humble desires to pray with him and perform other offices of service if his Majesty would please to accept of them The King returned them thanks for their love to his Soul hoping they and all other good Subjects would in their addresses to God be mindful of him but in regard he had made choice of Dr. Juxon whom for many years he had known to be a pious and learned Divine and able to administer ghostly comfort to his Soul sutable to his present condition he would have none other The Ministers were no sooner gone but John Goodwin Minister in Coleman street came likewise upon the same account to tender his service whom the King also thanked and dismist with the like friendly answer Mr. Herbert about this time going to the Cockpit near Whitehall where the Lodgings of Philip Earl of Pembroke were he then as at sundry times enquired how his Majesty did and gave his humble duty to him and withal asked if his Majesty had the gold Watch he sent for and how he liked it Mr. Herbert assured his Lordship the K. had not yet received it The Earl fell presently into a passion marvell'd thereat and was much troubled least his Majesty should think him careless in observing his commands and told Mr. Herbert that at the Kings coming to S. James's he as he was sitting under the great elm tree near Sir Ben. Rudyerds Lodge in the Park seeing a considerable military Officer of the Army going towards S. James's he went to meet him and demanding of him if he knew his Cosin Tom Herbert that waited on the King the Officer said he did and was going to S. James's The Earl then delivered to him the gold watch that had the Larme desiring him to give it to Mr. Herbert to present it to the King The Officer promised the Earl he would immediately do it My Lord said Mr. Herbert I have sundry times seen and past by that Officer since and do assure your Lordship he hath not delivered it to me according to your order and his promise nor said any thing concerning it nor has the King it I am certain The Earl was very angry and gave the Officer his due character and threatned to question him But such was the severity of the times that it was judged dangerous to reflect upon such a person so as no notice was taken of it Nevertheless Mr. Herbert at the Earls desire did acquaint his Majesty therewith who gave the Earl thanks and said had he not told the Officer it was for me he would probably have delivered it he well knew how short a time I should enjoy it This relation is in prosecution of what is formerly mentioned concerning the Clock or Larm-watch which his Majesty would have to lay by Mr. Herbert's Pallet to awaken him at the hour in the morning which his Majesty should appoint when he was at Windsore The name of this Officer Mr. Herbert told me not only that he was executed after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and therefore I take him to be either Major Harrison or Col. Hacker That evening Mr. Hen. Seymour a
leading into Whitehall he passed along thro the Galleries to his Bed-chamber where after a little repose the Bishop went to Prayer which being done his Maj. bid Mr. Herbert bring him some bread and wine which being brought the K. broke the manchet and eat a mouthful of it and drank a small glass full of Claret and then was sometime in private with the Bishop expecting when Hacker would the third and last time give warning In the mean time his Maj. told Mr. Herbert what sattin cap he would use which being provided Mr. Herbert after prayer addrest himself to the Bishop and told him the K. had ordered him to have a white sattin night-cap ready but he being not able to endure the sight of the violence that they would offer to the K. on the Scaffold he could not be there to give it to the K. when he should call for it The good Bishop bid him then give him the cap and that he should wait at the end of the Banquetting house near to the Scaffold to take care of the Kings body for said he that and his interment will be our last office Colonel Hacker came soon after to the Bed-chamber door and gave his last signal The Bishop and Mr. Herbert weeping they both fell upon their knees The K. thereupon gave them his hand to kiss and help'd the Bishop up for he was aged Col. Hacker attending still at the chamber door the K. took notice of it and said Open the door and bid Hacker go he would follow him A Guard was made all along the Galleries and the Banquetting house but behind the Soldiers abundance of men and women crowded in tho with some peril to their persons to behold the saddest sight that England ever saw And as his Maj. passed by with a cheerful look he heard them pray for him The Soldiers did not rebuke any of them for by their silence and dejected faces they seemed rather afflicted than insulting There was a passage broke thro the wall of the Banquetting house by which the K. passed unto the Scaffold where after his Maj. had spoken and declared publickly that he died a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England the Contents of which have been several times printed the fatal stroke was given by a disguised person Mr. Herbert during this time was at the door leading to the Scaffold much lamenting and the Bishop coming from the Scaffold with the royal corps which was immediately coffin'd and covered with a velvet Pall he and Mr. Herbert went with it to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with the Lord Fairfax the General that person asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert being something astonished at that question told him the King was beheaded at which he seemed much surpriz'd See more in the said Gen. Fairfax in the Fasti following among the Creations of Doctors of Civil Law under the year 1649. The royal Corps being embalmed and well coffin'd and all afterwards wrapt up in lead and covered with a new velvet Pall it was removed to S. James's where was great pressing by all sorts of people to see the King a doleful spectacle but few had leave to enter or behold it Where to bury the K. was the last duty remaining By some Historians 't is said the K. spoke something to the Bishop concerning his burial Mr. Herbert both before and after the Kings death was frequently in the company with the Bishop and affirmed that he never mentioned any thing to him of the Kings naming any place where he would be buried Nor did Mr. Herbert who constantly attended his Maj. and after his coming from Hurst Castle was the only person in his Bed-chamber hear him at any time declare his mind concerning it Nor was it in his life time a proper question for either of them to ask notwithstanding they had oftentimes the opportunity especially when his Maj. was bequeathing to his royal children and friends what is formerly related Nor did the Bishop declare any thing concerning the place to Mr. Herbert which doubtless he would upon Mr. Herbert's pious care about it which being duly considered they thought no place more fit to interr the Corps than in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at the end of the Church of Westm Abbey out of whose Loyns K. Ch. 1. was lineally extracted c. Whereupon Mr. Herbert made his application to such as were then in power for leave to bury the Kings body in the said Chap. among his Ancestors but his request was denied for this reason that his burying there would attract infinite numbers of all sorts thither to see where the K. was buried which as the times then were was judged unsafe and inconvenient Mr. Herbert acquainting the Bishop with this they then resolved to bury the Kings body in the royal Chap. of S. George within the Castle of Windsore both in regard that his Maj. was Soveraign of the most noble Order of the Garter and that several Kings had been there inter'd namely King Hen. 6. K. Ed. 4. and K. Hen. 8. c. Upon which consideration Mr. Herbert made his second address to the Committee of Parliament who after some deliberation gave him an Order bearing date 6 Feb. 1648 authorizing him and Mr. Anth. Mildmay to bury the Kings body there which the Governour was to observe Accordingly the Corps was carried thither from S. James Feb. 7. in a Hearse covered with black Velvet drawn by six Horses covered with black cloth in which were about a dozen Gentlemen most of them being such that had waited upon his Maj. at Carisbrook Castle and other places since his Majesties going from Newcastle Mr. Herbert shew'd the Governour Col. Witchcot the Committees Order for permitting Mr. Herbert and Mr. Mildmay to bury him the late King in any place within Windsore Castle that they should think fit and meet In the first place in order thereunto they carried the Kings body into the Deans House which was hung with black and after to his usual Bed-chamber within the Pallace After which they went to S. George's Chap. to take a view thereof and of the most fit and honorable place for the royal Corps to rest in Having taken a view they at first thought that the Tomb-house built by Card. Wolsey would be a fit place for his interment but that place tho adjoyning yet being not within the royal Chappel they waved it For if K. Hen. 8. was buried there albeit to that day the particular place of his burial was unknown to any yet in regard his Maj. K. Ch. 1. who was a real Defender of the Faith and as far from censuring any that might be would upon occasional discourse express some dislike in K. Henry's proceedings in misemploying those vast Revenews the suppressed Abbeys Monasteries and other religious Houses were endowed with and by demolishing those many beautiful and stately Structures which
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
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
c. These two Speeches are said to be printed at Amsterdam but were not 6 Speech in the H. of Lords 25. Mar. 1679. upon occasion of the Houses resolving it self into a grand Committee to consider of the state of England 7 Speech lately made by a noble Peer of the Realm Printed in half a sheet of paper in fol. like a Gazette in the latter end of Nov. 1680 The beginning of which is this My Lord in the great debate concerning the Kings Speech c. pretended to have been spoken in Parliament but 't was not Which Speech being full of rascallities was by order of the House of Lords burnt by the hand of the common Hangman before the Royal Exchange and in the Pallace-yard at West on the 4. of Dec. following Therein in the Shuboleth of factions which he could truly pronounce he had cajoled the Brethren of Scotland But in the latter end of Jan. following came out an answer to it by Anon. intit A Letter from Scotland written occasionally upon the Speech made by a noble Peer of this Realm written by a better Protestant than the author of it tho a servant to his Royal Highness the Duke of York Two seasonable discourses concerning this present Parliament Oxon alias Lond. 1675. qu. The first discourse is thus entit The debate or arguments for dissolving this present Parliament and the calling frequent and new Parliaments The other discourse is A Letter from a Parliament man to his friend concerning the proceedings of the H. of Com this last Sessions began 13. Oct. 1675. The first discourse contains 10 pages the other seaven And tho no name is set to them yet it was very well known to all that Shaftesbury wrot them who tells us in the said Letter that the said Parliament consists of old Cavaliers old Round-heads indigent Cavaliers and true Country Gentlemen The first of which discourses if not both together with the Speech before mention'd on the 20. of Oct. 1675 and the protestation and reasons aforesaid are all answer'd in the body of a book which I shall anon mention entit A pacquet of Advices c. part 1. A Letter from a person of quality to his friend in the Country Printed 1675. qu. It contains 32 pages and speaks much in the praise of some of the temporal Lords but gibes at the spiritual bench particularly at Ward of Salisbury whom he makes a very rogue It is also chiefly as I remember against the Test and was published after the Parl. had been prorogued 22. of Nov. the same year It was answer'd by March Nedham in his pamphlet entit A pacquet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftesbury c. part 1. As for the Test it self which was the same with the corporation oath and part of the Declaration required to be subscribed in the Act of Uniformity only with this additional clause I do swear that I will not at any time endeavour an alteration of the government either in Church or State was brought into the House by Robert Earl of Lindsey but violently opposed by Shaftesbury altho this very clause too had passed the Parliament long before meeting with little opposition in a particular Bill which concerned only Nonconformist Preachers known by the name of The Oxford or The five-mile Act which hath been ever since so loudly clamoured against by that party His case at the Kings bench on his confinement to the Tower Lond. 1679 in 4. sh in fol. Expedient for the setling of the nation discoursed with his Majesty in the House of Peers at Oxford 24. March 1680. Lond. 1681 in one sh in qu. The expedient was for setling the Crown on James Duke of Monmouth No Protestant Plot or the present pretended conspiracy of Protestants against the Kings Government discovered to be a conspiracy of the Papists against the King and his Protestant Subjects Lond. 1680 in 4 sh and an half in qu. Tho no name is put to this yet the general report was that the Earl of Shaftesbury was the author or at least found materials for it and that his servant who put it in the Printers hands was committed to prison Not long after the publication thereof which was partly answer'd in a pamphlet intit A plea for succession in opposition to popular exclusion c. Lond. 1682 in 5 sh in folio came out by the same hand The second part of no Protest Plot c. Lond. 1682 in 4. sh and an half in qu. great part of which is concerning the duty and power of Grand Juries with reference still to the Earl of Shaftesbury Afterwards came out a third part in qu. containing about 20 sheets written as 't was vulgarly said by Rob. Ferguson a Scot by the appointment and consent of Shaftesbury which mostly reflects on the printed proceedings against Shaftesbury when the indictment of High Treason was charged against him It endeavours also at large to lessen the credit and invalidate the Testimony of those several witnesses which appeared against the said Earl when the before mention'd indictment was charged against him by representing them singly in the blackest and most malicious characters that can be It doth more than ordinarily reflect upon Edmund Warcup a Justice of Peace in Middlesex as if he had corrupted and managed most of the evidences against the said Count. He is also touched upon in the first and second part which I shall now for brevity sake omit and only tell you that all three parts contain chiefly a vindication of Shaftesbury as to his not being in the least concern'd in any plotting design against the King and that they are taken to task by Roger L'estrange in some of his Observators They were written as well as the bad subject of them could bear and the third part which is very libellous was answer'd by a pamphlet entit A letter to a friend containing certain observations upon some passages which have been published in a late libell entit The third part of no Protestant Plot. Lond. 1682. in 3 sh in qu. Written chiefly in vindication of James Duke of Ormonde and his administration of affairs and government in Ireland A modest account of the present posture of affairs in England with particular reference to the Earl of Shaftesbury's case And a vindication of him from two pretended Letters of a noble Peer Lond. 1682 in 5. sh in fol. Which two letters supposed to belong to George Earl of Halyfax were doubtless forged and â—eigned only purposely to give Shaftesbury a greater liberty and scope of railing at and libelling the said Count. But this the reader must know that tho there is no name to this Modest account and therefore it cannot be reasonably fastned upon our author yet the general report was at its publication that 't was his and at that time it was judged to be so by Rog. L'estrange in two or three of his Observators weekly intelligences that then
the event proved to be known that he was the author Theologo-Historicus or the true life of the most rev Divine and excellent Historian Peter Heylyn D. D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Lond. 1683 oct Published as the author pretended to correct the errours supply the defects and confute the calumnies of a late writer viz. George Vernon M. A. Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire who had before published the said Doctors life Answer to Mr. Baxter's false accusations of Dr. Heylyn Printed with the Theologo-Historicus c. Catechisme for the use of his Parish This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you when or where 't was printed This Dr. Barnard died at Newarke in his journey to the Spaw on the 17. of August in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Waddington before mention'd as I have been enformed by his son of both his names lately Fellow of Brasn Coll who also told me that he left behind him a Manuscript chiefly against Socinianisme which is not yet printed JOHN OWEN son of Hen. Owen sometimes a petty Schoolmaster at Stokenchurch afterwards Vicar of Stadham near Watlington in Oxfordshire was born in the said Town of Stadham bred in Grammar learning mostly under Edw. Sylvester who taught School for many years in Allsaintes Parish in Oxon entred a Student in Queens Coll. in 1628 instructed in Logic and Philosophy by Tho. Barlow Fellow thereof and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being taken and compleated in 1635 at which time as the cumstom and statute is he swore allegiance and fidelity to the King his heirs and lawful successors Which Oath is taken by all who take but one degree And this for one is to be noted of all such whom I have and shall mention in this Work About the same time he entred into holy Orders and when made Priest swore canonical Obedience to the Bishop his Diocesan Afterwards he became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Dormer of Ascot in the Parish of Great Milton near the place of his nativity where he served and did all things requisite to his Office according to the Church of England and taught also the eldest son of the said Knight About that time he became Chaplain to John L. Lovelace of Hurley in Berkshire where continuing till the turn of the times he sided then with the rebellious rout preached against Bishops and their Courts Common Prayer Book Ceremonies c. Afterwards he was made Minister of Fordham in Essex took the Covenant became Pastor of factious Coggeshall in the same County where lately that noted Presbyterian Ob. Sedgwick had held forth But then he perfectly beholding that the Independents grew prevalent he changed his mind adhered to them and endeavoured to ruin the Presbyterians He violated all Oathes as of canonical Obedience Solemne League and Covenant c. and being a man of parts was more enabled to do greater mischief by them especially in preaching up Sectarisme as he did ever and anon wheresoever he came By the doing of these things he became endeared to Ol. Cromwell who had him ever after in great respect and in some things relied on his Council In the latter end of 1648 when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded he in his discourses and Sermons applauded the Regicides and declared the death of that most admirable King to be just and righteous preached against K. Ch. 2. and against all the Loyal party In 1649 June 7. was a Thanksgiving by the Parliament Officers of the Army Lord Mayor and Citizens at Ch. Ch. in London for Cromwells victory over the Levellers at which time Tho. Goodwin and this our author Owen who had about that time taken the Engament preached to them out of the Politicks and on the day after a Committee was appointed to consider how to prefer those two Preachers to be Heads of Colleges in this University as a reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament and Cromwell upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving day It was not then thought fit that such men should serve God for nothing In the times of S. Peter and S. Paul Godliness was great gain but in the days of the late Saints Gain was great godliness On the 17. Sept. 1650 it was ordered by the Parliament according to the desire of Ol. Cromwell then General of the forces that he and Joseph Caryl should go into Scotland and on the 18 of March following it was ordered by them that he should be Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. In which place being soon after setled he with Tho. Goodwin President of Madg. Coll. the two Atlases and Patriarchs of Independency did with some others who were their admirers endeavour to setle Independency in the University according to Cromwells mind but in their designs they found much opposition from the Presbyterians with whom they had several clashes concerning the promoting of their doctrine In the year 1652 he was made Vicechancellour in which Office he being then also one of the Visitors for by that time several Independents had been added to them he endeavoured to put down Habits Formalities and all Ceremony notwithstanding he before had taken an Oath to observe the Statutes and maintain the Privileges of the University but opposed in this also by the Presbyterians While he did undergo the said Office he instead of being a grave example to the University scorned all formality undervalued his office by going in quirpo like a young Scholar with powdred hair snake-bone bandstrings or bandstrings with very large tassels lawne band a large set of ribands pointed at his knees and spanish leather boots with large lawne tops and his hat mostly cockâ—d On the 10. of Dec. 1653 he the said Owen Tho. Goodwin R. Fairclough the elder Nich. Lockyer Jos Caryl c. were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for ejecting and setling Ministers according to the rules then prescrib'd but that project taking not effect there were Commissioners appointed by Oliver for approbation of publick preachers whereof John Owen was one of the chiefest and in the year following Commissioners from the Layty and Assistants to them from the Clergy in every County for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines At which time John Owen and Tho. Goodwin were appointed for the County of Oxon together with Thankful Owen Pres of S. Jo. Coll Sam. Wells Minister of Banbury Joh. Taylor Min. of Broughton Cristoph Rogers Ambr. Upton Pet. French Hen. Wilkinson Ralph Batton Hen. Cornish Canons of Ch. Ch. Edm. Stanton Pres of C CC. Rob. Harris Pres of Trin. Coll. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Mr. Brice of Henley c. In 1654 Owen stood to be elected Burges for the University of Oxon to sit in a Parliament then called and rather than he would be put aside because he was a Theologist he renounced
Ministers thereof just under the Communion Table ROBERT SHARROCH a Ministers son was born at Adstock near to and in the County of Buckingham educated in Wyekhams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1649 or thereabouts took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1661 became afterwards Rector of Horewood in Buckinghamshire Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Bishops Waltham in Hampshire a Justice of Peace for that County and at length Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Walt. Darrell deceased in which Dignity he was installed 28. Apr. 1684 being then accounted learned in divinity in the Civ and Com. Law and very knowing in Vegitables and all pertaining thereunto He hath published The History of the propagating and improvement of Vegitables by the concurrence of Art and Nature shewing the several ways for the propagation of Plants usually cultivated in England as they are increased by Seeds Off-sets Suckers c. Oxon 1660 and 1672 oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 84. p. 5002. Hypothesis de Officiis secundum humanae rationis dictata seu naturae jus unde casus omnes conscientiae quatenus notiones à naturâ supersunt dijudicari possint c. Oxon. 1660. oct In this he writes against the Principia and Rationes of Hobbes of Malmsbury belonging to Ethicks and Politicks This book came out at Oxon again in 1682 in a large octavo with many additions to it with the title a little alter'd and enlarg'd and dedicated to the King Judicia seu Legum censurae de variis in continentiae speciebus c. Oxon. 1662 in a large oct De finibus virtutis Christianae The ends of Christian religion c. justified in several discourses Oxon 1673. qu. contained in ten Sermons He also reviewed and compared with several copies Provinciale vetus provinciae Cantuariensis cum selectioribus Linwodi annotationibus Oxon. 1664. in a thick oct He concluded his last day on the eleventh of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Bishops Waltham before mention'd In his Archdeaconry was installed Tho. Clutterbook D. D. Rector and Vicar of South Stoneham near Southampton in his Prebendship Sam. Palmer M. A. somtimes of Mert. Coll. and in Bishops Waltham succeeded Franc. Morley M. A. of Ch. Ch. great Nephew to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winton who about the said time had a Prebendship bestowed on him in the said Church of Winton on the resignation of Dr. Geo. Beaumont by the said Bishop WILLIAM MASTERS second son of Sir Will. Mast of Cirencester in Glocestershire Knight was born there admitted Bach. Fellow of Mert. Coll. from that of Ch. Ch. by the the Committee of Parliament and Visitors of the University 25. Mar. 1650 being then an Undergraduat took the degree of Master of Arts about two years after and under the name of a Student in Theology did publish these two things following he being then 26 years of age Essayes and observations Theological and Moral Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered and characterized c. Lond. 1653. oct Drops of Myrrhe or Meditations and Prayers These are printed with the former book and are fitted to divers arguments in that work Afterwards the author was beneficed at Woodford Roe in Essex was Bach. of Divinity Rector of S. Vedastus in Foster Lane in Lond. and a Minor Preb. in S. Pauls Cathedral but what else he published I cannot yet find He died in the month of Sept. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Woodford before mention'd By his last will and test he gave to the Univ. of Oxon 5 l. per an to have two Sermons preached every year in S. Maries Church there viz one on Shrove Sunday and the other on the last Sunday in June GEORGE MORLEY son of Francis Morley Esq by Sarah Denham his wife sister to Sir Joh. Denham one of the Barons of his Majesties Exchecquer was born in Cheapside within the City of London on the 27. of Febr. 1597. He lost his father when he was six years of age his mother when 12 and that little Patrimony that he was born to by his father's being engaged in other mens debts At 14 years of age or thereabouts he was elected one of Kings Scholars of the Coll. at Westminster and in the beginning of the year 1615 he became Student of Ch. Ch where with very great industry running thro all the Classes of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts. After he had continued in that royal foundation seven years in the degree of Master he was invited by Robert Earl of Caernarvon and his Lady to be Chaplain in their house where he lived till he was 43 years of age without having or seeking any preferment in the Church After this he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Hartfield in Sussex which being a Sinecure he exchanged with Dr. Rich. Steuart then Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty for the Parsonage of Mildenhall near Marlborough in Wiltshire But before he had that charge he had a Prebendship of Ch. Ch. bestowed on him by the K. to whom he was Chaplain in Ord. an 1641 which was the only preferment he ever desired and of which he gave the first years profit to the King towards the charge of his wars which were then commenc'd against him by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in the Long Parliament At the beginning of which he preached one of the first solemn Sermons before the Commons but so little to their gust and liking that they commanded all the rest of the Sermons but not his to be printed Yet after this he being then Doctor of Divinity he was nominated one of the Assembly of Divines by both Houses as Dr. Prideaux B. of Worcester Dr. H. Hammond c. were but neither he or either of them appeared among them As for his part he always remained with his Majesty did him what service he could as long as the war continued After which he was employed by his Majesty then a prisoner at Hampton Court to engage the University of Oxon not to submit to the illegal Visitation that had been began but for the present intermitted because of the violent proceedings of the Army Which affair he managed with such success that the Convocation did presently pass an Act for that purpose but with one dissenting voice only tho they were then under the power of the enemy that is the Parliament forces After this he was chosen by the Members of the University with some other Assistants named by himself to negotiate the making good of their Articles which were framed at the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the said forces which he did to that degree as to gain time for the getting in of their rents and to dispose of themselves I mean as many of them as were
resolved not to submit to their new Masters Soon after he was one of the first that was deprived of all that he had in Oxon or elsewhere for not submitting to them tho he was offer'd by one of the Grandees of the H. of Commons to keep all that he had without being put to say or do or subscribe any thing against his Conscience if he would but then give his word only that he would not actually appear against them or their proceedings See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. 391. a. b. 393. a. 394. a. 395. a. 396. a. c. After this he was one of the Divines that was sent for by the King to assist at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight which proving ineffectual he resolved having first assisted the gallant Arthur Lord Capell as his confessor before his execution in the beginning of Mar. 1648 to quit his Country and find out the young King and never to return till he and the Crown and the Church were restored With this resolution he left England in the 51. year of his age and found him at the Hague where he was graciously received by him From thence he went first with him into France and from thence with him to the Scotch Treaty at Breda and there preach'd the last Sermon that the K. heard before he went into Scotland whither being not suffer'd to carry any of his own Divines with him he the said Dr. Morley went thereupon to the Hague and after some short stay there he went with his dearest friend Dr. Jo. Earle to live at Antwerp where they continued together in the house of Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies for the space of one year or thereabouts At which time Sir Charles being called thence to be Steward to the Queen of Bohemia and Dr. Earle to attend on his Higness James Duke of York then in France Dr. Morley continued still in Antwerp with the Lady Frances Hyde her Husband Sir Edw. Hyde being then Embassador for the King in Spain and all the time he was there which was about 3. or 4 years he read the Service of the Church of England twice every day catechiz'd once a week and administred the Communion once a month to all the English in the Town who would come to it as he did afterwards at Breda for 4 years together in the same Family But betwixt his going from Antwerp and his comming to Breda he was invited by the Queen of Bohemia to the Hague to be her Chaplain And he thereupon knowing her condition to be necessitous thought himself so much the rather oblig'd both in Conscience towards God and in duty to the Royal Family for she was Sister to K. Charles 1. to wait on her and accordingly he did and readily officiated both in her family and in the English Church there about two years and an half without expecting or receiving any Salary or gratuity at all for so doing There as in all other places where he lived especially at Breda he was blest with a retirement full of satisfaction to himself and with many opportunities of doing much good to others also For besides the constant reading of the Prayers of the Church his Catechizing of young persons his administring the holy Sacraments and his devoutest supplications for the K. and the Church in private he visited the sick and buried the dead and relieved many whom their Loyalty had impoverished His learned acquaintance abroad were Andr. Rivet Dan. Heinsius and Claud. Salmasius whom he often visited to the last of which then abiding at Leyden the King sent our author Morley to give him thanks in his name for the Apology he had published for his martyr'd Father but not with a purse of Gold as Joh. Milton the impudent lyer reported But his acquaintance was more intimate with the famous Sam. Bochart to whom he wrote a Latine Letter from Paris declaring his reasons of not coming to the French Congregation To which Mr. Bochart printed an answer in Latine the year following And as he was zealous for the Church so he was also for his Royal Master wâ—tness the large Epistle he wrote in Latine to Triglandius to vindicate his Master from the false aspersion of Popery For his friends at home of whom he never lost any but by death only were eminent both for parts and quality the chiefest of which were Lucius L. Falkland and Sir Francis Wenman of Oxfordshire both long since dead and Edward Earl of Clarendon who died long after them Among the Clergy were Dr. Rob. Payne Dr. H. Hammond and Dr. Rob. Sanderson late B. of Linc. who were all Canons of Ch. Ch. at the same time with him To these may be added many more as Mr. W. Chillingworth Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Cant Dr. Earl of Salisbury c. with the two last of which he kept a constant friendship for above 40 years and enjoyed the company of Dr. Earl very often abroad which made his banishment less tedious to him After his Majesties return this most worthy person Dr. Morley was first made Dean of Ch. Ch being then Chapl. to the Duchess of York whence after he had restored those that had been illegaly ejected in 1648 c. and had filled up the vacant places he was called to be Bishop of Worcester to which See he was Consecrated in the Abbey Church at Westm on the 28. of Octob. 1660 and in the beginning of the next year had the honour to preach the Kings Coronation-Sermon and soon after made Dean of the Chappel Royal in the place of Dr. Sheldon In 1662 he was upon the death of Dr. Duppa translated to the See of Winchester confirmed therein 14. May the same year where he hath truly verified the saying that the King gave when he bestowed the said Bishoprick on him that he would never be the richer for it For besides his expences in building and repairing his Palace at Winchester he hath laid out much more than the supplies the Parliament gave him in the Act which impowred him to lease out Waltham Park and his Tenements which were built out of Winchester House in Southwark He spent 8000 l. in repairing the Castle at Farnham before the year 1672 and afterwards spent more and above 4000 l. in purchasing Winchester House at Chelsey to annex it to the See which when he came to he found not an house to dwell in yet afterwards left two fair ones to his successors At that time also he had not purchased one foot of Land or Lease as if he had taken more care to enrich the poor than his Relations and what his benefaction was to the Coll. that gave him education you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 285. a. In the first year of his Translation he visited his Diocese in person and went into the Isle of Wight where had not been a Bishop before in the memory of man In July 1664 he came to Oxon
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
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
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
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
1642. Wherein several passages relating to the late Civil Wars omitted in former Histories are made known Lond. 1681. in a large folio It was also commonly reported that he was author of a book entit The honors of the Lords Spiritual asserted and their privileges to vote in Capital Cases in Parl. maintained by Reason and Precedents c. Lond. 1679. in 7. sh in fol. but how true I cannot tell Quaere He died in the Prison called the Fleet in London about Midsomer in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the middle Isle of the Church of S. Vedastus in Foster-Lane within the said City as I have been lately enformed thence JOHN CAVE son of Joh. Cave Impropriator and Vicar of Great Milton in Oxfordshire was born at Stoke-Line near Bister in the same County educated in the Free School at Thame became Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1654 and on the 24. Sept. 1660 he being then Bach. of Arts was elected Fellow of that of Lincoln At which time conforming himself to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England notwithstanding he had been disciplin'd under Presbyterians and Independents he afterwards took the degree of Master and entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was made Rector of Cold Overton commonly call'd Coleorton in Leicestershire and Chaplain to Dr. Crew when he was made Bishop of Durham Which Doctor bestowing on him the Church of Gateside near Newcastle upon Tyne he afterwards changed it with Rich. Werge for Nailston in Leicestershire which with Coleorton and a Prebendship of Durham which he also obtained by the favour of the said Bishop he kept to his dying day He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A Serm. preached at the Assizes in Leicester 31. Jul. 1679. on Micah 4.5 Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Serm. to a country audience on the late day of Fasting and Prayer Jan. 30. on Tim. 1.2 ver 1.2 Lond. 1679. qu. 3 The Gospell preached to the Romans in four Sermons of which two were preached on the 5. of Nov. and two on the 30. of Jan all on Rom. 1.15 Lond. 1681. oct 4 The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions two Serm. on Heb. 12.9 Lond. 1682. qu. 5 King Davids Deliverance and Thanksgiving applyed to the case of our King and Nation in two Sermons the one preached on the second the other on the ninth of Sept. 1683 the first on Psal 18.48 the second on Psal 18.49 Lond. 1684. qu. 5 Christian tranquility Or the Government of the passion of joy and grief Serm. upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young Gent. Mr. Franc. Wollatson Wollaston an only son and heir to a very fair estate preached at Shenton in Leycestersh Lond. 1685. qu. This Mr. Cave died in the beginning of Oct. in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 52 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Coleorton before mention'd In his Prebendship succeeded Sam. Eyre D. D. of Lincolne Coll. JOHN MAYNARD the eldest son of Alex. Mayn of Tavistock in Devons Esq was born there became a Communer of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts but before he determined or completed that degree by Determination in Schoolstreet he went to the Middle Temple studied the Municipal Law was called to the Bar and being a favourite of Will. Noy Attorney General was much resorted to for his Counsel In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totness in his County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. and again for the same place to serve in that Parl that began there 3. Nov. following In which last he being noted for his activity and readiness in pleading he was appointed on of the Committee to draw up Evidence against the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford whom afterwards he baited to some purpose in the name of the Commons of England Afterwards he managed the Evidence against Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant took the Covenant was one of the Lay-men nominated in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons to sit with the Ass of Divines got then much by his practice and became a considerable gainer in a Circuit that was appointed by order of Parliament an 1647. In 1653 1. Oliv. Protect he was by Writ dated 4. Feb called to the degree of Serjeant at Law having before taken the Engagement and on the first of May following he was by Patent made the Protectors Serjeant and pleaded in his and the then Causes behalf against several Royallists that were tried in the pretended High Court of Justice wherein several generous Cavaliers and noble Hearts received the dismal Sentence of death Afterwards he continued in great repute under that Usurper was setled in his place of the Protectors Serjeant by Let. Pat. under the Great Seal of England continued so in Richards Raigne and obtained wealth as he pleased After his Maj. Restauration in 1660 he wheeled about struck in with his party took those Oaths that he had done before to K. Ch. 1 and by Writ dated in the beginning of June he was called again to the degree of Serjeant was made the Kings Serjeant by the corrupt dealing of a great man of the Law on the 9. of Nov and Knighted on the 16 of the same mouth an 1660 at which time he was appointed one of the Judges but by several excuses he got clear off from that employment In the beginning of 1661 he was elected Burgess of Beralston in Devonshire to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May in the same year wherein for some time he shewed himself a Loyal person But when he saw to what end the several affairs and interests of men tended to the increase of Pensioners therein and Popery in the Nation he stood up for the good of this Country and thereupon was esteemed by some a Patriot After that Parliament was dissolv'd he was elected a Burgess in his own Country to serve in the next three Parliaments that were called by K. Ch. 2 and in that which began on the 17. of Oct. 1679 which because of several Prorogations did not sit till 21. of Oct. 1680 he was one of the Committee appointed to mannage the Evidence against William Viscount Stafford impeached of High Treason relating to the Popish Plot but he being then an aged man he was not so eager in that employment as he was before against Strafford When K. Jam 2. came to the Crown he was chosen Burgess for Beralston again to sit in that Parliament that begun at Westm 19. May 1685 and when the Prince of Aurange became King by the name of Will 3 he with Anth. Kecke of the Inner Temple Esq and Will. Rawlinson Sergeant at Law were on the 2. of Mar. or thereabouts an 1688 constituted Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England In the year following he was chosen Burges
endured many miseries on the first day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Brecknock near to the high altar leaving then behind him some things fit for the press as I have been informed by one of his near Relations It is said that he was much resolved on three things 1. The redemption of Captives 2. The conversion of Recusants 3. The undeceiving of seduced Sectaries and that he kept three diaries one for the transactions of his own life another for the publick affairs of the Church and Kingdom and a third for the remarkable passages of providence that hapned in the World The see of S. David continuing void till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 it was then supplied by Dr. Will. Lucy as I shall tell you under the year 1677. GEORGE SINGE alias Millington sometimes a Com. of Balliol Coll was consecrated Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland an 1638 and dying in sixteen hundred fifty and three was buried at Bridgnorth in Shropshire He is characterized to be Vir gravis admodum doctus praesertim in Polemicae Theologiae juris utriusque scientia procerioris praeterea staturae formae decorae generosae conversationis c. See more of him among the Writers p. 97. THOMAS WINNIFF a grave learned and moderate Divine was born as 't is said at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire admitted a Batler or Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term an 1593 aged 18 years elected Prob. fellow thereof 30 June 1595 admitted Master of Arts in 1601 and about that time entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher and a Tutour In 1609 he left the College because he had an Ecclesiastical Benefice confer'd on him but the name of it I know not unless Lambourne in Essex which he enjoyed many years and at length bought the advowson thereof of Rob. Taverner Gent which he afterwards by his will gave to his Nephew Peter Mews About that time he was Chaplain to Pr. Henry and afterwards to Pr. Charles which last he much displeased in two matters first that in a certain harangue which he occasionally delivered in the beginning of Apr. 1622 he compared Frederick King of Bohemia to a Lamb and Count Spinola to a bloody Wolf which also displeased the King and secondly that in some little particulars he expressed himself an enemy to his marriage with the Infanta of Spain For these matters he had like to have lost his Spiritualities had not his Maj. K. Jam. 1. highly valued him for his learning In 1624 Nov. 10. he was installed Dean of Glocester in the place of Dr. Rich. Senhouse promoted to the See of Carlile and after the said Kings death being made Chaplain to his Successor Ch. 1. had the Deanery of S. Pauls Cathedral confer'd on him an 1631. Afterwards upon the translation of Dr. Williams to York in 1641 he was nominated by the King Bishop of Lincoln purposely to please the Puritan and was soon after consecrated But the rebellion breaking out the next year occasion'd by a prevalent party in both Houses of Parliament who silenced the Bishops and caused their Lands to be sold this holy Bishop received little or no profit from the Lands belonging to his See only trouble and vexation as a Bishop Afterwards he retired to Lambourne spent there for the most part the remainder of his days and justly obtained this character from a learned Bishop that none was more mild modest and humble yet learned eloquent and honest than Bishop Winniffe He died in the summer time in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in the Church at Lambourne Soon after was erected a comly monument over his grave on which 't is said that he was made Bishop of Lincoln 1642 Ex eorum numero Episcoporum quibus incumbebat nutantis episcopatus molem pietatis ac probitatis suae fulcimine sustentare c. RICHARD SMITH sometimes a Student in Trinity College was made Bishop of Chalcedon by Pope Urban 8 an 1624 or thereabouts and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred fifty and four under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 114. HENRY TILSON a Yorkshire man born was entred a Student in Balliol Coll. in the beginning of the year 1593 took one degree in Arts as a member of that house four years after tho in the Fasti 1596 I have said by an errour of Univ. Coll and soon after was elected one of Skyrlawes Fellows of the said Coll. of University and took the degree of Master as a member of that house In Oct. 1615 he was made Vicar of Rachdale in Yorkshire by the death of R. Kenion and afterwards being made known to that most generous Count Thomas Earl of Strafford he became his Chaplain went with him in that quality to Ireland when that Count was made L. Lieutenant thereof Soon after he was by him made Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity commonly called Ch. Ch. in Dublin where continuing in good esteem for his learning and piety had the See of Elphine confer'd on him to which being consecrated on the 23. of Sept. 1639 endured soon after great misery by the rebellion that broke out in Ireland 1641. Afterwards he retired to his native Country setled at Southill hall in Yorkshire spent there the chief part of his time and dying in peace 31. of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five aged 80 years or thereabouts was buried in the Chancel of the neighbouring Church of Dewsbury In the said See of Elphine succeeded John Parker D. D. in the latter end of the year 1660. NICHOLAS MONKE or Le Moyne third Son of Sir Tho. Monke of Potheridge in Devonshire Knight Son of Tho. Monke of the said place Gent by Frances his Wife Widow of Joh. Basset of Umbersley in the said County Esq Daughter of Arthur Plantagenet natural Son of K. Edw. 4 by Elizabeth Lucy as is suppos'd his Concubine was born in Devonshire either at Potheridge or at Marton at the last of which places his Father lived when this Nich. Monke came first to Wadham Coll an 1626 aged 17 years or thereabouts After he had spent several years in that house in the condition of a Commoner he proceeded in Arts in 1634 entred into holy Orders was beneficed in his own Country and suffered in the time of the rebellion as other Loyallists did Afterwards he was permitted to keep some little cure by the endeavours of his Brother George while he was chief Commander under Oliver Cromwell in Scotland was persecuted as 't is said by the Triers appointed by Oliver but at length had the Rectory of Kilkhampton in Cornwall worth 300 l. per an bestowed on him by his kinsman Sir John Greenvill afterwards Earl of Bathe which he freely gave him without symony purposely to oblige him to serve the publick when ever he had occasion to make
Army raised by the Parl. againâ—t the King one of the Proctors of the University and published 1 The Christian Soldiers great Engine Sermon before the Lord General Fairfax at S. Maries in Oxon 20 May 1649. qu. 2 A letter to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monke containing the instrumental causes of the ruine of Government and Commonwealths c. This was printed at Lond. in Feb. 1659 in one sh in qu. What other things he hath published I know not sure I am that after the restauration of K. Ch 2. he left his Benefice in Devonsh to avoid Conformity and died soon after Adm. 112. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only created See among the Creations Bach. of Div. Jun. ... John Hillersden of C. C Coll. He was the only person that was admitted this year the others were created In 1671 he became Archdeacon of Buckingham on the death of Dr. Giles Thorne and dying Joh. Gery LL. D. was installed in his place 29 Nov. 16â—4 ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you shall have under the title of Creations Doct. of Phys Jun. 28. Hugh Barker of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rog. Puliston of Magd. Coll. 8. Thom. Duke of S. Maries Hall ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you may see under the title of Creations Incorporations May 20. Thom. Gifford Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland He had that degree confer'd upon him in the said Univ. in the month of May 1636. Oct. 10. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden He had that degree confer'd upon him there in the month of Apr. 1638. This person or one of both his names was incorporated in 1660. Jul. 8. Will Clegge M. A. of Dublin Jul. 8. Thom. Turner M. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Nov. 1. Charles Prince of Wales Mast of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards King of England c. by the name of K. Ch. 2. His Maj. Ch. 1. had then after his return from Edghill fight taken up his quarters in Oxon and on the same day was a great Creation in all faculties as I shall tell you by and by Dec. 7. Will. Harvey sometimes of Caies Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Padua and at his return into England of Cambridge was then incorporated Doctor of the said faculty in this University This person who was son of Tho. Harvey Gent. by Joan Halke his wife was born at Folksten in Kent on the second day of Apr. 1578 sent to a Grammar school in Canterbury at 10 years of age and at 14 to Gonvil and Caies Coll. in Cambr. At 19 years of age he travelled into France and Italy and at 23 he had for his Instructors in Medicine at Padua Eustac Radius Joh. Tho. Minadous and H. Faber ab Aquapend At 24 he became Doct. of Phys and Chirurgery and returning into England soon after he practised Phys in London and married At 25 or thereabouts he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London and at 37 Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery About which time which was in the year of our Lord 1615 he discovered the wonderful secret of the Bloods circular motion by which the anatomical part of Physick seemed then to be rising towards the Zenith of Perfection At 54 years of age he was made Physitian to K. Ch. 1 having as 't is said by some been Physitian to K. Jam. 1. and adhering to him in the beginning of the troubles he attended him at Edghill battel Thence going with him to Oxon was there incorporated as before 't is told you In 1645 he was elected Warden of Merton Coll. by vertue of the Kings letters sent to the Society of that house for that purpose but in the year following when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he left that office and retired to London In 1654 he was chosen President of the Coll. of Physitians but refused to accept of that honorable place And after he had lived to see his doctrine the circulation of the blood with much ado established being the only man as one saith that did so he surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the 30 of June an 1657. Soon after his body being lap'd up in lead it was conveyed to Hempsted in Essex and deposited in a Vault under part of the Church there Several monuments of his learning which have been and are received into the hands of all curious men as well abroad as at home are extant as the Oxford or Bodletan Catalogue will partly tell you besides his New Principles of Philosophy containing Philosophy in general Metaphysicks c. but more in MS. he hath left behind him the titles of which you may see in the Epist dedicat before An historical account of the Colleges Coll. of Phys Proceedings against Empricks c. Lond. 1684. qu. Written by Charles Goodall Doctor of Phys Feb. 1. Joh. Bathurst M. A. of Cambr. Feb. 1. Tho. Browning M. A. of Cambr. The first who was of Pembr Hall was afterwards Doctor of Phys a practitioner in London and a Burgess for Richmond in Yorksh. to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver an 1656 and for that called by Richard 1658. Feb. 11. Morgan Godwin Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Dublin Which degree was confer'd upon him there 5 Octob. 1637. He was originally of Ch. Ch afterwards of Pemb. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach of the Civil Law in this University an 1627 being about that time Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess confer'd upon him by his father Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford whose Annales rerum Anglicarum c. he translated into English as I have told you in the first vol. p. 497.498 What other things he hath translated or what written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Native of the Isle of Anglesie Feb. 21. Rob. Creygton D. D. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. He was incorporated M. of A. an 1628 as in the Fasti of that year in the first vol. p. 861. I have told you He wrot the Preface to Dr. Rich. Watsons book called Epistolaris Diatribe c. dated at Brussels 25 May 1658 which book was printed at Lond. 1661. in tw Francis Walsal D. D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day This person who was forced away from his benefices by the severity of the Presbyterians did now attend the King in Oxon and did afterwards participate of afflictions with other Royalists In 1660 after his Majesties return I find him Rector of Sandey in Bedfordshire Prebendary of Westminster and author of 1 The bowing of the heart of Subjects to their Soveraigne Sermon preached 24 May 1660 being a day of Thanksgiving for the
raising up his Excellency the L. Gen. Monke c. to deliver this Nation from thraldome and slavery on 2 Sam. 19.14 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Cordifragium or the sacrifice of a broken heart Serm. at S. Pauls in Lond. 25 Nov. 1660 on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1661. qu. and of other things CREATIONS After the battel at Edghill in Warwickshire between his Majesties Forces and those belonging to the Parliament the King retired to Oxon and setling for a time in Ch. Ch. it was his pleasure that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had either done him service in the said battel or had retired to him at Oxon for shelter to avoid the barbarities of the Presbyterians then very frequent throughout the Nation Some called this Creation the Caroline Creation Bach. of Arts. From the first of Nov. to the 16 of Jan. were about 35 young Students actually created Bachelaurs of Arts in the head of whom was Tho. Wood or à Wood of Ch. Ch. Nov. 1. This person when he heard that the Forces belonging to the King and Parliament were drawing up to fight each other at Edghill threw off his gown ran thither did his Majesty good Service return'd on horseback well accoutred and afterwards was made an Officer See more among the Creations in 1647. The next that follow are these Mathew Skinner of Trin. Coll. son of Dr. Rob. Skinner Bishop of Oxon. He was afterwards Doctor of Phys Will. Slater Hen. Dudley c. Dec. 20. Conway Whitterne of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards Captain of a Foot Company in his Maj. Service Jan. 16. Hen. Berkley of Or. Coll a younger son of Sir Hen. Berkley of Yarlington in Somersetshire Knight Will. Norrys of Pemb. Coll. was created about that time He was afterwards a Corner in the Lord Hoptous Army c. Bach. of Law From the 1 of Nov. to the 16 of January were actually created 15 Bachelaurs at least of the Civil Law of whom John Sutton George Walker Will. Birkenhead and Rich. Blome son of Joh. Blome of Brecknockshire Gent. were of the number Which last I here set down not that he was a man of note but only to distinguish him from one of both his names who was originally a Ruler of Paper and now a Scribler of books See in the first vol. p. 389.390 I find also to be created Bach. of the Civ Law an Inhabitant of S. Aldates Parish in Oxon called John Holloway Official to the Archdeacon and Registrary of Berkshire which John was father to Rich. Halloway sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards a Counsellor of the Inner Temple and a person for several years well reputed in these parts for his upright dealing in his profession To which I must add that in 1677 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1683 he was knighted and made one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the place of Just Thom. Raymond In thâ— beginning of July 1688 he and Sir Joh. Powell another Just of the same Bench did receive their Quietus from K. Jam. 2 because they had a little before given in their minds and opinions to the Jury in the Court of the Kings Bench at Westm at which time they were two of the four Judges in the Proceedings and Tryal in the case of William Archb. of Cant and six Bishops that the Petition of the said Archb. and Bishops to his Maj wherein they shewed the great averseness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for liberty of Conscience c. was not libellous or seditious as Sir Rob. Wright L. Ch. Justice and Just Rich. Allebâ—ne the other two Judges did Which act of Justice Holloway being much applauded by the true sons of the Church of England yet for other matters he was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of Indemnity or Pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary dated 23 May 1690. Mast of Arts. From the first day of Nov. to the 21 of Feb were more than an hundred and forty Masters actually created of which number were these following Nov. 1. James Duke of York He was afterwards King of England by the name of K. James the 2. Dom. Henr. Howard Tho. Bosvile or Boswell a Kentish man of Aynsford I think and a Colonel in the Kings Army One Tho. Boswell who had been knighted by his Maj. at Durham in the beginning of May 1642 was buried in S Maries Church in Oxford 25 Oct. 1643. Whether he was the same who was created Master of Arts or the same Sir Tho. Boswell who had a daughter named Isabel the wife of Tho. Gifford Doctor of Physick before mentioned I cannot justly tell George Manwaring an Officer in the Kings Army Will. Dugdale one of the Officers of Arms called Rougecroix now 1642 lodging in Hart Hall This noted person who was son of John Dugdale son of James Dugdale of Cletherâ—w in Lancashire Gent was born at Shustock in the County of Warwick on the 12 of Sept. 1605 3 Jac. 1. at which time was a swarm of Bees in his fathers garden then esteemed by some a happy presage on the behalf of the Babe This accident being many years after related by Mr. Will. Dugdale to the famous Figure-flinger Will. Lilly he thereupon very readily told him that that swarm of bees did foretell that the Infant should in time prove a prodigy of industry c. But the Reader is to know that the said Lilly told him the said Will. Dugdale so after most of his industry was made public His first education in Grammar learning was under one Thom. Sibley Curat at Nether Whitacre near to Shustock before mentioned with whom continuing till he came to ten years of age or more was afterwards sent to the Free-school at Coventry then presided by one James Cranford father of James Cranford mentioned among the Writers pag. 133. After he had continued in the said School till almost he was 15 years of age he was taken home by his father from whom he received instructions in reading that noted Law-book called Littletons Tenures and some others of that profession besides History In all which he soon after by his indefatigable industry became well vers'd In the latter end of 1622 his father being then grown infirm he took to him a wife and in 1625 1 Car. 1. his said father being then dead he purchased the Mannour of Blythe in the Parish of â—hustock At which place setling soon after he composed most of his Books particularly that of The Anâ—iquities of Warwickshere illustrated His natural inclination tending then chiefly to the study of Antiquities and History he was not a little encouraged thereto by one Sam. Roper a Barrester of Lincolns Inn much esteemed for his knowledge and abilities in those studies with whom by reason he was Cosin-German to Rich. Seawell who had married his sister he had
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
more than what the King was pleased of his own bounty to confer upon him which was 100 l. per an in compensation of quadruple the loss he sustained This Person who hath been always an intimate friend and acquaintance as well of the antient Greek and Latine as of the choicest modern Poets both Italian French and Spanish hath written and translated 1 Medea a Tragedy Lond. 1648. oct translated from Lat. into English verse with annotations 'T is one of Seneca's Tragedies 2 Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere why good men suffer misfortunes seeing there is a divine providence Lond. 1648. oct written originally in Lat. prose and translated into English verse It was dedicated by Mr. Sherburne to K. Ch. 1. during his captivity in the Isle of Wight which he was pleased most graciously to approve and accept of 3 Salmacis Lyrian and Sylva forsaken Lydia the rape of Hellen a comment thereon with several other Poems Lond. 1651. oct On which three translations as also annotations on each of them the most ingenious Thomas Stanley before remembred mention'd also in the Fasti 1640 did make an excellent copy of verses as also upon the mutual friendship between him and our author Ed. Sherburne the beginning of which is this Dear friend I question nor can I yet decide Whether thou more art my delight or pride 4 The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an english Poem Lond. 1675. fol. 'T is adorned with Cuts and an account thereof is in the Philosophical Transactions num 110. p. 233. It was chiefly intended by its author for the use of the young Gentry and Nobility of the Land to serve as their initiation in the first rudiment of spherical learning 5 A Catalogue with a character of the most eminent Astronomers antient and moderne Which with other matters as first Of the Cosmical System secondly A Cosmographical-Astronomical Synopsiâ— c. are added by way of an Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Man before mention'd 6 Troades or the Royal Captives a Trag. Lond. 1679. oct Written originally in Lat. by L. An. Seneca englished with Annotations by Mr. Sherburne He had likewise laying by him another Trag. of Seneca Hippolitus and Phaedra long since by him translated with Annotations Which three Tragedies viz. Medea Troades and Hippolitus he endeavours to prove that they belong only to the Philosopher among all the rest that go under the name of Seneca The sixteenth Idillium of Theocritus in N. Tates Miscellanies is ascribed to him and perhaps other things in other books In 1682. Jan. 6. his Majesty K. Ch. 2 did in consideration of his great sufferings and the long and faithful services by him performed to his royal Father of blessed memory and to himself confer upon him the honor of Knighthood in his private Bedchamber at Whitehall having also suffered several indignities from the faction in the time of the Popish Plot who endeavoured to out him of his place for being as they supposed a Rom. Cath. After K. Jam. 2 had abdicated the Government and left the Nation he was outed for altogether and put to trouble So that whereas he before for 19 years together had suffered for his Loyalty to his Prince and had in some manner suffered after his restauration as I have told you before so now doth suffer upon account of his Religion being living near London in a retired yet cheerful and devout condition spending his time altogether in books and prayer Henry Sherburne younger Brother to Edw. before mention'd was then also Dec. 20. actually created Master of Arts He was soon after made Comptroller of the Ordnance in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton but how long he continued in that employment I know not While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesty with all the fortifications trenches bastions c. performed for the use of Sir Tho. Glemham the Governour thereof who shewing it to the King he approved much of it and wrot in it the names of the bastions with his own hand This ichnography or another drawn by Rich. Rallingson was by the care of Dr. John Fell engraven on a copper plate and printed purposely to be remitted into Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. between p. 364. and 365. This Henry Sherburne who was an ingenious man was kill'd in a mutiny that hapned among some of the Soldiers in Oxon on the 12 of June 1646 Whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Chur. of S. Peter in the East in the said City January 16. In a Convocation then celebrated were these following persons actually created Masters of Arts by vertue of the Kings Mandamus then read viz. Henry Lord Seymour Son of Will Marq. of Hertford He was Knighted by his Maj. on the 17 of Jan. 1644. See among the Doctors of Phys an 1645. Sir John Stawell See among the Doctors of Physick this year Amiaâ— Paulet Esq Joh. Stawell Esq Mr. Edw. Stawell Rob. Hawley a Captain Francis Lord Hawley one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York died 22 of Dec. 1684. aged 76 or thereabouts but whether Robert was nearly related to him I know not Joh. Stanhop He was Master of the Horse as it seems to the Marquess of Hertford George Strangwaies an Officer He was one of the antient and gentile family of his name in Dorsetshire Geor. Trimme Secretary to the Marq. of Hertf. Anth. Lightfoot Servant to Prince Charles Râ—g Sanders a Captain Rich. Knightley c. All which with others were lately come to Oxon among the forces under the conduct of the said William Marquess of Hereford In the same convocation were others also created by vertue of the Letters of the said Marq. soon after Chanc. of this Univ. which were then read The names of some of them follow Edw. Windham Esq Edw. Kirton Esq He was a Parliamentary Burgess for Milborne in Somersetsh to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it because of the violent proceedings of the members thereof he retired to his Majesty at Oxon and late in the Parl. there 1643. Tho. Lower Esq He was also a Burgess for Eastlow in Cornwall but leaving the said Parliament he retired to Oxon and sate there I take this person to be the same who was Son and Heir of Sir W. Lower of S. Winnow in Cornw. Knight which Thomas dying a Bachelaur 5. Feb. 1660 was buried in the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster as I have elsewhere told you ... Bampfield a Colonel Joh. Miller a Captain Hugh Windham Hugh Smith Franc. Chalk or Chock of Avington in Berks He was Knighted 26. Oct. 1643. All which with others did attend the said Marq. of Hertford when he came to Oxon. Feb. 1. Anth. Goslyng was then created by vertue of a dispensation pass'd in convocation Feb. 21. was another convocation celebrated and therein a
Rights and Privileges of the Subject 3 Apr. 4 Car. 1. Lond. 1641. qu. Upon the declining of the Kings Cause he fled beyond the sea being an excepted person by the Parliament and died at Caen in Normandy about the end of Aug. 1649 leaving then behind him a son named Edward who had his fathers estate restored to him after his Majesties return from his exile One Rob. Heath Esq wrot and published Clarestella together with other occasional Poems Elegies Epigrams and Satyrs Lond. 1650. in tw but what kin he was to Sir Rob. Heath the Judge or whether he was of this University I know not as yet Sir Sampson Emre Knight sometimes written Evers Serjeant at Law was created the same day This person who was the third son of Sir Franc. Ewre Kt Brother to Ralph Lord Ewre had been his Majesties Attorney Gen. in Wales was now with him in Oxon sate in the Parliament there and was afterwards a Sufferer for his Cause Rob. Holbourne a Counsellor of Linc. Inn was also created Doct. of the Civ Law the same day In 1640 he was chose Burgess for Michel in Cornwal to serve in that Parl that began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year and on the 15 of Dec. following he argued two hours in the H. of Com. in justification of the Canons In 1641 he was Lent Reader of the same Inn and soon after leaving the Parl. because of their desperate proceedings he retired to his Maj. at Oxon sate in the Parl. there 1643 and in the latter end of that year was made the Prince's Attorney in the place of Sir Ric. Lane one of his Majesties Privy Council and a Knight In the latter end of 1644 he was present at the Treaty at Vxbridge in behalf of his Majesty as he was afterwards at that in the Isle of Wight About which time retiring to London he was forced to compound for his Estate but not permitted to abide in any of the Inns of Court He hath published The Reading in Lincolns Inn 28 Feb. 1641 upon the Statute of the 25 of Ed. 3. cap. 2. being the Statute of Treasons Oxon. 1642. in two sh in qu. and revived The transactions of the high Court of Chancery both by practice and president c. originally collected and written by Will. Tothill Esquire Feb. 7. Charles Roser Esq Feb. 7. Degory Collins Esq Sir Troylus Turbervill Kt was created the same day This most valiant person who was of the Turbervills of Moreden in Dorsetshire was afterwards Captain Lievtenant of the Kings Life-guard of Horse and was slain at his Majesties going from Newark to Oxon towards the latter end of August 1645. Sir Thom. Thynne Kt was also created the same day I take this to be the same Sir Thom. who was a younger son of Sir Thom. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts Kt and the same who was father by his wife the daughter of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall sometimes Dean of Durham to Thom. Thynne of Longleat who was murdered in the Pall-Mall at Westm. on the 12 of Feb. 1681. Feb. 21. John Penruddock of Compton-Chamberlaine in Wilts Esq was then being in the service of his Majesty actually created Doctor of the Civ Law and three days after had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Majesty He was father to Colonel John Penruddock who when a youth at Blandford school and after when a Fellow Com. of Qu. Coll. in this University delighted in books when a man in arms which in his maturer years he willingly put on to redeem the liberties of three enslaved Kingdoms tho with the loss of his own life by the axe in the Castle of Exeter 16 May 1655. Let therefore all military men of Honour approach with devotion his altar-tomb and offer up their tributary tears as due victims to distressed valour Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Esq was actually created the same day This most valiant person who was son of Sir Jervais Scrope of the same place and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1634 did most loyally attend his Majesty at the fight at Edghill where receiving several wounds was left among the dead as a dead person there but recovered by the immortal Dr. Will. Harvey who was there but withdrawn under a hedge with the Prince and Duke while the battel was in its height 'T is reported that this Adr. Scrope received 19 wounds in one battel in defence of his Majesties Cause but whether in that fought at Edghill I cannot justly say it sure I am that he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. an 1661. There was another Adrian Scrope a Soldier also but taking part with the Parliament became one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. as I shall elsewhere tell you Feb. 21. Franc. Baker Esq Feb. 21. Edw. Bosworth Gent. Feb. 21. Tho. Bosworth Gent. Feb. 21. Joh. Wentworth Gent. Feb. 21. Thom. Morrys Gent. Mar. .... John Godolphin of Glouc. Hall This year but the month week or day when I know not being omitted by the Registrary was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law Rob. Levinz M. A. of Linc. Coll. now in arms for his Majesty and a very zealous person for his Cause He was son of Will. Levinz of Seukworth joyning to Botley near Abendon in Berks who exercised the trade of Brewing in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie within the City of Oxon and he the son of Will. Levinz sometimes Alderman and Apothecary of the said City This Robert who was afterwards a Captain did considerable service according to his capacity but upon the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Parliament he betook himself to his book again as some hundreds of Scholars did that had bore arms After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he engaged himself for his son received a Commission from him for the raising of Forces and blank Commissions for divers Officers But he being at length discovered by certain inquisitive persons employed purposely to find out plots against the State he was hurried before a Court-Marshal where acknowledging their allegations against him and the justice of his Cause was by them sentenced to be hang'd Whereupon he was hurried away in a Coach from the Mewse guarded by a Troop of Horse to the Exchange in Cornhill where he was executed about noon on the 18 of July 1650 aged 35 years leaving a widow behind him daugh of Sir Peregrin Bertie son of Robert Earl of Lindsey These things I here set down because the said Dr. Levinz was afterwards numbred among the Loyal Martyrs Doct. of Phys From the 1 of Nov. to the 31 of Jan. were more than 20 Doctors of Physick actually created of which number were these that follow Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Napier Kt originally of Wadh. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules was then actually created Doctor of Phys This person who was Nephew and Heir to Rich. Napier Rector of Linford in Bucks a younger son of Sir Rob. Napier of
Luton-Hoe in Bedfordshire Bt was afterwards one of the first members of the Royal Society a great pretender to Vertue and Astrology made a great noise in the world yet did little or nothing towards the publick He died in the house of Sir John Lenthall at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks 17 Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church at Linford before mentioned the Mannour of which did belong to him but after his death his son Thom. sold it for 19500 l. or thereabouts The said Sir Richard drew up a book containing A collection of Nativities which is now in MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq Nov. 1. Francis Smith of Brasn Coll. Nov. 1. Thom. Smith of Linc. Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Hinton Nov. 1. George Roe The said Joh. Hinton was afterwards a Kt and Physitian to K Ch. 2. and his Queen Dec. 20. Will. Hunt Dec. 20. Andr. Pindar Jan. 16. Joh. Merret a Captain in Cornwall Jan. 16. Walt. Charlton of Magd. Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Baylie lately of Hart Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Hayes a Physitian in the Kings Army Jan. 31. Sir Hen. Manwaring Kt. The first of these last three was son of Dr. Ralph Baylie sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards a Physitian of note at Bathe which Thomas practising afterwards at Newbury in Berks died there of a high infection in the prime of his years As for the last Sir H. Manwaring I find one of both his Names and a Knight too author of The Seamens Dictionary or an exposition and demonstration of all the parts belonging to a ship Lond. 1670. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sir Joh. Terryngham Kt. High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire was created the same day He died on the second day of May 1645 and was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon. Sir John Stawell Kt. of the Bath sometimes Gent. Com. of Queens Coll was also created the same day He was one of the Knights for Somersetshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it when the King was forced to leave Westminster he retired to him at Oxon and sate there for a time in the Parliament conven'd there That which is chiefly memorable of this most worthy person is that he being one of the most eminent men in Somersetshire for Estate Wisdom and Prudence did after he had undergone all the principal services and employments for his Country viz. High Sheriff Deputy Lieutenant and Knight for the Shire in several Parliaments most loyally and courageously take up arms with three of his sons raised three Regiments of Horse and two of Dragoons and of Foot upon his sole charge in defence of his Maj. K. Ch. 1 as also of the Laws of this Kingdom and Rights of the Subject invaded by wicked Conspirators under colouâ— of reformation an 1642. He was then a Colonel of Horse and soon after was made Governour of Taunton and continued there till remanded Upon the declining of the Kings Cause he was not admitted to his composition as others were tho comprized within the Articles of Exeter upon the surrender of that City to the Powers at that time prevailing and the reason was because they thirsted not only after his large Estate but conspired also to take away his life He endured in those times of affliction long and tedious Imprisonments in the Press-yard in Newgate and other Goales and after in the Tower of London And did with admirable Wisdom and Courage approve himself an eminent Assertor of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom by making such a defence in their several bloody Tribunals viz. at their Vpper Bench bar and High Court of Justice as that he put to silence those bold Judges who sate there with design to take away his life And tho he was reduced to the greatest want and misery which his severe opposers by sale of his Lands cutting down his Woods and demolishing the principal Seat of his family at Cotholstone could bring upon him yet by the subsistance which his aged Mother the Lady Elizabeth Griffin afforded him which was all he had he most chearfully underwent the same lived to see the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2 and to be again elected one of the Knights for the County of Somerset to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 May 1661. After he had continued there some months his urgent affairs drew him to his house at Ham three miles distant from Somerton in his own Country where dying 21 Feb. 1661 aged 62 years was buried on the 23 of Apr. following on the south side of the Chancel of the Church at Cotholstone five miles distant from Taunton There goes under the name of this most loyal person his Petition and Remonstrance to the Parliament and O. Cromwel as also his Vindication printed 1653 and 55. fol. In the latter end of Jan. 1682 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. was graciously pleased to create Ralph Stawell Esq a Baron of England by the name and stile of Lord Stawell of Somerton in consideration of the eminent Loyalty and Sufferings of his father before mention'd during all the time of the Troubles and the many good and acceptable Services performed by him Jan. 31. Sir Rob. Lee Knights Jan. 31. Sir Joh. Paulet Knights The last who had been sometimes of Exeter Coll as it seems was a younger son of the Lord Paulet James Young lately of Qu. Coll in Oxon eldest son of Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester was created the same day Jan. 31. Nathan Heighmore sometimes of Trin. Coll. Jan. 31. Christop Merret sometimes of Gloc. Hall Mar. 4. Rob. Bosworth of Brasn Coll. He was chose Burgess for the City of Hereford to sit in Richards-Parliament began at Wesâ—minster 27 of January 1658. Doct. of Div. From the 1 of Nov. to the 21 Feb. were between 40 and 50 Doctors of Divinity actually created most of whom follow Nov. 1. Rob. Payne Canons of Ch. Ch. Nov. 1. George Morley Canons of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards successively Bishop of Worcester and Winchester Barten Holyday sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Oxford was created the same day Nov. 1. Hen. Stringer of New Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Meredith of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Jer. Taylor of All 's Coll. The first of these last three had been Greek Professor of this University and was afterwards Warden of his Coll whence being ejected he retired to London where dying in Febr. 1657 was buried in the Church of the Black Fryers The second was now or about this time Fellow of Eaton Col and Master of Wigstons Hospital at Leycester from both which being ejected in the times of Usurpation he suffered equally with other Loyalists At length upon his Majesties return he was not only restored to his Fellowship and Hospital but elected Warden of All 's Coll. in the place of Dr. Sheldon promoted to the See of London and made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the room of Dr. Nich. Monk
be created D. D. but he came not to take it nor was he diplomated Nov. 10. John Earle sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Chaplain to Charles Pr. of Wales Dec. 20. John Arnway of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 20. Thom. Bradley of Exet. Coll. Dec. 20. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. ..... Staunton of Ch. Ch. ..... Hodges of Ch. Ch. These two last were created the same day or at least were allowed their degrees when they would please to call for them but whether they were educated in Ch. Ch. it appears not and therefore I presume they were Strangers that came with and attended the Kings Court lodging now in that house I find one Thom. Hodges to be Rector of Kensington near London before the rebellion broke out a Preacher sometimes before the Long Parliament one of the Ass of Divines and a Covenantier After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of S. Peter's Church in Cornhill London and Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. H. Croft made Bishop thereof an 1661 which Deanery he holding to the time of his death was succeeded therein by Dr. George Benson about Midsummer an 1672. This Tho. Hodges hath extant 1 A Glimps of Gods glory Sermon before the H. of Com. at a solemn Fast 28 Sept. 1642 on Psal 113.5.6 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The growth and spreading of Heresie Fast-serm before the H. of Com. 10 Mar. 1646. on 2 Pet. 2.1 Lond. 1647. qu 3 Inaccessible glory or the impossibility of seeing Gods face whilst we are in the body Serm. at the funeral of Sir Theod. de Mayerne in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields on Friday 30 of Mar. 1655. on Exod. 33.20 Lond. 1655. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I believe him to be the same with Hodges before mentioned who was created D. of D because I cannot find him written or called Doctor till after his Majesties return Another Thom. Hodges I find who was Rector of Soulderne near Deddington in Oxfordshire and Bach. of Divinity not of this University but of that of Cambridge and afterwards one of the Chaplains of Allsouls Coll in the time of Oliver which he kept with his Rectory This person who was also a zealous Presbyterian was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire first admitted into Emanuel Coll and thence taken and made Fellow of that of S. John the Evangelist the Master and Society of which presented him to the Rectory of Soulderne before mention'd When the Act of Uniformity came out he prevailed so much with the said Society that they nominated his friend to be his Successor viz. one Will. Twyne Fellow of the said Coll and then Hodges leaving the place he retired to Okingham in Berks and became Chaplain to the Hospital there where he died and was buried about the month of January 1688 as I have been informed from Soulderne The said Mr. Hodges hath written 1 A Treatise concerning Prayer containing particularly an Apology for the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. in tw 2 A Scripture Catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours of the present times Lond. 1658. oct Besides which two things he hath also several Sermons extant as 1 The hoary head crowned a fun serm on Prov. 16.31 2 The creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hands and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures c in two sermons printed twice at least 3 A cordial against the fear of death preached before the University of Oxon on Heb. 2.15 Oxon. 1659. qu. and one two or more which I have not yet seen This Thomas Hodges tho he lived in Oxon several years yet he was neither incorporated or took any degree in Divinity Dec. 20. Edw. Wolley M. of A. or Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and at this time one of the Chapl. to his Majesty was actually created Doct. of Div. He was born in the antient borough of Shrewsbury educated in the Kings School there transplanted thence to St. Johns Coll. in the said University where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards adhering to the cause of his Majesty retired to Oxon to attend and preached sometimes before him there When his Majesties cause declined he suffered as other Royallists did attended his Son in his adverse fortune while he himself endured great misery After the return of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of a Church in Essex Finchingfield I think to settle the inhabitants thereof in loyal principles and to undo and invalidate the doctrine which that most notorious Independent Steph. Marshall had instil'd into them In 1665 he was promoted to the Episcopal See of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland to which being consecrated at Titam on the 16. of Apr. the same year sate there for some time and was held in great veneration for his admirable way Of preaching and exemplary life and conversation Among several things that he hath extant are these 1 Eulogia The Parents blessing their Children and the Children begging on their knees their Parents blessings are pious actions warrantable by the word of God and practiced by Gods saints and servants Lond. 1661. c. oct 2 Eudoxia A module of private prayers or occasional helps in retired devotions Printed with the former book 3 Loyalty amongst Rebels the true Royallist c. Lond. 1662. oct ... Edmonds M. A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. ... Earskin B. D. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. Both which were actually created the same day Jan. 16. Christoph Prior M. A. of Ball. Coll. On the 24 of Dec. 1641 he was collated to the Prebendship of Slape in the Church of Salisbury in Sept. 1643 he became Prebend of Barton Davy in the Church of Wells and in the latter end of the same year Principal of New Inn in the place of Christoph Rogers who some time before had fled from Oxon to the Parliament This person who was always esteem'd a good Greecian and well furnish'd with other parts of learning dyed about half a year before his Majesties return and thereby prevented not only his restauration to what he had lost for the Kings cause but his promotion to higher Dignities Will. O' dis of New Coll. sometimes Proctor of the University was actually created the same day He was afterwards slain by the Parliament Soldiers without any provocation given on his part between Adderbury in Oxfordshire of which place he was Vicar and the Garrison of Oxon about 1644. Jan. 16. Henry Ancketyll of Wadh. Coll. Jan. 16. Hugh Halswell of All 's Coll. Jan. 16. Joh. Metelfer or Meltalfer of Cambr. Jan. 16. Edw. Hyde of Cambr. The last of these four I take to be the same Edward Hyde who is mention'd in Alexander Hyde among the Bishops nu 34. ... Fowler of Ch. Ch. was created the same day On Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch. took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1637 as I have in the Fasti of that year told you So that if the said Fowler be the
same with the other then was he created D. D. at 5 years standing in the degree of Bachelaur The said Matthew Fowler was now deeply engaged in his Majesties service for which afterwards he suffered as other Royallists did After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire in the place of Dr. Nich. Bernard deceased where he continued to his dying day He hath published besides Totum hominis mention'd in the Fasti an 1637 a Sermon entit The properties of heavenly wisdome preached at the Assizes held at Shrewsbury in the County of Salop. Lond. 1681-2 qu. He died on S. Stephens day 1683 aged 66 years and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Soon after was a black marble monument set up in the north wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was almost 22 years Rector of the said Church that he was descended of the antient family of his name living in Staffordshire that he was first of the Vniversity of Oxon and afterwards of Cambridge and the ornament and glory of both and that when he was a young man of Ch. Ch he was one of the chief of those many Scholars that stood up and valiantly defended the Kings cause c. Other persons also occur created the same day or at least were nominated by his Majesty to be promoted Doctors of Divinity when they were pleased to make intimation to the Vicechancellour as one Ramsdâ—n of Linc. Coll King of Magd. Hall Babington of Ch. Ch. c. Jan. 31. Rob. Marks of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Rich. Langston of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Will. Cox of New Coll. Jan. 31. John Jones of Bras Coll. Thom. Hook of Cambr. was created the same day Feb. 21. William Bayly a Dignitary in Ireland He was soon after made Bishop of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in that Country Feb. 21. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. Feb. 21. Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. Feb. 21. Thom. Bourman of Cambr. One Rob. Boreman or Bourman Brother to Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Green-cloth to K. Ch. 2. was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards D. of D. and Rector of S. Giles Church in the Fields nâ—â—â— London but what relation he had to the said Thomas I cannot yet tell This Robert who seems to be of the family of the Boremans in the Isle of Wight hath written several things among which are 1 The Countrymans Catechisme or the Churches plea for tithes Lond. 1651. qu. 2 The triumph of learning over ignorance and of truth and falshood Being an answer to four quaeries first whether there be any need of Vniversities c. Lond. 1653. qu. 3 Life and death of Freeman Sonds Esq 4 Relation of Sir George Sonds narrative of the passages on the death of his two Sons Both printed at Lond. in qu. The said Freeman Son of Sir George was hanged for murdering his Brother 5 A mirrour of Christianity and a mirrour of charity or a true and exact narrative of the life and death of Alice Dutchess Duddeley c. Lond. 1669. qu. The said Dutchess who had been the Wise of Sir Rob. Dudley died in her house near the Church of S. Giles in the fields 22. Jan. 1668 aged 90 years 6 Sermon on Philip. 3.20 Ibid. 1669. qu. This person Dr. Boreman after he had spent his time in celebacy died at Greenwich in Kent in the Winter time 1675. Mar. 4. Laurence Hinton of Mert. Coll. Prebend of Winchester He died at Shilbolton or Chilbolton in Hampshire of which he was Rector an 1658. 24. Will. Sherbourne of S. John Coll. in this Univ. and Prebend of Hereford He suffered afterwards much for the Kings cause and lost all his spiritualities but being restored to them again after his Majesties return enjoyed himself in a quiet repose for almost 20 years He died at Pembridge in Herefordsh of which he was Rector in the month of Apr. 1679 aged 92 years An. Dom. 1643. An. 19. Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery c. but he being thought unworthy to bear the said office by the King and University forasmuch as he was actually against the former in the present War and altogether neglected the other the K. authorized the members thereof to make choice of another wherefore they calling a convocation on the 24 of Octob. did elect for their Chancellour one that had been formerly of Magd. Coll viz. Will. Marquess of Hertford Vicount Beauchamp Baron Seymour c and on the 31 of the said month they admitted and installed him in the House of convocation then in the north chap. joyning to S. Maries Church in the presence of the Bishops of Bathe and Wells Salisbury Rochester and divers of the Nobility that were then in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Tolson D. D. Provost of Oriel who continuing in his office till the 18 of Nov Dr. Pink before mention'd succeeded him Proct. George Wake of Magd. Coll. Apr. 12. Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Apr. 12. The senior Proctor having sprain'd his leg or else put it out of joynt and therefore not able to come to the convocation house to be admitted that ceremony a dispensation being first granted was performed in his Chamber at Magd. Coll. As for the other Proctor he dying 29. Nov. Mr. Joh. Maplâ—t of the same house succeeded Dec. 9. This year in the month of Oct. the courts of Parliament assembled in the Schools and there sate for some time so that upon that account and that the other Schools were employed as Granaries all exercises and lectures if any at all were performed in S. Maries Church Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Ahier of New Coll. See among the Masters an 1646. Dec. 2. John Lakenby of Magd. Coll. This person who was the Son of Simon Lakenby of Shadford in the County Pal. of Durham did afterwards retire to S. Edm. Hall and lived there a close student till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred an 1646. At which time perceiving the English Church tottering he went beyond the Sea changed his religion and was entred into the English Coll. at Doway After some time spent there he returned into England became Usher to James Shirley when he taught in the White Fryers at London in the time of Oliver but being seized on and imprisoned for some time was at length released and died in London in a mean condition He was accounted famous among those of his opinion for the Greek and Latin tongues and for ecclesiastical history Feb. 16. John Douch of Trin. Coll. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born hath extant A Serm. on 1. Sam. 10.24 Print 1660. qu. Adm. 73. Bach. of Law But two this year were admitted viz. John Jennings of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 20 and Thomas Godwin sometimes a member of this University Mast of Arts. Apr. 12. Gilb. Coles of New Coll. Apr. 12. Nich. Ward of Sydney
in our fortifications c. among the created Doctors of Div. 1661. Oct. 17. John Poston Oct. 17. Cave Beck The last of these two hath published The universal character by which all nations may understand one another Lond. 1657. oct and perhaps other things Dec. 9. John Coke or Cook Jan. 31. Dan. Southmead Bac. of Arts of this University was then created Master Mar. 18. Will. Zanchie who had rendred both his life and fortunes in the Kings service under the command of Richard Vicount Molineaux and thereby had lost time in the University was actually created Mast of Arts by vertue of the Kings Letters dat 10. of Jan. this year Bach. of Phys Oct. 17. Franc. Metcalf of S. Maries Hall Feb. 8. John Catchpole of Christs Coll. in Cambridge Bach. of Div. Oct. 17. James Bardsey He was a stranger as it seems and the only Bach. of Div. that was created this year In the month of May it was granted to Edw. Willisford then absent that he might be created when he came to the University but whether he came or was admitted it appears not perhaps he was the same Mr. Willisford who was lately ejected from Peter house in Cambridge for denying the Covenant Doct. of Law Apr. 12. George Owen one of the Heralds of Armes by the title of York May 29. Rich. Colchester was then also actually created He is stiled in the publick reg dignissimus vir and de republica optime meritus One Rich. Colchester of Westbury in Glocestershire Esq was one of the six Clerks in the High Court of Chancery and died in the troublesome times about 1646 whether the same Quaere June 16. Jeffry Palmer of the Middle Temple Esq This worthy Gentleman who was son of Thom. Palmer of Carleton in Northamptonshire by Catherine his wife daughter of Sir Edw. Watson of Rockingham Kt sister to the first Lord Rockingham was chosen Burges for Stanford in Lincolnshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he was a manager of the evidence against Thomas Earl of Strafford and seemed to be an enemy to the prerogative But afterwards he perceiving full well what mad courses the members of the said Parliament took he boldly delivered his mind against the printing of that Declaration called the Grand remonstrance for which he was committed to custody in Nov. 1642. Afterwards being freed thence he retired to Oxon sate in the Parliament there and was esteemed a loyal and able person in his profession Upon the declining of the Kings cause he suffered as other Royallists did lived obscurely in England and upon pretence of plotting with the Cavaliers against Oliver the Protector he was imprison'd in the Tower of London in the month of May 1655. On the 31. of May 1660 his Majesty being then newly restored he was made Attorney General and about that time chief Justice of Chester and a Knight and on the 7 of June following he was created a Baronet He hath collected and written Reports bearing this title Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer Chevalier Baronet c. Lond. 1678. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hamsted in Middlesex on the fifth day of May an 1670 aged 72 whereupon his body being conveyed to the Hall of the Middle Temple laid there in state for a time attended by three Heralds of Armes Afterwards it was conveyed to the Seat of his Ancestors at Carleton in Northamptonshire before mention'd and there buried in a Vault under part of the Parish Church What inscription there is for him over his sepulcher I cannot tell sure I am that Dr. Thom. Pierce hath composed a most noble epitaph on him as also on his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Franc. More of Fawley in Berks who died on the 16. of the Cal. of May 1655 aged 47 years but it being too long for this place I shall only give you the beginning Galfridus Palmer vir ad omnia praesertim optima usque quaeque comparatus c. July 18. John Philipot Herald of Armes by the title of Somerset This person who was of Eltham in Kent was born at Folkston in that County and having a genie from his childhood to Heraldry and Antiquities was from being an Officer of Armes extraordinary called Blanch Lyon created Officer in ordinary called Rouge-Dragon 19 of Nov. 1618 and on the 8. July 1624 Herald by the title of Somerset In which capacity he was employed by his Majesty to make a presentation of the most noble Order of the Garter to his Highness Charles Lodowick Prince Elector in the Army at Bockstell or Bockstall in Brabant In the beginning of the Presbyterian rebellion in 1642 he was one of those Loyal Heralds who followed his Majesty was with him at Oxon but took up his quarters two miles distant thence at a place called Chawley in the Parish of Comnore where being seized on by certain Parliament Soldiers of the Garrison of Abendon was conveyed thence a Prisoner to London in 1644 or thereabouts But being soon after set at liberty he spent the short remainder of his days in London in great obscurity At length yielding to nature I cannot say in want was buried within the precincts of S. Bennets Church near to Paulswharf on the 25 of Nov. 1645. He hath written 1 Catalogue of the Chancellours of England the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurers of England With a collection of divers that have been Masters of the Rolls Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Additions to Will Camdens Remains concerning Britaine Lond. 1637 c. qu. 3 Villare Cantianum or Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the Parishes Boroughs Villages and Mannours of the County of Kent Lond. 1659. fol. Published by and under the name of Thom. Philipot his Son as I have told you among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1640. 4 An Historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent This is added to the said Villare Cautianum He the said Joh. Philipot hath also written as 't is said a book proving that Gentry doth not abate with Apprenticeship but only sleepeth during the time of their indentures and awaketh again when they are expired But this book I have not yet seen Aug. ... Sir John Borough Kt Garter Principal King of Armes His Grace did then pass in a Convocation to be Doctor of the Civil Law but whether he was admitted it appears not as several Creations do not in the publick register This person who was the Son of a Dutch man a Brewer by trade living in Sandwych in Kent as I have been informed at the Office of Armes was educated a Scholar and afterwards in the com Law in Greys Inn but his genie inclining him much to the study of Antiquity he obtained the office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London where by his searches he laid the foundation of certain books In 1623 he by the favour of the
esteem'd forsooth pedantick and ridiculous to the decay in some respects of disputation He died on the 16 of Oct. 1654 aged 71 years being then or some time before Rector of Chilton Cantlow in the Dioc. of Wells and was buried in the outer Chappel of Wadham Coll. He had written much but published nothing yet left behind a book by him written in latine treating of the Holy Eucharist which by the judgment of some was thought fit to be published He was the only person that was admitted this year having several years before performed all his exercise in order thereunto ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or created this year Doct. of Phys June 17. James Hyde of C. C. Coll. This person who was the eleventh Son of Sir Laur. Hyde of the City of Salisbury Knight became after his Majesties restauration the Kings Professor of Physick of this University and Principal of Magd. Hall He dyed 7. May 1681 aged 64 years and was buried in the isle joyning to the north side of the Chancel of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. In the month of January 1641 the members of Parliament sent the Oath called the Protestation made by them to the University of Oxon to be taken by all there of the University that were upward of 18 years of age whereupon the generality of the Academians did take it yet some with limitations and exceptions Others absented themselves because they did not rightly understand it but this Mr. Jam. Hyde then Fellow of C. C. Coll. did plainly refuse it which none else did beside 'T is true that Dr. Ralph Kettle President of Trin. Coll did wave it yet for no other reason but that he was an old man and had taken many oathes already c. Nov. 16. John Wilby of Mert. Coll. was then admitted into the House of Congregation and Convocation In 1638 he took the degree of Bach. of the said fac at Cambridge ☞ Not one Doctor of Div. was adm or licensed this year only created Incorporations Apr. 9. Joh. Wedderbourne Doct. of Phys of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland was then incorporated by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which tell us that he is one of his Majesties Physitians in ordinary and a Gentleman of known learning and vast experience He was originally a Professor of Philosophy in the said University but that being too narrow a place for so great a person he left it travelled into various Countries and became so celebrated for his great learning and skil in Physick that he was the chief man of his Country for many years for that faculty Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood and was highly valued when he was in Holland with the Prince 1646. 47. At length tho his infirmities and great age forced him to retire from publick practice and business yet his fame contracted all the Scotch Nation to him And his noble hospitality and kindness to all that were learned and vertuous made his conversation no less loved than his advice was desired One of his name and family named James Wedderbourne had spent some time in Oxon for the sake of the publick Library but the particular year when I cannot justly tell He was afterwards Doct. of Div Prebendary of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Harrys of Winchester in May 1631 and being some years after made Bishop of Dumblayne in his own Country Tho. Row Bac. of Div. was adm to his Prebendship 30. June 1638. Octob. ... Edmund Wilson Anglus-Oxoniensis Son of John Wilson was incorporated Doct. of Phys as he had stood in the University of Padua This person who was admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty at Cambridge 9. Apr. 1638 and to that of Doctor at Padua in Jan. 1641 2 I take to be the same with E. Wilson author of Spadacrene Dunelmensis Or a short treatise of an antient medicinal fountain or vitrioline spaw near the City of Durham Together with the constituent principles virtues and use thereof Lond. 1675. c. oct as also the same who published The spirit of salt with the true oyle or spirit of sulphure c. Printed in qu. 1665. Oct. 15. Thomas Cox Doct. of Phys of Padua Son of Thom. Cox of Somersetshire This Gentleman who had taken the said degree at Padua in Decemb. 1641 was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and President thereof but being whiggishly inclined was deprived of that office in Octob. 1683 whereupon Dr. Daniel Whistler was put into his place about S. Lukes day in the same month Afterwards Dr. Cox put himself in prison purposely to compound for his debts and died as Dr. Whistler did Nov. ... Will. Currer of Yorkshire Doct. of Phys of Leyden where he took that degree in 1643 was then incorporated Dec. 17. Will. Marshall Mast of Arts of Sydney Coll. in Cambridge was then incorporated in the same degree Feb. 12. Edw. Emilie of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys of Leyden was then incorporated Dr. of Phys In 1652 or 53 he held up his hand at the bar at an Assize held in Oxon for coyning but being freed he went to London practiced his faculty in the Parish of S. Olaves Silver-street and died there in the beginning of the year 1658 leaving then a relict behind him named Elizabeth Mar. 22. Richard Jackson alias Keurden Bach. of Arts of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge In 1638 he became a Communer of S. Maries Hall in this University but upon the breaking out of the rebellion he went to Cambridge where continuing till Oxford Garrison was surrendred he retired to his Hall again and was incorporated Bach. of Arts. See more among the created Doctors of Physick 1663. CREATIONS The Creations this year did mostly consist of Scholars not of those only that were factious after the Garrison was surrendred but of those that were Orthodox or had suffered for their Loyalty Bach. of Law June 17. Noah Bridges of Ball. Coll. lately Clerk of the Parliament that sate at Oxon 1643. and 44 was then actually created Bach. of the Civil Law being at that time esteemed a most faithful Subject to his Majesty He was afterwards author of Lux Mercatoria Arithmetick natural and decimal digested into a more easie and exact method for resolving the most practical and useful questions that hath been yet published Lond. 1661 and perhaps of other things This person who had a lodging allowed him in Ball. Coll during the time of the War is not to be taken to be the same as some blundering persons that understand but little of authors and books have done with Noah Biggs the author of The vanity of the craft of Physick c. Lond. 1650. 51. qu. Alexander Dyer of Wadh. Coll who for many years together had been trained in the Courts Ecclesiastical and Civil at London c. was created the same day Aug. 4. Miles Smith of Magd. Coll who had
been admitted Bach. of Arts an 1638 was actually created Bach. of the Civil Law by vertue of the Chancellours letters directed formerly to the Convocation This person who should have been mention'd among the Writers could I have obtained full information of him was a Ministers Son of or near to the City of Glocester and nearly related to Dr. Miles Smith sometimes Bishop of that City was at his first coming to Magd. Coll. a Servitour as his contemporaries have informed me was now a sufferer for his Majesties cause and after his restauration a retainer and secretary to the Archb. of Canterbury He hath published The Psalmes of K. David paraphrased into English Meeter Lond. 1668. oct and perhaps other things He had a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll who dying in the Parish of S. Peter in the East 17. Oct. 1682 aged 18 his body was conveyed thence to Lambeth near London I think and there buried The said Dr. Smith Bishop of Glocester had a Son called Miles as I have elsewhere told you which is all I know of him Mast of Arts. June 17. James Aston of S. Johns Coll a Captain in the Kings Army Afterwards he was a suffererer for his Majesties cause but after his restauration he became well beneficed and in Ap. 1682 Canon of Wells July 1. Nathaniel Reading of Mert. Coll. 20. Giles Oldisworth Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was then actually created Master by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf and read in a Convocation held on the 21. of Feb. going before This loyal Divine who was the son of Robert Oldisworth Esq by Miriel his Wife Daughter of Nich. Overbury and Sister to Sir Thomas who was poyson'd in the Tower of London was born at Coln-Rogers in Glocestershire an 1619 educated in the College School at Westminster elected Scholar of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1639 forced thence for his allegiance to the King retired to Oxon and was there created Master as before I have told you he being then Rector of the Church of Bourton on the Hill near to Morton in the Marsh cammonly called Morton Henmarsh in Glocestershire He hath written and published 1 The stone roll'd away and life more abundant viz. The holy Royallist or secret discontents of Church and Kingdom reduced unto self-denial moderation and thankfulness Lond. 1663. 64. qu. Before it is his Majesties picture as being dedicated to him from whom he had received as it seems some kind of preferment after his restauration Into the body of this discourse p. 370 is haled in 2 A Sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Dorothie Rutter Wife of Mich. Rutter Esq who died in Child-bearing 'T is without a text and dedicated to Sir Joh. Hales of Warwick Bt Nephew to the said Dorothy In this volume the author inserts many trivial impertinent and weak passages yet seems to shew some considerable reading in the Fathers and other old authors to have been honest loyal and a zealous stickler to his capacity for the establishment of the Church of England in its whole constitution 3 The race set before us shewing the necessity laid upon Gospel believers to run with diligence thorow all Gospel duties Sermon preached at Mercers Chap. in Lond. on the 11 of May 1665 on 1. Cor. 9.24 Oxon. 1666. qu. He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen viz. 4 Visitation Sermon preached at Camden in Glocestershire on 2. Cor. 7.1 printed as it seems in 1662. qu. 5 The Father of the faithful tempted c. a funeral Sermon c. Oxon 1677. 6 Sir Tho. Overburies Wife unvail'd c. printed in tw 'T is a Poem and call'd by some The illustrious Wife c. This author Giles Oldisworth died 24. Nov. 1678 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bourton on the Hill before mention'd Aug. 5. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch. lately in service for his Majesty in remote parts was then created by vertue of his Majesties Letters formerly sent to the University He was a Dorsetshire man born and afterwards a sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 17. Thom. Willis formerly of S. Johns Coll. in this University had then the degree of Master confer'd on him by vertue of the Letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax General of the Parliament Army which partly say that Of his approved ability and integrity for learning and life he had been sufficiently informed c. He was presented to his degree by Mr. Joh. Goad of the same Coll. See more of him among the created Doct. of Div. an 1670. Mar. 11. Rich. Mansell of Ball. Coll. who had been adm Bach. of Arts in 1643 was then created Master of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the said Sir Tho. Fairfax wherein 't is said that he was then a Parliamentarian Officer He was one of the Guard belonging to the said Fairfax as a senior Fellow of Ball. Coll. hath informed me Bach. of Div. June 6. In a Convocation then held the Vicechancellour signified to the members thereof that several Preachers of this and the University of Cambridge had preached several laudable Sermons before the King Court and Parliament at Oxon For which their pains the Delegates appointed by the University could think of no other way to requite them but by conferring on them Degrees which matter being at length decreed by them and approved by the Chancellours Letters their names then were publickly read with liberty given to the said persons to be created when they pleased Among those that were created this year are these following Jun. 17. Rich. Sherlock Chapl. of New Coll. Jun. 17. James Masters of S. Alb. Hall Jun. 17. Joh. Castilion of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Will. Towers of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Tho. Joyce of Hart Hall Jun. 27. Rowland Nicolls of Magd. Coll. Jun. 27. Thom. Norgate of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last became Chancellour of the Diocess of lile in the room of one Hen. Marshall M. A an 1667 and the other was now Chaplain to Sir Thom. Glemham Governour of the Garrison of Oxon. June 22. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall 23 Pet. Gunning Chaplain of New Coll. 23 George Ashwell of Wadh. Coll. 23 Will. Creed of S. Johns Coll. 23 Geor. Gisbie of S. Johns Coll. The last being afterwards ejected was restored to his Coll. in 1660 and dying 13. May 1664 was buried in the Chappel of S. Johns Coll. 'T is said that on the same day Isaac Barrow Chaplain of New Coll. afterwards B. of Man and S. Asaph was actually created also Bach. of Div yet he occurs not registred July 1. Joshua Mynne of Ch. Ch lately of Peter House in Cambridge 10. Josias How of Trin. Coll. This person who was now in good esteem for his ingenuity hath published A sermon before the King at Ch. Ch on Psal 4.7 Printed as 't is said in red letters an 1644 or thereabouts in qu but this I have not yet seen He hath also
the Sermons at S. Maries preached by the 6 Ministers appointed by Parliament and other Presbyterian Ministers that preached in other Churches in Oxon and sometimes frequenters of the Conventicles of Independents and Anabaptists The generality of them had mortified Countenances puling Voices and Eyes commonly when in discourse lifted up with hands laying on their breasts They mostly had short hair which at this time was commonly called the Committee cut and went in quirpo in a shabbed condition and looked rather like Prentices or antiquated School-boys than Academians or Ministers and therefore few or none especially those of the old stamp or royal party would come near to or sort themselves with them but rather endeavour to put scorn upon them and make them ridiculous c. This year was a Sojourner and Student in Oxon for the sake of the public Library Pet. Laur. Scavenius a noble Dane who after his return to his own Country became a learned man and a publisher of certain books whereby he obtained an increasing admiration from his Countrymen An. Dom. 1648. An. 24 Car. 1. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Montgomery c. who took possession of the chair in his own person in a Convocation held Apr. 12. Vicechanc. Edward Reynolds sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll who being designed to this office thro the recommendations of the Chancellour by an order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament 18 of Feb. 1647 he was first declared Doct. of Div. by another order and afterwards presented to his office before the Chanc. sitting in his chair in Convocation by Sir Nath. Brent Warden of Mert. Coll on the 12 day of the said month of Apr. Proct. Joshua Cross of Linc. Coll. Adm. 12 Apr. Ralph Button of Mert. Coll. Adm. 12 Apr. The said Proctors who were godly Brethren were designed to their office by the same Authority that the Vicechanc. was without any regard had to the Caroline Cycle which appointed New and Allsoules Coll. to elect Proctors for this year And being admitted on the said day Apr. 12. by the same Authority Will. Bew or Beaw of New Coll. afterwards Bishop of Landaff who had been chosen by the Society of New Coll for their Proctor on the first Wednesday in Lent 1647 was put aside as also one Ed. Allason who as 't is said in the Visitors Register was chose by those of Allsoules yet whether he was of that House or had taken the degree of M. of Arts I cannot yet find Bach. of Arts. Nov. 3. Dan. Greenwood of Brasn Coll. Nov. 3. Rich. Adams of Brasn Coll. Of these two I shall speak more among the Masters an 1651. Mar. 16. Josias Banger of Magd. Coll. Mar. 16. Dan. Capell of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two I shall speak more among the Masters in 1651. The other is mention'd among the Writers Adm. 37. Bach. of Law Aug. 4. Will. Scot of All 's Coll. This person who was the only Bachelaur admitted this year had before spent six years in the study of humane literature and in the Civ Law in Cambridge whence coming to get preferment here from the Visitors was by them made this year Fellow of All 's Coll by the endeavours of his father Thom. Scot who being a great creature of Oliver Cromwell was by him nominated to be one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory in the latter end of this year and accordingly did fit but paid the debt for it after his Majesties restauration Mast of Arts. Jul. 6. George Hopkins of New Inn. Jul. 6. Giles Collier of New Inn. Jul. 6. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. Jul. 20. Sam. Clark of Mert. Coll. Oct. 17. Joh. Chetwynd of Ex. Coll. Nov. 16. Benj. Woodbridge of Magd. Hall Dec. 12. Sim. Ford of Magd. Hall The last of these two was afterwards a Student of Ch. Ch and is now living in Worcestershire a Conformist to the Church of England Dec. 12. Joh. Rowe of New Inn. He was about this time made Fellow of C. C. Coll. 14. Edward Littleton of All 's Coll. This person who was son of Adam Littleton of Stoke S. Mildrid in Shropshire of the antient and gentile family of the Littletons in that County and elsewhere became a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in the beginning of the year 1641 aged 15 years or thereabouts and in 1647 he was elected Fellow of the said Coll. of All 's In 1656 he was installed one of the Proctors and continued in his House as I conceive till his Majesties restauration He hath written and published De juventute Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxoniensibus Lond. 1664. in 10 sh in qu. This Oration was spoken by him when he was Rhetorick Reader of the University of Oxon. The second edit of this came out at Lond. 1689. qu. Which by an Epist before it the author dedicates to Westminster School wherein he was educated in Grammar Learning to All 's Coll wherein he was educated in Academicals to Linc. Inn where he had studied the Common Law and to the Island of Barbadoes where he as a Judge had administred the Law Feb. 13. Will. Ley of Ch. Ch. He occurs not either matriculated of any House or Bach. of Arts of this University and therefore I suppose he was a Stranger put in Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors I take him to be the same Will. Ley son of Joh. Ley mention'd among the Writers an 1662. p. 190. who was afterwards Minister of Wanting alias Wantage in Berks Author of A Buckler for the Church of England in answer to Mr. Pendarves his Queries called Arrowes against Babylon c. Oxon. 1656. qu. Adm. 38. or thereab ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys Bach. of Div Doct. of Law Doct. of Phys or Doct. of Divinity was admitted or licensed to proceed this year INCORPORATIONS The Incorporations this year did mostly consist of Canâ—abrigians who had lately come to this University for preferment from the Visitors when the great rout of Royallists were by them made in this University Bach. of Arts. About 20 were incorporated of which number were these June 10. Rich. Maden of Magd. Coll. in Cambridge This person who afterwards took the degree of Master as a member of New Inn I set down here not that he was afterwards a Writer but to distinguish him from another of both his names who was author of certain Sermons of Christs love towards Jerusalem Lond. 1637. qu. and perhaps of other things Jul. 4. Peter Pett of Sydney Coll. He was soon after made Fellow of All 's Coll became a great Vertuoso and at length a Kt. and a Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers with honour Oct. 10. Jam. Ward of Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England His testimony dated 3 Dec. 1646 is subscribed by Hen. Dunster President and Sam. Danforth Fellow of that Coll but whether this J. Ward published any thing afterwards I know not After he was incorporated he
became a firebrand in that City and an enemy to its antient Civil Government In 1648 he was nominated one of the Kings Judges sate on the Bench when he was several times brought before them stood up as consenting when Sentence was passed for severing his head from his body and at length set his hand and seal to the Warrant for his Execution About that time he was made Keeper of the Magazines and Stores received 5000 l. to buy Arms which I think was never after accompted for In 1659 Jul. 7. he was constituted Colonel of the Militia of the said City by the Rump Parliament and was then in great favour with them but in the year after when his Maj. was restored and a Proclamation thereupon was issued out for all such persons that had sate in Judgment on K. Ch. 1. to come in he surrendred himself so that after his Trial had passed in the Sessions house in the Old Bayly he was condemned to perpetual imprisonment and his Estate confiscated What became of him afterwards I know not nor any thing else of him only that much about the time that he was created M. of Arts he got his son named Sam. Roe to be made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the Committee and Visitors May 19. Colonel William Gough or Goffe was then also presented by Zanchy and created M. A. He was the son of Stephen Goffe Rector of Stanmore in Sussex and younger brother to Joh. Goffe mention'd among the Writers an 1661 p. 171. and to Steph. Goffe mention'd in the Fasti an 1636. p. 888. While this William was a Youth and averse to all kind of Learning he was bound an Apprentice to one Vaughan a Salter in London Brother to Col. Joseph Vaughan a Parliamentarian and a zealous Presbyterian whose time being near or newly out he betook himself to be a Soldier for the righteous Cause instead of setting up his trade went out a Quartermaster of Foot and continued in the Wars till he forgot what he had fought for At length thro several military grades he became a Colonel a frequent Prayer-maker Preacher and Presser for Righteousness and Freedom which in outward shew was expressed very zealously and therefore in high esteem in the Parliament Army In 1648 he was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1 sate in judgment when he was brought before the High Court of Justice stood up as consenting when Sentence passed upon him for his decollation and afterwards set his Hand and Seal to the Warrant for his Execution Afterwards having like his General Cromwell an evil tincture of that spirit that loved and sought after the favour and praise of man more than that of God as by woful experience in both of them it did afterwards appear he could not further believe or persevere upon that account but by degrees fell off from the antimonarcal Principles of the chief part of the Army and was the man with Col. Will. White who brought Musquetiers and turned out the Anabaptistical Members that were left behind of the Little or Barebones Parliament out of the House an 1654. Complying thus kindly with the design and interest of the said General he was by him when made Protector constituted Major General of Hampshire Sussex and Berks a place of great profit and afterwards was of one if not of two Parliaments did advance his interest greatly and was in so great esteem and favour in Oliver's Court that he was judged the only fit man to have Maj. Gen. John Lamberts place and command as Maj. General of the Army of Foot and by some to have the Protectorship setled on him in future time He being thus made so considerable a person he was taken out of the House to be a Lord and to have a negative Voice in the Other House and the rather for this reason that he never in all his life as he used several times to say fought against any such thing as a single person or a negative voice but only to pull down Charles and set up Oliver c. in which he obtained his end In 1660 a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he betook himself to his heels to save his neck without any regard had to his Majesties Proclamation wandred about fearing every one that he met should slay him and was living at Lausanna in 1664 with Edm. Ludlow Edward Whaley and other Regicides when John L'isle another of that number was there by certain generous Royalists dispatch'd He afterwards lived several years in Vagabondship but when he died or where his carcass was lodged is as yet unknown to me May 19. Major John Blackmore He was a Burgess for Tiverton to serve in that Parliament call'd by Oliver which began at Westm 3 Sept. 1654. Major ..... Browne was actually created the same day This is all that appears of him in the Register otherwise had his Christian Name been set down I might have been more large upon him The aforesaid eleven Officers great favourites of Cromwell were presented in Masters Gowns on one and the same day by Zanchy before mention'd in a Convocation held by a Presbyterian Deputy Vicechancellour Presbyterian Heads and mostly Presbyterian Masters and all actually created Masters of Arts and seated in the Doctors seats Francis Buller Gent. Bach. of Arts of Cambr. was also then actually created Master but presented by an ordinary Master He was the same person as I conceive who was chose a Knight for the County of Cornwall to serve in Richards Parliament that began at Westm 27 Jan. 1658. May 21. John Rushworth of Queens Coll Secretary to Tho. Lord Fairfax was then created M. of A. and admitted to suffragate in the House of Convoc and Congreg May 21. Edward Thelwall a Capt. of Foot May 21. Hugh Courtney an Officer of note Mar. 14. .... Humphreys Gent. of kin to the Earl of Lincolne and the son of a Colonel c. In the conclusion of the aforesaid Creation May 19 were the Names of certain other Officers read to be created Masters of Arts when they were pleased to come to Oxon to be entertained Their Names were written in a paper subscribed by Fairfax and Cromwell but whether the contents of that paper were registred or that the said Officers were afterwards created it appears not Two of them who are noted to posterity for their great rudeness and impudence towards sacred Majesty I shall here set down but the others not because of little or no Name The first of these two that I shall speak of is George Joyce an Officer of note a Captain as it seems It must be now observed that when the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to treat with the King for Peace did go to him at Newcastle upon Tyne to which place the Scots had conveyed him when he committed his person to their protection near Newark upon Trent it was the pleasure of the Parl. that he and the Commissioners should be conveyed thence to his Palace at
Holdenby in Northamptonshire there to continue during the Treaty because it was a more convenient place for his Majesty and much more near to London than the former place On the 3 of Feb. therefore an 1646 he was conveyed thence by certain Forces appointed by Parliament and on the 16 of the said month he arrived at Holdenby with the Commissioners viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke Basil Earl of Denbigh Edward Lord Mountague of Boughton with double their number of some eminent members of the H. of Commons namely Sir Jam. Harrington Sir John Holland and Sir Joh. Coke Baronets Sir Walter Earle Kt Joh. Crew Esq and Serg. Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne Being all setled there the Treaty went on with fair hopes of a conclusion but by the diabolical machinations of O. Cromwell and his confederates the Adjutators it was after this manner dissolved and the King by force taken thence On the 3 of June 1647 his Maj. being in the afternoon at Bowls in the Green at Aâ—thorp near Holdenby belonging to the Lord Spencer Earl of Sunderland it was whisper'd among the Commissioners then there with him that a party of Horse obscurely headed were marching towards Holdenby and for no good it was presumed in regard that neither the Commissioners nor Colonel Rich. Greaves a most confiding Presbyterian who kept the Guard at Holdenby and was an Officer in the Army nor the Commissioners servants had the least notice of it from any Officer or other correspondent in the Army other than that the General had removed his Head-quarter from S. Edmunds Bury to Newmarket when the Army entred into an Engagement not to suffer themselves to be disbanded such a motion having been made by the Commons in Parliament Whereupon his Majesty so soon as he was acquainted with it he immediately left the Green and returned to Holdenby where the Commissioners after consultation had with Col. Greaves resolved to stand upon their guard and accordingly they forthwith doubled their guards for the defence of his Majesties person and Serg. Maj. Gen. Browne calling all the Soldiers together acquainted them with the occasion who promised to stand by him and not to suffer any attempt upon the Kings person or affront on the Commissioners as I have been informed by one then present on the place whom I shall anon mention But the difference is great 'twixt saying and doing as soon appeared for about midnight came that party of Horse which in good order drew up before the House or Pallace at Holdenby and at all avenews placed guards This done the Officer that commanded the party alighted and demanded entrance Whereupon Greaves and Browne asked him his name and business he answer'd his name was Joyce a Cornet in Col. Edw. Whalleys Regiment and his business was to speak with the King From whom said they From my self said Joyce at which they laughed and thereupon Joyce said 't was no laughing matter They advised him to draw off his men and in the morning he should speak with the Commissioners I came not hither said he to be advised by you nor have I any business with the Commissioners my errand is to the King and speak with him I must and will presently c. They then bad the Soldiers within stand to their Arms and be ready to fire when ordered But during this short Treaty between the Cornet and Greaves and Browne the Soldiers on each side had conference together and so soon as they understood that they were Fellow-Soldiers of one and the same Army they quickly forgot what they had promised for they opened the gates and doors shoke one another by the hand and bad them welcome so little regard had they to their promises either in reference to the Kings safety or the Commissioners that attended him Entrance being made strict search was made after Col. Greaves who tho faultless yet was it suggested that he would privately have conveyed away the King to London got happily out of their reach Sentinels were ordered by Joyce to be set at the Commissioners chambers doors that he might with less noise carry on his design and find way to the Back-stairs where the Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber attended Cornet Joyce being come unto the door he in rude manner knock'd Those within asked who it was that in such an uncivil manner and unseasonable time came to disquiet the Kings rest The Cornet answer'd My name is Joyce an Officer of the Army and sorry I am that I should disquiet the King but I cannot help it for speak with him I must and that presently c This strange confidence of his and the posture he was in having a cock'd Pistol in his hand amazed the four Grooms of the Bedchamber Jam. Maxwell Patr. Maule Jam. Harrington and Thom. Herbert from the last of which I had this story in writing whose duty it was and care to preserve his Majesties person and were resolv'd to sacrifice their lives rather than give him admittance They therefore in the first place ask'd Joyce if he had the Commissioners approbation for his intrusion he said no for I have ordered a guard to be set at their doors and have orders from those that feared them not They then perswaded him to lay aside his arms and to forbear giving disturbance the K. being then asleep assuring him that in the morning he should have his Majesties answer to his errand The Cornet refused to part with either Sword or Pistol and yet insisted to have the Chamber door opened But the Grooms of the Bedchamber keeping firm to their resolution that he should not enter the noise was so loud which in this contest could not be avoided that it awakened his Majesty who thereupon rung his silver bell Upon which Maxwell went into the Bedchamber to know the Kings pleasure the other three Grooms in the mean time securing the door The K. being acquainted with the business and uncivil carriage of the Cornet he sent word he would not rise nor speak with him until morning Which being told the Cornet he huff'd and seeing his design could not be effected in the night he retired so as for a few hours there was silence Morning being come the K. arose a little sooner than ordinary and having performed his morning devotions he sent for Joyce who with no less confidence than if he had been a supreme Officer approached the King and acquainted him with the commands he had concerning his removal The K. desired that the Commissioners might be sent for and his orders communicated to them the Cornet made answer that they were to return back to the Parliament by whose appointment said the King to which the Cornet made no answer The K. then said Let them have their liberty and give me a sight of your instructions That said Cornet Joyce you shall see presently And forthwith drawing up the greatest and best part of his party into the inner Court as near as he could unto the King said These
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 rudeness so as with shame he mounted his horse and followed the Coach with his party or guard the Coachman driving as he directed and Captain Merriman a name ill suting with the occasion with another party went foremost The King in this passage shew'd no discomposure at all tho at parting he did and would be asking the Gentlemen in the Coach with him Whether they thought he was travelling they made some simple replies such that served to make his Majesty smile at their innocent conjectures Otherwhile he would comfort himself with what he had granted at the late Treaty with the Commissioners whom he highly praised for their ingenuity and fair deportment at Newport The Coach by the L. Colonels direction went Westward towards Worsley's Tower in Fresh-water Isle and a little beyond Yarmouth Haven About that place his Majesty rested until the Vessel was ready to take him aboard with those few his Attendants The King after an hours stay went aboard a sorrowful spectacle and great example of fortunes inconstancy The wind and tyde favoured him and his company and in less than three hours time they crost that narrow Sea and landed at Hurst Castle or Block-house rather erected by order of K. Hen. 8 upon a spot of earth thrust by nature a good way into the Sea and joyned to the firm land by a narrow neck of Sand which is constantly covered over with loose stones and pebbles Upon both sides of this passage the Sea beats so as at spring tydes and in stormy weather it is formidable and hazardous The Castle has very thick stone walls and the platforms are regular and both have Culverins and Sakers mounted A dismal receptacle it was for so great a Monarch as this King was the greater part of whose life and reign had been prosperous and full of earthly glory Nevertheless it was some satisfaction to his Majesty that his two Houses of Parliament abhor'd this force upon his person having voted that the seizing of the Kings Person and carrying him Prisoner to Hurst Castle was without the privity and consent of either House of Parliament c. The Captain of this wretched place was not unsutabâ—e to it At the Kings going on Shoar in the Evening of the said 30 of Nov. he stood ready to receive him with small observance His look was stern his hair and large beard were black and bushy He held a Partizan in his hand and Switz-like had a great Basket-hilt-sword by his side Hardly could one see a man of more grim aspect and no less robust and rude was his behaviour Some of his Majesties servants were not a little fearful of him and really thought that he was designed for mischief especially when he vapoured as being elevated with his command and puft up by having so royal a Prisoner so as probably he conceived he was nothing inferior to the Governour of the Castle at Millan But being complained off to L. Col. Cobbet his superior Officer he appeared a Bubble for being pretty sharply admonished he quickly became mild and calm whereby 't was visible that his humour or tumour rather was adulatory acted to curry favour wherein also he was much mistaken For to give the L. Colonel his due he was after his Majesty came under his custody very civil to him both in language and behaviour and courteous to those that attended him on all occasions Also that his disposition was not rugged towards such as in loyalty and love came to see and to pray for him as sundry persons out of Hampshire and the neighbouring Counties did His Majesty as it may be well granted was very slenderly accommodated at this place for the Room he usually eat in was neither large nor lightsome insomuch that at noon day in that Winter season candles were set up to give light and at night he had his wax Lamp set as formerly in a silver bason which illuminated the Bedchamber and Tho. Herbert then attending being the sole person at that time left as Groom thereof for Harrington was soon after dismist as I have elsewhere told you he could not otherwise but call to mind a relation well worth the observance which is this as by Letters with several other stories relating to the Kings last two years of his life he very kindly imparted to me When Mountague Earl of Lindsey one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bedchamber did lay one night on a Pallet by the Kings bed-side a little before he left Oxon in a disguise to surrender his person up to the Protection of the Scots then laying seige to Newark upon Trent was placed at the end of his Majesties Bed as was usually every night a Lamp or round cake of wax in a bason set on a stool The Earl awaked in the night and observed the room to be perfectly dark and thereupon raising himself up he looked towards the Lamp and concluded that it might be extinguished by water got into the bason by some creek But he not hearing the King stir he forbore rising or to call upon those in the next chamber to bring in another light About half an hour after he fell asleep again and awaked not till morning but when he did awake he discerned the Lamp bright burning which so astonish'd him that taking the boldness to call to the King whom he heard by his stirring to be awake he told him what he had observed whereupon the King replied that he himself awaking also in the night took notice that all was dark and to be fully satisfied he put by the curtain to look on the Lamp but concluded that the Earl had risen and set it upon the bason lighted again The Earl assured his Majesty he did not The King then said he did consider it was a prognostick of Gods future favour and mercy towards him and his that tho he was at that time ecclipsed yet either he or they may shine out bright again c. But to return in this sad condition was the King at Hurst the place and military persons duly considered He was sequestred in a manner from the comfort that earth and air affordeth and the society of men The earth confin'd him to that promontorie or gravel walk overspread with loose stones a good depth on which when he walked as usually he did was very uneasie and offensive to his feet but endure it he did with his most admirable and accustom'd patience and serenity of spirit and more alacrity than they that followed him The air was equally noxious by reason of the marish grounds that were thereabouts and the unwholsome vapours arising from the â—argosses and weeds which the salt water constantly at tydes and stormes cast upon the shoar and by the foggs that those marine places are most subject to so that the dwellers thereabouts find by experience how that the air is insalubrious and disposing to diseases especially aguish distempers Notwithstanding all these things the King was content in this most
disconsolate and relegated place to walk two miles at least in length containing but a few paces in breadth either in the company of the Governour of the said Castle or in that of Captain Reynolds an Officer therein beside Harrington while he was there and Herbert who according to their duties did always attend him That which made some amendments was a fair and uninterrupted prospect a good way into the Sea a view into the Isle of Wight one way and main Land the other with the sight of Ships of all sizes daily under sail with which his Majesty was much delighted In this Castle his Majesty continued from the evening of the 30 of Nov. till the 21. of Dec. following an 1648. and what hapned in that interval I have partly told you in Jam. Harrington among the Writers under the year 1677. p. 437.438 About the 15 of the said month of Dec. Major Harrison came late at night with orders for the removal of his Majesty thence lodged there two nights and went away without seeing the King or speaking with any of his Attendants Two days after L. Col. Cobbet before mention'd came and acquainted his Majesty with the orders he had received for his remove thence to Windsore Castle forthwith The King told him he was more kind at that time than he was at Newport when he would not gratifie him or any other the knowledge of the place he was to go to Windsore was the place he ever delighted in and 't would make amends for what at Hurst he had suffer'd All things in short time being made ready he bad solitary Hurst adieu and having pass'd the narrow passage before mention'd which reaches well nigh from Hurst to Milford three long miles there appeared a party of Horse belonging to the Army who had then their Winter quarter at Lindhorsh and were ordered to convoy the King to Winchester but going first to Ringwood then through the New Forest to Rumsey went thence to the said City At his entrance therein the Mayor and Aldermen of the City did notwithstanding the times receive the King with dutiful respect and the Clergy did the like During his short stay there the Gentry and others of inferiour rank flock'd thither in great numbers to welcome his Majesty and out of zeal to pray for his enlargement and happiness with which the King was much satisfied and was pleased to give his hand to many of them to kiss Thence his Majesty rode to Alton and so to Alresford while the Inhabitants round about made hast to see his Majesty pass by and to pour forth their prayers for his preservation From thence he went to Farnham 'twixt which two Towns Major Harrison met him with a party of Horse to convey him to Windsore See more before in Thomas Harrison among these creations Bach of Phys May 19. Thomas Trapham Chyrurgion to the General of the Parl. Army was then actually created Bach. of Physick while the said General Cromwell and the aforesaid Officers were seated in their Gowns in the Doctors seats This person who was Son of John Trapham of Maidstone in Kent and had been licensed by the University to practice Chyrurgery an 1633 did practice it in these parts for some time before the grand rebellion broke forth Afterwards he turned tail for profit sake practiced in the Parliament Army and became a bitter enemy to his Majesty K. Ch. the first to whose body after his decollation in the latter end of Jan. 1648 he put his hand to open and embalm and when that was done he sewed his head to his body and that being done also he said to the company then present that he had sewed on the head of a Goose Afterwards he was Chyrurgeon to Oliver Cromwell at the fight at Worcester against K. Ch. 2 was a great man among his party and got what he pleased After his Majesties return he retired to the fanatical Town of Abendon in Berks practiced there among the Brethren and dying an absolute Bigot for the cause in the latter end of Dec. 1683 was buried on the 29 of the same month in the presence of a great number of Dissenters in the Church yard of S. Helen there close under one of the windows of that Church One of both his names and his Son as it seems I shall elsewhere mention Nov. 14. James Ward was actually created by the favour of Fairfax the General This person who was lately made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors I have mentioned among the Incorporations an 1648. Jan. 14. Edm. Scrope eldest Son of Col. Adrian Scrope mention'd among the Creations of Bachelaurs of Arts this year was created by order of the Delegates of this University This ingenious and most comely Gentleman who had by the endeavours of his Father been made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the favour of the Committee and Visitors was afterwards Keeper of the Privy Seal in the Kingdom of Scotland He died much lamented by those that knew him in 1658 or thereabouts and was buried with solemnity by two or more Officers of Armes at Ch. Ch. alias the Grey-friers within Newgate in London Bach. of Div. May 19. Matthew Barten sometimes Mast of Arts of New Inn now a sturdy zealous and dayly Preacher up of the blessed cause in the Parliament Army was actually created Bach. of Div while the General Lieut. General and Officers were sitting in their respective stalls It was the pleasure then of Fairfax and Cromwell that George Sikes Jam. Baron Joh. Dale and Josh Cross all zealous and doughty Brethren for the said cause might be created Bachelaurs of Div. when they pleased June 8. George Sikes was created in a Convocation then held This person who was Son of George Sikes of Lutterworth in Leycestershire was originally of S. Johns Coll a Servitour I think and as a member of it he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards siding with the faction he became a Presbyterian a Covenantier an Independent was made Fellow of Magd. Coll by the Com. and Visitors where he had his share of the old gold or spurroyals belonging to that house went away with and never restored them again as others did and took the Engagement became a great admirer and follower of Sir Hen. Vane junior and therefore esteemed by the generality an Anabaptist Fifth-monarchy man and a Hodg-podge of religions He hath written The life and death of Sir Hen. Vane Knight or a short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage Printed 1662 in qu. 'T is a most canting and enthusiastical piece and the effects rather of a craz'd than setled brain And instead of giving the Reader an account of the birth extract breeding actions c. of that Knight usually called Sir Humerous Vanity he puts the Reader off with his such as 't is Divinity What else he hath written I know not nor any thing besides of the person only that he was a great encourager of Henry Stubbe in
Zanchy with a flattering speech in a most humble posture which being done he that then held the Chancellours Chair who all the time stood up bare admitted him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Which being done Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him to his place next on the left hand to the Chancellours Chair This person also who had a greater name in his time than Fairfax had not only in England but throughout the whole World which he obtained more by policy dissimulation under the cloak of religion whether in prayer preaching discourse and action rather than valour must according to method have something said of him which shall with as much brevity as may be done because all Histories ring of his fame as well as infamy Born therefore he was in the Parish of S. John in the antient Borough of Huntingdon on the 24 of Apr. 1599 41. of Elizab. and was Christned in that Church on the 29 of the same month where Sir Oliver Cromwell his Uncle gave him his name His Father who lived in the same Town was Rob. Cromwell second Son of Sir Hen. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingdonshire Kt. who died in 1603 His Mother was Elizabeth sister to Sir Thomas Son of Sir Richard Steward Kts whence 't was that when Oliver gaped after the Protectorship it was given out by those of his party that he was descended of the Royal Blood and had right to the Crown of England His said Mother Elizabeth lived to See her Son Lord Protector and dying in Whitehall 18. Nov. 1654 was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chappel at Westm where her body continuing till after his Majesties restoration was removed from that place 12. of Sept. 1661 and buried with other Cromwellian bodies in a pit dug in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning where it now resteth Oliver her Son was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Huntingdon under one Dr. Tho. Beard a Minister in that Town and in Academical in Sidney Coll. in Cambridge but his Father dying while he was there he was taken home and sent to Lincolns Inn to study the Common Law but making nothing of it he was sent for home by his Mother became a Debauchee and a boysterous and rude Fellow At length being reformed and pretending to Saintship he married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir James Bouchier of Essex became heir to his Uncle his Mothers Brother spent the estate which was considerable took a Farm at S. Ives thrived not and therefore had intentions to go to New England a receptacle for Puritans and Nonconformists but that project taking not he removed to the Isle of Ely where he more frequently and publickly own'd himself a Teacher In 1640 he by the endeavours of one Rich. Tyms afterwards Alderman of Cambridge who had several times heard him preach at Ely was first made free of the Corporation of Cambridge then a Burgess thereof to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640. Soon after when the rebellion began towards which he gave a considerable helping hand he had a Commission given to him to be a Captain of Horse which he soon raised in his native Country and doing great service in those parts he soon after was made a Colonel and at length Lieutenant General to Edward Earl of Manchester who had the separate command in a distinct supremacy of the associated Counties Afterwards doing great service at Marston-moor near York after Sir Tho. Faâ—rfax and the Scots had been totally routed there Cromwell and his party of Curassiers being then in the left wing his atchievment was industriously cried up at Westminster and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto Within 4 months after we find him in the second battle at Newbury in Beâ—ks where the fates favoured him again tho not with a complete victory yet on that side where he fought with a part of one and so much as endangered the Person of the King if the noble and stout Earl of Cleveland had not hazardously interposed and bore off the pursuit Soon after the Army being new modell'd Essex the General was laid aside as unfortunate and Sir Thomas Fairfax being put into his place Cromwell was made Lieutenant General of the same Army from which time he continued as Fairfax did victorious and upon all occasions did lull and bewitch with the syrene charmes of his zealous insinuations the said Fairfax to carry on his pernitious designs Afterwards we find him the chief person under the cloak of great dissimulation of hurrying the King from place to place of defaming him among the people and bringing him to judgment Which done he sat with the rest of the Judges on him stood up when sentence was passed and set his hand and seal to the warrant for his execution Soon after he being made one of the Council of State he was ordained Commander in chief or Lord Governour of Ireland in June 1649 conquer'd there returned and was made General of the Parliament Army upon Fairfax's laying down his Commission Afterwards he went into Scotland did some seats there against K. Ch. 2 but that King giving him the go-by he followed him into England encountred him at Worcester conquer'd his party and put him to flight Thence he went to London and was highly caressed by the Citizens and Parliament and soon after dissolving the Parliament he called another but that being not suitable to his designs he dissolv'd that and took upon him the Protectorship which he enjoyed during his life time Under his name were published Many Letters written to the Speaker of the House of Commons to the House of Commons Sir Thomas Fairfax Committees c. containing relations of skirmishes victories taking of Castles Towns c. as also some Speeches and Declarations c. By his Wife Elizabeth before mention'd he had Sons and Daughters as 1 Rich. Cromwell who being young when the War began did not bear arms but several years after they were concluded he was made Colonel and Privy-Counsellour in order to have the Protectorship confer'd on him 2 Henry Cromwell afterwards Commander of the Generals Life-guard and at length on the 25 of Nov. 1657 was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland upon the recalling of Charles Fleetwood He married the Dau. of Sir Francis Russell of Cambridgshire Kt and Bt first a Royallist afterwards a Parliament Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchâ—ster and Chamberlain of Chester 3 Bridget the Wife of Hen. Ireton of whom I have made mention among the Writers an 1651. p. 81. After his death she was married to Charles Fleetwood before mention'd a Gent. of Bucks and a Recruiter of the Long Parliament afterwards a Colonel in their service a strong Anabaptist Lord Deputy of Ireland one of Olivers Lords and Lieutenant General of the Army and Major General of several Counties in the time of Cromwells Protectorship 4 Elizabeth the Wife of John
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
D. of D. and Bish of Cloyne in Irel. 1679 on the death of Dr. Edw. Singe who being Bish of Cloyne Cork and Ross the two last Sees were then the same year confer'd on Dr. Edw. Wâ—tenhall sometimes of Linc. Coll. Aug. 4. Nich. Stanley Doct. of Phys of Leyden 7. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these two who was son of Dr. Edw. Stanley mention'd among the Writers p. 195 was Fellow of New Coll and afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London Edmund Borlase Doct. of Phys of Leyden was incorporated the same day Aug. 7. This person who was son of Sir Joh. Borlaso Kt Master of the Ordnance and one of the Lords Justices of Irel. 1643 Sir Hen. Tichborne being the other was educated in the Coll. near Dubl and going afterwards to Leyden had the said degr of Doct. of Phys confer'd on him there 1650. Afterwards he setled in the City of Chester where he practised his faculty with good success to his dying day Among the several books which he hath written and published I find these 1 Latham Spaw in Lancashire with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it Lond. 1670. oct dedicated to Charles Earl of Derby 2 The reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England With the Governours since the Conquest by K. Hen. 2 an 1172 with some passages in their Government A brief account of the Rebellion an Dom. 1641. Also the original of the Vniv of Dublin and the Coll. of Physitians Lond. 1675. in a large oct 3 The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion traced from many preceeding Acts to the grand eruption 23 Oct. 1641. And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement 1672. Lond. 1680. fol. Much of this book is taken from another intit The Irish Rebellion or the History of the beginnings and first progress of the general Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland 23 Oct. 1641 c. Lond. 1646. qu. Written by Sir Joh. Temple Kt Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties honorable privy Council in Irel. 4 Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires of his engagement and carriage in the War of Ireland By which the Government at that time and the Justice of the Crown since are vindicated from aspersions cast on both Lond. 1682. oct In the third p. of the Epist to the Reader before the book is a pretty severe reflection made on the design of the eighth Chapt. of Sir Will. Dugdale's book intit A short view of the late Troubles in England as was a little before by another person in A Letter in answer to a friend upon notice of a book entit A short view c. Wherein in the eigth Chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish Rebellion in 1641 is egregiously mistaken This Letter which is dated on the last of Apr. 1681 was printed at Lond. in 1 sh in fol. the same year What other things Dr. Borlase hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Chester after the year 1682. Sept. 20. Joh. Bidgood Doct. of Phys of Padua was â—hen incorporated This person who had been Fellow of Exeter Coll was ejected thence in 1648 by the then Visitors appointed by Parl first for Non-submission and secondly for drinking of healths to the confusion of Reformers This last reason was mention'd in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 397. a. under the tenth head next following the matter of Nich. Braine there mention'd which is under the ninth But the author communicating the copy of that book before it went to the Press to a certain Doctor in Oxon of Bidgood's faculty he upon the perusal of that passage did falsly unknowing to the author acquaint by another hand the said Bidgood then living at Exeter of it Whereupon Bidgood a covetous person fearing that such a passage as that might when made public hinder his practice among the godly party at Exeter and near it he made application by letters to the said Doctor of Oxon and to Dr. Fell the publisher of the History to have it taken out Whereupon Dr. Fell wondring that he should scruple at such a passage which made much for his Loyalty the sheet wherein it was was reprinted and the eleventh head in the said p. 397. a was made the tenth in its place This Health tho said by his Contemporaries in Exeter Coll to be a Cup of Devils to Reformers yet the author of the aforesaid History finding it not so in the Visitors Register of their actions but as it is word by word before mention'd therefore did he set it so down without any invention of his own as some did surmise This Dr. Bidgood who was honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond died very rich at Exeter on the 13 of Jan. 1690 after he had cashier'd and disinherited his nat son call'd Joh. Sommers sometimes M. A. of Trin. Coll. His Estate was computed to be worth between 25 and 30000 l the main bulk of which he left to one Humph. Bidgood his Kinsman and some to pious uses And having been a person of a surley and proud nature and offensive in word and action he did a little before his death desire pardon and forgiveness of all the world especially of several persons with whom he had any animosities Oct. 17. Robert Henchman Doct. of Phys of Padua Oct. 17. Christop Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two who was son of Onuphrius Henchman had the degree of Doct. confer'd on him at Pad an 1654 the other in 1659 and afterwards practised his fac in Lincolnshire Nov. 19. Franc. Giffard M. A. of Cambr One of both his names and Mast of Arts hath written and published The wicked Petition or Israels sinfulness in asking a King explained in a Serm. at the Assizes held at Northampton first of March 1680. Lond. 1681. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sure I am that the Sermon was seasonably delivered the K. being then tired our by factious people with Petitions relating to Parliaments CREATIONS After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 it was his and the pleasure of the Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox and of Sir E. Hyde who succeeded him in that Office this year that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had suffer'd for his Majesties Cause and had been ejected from the University by the Visitors appointed by Parl. an 1648. 49. c. Mast of Arts. Seventy and one Masters of Arts at least were actually created among whom some that had not been Sufferers thrust themselves into the crowd for their money Others yet few were Gentlemen and were created by the favour of the Chancellours Letters only Among the 70 and odd Masters which were created I shall mention these following Aug. 2. Charles Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely Aug. 2. Will. Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely
Merick died which hapned as it seems in Jan. 1668 he became Judge of the Prerogative In Nov. 1669 he was sent by his Majesty to the K. of France to claim the Jewels of Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother of England then lately dead there and after his return he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty on the seventh of January the same year About which time he was a Recruiter for Hyeth one of the Cinque-Ports in that Parl. that began at Westminster 8 May 1661 wherein as his Enemies say who tell us that he was the son of a Taylour and indefatigably industrious in promoting a peace for France which has been our .... he affirmed That upon necessity the King might raise monies without Act of Parliament In the beginning of the year 1673 he resigned his Principality of Jes Coll. being then about to go to Colen in Germany with Henry Earl of Arlington and Sir Joseph Williamson in the quality of Plenipotentiaries from his Maj. of Great Britaine to mediate for a Peace between the Emperour and K. of France Afterwards being returned thence Sir Leolin was sent in the same quality by his Maj. to Neomagin in Dec. 1675 and in 1677 when Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterb. diâ—d all the report then was that he was to succeed him in that See being then esteemed eminent for his profession for his great Loyalty to his Prince love and care of the Church of England and its orthodox Clergy In Aug. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses of this University to sit in that Parl. which was to meet at Westm on the 17 of Octob. following and on the eleventh of Feb. following that he was sworn one of his Majesties Privy Council being then appointed to succeed Mr. Hen. Coventry in the place of Secretary of State On the 26 Apr. 1680 he was sworn Secretary and received the Seals which the said Mr. Coventry then delivered up to his Maj. and in the beginning of Feb. following he was chose Burgess again by the Members of this Univ. to serve in that Parl. which was to begin at Oxon on the 21 of March the same year But so it was that the Faction being then very high in their Proceedings and Designs which they carried on under pretence of prosecuting the Popish Plot Sir Leolin was so much oppressed with business and the more because his brother Secretary did not understand it that his body was in short time after so much broken followed with great and dangerous indispositions that he with leave obtained from his Maj. did at length on the 14 of Apr. 1684 deliver up the Seals of his Office to his Majesty Whereupon giving a farewell to all secular Employment he retired to a House at Hamersmith near London which he had hired and there spent the remainder of his days In the middle of March 1684 K. Jam. 2. being then in the throne he was elected Burgess again by the Members of this University to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm on the 19 of May 1685 but his body being then exceedingly out of order he did not sit He died on the first of Sept. 1685 aged 62 years whereupon his body being embalmed it was conveyed from Hammersmith towards Oxon being then attended by some of his friends and domestick servants When it came near the City several Doctors and principal Members of the University as also the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens some in Coaches and others on Horseback met it on the 15 of the same month and being conducted to the public Schools the Vicechanc Bish of the Diocese and whole body of the University received and placed it in the Divinity School which was fitted for that purpose On Thursday the 17 day the Vicechancellour Bishops together with the Noblemen Doctors Proctors and Masters met there in the said School in their formalities and the memory of the deceased being solemniz'd in a Latin Speech by the University Orator the Corps was removed to the Chappel of Jesus Coll where the Vicechanc. Principal thereof read the Offices of Burial and a Latin Speech was also spoken by one of the Fellows which was accompanied with Musick and Anthems suitable to the occasion He was a great Benefactor to the new Buildings in the Quadrangle on the West side of the Refectory of the said Coll. in his life time and when he died he gave to the said Coll. 700 l. per an and the advowson of two Churches There is a fair mon. over his grave in that Chappel with a large inscription thereon the contents whereof shall now for brevity sake be omitted while I tell you that under his name are printed Several Debates in the House of Commons at the Parl. held at Westm 21 of Oct. 1680. Printed in a book intit An exact Collection of the most considerable Debates in the honorable H. of Com. at the Parl. held at Westm 21 Oct. 1680. c. Lond. 1681. oct As also A Letter to K. James 2 to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion printed with Dr. Sam. Parkers Discourse on the same subject Jan. 16. Henr. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall He had before been admitted to practise Physick but after his Majesties restauration laying aside that faculty he betook himself to Divinity and became Rector of Chaworth in Nottinghamshire Prebendary of Ely and of Southwell I shall make mention of his brother Sam. Brunsell among the created Doctors of Div. this year Mar. 9. Henr. Ailworth of New Coll. He was about this time Chanc. of the Dioc. of Oxon which Office he now enjoyeth Doct. of Phys Aug. 2. John Clerk of Trin. Coll. I have mention'd another Joh. Clerk Dr. of Phys of Padua among the Incorporations an 1653. Which of these two was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys I know not Will. Durston of Magd. Coll. was created the same day by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University which say that he appeared in Comitiis and performed his exercises for the degree of Dr. of Phys in Vniv of Dubl and that from the beginning of the late unhappy wars and more particularly in the City of Oxon when it was a Garrison he faithfully served his Majesty and afterwards for his loyalty was ejected out of Magd. Coll. for not submitting to the then Visitation 1648 Aug. 2. Thom. Wren second Son of Matthew B. of Ely and sometimes a Student of Cambridge was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that by force of the late unhappy times he was constrained to leave the Vniversity of Cambridge in divers Colleges whereof his Father was Visitor and for his proficiency in studies he was fain to settle himself in the verg of the Vnivers of Oxon that the pressures under which his Father lay for 17 years together were such that he could not his estate being taken away allow his Children bread much less supply their expences for living in Colleges and
A. of Ch. Ch. and Preb. of Winchester Nov. 9. Tho. Lamplugh B. D. of Qu. Coll. Nov. 9. Tho. Tully B. D. of Qu. Coll. The first of these three became Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Tho. Gorges deceased and dying on the 29 of March 1684 aged 74 years his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Rob. Sharrock 19. Thom. Manton of Wadh. Coll. the noted Presbyterian 29. Thom. Lockey B. D. and Student of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Canon of that House and dying on the 29 of June 1679 aged 78 years was buried in the second isle joyning on the north side to the Choire of Ch. Ch. where there is a neat monument over his grave He was a retired and studious person had been a great Tutor in his house in the time of Usurpation a Collector of pictures coines medals c. All or most of which with his choice Library came into the hands of Dr. Hen. Killigrew Preb. of Westminster Tho. Hacket M. A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin was actually created the same day He was Dean of Cork in Ireland afterwards Vicar of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty and at length Bishop of Downe He hath extant A Convocation Sermon at Dublin on 1. Cor. 14.16 printed 1662 in qu. and A Sermon preached at the Spittle upon Tuesday in Easter week 1672 printed the same year at Lond. in qu and perhaps other things Dec. 1. Nich. Cordel of All 's Fellow of Eaton Coll. Dec. 1. Joh. Gough commonly called Goffe M. A. of Magd. Coll. Dec. 1. Rich. West M. of A. of Ch. Ch. The last of these three who was Son of Thomas West of the antient Borough of Northampton Priest was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1632 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being completed in 1639 and afterwards suffer'd for the Royal cause Much about the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of Shillingston in Dorsetshire and afterwards Preb. of Wells He hath published The profitableness of piety opened in an Assize Sermon preached at Dorchester 24 of March 167 0 1 before Sir Rich. Rainsford Kt one of the Judges of the Kings Bench on 1. Tim. 4. latter part of the 7. and 8 verses Lond. 1671. qu. Dec. 1. Edw. Clerke M. A. of Hart Hall Dec. 1. Edm. Morgan M. A. of Magd. Hall Dec. 1. Edw. Hicks of Oriel Coll. The last of these three who was Son of Joh. Hicks Minister of Barrington in Glocestershire became a Student in the said Coll. of Oriel in 1639 aged 15 years left it when the War began without taking the degree of B. of A sided with the predominant party return'd to his house after the War was ended submitted to the Visitors and then took the degree of Master Afterwards he became Rector of Hartingfordbury in Hertfordshire procured by his interest as certain other Presbyterians did to be created D. D. among the Royallists and afterwards being ejected from his living for Nonconformity as a printed Catalogue of the generality of Nonconformists in England informs me did afterwards conform and became Rector of S. Margaret Patens in the City of London He hath published The righteous Judge Sermon preached at Hertford Assize 10. March 1681 2 on Gen. 18.25 last part Lond. 1682. qu. It is dedicated by the author to Sir Nich. Miller Kt High Sherriff of Hertfordshire by his Epist dated at Buckland in the same County 29 of March 1682 of which place he was then as I suppose Rector What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in the latter end of the said year 1682. Dec. 1. Gilb. Ironside the designed B. of Bristow B. of D. of Trin. Coll. Diplomated D. of D. Dec. 1. Will. Nicolson the desig B. of Gloc. B. of D. of Magd. Coll. Diplomated D. of D. 11. Tho. Smith afterwards Bishop of Carlile B. of D. of Queens Coll. Diplomated D. of D. 15. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll. was created for his several laudable Sermons preached before the King and Parliament while Oxon was a Garrison for his Majesty This person who had been outed of his Chaplainship of Merton Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 suffered afterwards as other Loyallists did but after his Majesties restauration he became Preb. of Winterbourne Earles in the Church of Salisbury Preb. of Chichester and Rector of Clapham in Surrey at which place he died in Aug. or thereabouts an 1675. See more of him in Joh. Gregory among the Writers p. 50. John Castillion M. A. of Ch. Ch. and Preb. of Canterbury was created the same day On the 15 of Nov. 1676 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Thom. Lamplugh promoted to the See of Exeter and dying about the latter end of Octob. 1688 his Majesty K. Jam. 2. nominated Mr. Sim. Lowth to succeed him but he being not then D. D and not in a possibility to obtain that degree before the said K. left the Nation K. Will. 3. gave it to one Dr. ... Vllock January 16. Sam. Brunsell of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of Oliver Brunsell of Wroughton in Dorsetshire became a Com. of the said Hall 1636 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts 1641 and then left the University because the rebellion soon after broke out After his Majesties restauration if not before he became Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire and at length Preb. of Southwell c. He hath published Solomons blessed Land Sermon before an extraordinary assembly at Newark upon Trent on the 29 May 1660 on Ecclesiast 10.17 Lond. 1660. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 24. Joshua Childrey of Magd. Coll. Mar. 1. Edw. Cotton M. A. of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Cornwall in the place of Dr. Rob. Hall I have made mention of his Father of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 813. James Stermont a Dutch Divine was diplomated the same day by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which partly run thus While his Majesty was in the parts beyond the Sea he had evidence of the affections of this Mr. James Stermont Minister of the Hague in Holland who has a great repute for piety and learning with those among whom he lives And by the affections he has declared to the Church and Crown of England deserves the acknowledgment of all who wish well to either c. This person being a high Royalist for the cause of the King of England 't was frequent with him to have several passages in his Sermons at the Hague esteemed by those that were not lovers of his Majesty to be extravagancies invectives and strange digressions which being looked upon as much tending to the prejudice of peace and the intended treaties between England and Holland he was forced to recant before the high and mighty States general an 1651. Mar. 12. William Holder of Cambridge This worthy person who
him Sir John Nicholas Kt. of the Bath Will. Blathwait and Charles Montague Esquires This Rich. Cooling was originally as it seems of All 's Coll. The said nine persons were actually created on the 8 of Sept. Doct. of Law Sept. 8. Sir Cyrill Wyche Kt son of Sir Pet. Wyche sometimes Controller of his Majesties Houshold now a Burgess in Parliament for Kellington in Cornwall He was M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in the times of Usurpation was afterwards Secretary to the Lieutenancy in Ireland one of the Royal Society and a Burgess in other Parliaments Nov. 7. Sir Henneage Finch Kt Sollicitor General and one of the Burgesses of the Univ. to sit in Parliament Col. Giles Strangwaies sometimes of Wadh. Coll. now a Knight for the County of Dorset to serve in Parl was created the same day This most loyal and worthy Gent. who was of Melbury Samford in the said County died 1675. The said two persons were created Doctors of the Civil Law in a Convocation held on that day Nov. 7. after they had communicated the thanks of the honorable House 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. Laurence Hyde Esq another Burgess for the University and Sir Joh. Birkenhead were the other two that were besides the two former appointed to return thanks and were then present in Convocation but the first of these last two was not created Doctor of the Civ Law because he had before been diplomated M. A which he then thought was sufficient and the other created Doctor as I have before told you Doct. of Phys Sept. 8. Robert Boyle Esq was created after Edw. E. of Manchester had been incorporated This honorable person who was the fourth son of Richard the first Earl of Cork was born at Lismore in Ireland whence after he had been well grounded in juvenile Learning he went to the Univ. of Leyden and spent some time there in good Letters Afterwards he travelled into France Switzerland Italy c. and spending some time in Rome he was so much satisfied with the curiosities there that afterwards he never had any desire to see or view the Curiosities or Antiquities of other places After his return into England being then accounted a well bred Gentleman he setled in Oxon in the time of Oliver about 1657 where he carried on his great delight in several studies especially in experimental Philosophy and Chimistry spent much money entertained Operators to work in his Elabratory which he had built for his own use and often did repair to the Club of Virtuosi in the Lodgings of Dr. Wilkins Warden of Wadh. Coll and they to him in his joyning to Vniv Coll. and opposite to that of Allsoules After his Majesties restauration when the Royal Society was erected he was made one of the first members thereof was one of the Council belonging thereunto and the greatest promoter of new Philosophy of any among them After he had left Oxon for London he setled in the house of his sister Catherine Lady Ranelaugh where he erected an Elaboratory kept men at work and carried on Chimistry to the last The books that he hath written are many some of which are printed beyond the Seas and are there highly valued In all which he hath done such things for the benefit of the world and increase of knowledge that none hath yet equall'd much less gone beyond him In them you 'll find the greatest strength and the gentilest smoothness the most generous knowledge and the sweetest modesty the noblest discoveries and the sincerest relations the greatest Self-denial and the greatest love of men the profoundest insight into philosophy and nature and the most devout affectionate sense of God and of Religion as in any Works whatsoever written by other men c. This worthy person died 30 of Decemb. 1691 aged 64 years or thereabouts and was buried on the 7 of Jan. following at the upper end on the south side of the Chancel of the Church of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster near to the body of his sister the Lady Ranelaugh before mention'd who dying about a week before him the grief for her death put him in convulsion fits which carried him off Soon after were Elegies and Epitaphs on him made public as also the Sermon at his funeral preached by Dr. Gilb. Burnet Bish of Sarum in all which you 'll find just Encomiums of him as no doubt you will in the life of him the said Mr. Boyle about to be published by the said Doctor The eldest brother of this Mr. Rob. Boyle was Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork The next was Roger Earl of Orery a great Poet Statesman Soldier and great every thing which merits the name of great and good He hath published four Plays in heroick verse highly valued and commended by ingenious men and died in Octob. 1679. The third was Francis Viscount Shannon whose Pocket Pistol as he stiled his book may make as wide breaches in the walls of the Capitol as many Canons These were his elder brothers and besides them he had seven Sister all married to noble persons This year in the month of Septemb. Andr. Marvel a Burgess for Kingston upon Hull to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8. May 1661 became a Sojourner in Oxford for the sake of the public Library and continued there I presume some months See in Sam. Parker among the Writers an 1687 p. 619 where you 'll find an account of him and his Works In the beginning of Dec. following was entred into the said Library Arthur Trevor an eminent and famous common Lawyer c. In January following Francis Sandford an Officer of Arms attending the King now in Oxon was entred also in the said Library with the liberty then allowed to him of a Student This person having published several books I must according to the method that I have hitherto followed let the Reader know that tho he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Sandfords of Sandford in Shropshire yet he was born in the Castle of Carnow in the County of Wicklow in Ireland and half Barony of Shelelak which half Barony was purchased of K. Jam. 1. by his mothers father called Calcot Chambre When the Rebellion broke out in Ireland Francis being then about eleven years of age his Relations carried him thence into England setled themselves at Sandford with intentions to breed him a Scholar but then the Rebellion breaking out there and his family afterwards Sufferers for the Royal Cause he had no other education than what Grammar Schools afforded On the 6 of June 13 Car. 2. he was by Letters Patent created Pursuivant at Arms by the name and title of Rouge Dragon and afterwards on the 16 of Nov. in the 27 of the said Kings Reign he was created Lancaster Herald of Arms Which office he held
1677 he travelled with Joh. Norbourne of Caln in the same County Gent but before he had spent 12 months in France with him he was recalled and had the Church of Bedminster near Bristow confer'd on him and afterwards the Vicaridge of St. Mary Radcliff At both which places expressing himself a most zealous and orthodox man for the Church of England especially when the Popish Plot broke out the Faction aspers'd him with the name of Papist and more particularly for this reason when he said in his Prayer or Sermon in the Church of S. Thomas in Saâ—isbury 30. of Jan. 1679 that there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot. About which time shewing himself a great stickler against petitions to his Majesty for the sitting of a Parliament which the Faction with all their might drove on he was brought into trouble for so doing and when the Parliament sate he was among those many that were against petitioning brought on his knees in the H. of Commons and blasted for a Papist whereupon to free himself from that imputation he wrot and published The Visor pluckt off from Rich. Thompson of of Bristol Clerk in a plain and true character of him Printed in one sh in fol. in 1681 wherein he takes occasion to shew that while he was in his travels he did not study at S. Omers or Doway as the Faction gave out but sojourned in Protestant Houses in Paris Glen Blois and frequented Protestant Chappels Company c. Afterwards in consideration of these his sufferings his Majesty gave him the Deanery of Bristow void by the death of Mr. Sam. Crossman in which being installed on Trinity Sunday 1684 had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him about that time at Cambridge He hath published besides the Visor before mention'd A Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of Bristow before Henry Duke of Beaufort L. Lieutenant of Glocestershire c. on Titus 3.1 Lond. 1685. qu. He died on the 29 of Nov. 1685 and was buried in the South Isle joyning to the said Cath. Ch whereupon Dr. Will. Levett of Oxon succeeded him in his Deanery Jan. 28. Henry Maurice of Jes Coll. Jan. 28. Joh. Garbrand of New Inn. Jan. 28. Joh. Graile of Exet. Coll. Jan. 28. Thom. Salmon of Trin. Coll. The first of these four was afterwards an author of note and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The others are Writers also have published several things and if living may more hereafter Adm. 193. Bach. of Law Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. May 2. Nathan Wilson of Magd. Hall May 2. Will. Harrison of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards B. of Limerick in Ireland as I have before told you The other Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester and Preb. of Winchester and well beneficed by the favour of B. Morley whose near Kinswoman he had married He is called Doctor but took no higher degree than Master of Arts in this University 7. Joh. Rainstropp of S. Joh. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son was afterwards Master of the City Free-school in Bristow and published Loyalty recommended in a Sermon preached before the Merchant Adventures at S. Stephens Ch. in Bristol 10. Nov. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15.21 Lond. 1684. qu. June 20. Tho. Wagstaff of New Inn. 27. Joh. Hinton of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Rector of Newbury and Preb. of Sarum and published A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Newbury in Berks 26. July 1685 being a day of Thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the Rebels on 2. Sam. 18.28 Lond. 1685. qu. Oct. 31. Sam. Dugard of Trin. Coll. Mar. 10. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Mar. 14. Edw. Pocock of Ch. Ch He was Son of Dr. Edward Pocock Canon of Ch. Ch. and published Philosophus Autodidactus seu Epistola Abi Giaaphar fil Tophail de Hai fil Jokdhan Arab. Lat. Oxon 1671. qu. Adm. 89. ☞ Not one Each of Physick was admitted this year Bach. of Div. July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jes Coll. Oct. 21. Joh. Rosewell of C. C. C. Oct. 21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. C. The first or these two who was at this time and after in great esteem for his Greek and Latin learning was afterwards made Master of Eaton School and continued there in a sedulous instruction of the youth for several years In 1678 Oct. 26 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. R Brideoake deceased and in Aug. or Sept. 1683. he became Fellow of Eaton Coll. on the death of Dr. Nathan Ingelo He died at Eaton 30. Oct. 1684 and was buried in the Chap. or Collegiat Church there leaving then most of his choice Library to C. C. Coll. Nov. 7. Hen. Foulis of Linc. Coll. Dec. 12. Franc. Drope of Magd. Coll. Dec. 12. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. Dec. 12. Narciss Marsh of Ex. Coll. Adm. 11. Doct. of Law Jun. 27. Edw. Low of New Coll. Jun. 27. Will. Oldys of New Coll. July 4. Tho. Musprat of New Coll. The first of these three was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery and a Knight and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Saliâ—bury in the place of Dr. Joh. Elliot deceased an 1671. He died in the latter end of May 1684. The second Dr. Oldys was afterwards Advocate for the office of Lord high Admiral of England and to the Lords of the Prizes his Majesties Advocate in the Court Martial and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Lincolne and of the third I know nothing July 6. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. This person who was originally of that S. Johns Coll. was afterwards an Advocate in Doctors Commons Chancellour of the Dioc. of Rochester and one of the Clerks of the Signet On the 21. Nov. 1684 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and in Nov. in the year following he was sent Envoy extraordinary into France In the beginning of 1687 he was sent Embassador to the Ottoman Port in the place of James L. Shandois where he continued till 1691. c. Doct. of Phys July 4. Edward Browne of Mert. Coll. This Gent who was Son of Sir Tho. Browne the famous Physitian of Norwych was afterwards a great Traveller and after his return became Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians of which he was censor 1683 and Physitian in ord to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. He hath written and published 1 A brief account of some travels in Hungaria Servia Bulgaria Macedonia Thessaly Austria Styria Carinthia Carniola and Friuli As also some observations on the gold silver c. Mines Baths and Mineral waters in those parts c. Lond. 1673. qu afterwards with additions in fol. An account of which is in the Phil. Transactions nu 95. 2 An account of several travels through a great part of Germany in four journeys 1. From Norwich to Colen 2. From Colen to Vienna with a particular description
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
all the Shires Cities Burrough-Towns Cinque ports in England specifying the number of the Knights of the Shires Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-ports they do respectively elect to serve as their Representatives in Parliaments c. collected and written by Charles Hatton Esq Son of Christopher L. Hatton Secondly A true and perfect Cat. of the Nobility of Scotland with a list of the Royal Burroughs therein c. collected and written by the same hand and thirdly A true and pâ—rf Cat. of the Nobility of Ireland with a list of all the Shires Cities and Burroughs of Ireland which make returns of Parliament c. collected and written also by the same hand 15 A perfect copy of all the summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm from the 49 of Hen. 3 to this present with Catalogues of such Noblemen as have been summoned to Parliament in right of their Wives c. Lond. 1686. fol. Further also our author Sir W. Dugdale took a great deal of pains in publishing the second vol. of Councils and Glossary of Sir Hen. Spelman as I have before told you At length this most industrious Person contracting a great cold at Blythe Hall by attending too much his worldly concerns died thereof in his Chair about one of the Clock in the afternoon of the tenth day of February S. Scholastica's day an 1685. Whereupon his body being conveyed to the parochial Church of Shustock in Warwickshire before mention'd was on the 12 of the same month deposited in a stone-coffin laying in a little vault which he before had caused to be made under the north side of the Chancel of the Church there It was laid near another stone-coffin in the said vault containing the remains of his then late Wife named Margery Daughter of John Huntbache of Seawell in Staffordshire Gent who died 18 Decemb. 1681 after she had continued his Wife from the 17 of March 1622. Sir Will. Dugdale did also in his life time erect over the said vault a strong tomb of Free-stone in form of an altar joyning to the North wall with his Armes and those of his Wife carved on the South side thereof And above it he caused to be fixed on the wall a tablet of white marble bordered with the like Free-stone on which was engraven his epitaph made by himself By his last Will and Testament he bequeathed all his Manuscripts and Collections of Antiquities to the Musaeum of Elias Ashmole in Oxon who divers years before had married one of his Daughters where they remain and are of great use to curious and critical persons To conclude had this indefatigable person sequestred himself from worldly troubles and totally addicted himself to his studies and had minded the publick more than his private concerns the world might have justly enjoyed more of his lucubrations and those more true and accurate than such that are already published especially those in his latter days Yet however what he hath done is prodigious considering the great troubles that he had endured for his loyalty and the cumbrances of this world that he had run through and therefore his memory ought to be venerated and had in everlasting remembrance for those things which he hath already published which otherwise might have perished and been eternally buried in oblivion Le ts now go on with the Creations Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Byron Knight a most valiant Colonel in the Kings Army and Brother to John Lord Byron Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards a noted Mathematician Thom. Smith of Queens Coll. Thom. Lamplugh of Queens Coll. Thom. Tully of Queens Coll. The two first of these three were afterwards Bishops Edw. Walker Herald of Armes by the title of Chester This Person who was second Son of Edw. Walker of Roobers in the Parish of Nether Stowey in Somersetsh by Barbara his Wife Daughter of Edw. Salkeld of Corby Castle in Cumberland was born at Roobers bred a servant in the family of Thomas Earl of Arundell Earl Marshall of England to whom afterwards being Secretary he gave him the Pursevants place called Rogue-Croix in the Coll. of Armes In 1639 when that noble Count was made General of the English Forces in the Scotch expedition this Mr. Walker was by him made Secretary of War and executed that Office till the return of the said Army to London Afterwards when his Majesty and the Royal Family were by the endeavours of that unhappy Parl. that began 3. Nov. 1640 forced from London in Jan. 1641 Mr. Walker followed him into the North parts of England and was with him at Edghâ—ll fight and afterwards at Oxon where he was actually created Master of Arts being then Chester Herald as I have before told you In the latter end of 1643 he was made Norrâ—y King of Armes in the place of Sir Henry St. George promoted to the office of Garter and in the year following upon the death of the said Sir Henry he was made Garter and on the 2. of Feb. the same year 1644 he received the honor of Knighthood This Person who with great diligence and observation had committed to writing in a paper book the several occurrences that passed in the K. Army and the victories obtained by his Majesty over his rebellious Subjects the book was seized on at the fatal battle at Naseby by some of the forces belonging to the Parliament then Victors Afterwards it was presented to their General called Sir Thomas Fairfax who perusing it found one passage therein which was very observable to him viz. that whereas he Walker had taken occasion to speak of the Irish and call'd them Rebells his Majesty who before that time had perused the book did among several alterations made therein with his own hand put out the word Rebells with his pen and over it wrot Irish This book was after his Majesties restauration regain'd and is now or at least was lately in the hands of Sir Joh. Clopton who married the Daughter and Heir of Sir E. Walker who also hath written The order of the Ceremonies at S. Georges feast at Windsore which is printed in quarto After his Majesties return he was confirmed in his Gartership and made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council and dying suddenly in Whitehall 19. Febr. 1676 his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire and buried in the Church there among the graves of the Cloptons of Clopton in that Parish In his office of Garter K. of Armes succeeded Will. Dugdale Norroy as I have before told you and in his Clerkship of the Privy Council Sir Tho Dolman of Shaw near Newbury in Berks. Nov. 1. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield Ferdinando Marsham Esq He was Brother to Sir Joh. Marshaw the Critick Jervais Hollis a Parliament man for Great Grimesby in Lincolnshire He had lately retired to his Majesty because of the violent proceedings against him his said Maj.